Nutrition and Mental Illness
An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry
- Pages: 136
- Book Size: 5.25 x 8.5
- ISBN-13: 9780892812264
- Imprint: Healing Arts Press
- On Sale Date: April 1, 1988
- Format: Paperback Book
Each year, thousands of people are diagnosed as schizophrenic; many more suffer from depression, anxiety, and phobias.
Dr. Pfeiffer's methods of treatment presented in Nutrition and Mental Illness are a valuable adjunct to traditional therapies, and can bring hope of real wellness to many of those who suffer.
Nutrition and Mental Illness
An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry
Preface
Foreword
1. Mental Illness- Not All in the Mind
2. Understanding Mental Illness
3. Anxiety and Phobias-The Copper Connection
4. High Histamine Can Cause Depression
5. B6 and Zinc-The Missing Link
6. Brain Allergies
7. The Dangers of Daily Bread
8. Hypoglycemia-The Sugar Blues
9. Minerals, Mood Swings, and Manic Depressive Disorders
10. Diet, Crime, And Delinquency
11. How to Age Without Senility
12. Drugs-The Treatment That Leads Nowhere
13. Why Nutrition is the Way Forward
14. There is an Alternative to Hospitalization
15. Optimum Nutrition for Mental Health
16. Nutrition Programs for Specific Diseases
Conclusion-Have Faith in Tomorrow's Medicine
Summary of the Schizophrenias
References and Further Reading
Useful Addresses
Index
Health Foods Business
"Many of the chapters outline possible causes and nutritional treatment for different mental disorders-from depression to senility. His methods may be a valuable adjunct to traditional therapies, and may offer hope to those who have had no success with those therapies."
Let's Live
"Nutrition and Mental Illness is very readable for physician and patient, presenting itself almost as a cookbook for approaching mental illness and most chronic physical illnesses."
Jonathan Collin, M.D., Townsend Letter for Doctors