Depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, or sleep issues; some blog links

Dear friends:

Due to my life circumstances at the moment, I am going offline fairly soon... such that I will not be able to post in here often.

As some persons come to http://360.yahoo.com/allen_dar looking for help in regard to how to resolve depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and sleep issues in themselves, I thought it might be helpful to post a single blog with links to other blogs on these topics. My thought here was to organize such help into one blog so that it can be rather easily found.

Always remember, when reading the material below the "labels" don't matter. It does not matter what psychiatric diagnosis that you may suffer from, from autism to schizophrenia and everything in between. No matter what "label the doctors may have given your illness"... the (1) underlying malabsorptive causes, and the (2) nutrient, (3) allergen, and (4) toxic issues that should be addressed in order to heal ARE EXTREMELY CLOSE TO THE SAME. In many cases they are identical. (What this means is that material from any section below heavily applies to all of the others.)

I am aware that I should really write a cohesive and organized book. However, my life circumstances for the past six years have been extraordinarily difficult. During these six years writing a book was (and it still is) out of the question. Hopefully, some day my fiscal and life circumstances will change, such that a book written by me can become a reality.

In lieu of a book, the following blogs are organized as best I can, such that they are "almost chapters of a book".

As roughly presented as the following material is, if "judged as a whole for its degree of conceptual advancement", it may be found to be "world leading" some day. It certainly deserves such, not for my sake (as I gain nothing from this), but for the sake of the world (and the health of its inhabitants).

Allen Darman


A preface blog

One of my coming blogs

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=148


Three blogs of empowerment:

My Four Biggest Wishes

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=354

Lessons I Taught Willy #1; Self-Empowerment

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=178

Introducing the Concept of an "Educational Healing House"

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=252


Blogs related to depression, low energy, etc are as follows:

Note: If one suffers from such perhaps all of these blogs should be looked at, not just one or a few.

An Introduction To Alternative Medicine For Psychiatric Conditions

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=71

A little bit regarding the commonality of psychiatric illnesses

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=115

Adelle Davis; a true pioneer

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=262

Another blog on Adelle Davis, my being hacked problem, etc.

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=270

My free form amino acid and gut "depression knowledge"; where did it come from?

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=315

Natural Treatment of Depression and Willy's Baggie

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=68

Depression and Bipolar Disorder - Cured At Last!

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=255

An Anecdotal Case; Depression Resolved in One Day, Rv.2

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=243

One of Willy's "baggies" of supplements... Wow!

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=23

Baggie number two kicked in.... Wow again!

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=25

Willy's Baggie, Candida, and Myself Rv.2

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=353



Willy's Baggie Wisdom on YouTube; the end of Big Pharma or me

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=346

The Neurotransmitter Precursor Group of Nutrients in Willy's Baggie; and their cost

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=307

Willy's Baggie Ingredient List

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=64

A more detailed explanation of Willy's baggie

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=77

Is it possible that key knowledge known by Robert Erdmann over 20 years ago got lost?

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=344

GABA vs. Glutamine

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=304

A coming blog further explaining the use of free form amino acids

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=310

The possible implications of broad based nutrition taken all at once

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=107

Antidepressants; The Achilles Heel of Big Pharma

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=290

Probiotics and Their Effect on All Mental Illness

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=31

Bentonite, Depression, and How The Gut May Work

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=26

Bentonite, vitamin C, and yeast die off

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=16

Vitamin C; titrating to bowel tolerance for candida and many other things

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=314

TILT; toxicant-induced loss of tolerance

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=124

NCD in combination with chlorella, spirulina, algae, glutathione, and vitamin C?

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=17

A great book! on liver cleansing

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=330

Colonics; are they helpful or not?

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=305

Some simple ideas to correct depression

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=18

An upgraded "Resume" in paragraph form

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=352

A few remarks related to the correction of depression naturally:

The entire class of antidepressant medications is doomed if the many truths reflected in the above get recognized by even one individual or party that "has the means to be heard", and/or "the means to effect change". A good deal of the knowledge reflected in the above was either acquired or repeatedly validated by myself over the past six years. This was a period in which I was abysmally poor almost the entire time. Being so poor severely limited my choices for the past six years, to say the least. I simply don't have enough "people connections", or enough fiscal resources, for the above truths to bear fruit. (These are truths that will inevitably help millions of persons some day.) However, this situation of my being abysmally poor, and so disconnected from other persons that have the means to effect change, will not last forever. At some point in the foreseeable future, I hope to "finally prove to the world" what I know about the resolution of depression naturally.


Blogs related to bipolar disorder:

Note: If one suffers from bipolar symptoms, virtually ALL of the blogs listed for depression, low energy, etc. in the above apply to them, as well as those that are listed below:

An old speech draft on bipolar; still a worthy read

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=303

ADHD and bipolar disorder commonality

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=323

My Bipolar Recovery Story as of June 2004

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=72

My son Willy's original ADHD/bipolar! recovery story

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=2

Willy's Three Year ADHD/Bipolar Recovery Story

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=235

Doctors Helped Cause Willy's Sickness; A Picture When He Was Not Well

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=226

Lessons I Taught Willy #3; How To Cure Yourself of ADHD or Bipolar Disorder; "The Big Picture"

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=190

Lessons I Taught Willy #2; Don't Trust The Doctors Or The Drug Companies, and Why

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=189

Hidden food allergies and bipolar disorder

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=325

A picture of Willy; and some on the "food allergy puzzle"

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=161

Probiotics and Their Effect on All Mental Illness (second copy of same blog listed in the section above)

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=31

The End of Antibiotics

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=321

An egroup post on using lithium vs. raising acetylcholine

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=301

The "nutrient equivalent" of lithium for me

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=324

Depression and Bipolar Disorder - Cured At Last! (second copy of same blog listed in the section above)

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=255

A few remarks related to the correction of bipolar disorder naturally:

The entire medical model for bipolar disorder, or its older name of manic depression, is doomed if the many truths reflected in the above material get recognized by even one individual or party that "has the means to be heard", and/or "the means to effect change". Don't thank me here, thank my son Willy. His amazing self-achieved health recovery virtually ended the medical model for manic depression, whether he realizes this or not. (Willy, I cannot thank you enough for what you did to get well. Your achievement proved the entire medical model for so many illnesses is simply "one big lie". Drugs don't cure, but nutrients sure do.)


Blogs related to anxiety or sleep issues:

An egroup post I wrote in 2005 on sleep

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=251

Taurine and other inhibitory nutrients

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=302

Two egroup posts on inhibitory nutrients written in 2003

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Kgb7fcYwd6q.3mLsjmULpwU-?cq=1&p=260

A few remarks related to the correction of sleep or anxiety issues:

An inability to sleep well and anxiety involve one or more of the following... (1) a broad lack of nutrient chemistry in the body, (2) an excess of excitatory nutrient chemistry in the body, (3) a lack of inhibitory nutrient chemistry in the body, (4) some sort of allergen exposure (usually from foods) that is excitatory in some way, and/or (5) some sort of toxic exposure (often from toxins generated in the gut) that is excitatory in some way. All of these five problematic issues are adequately correctable in any person that has them, and no drug is necessary to do so. The best person to cure you is You! once you have learned how.


Conclusion

It is too bad that greed and the need for corporate profitability has corrupted modern healing practices as much as it has. Millions of people are suffering, and tens of thousands are dying, unnecessarily due to this. All of this is happening while many very basic and irrefutable biological facts are being ignored. It is happening simply to line the pockets of the hundreds of thousands of persons that are involved in drug oriented medicine. Modern medicine is a hoax of historic proportions; it is by far the biggest hoax in history (there really is no comparison here).

God help us all if those involved in perpetuating this massive hoax get away with it, by bribing governments worldwide to take healing nutritional supplements out of the hands of the general public.

Sincerely,

Allen Darman

http://360.yahoo.com/allen_dar

"nutrientscure" on YouTube

Although I have so many to thank for where Willy and I are today, my greatest teacher was Dr. Sherry Rogers of http://www.prestigepublishing.com/ She taught me "almost everything" that I needed to know to recover from my illness. The notable exception in this regard is that Dr. Rogers does not know how to use free form amino acids therapeutically. In fairness to her, so few persons do, even those that are commonly considered to be "at the top of alternative medicine today".

Willy's Three Year ADHD/Bipolar Recovery Story

Dear friends:

The following is a compilation of various blogs on http://360.yahoo.com/allen_dar that relate to my son Willy's ADHD and childhood bipolar recovery. I have titled this blog "Willy's Three Year ADHD/Bipolar Recovery Story" as it is just this, Willy's recovery from his diagnosis of ADHD and childhood bipolar symptoms began three years ago in August of 2004.

I would like to publicly thank the Utica Phoenix in Utica, NY for recently publishing a very substantial version of the story below (they just did not have enough room for it all). I would also like to publicly thank a New Zealand magazine called "Healthy Options" for also publishing Willy's recovery story this past March.

Allen Darman


Willy's Three Year ADHD/Bipolar Recovery Story

My son Willy was diagnosed with ADHD at six years old, and began taking Ritalin for this diagnosis about a year later. Unfortunately, things were even worse than this, as Willy exhibited classic bipolar symptoms at this age as well. Not only did he think about suicide at the tender age of six, he could talk non-stop at a very rapid pace for over an hour despite four other people being in a car. Although never diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Willy was likely to be third generation bipolar (my mother, myself, and then himself).

Willy was a sickly child throughout his childhood. He was much smaller than most other children his age. He also exhibited “easy bruising”, he had very soft teeth, he had chronic nosebleeds, and he was so sensitive to cold that I even bought him a wetsuit to go swimming with during the summer.

The biggest part of Willy’s learning disability was that “he just could not read”. Year after year he would be passed on to the next grade without the ability to read. Although his verbal comprehension was always fairly good, his reading comprehension was not. Even as late as seventh grade, Willy would often rely on his brother to read a few words on a computer screen for a video game he was playing… and Willy never read books at home on his own.

Willy’s mental and physical health today is a much different story.

At the end of ninth grade attending New Hartford Junior High School last year (2006), Willy won the Principal’s award (only four children out of about 200 received this award). He also won three other academic awards, got an 89 and a 91 on two Regents exams, and made the Honor Roll for the first time in his academic career.

This past year Willy’s academic progress continued. He repeated making the Honor Roll last November, he got a 98 on a midterm Regents exam in January, and he got a 95 on the only Regents exams he took this June. Willy also received two academic awards for effort at the end of tenth grade this year. All of this from a child that had failed third grade, was on Ritalin for about four and a half years, and was considered to be severely reading impaired as late as the end of seventh grade (June 2004).

And the best news as far as I am concerned is that for the past few years Willy can finally read books, and he reads what he is interested in on his own. He still needs to improve on his spelling, but Willy has come so far these past three years that I am sure he will be able to spell well eventually.

Willy’s change in physical health over the past three years has been no less than miraculous. Willy was only able to bench press sixty lbs. about four times in August 2004. At the end of ninth grade last year Willy could bench press 250 lbs., despite only weighing 151 lbs. himself. Willy now weighs about 175 lbs. and is only sixteen years old, but he can bench press 300 lbs., leg press 400 lbs. over 25 times, do one arm pull-ups, and do twenty five or more sit ups “uphill” on an inclined bench with a fifty pound plate on his chest (he tells me that no one that goes to his health club can do this). Willy recently won an informal weightlifting contest at the health club he attends in New Hartford, a contest in which he was competing with some persons that were both much older and much heavier than himself. In essence, Willy went from almost the weakest child in his class three years ago, to one of the strongest young men in his entire school, and he did so on his own, without any parental pushing at all.

Despite Willy having mood swings and classic bipolar symptoms throughout most of his childhood, beginning at six years of age, Willy is now "rock solid mood stable"... and he will almost certainly be so throughout the rest of his natural life. Willy simply knows far too much about "how to cure himself", and how to remain very healthy, to ever suffer from "bipolar" mood swings again.

Willy’s amazing turnaround in both physical and mental health began on a camping trip in the Adirondacks three years ago. On this trip I had brought over $500. worth of nutritional supplements with me as a result of Willy having repeatedly expressed an interest to take them. Willy had told me for months prior to this camping trip that “I want to get better the way you got better”, even though he knew his mother (my ex-wife) was adamant against the use of such. (I am a non-custodial father, and I have no legal right to intervene with Willy’s health care decisions. However, when Willy began to ask for my help in 2004, despite what the law said, as a father I really had no choice but to help my son.)

When I began to tell Willy on this camping trip that “you should take these supplements in the morning, these at lunch, and these at dinner”, Willy immediately said “No way! I have to hide all of this from Mom. Dad, I can only sneak in supplements once a day.” So I did something very unusual, which was to combine over 60 capsules or tablets of nutritional and natural supplements in a plastic baggie for Willy to take all at once. I also gave him a bottle of probiotics to take on the side. (Willy was only thirteen years old when he first began to supplement himself in this way.)

About five months after Willy began to apply nutritional and natural supplements to himself at home, “we” got caught. In December 2004 I was asked to attend a meeting at New Hartford Junior High School in which I had to admit to my ex-wife and to some school officials what Willy and I had been doing. Thankfully, Willy had already come so far in his recovery that my ex-wife wisely relented her stance against the use of nutritional supplements. At this point she let Willy and I continue to work together without interference.

Although Willy said he felt great for about four days from the very first baggie of supplements that he took, I never thought Willy would come as far as he has from such a simple to implement approach involving a wide range of nutritional supplements taken all at once every other day or so, with some vitamins, digestive enzymes, probiotics, etc. taken in between. I sure was wrong in this assumption, as Willy’s recovery these past three years has been rather substantial, to say the least. He just keeps getting healthier and stronger month after month, and he has no symptoms of either ADHD or bipolar disorder whatsoever. Willy is simply a happy and contented young man, and one that tries his best at all times.

I first discovered the wisdom of alternative medicine in the summer of 1997. As a result of this, Willy did have laboratory tests taken of his mineral and amino acid levels (http://www.metametrix.com) in the fall of 1997. Dr. Charles Gant, an alternative doctor, administered these tests. The test results showed that Willy was low in all essential minerals tested, with the exception of copper, which he was high in. They also showed that Willy was low across the entire amino acid range.

Unfortunately, Willy's pediatrician, a conventional medical doctor, totally ignored the abovementioned test results of many essential nutrient levels. These test results were not acted upon for almost seven years, until Willy began to supplement himself in August of 2004.

Sadly, essential nutrient levels simply don’t matter at all to the conventional medical system and conventional medical doctors in the United States. By FDA mandate (law), ONLY A DRUG can be used to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease. Essential nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and amino acids are not drugs. Doctors actually face being brought up on charges before a medical review board, and the potential loss of their license to practice medicine, if they effectively address nutrient deficiencies in ADHD children rather than use drugs (such as Ritalin, Concerta, Adderall, etc.). In addition to this, doctors cannot make money by prescribing nutritional supplements, as any member of the public can simply buy what they need off of the Internet or in a health food store.

The sad truth is that pharmaceutical money controls and directs medical reality. As a result of this doctors continue to treat serious nutrient deficient states (such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, autism, etc.) in persons with drugs. These drugs never actually cure such illnesses, but only mask (hide) one’s symptoms. Doctors and medical researchers continue to ignore the fact the therapeutic use of nutrients and other natural measures can cure people of ADHD and bipolar disorder (the anecdotal evidence is absolutely overwhelming in these regards). Only drugs matter and essential nutrient levels don't matter at all. This is how backward (corrupt?) the conventional medical system in the U.S. actually is.

The use of nutrients to deal with ADHD and bipolar disorder is only common sense. Early on in his recovery I taught Willy the basics of the human body as follows: if one takes the water out of an average human body, the remainder by weight would be about 70% amino acids, 20% fats, 5% minerals, and a small amount of vitamins and toxins. I also taught Willy that there are roughly 100 known neurotransmitters, and that 99 of these are primarily amino acid based, with various vitamins and minerals often needed in their production. From my own experience, I knew that supplementing with vitamins, minerals, and broad based free form amino acids readily increases almost all neurotransmitters. Increasing neurotransmitter levels can have a profoundly positive effect on mood, brain function, and brain performance.

The single neurotransmitter that is not amino acid based is a major neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. I had also learned in my recovery that acetylcholine in my brain could be rather readily increased by supplementing with the nutrient combination of phosphatidyl choline and L-carnitine (in addition to other supplements that he would be taking). I told Willy that the nutrient combination of L-carnitine and phosphatidyl choline would probably slow his brain way down, such that he could focus much better and not be hyperactive (it did just this for Willy, just as it did for me).

There are only four classes of essential nutrients; vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty acids. Willy’s baggie contained them all. In loading Willy’s baggie, I used a quality multi-vitamin/multi-mineral tablet readily available in many health food stores, or on the Internet. To this I added more vitamin B complex, vitamin C, calcium, magnesium, and zinc, as I felt this tablet just did not have enough for Willy’s needs. I also used broad based “good oils”, to include capsules containing coconut, fish, cod liver, flax, borage, evening primrose, and olive oil. And to cover the last class of essential nutrients, I added over twenty capsules of free form amino acids that covered the entire amino acid range, as I had found these so incredibly helpful in overcoming bipolar disorder in myself. (Twenty capsules of amino acids may seem excessive to some people, but this equates to only 10 grams of protein, or about an egg and a half’s worth.)

In addition to supplementing Willy with the entire range of essential nutrients, to his baggie I added the “supergreens” of chlorella, spirulina, and super blue-green algae (we humans just don’t eat enough greens, like chimpanzees do), quercetin (a food allergy mediator), L-carnitine and phosphatidyl choline (to cover the key neurotransmitter amino acids miss), milk thistle (a detoxification aid), grape seed extract (an antioxidant found helpful for ADHD), and some powerful digestive enzymes (all persons diagnosed with ADHD and bipolar disorder lack digestive enzymes, at least some of the time). Essentially I took every supplement that I had found to be helpful to me in overcoming manic depression in myself, and combined them in a baggie for my son, hoping for the best. I could not be more pleased with the results, nor can Willy.

Malabsorption was the reason why Willy was so deficient in essential nutrients, such that he lacked health and his brain “did not work quite right”. I taught Willy that the use of supplements is not the whole story as far as his recovery was concerned. “It is not just what you eat, or what you supplement with, it is what you digest and absorb into your body that is important”. Many essential nutrients simply get pooped out into the toilet a day or two later in persons that are absorbing well, and I told Willy that he was one of these persons, just as I was for years until I discovered the wisdom of alternative medicine and how to fix malabsorption in myself.

Alternative medicine has done a great job over the years in identifying the common factors that cause essential nutrient malabsorption in ADHD children. Dr. Doris Rapp and Dr. William Crook are two notable pioneers in this regard. Both of these doctors identified hidden food allergies and candida (a common problematic yeast in the gut) as being two of the largest factors underlying nutrient malabsorption in ADHD kids. They taught us that malabsorption due to unrecognized hidden food allergies and candida is actually the cause of ADHD in most children that receive this diagnosis. I found in my own recovery that the resolution of hidden food allergies and candida applies rather heavily to the correction (cure) of bipolar disorder as well.

On the critical issue of hidden food allergy, I taught Willy what to look for in regard to food allergens, and he has learned how to identify and at least partially avoid a number of food allergens in himself. Eggs seem to be Willy’s most serious allergen, as they are mine. Willy does not drink milk, he knows that he reacts negatively to popcorn, pizza, ice cream, and he avoids sugar, for the most part. He also eats more fresh fruits and vegetables than most children his age. A bit surprising to me is that Willy tested allergic (http://www.metametrix.com again) to both wheat and dairy in 1997, yet he has remarkably recovered despite not strictly avoiding these foods. Willy tells me that his baggie of synergistic nutrients has helped to reduce his food allergy reactions. He also tells me that eating a few apples or other fibrous food helps to clear out his gut after he eats allergic foods. However, Willy knows that he is wise to avoid certain foods, or he will pay a price for a little while in not feeling that well.

Willy was chronically constipated as a child, and sometimes severely so. Constipation is strongly indicative of a low amount of good gut bacteria known as probiotics. Probiotics are scientifically known to be absolutely necessary for human health. Probiotics are also necessary in order to keep candida, a yeast which is present in everyone to some degree, from overgrowing in the gut such that it becomes problematic to one's health.

I gave Willy various probiotics over the past three years, starting with the best I knew of (Primal Defense Ultra), and then switching to various others due to its cost. I continually harped to Willy about the critical importance of probiotics in order for him to recover. I told him repeatedly that supplementing with probiotics daily was almost as important as taking all of the supplements in his whole baggie. I also told Willy that that he should dose up slowly with probiotics (to avoid a die off reaction) to the point he was having at least one good sized bowel movement a day (and that two would be even better).

[Perhaps worthy to mention here is that a double blind study in regard to the use of probiotics by autistic children collapsed last summer due to the fact that parents refused to give their children placebos vs. probiotics, and pulled their kids out of the study, when they saw how much that probiotics had improved the autistic children that were receiving them. This study, one in which the major media in the U.S. was strangely silent on, was done by Glenn Gibson in the UK. (see
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1308572006)]

Incidentally, probiotics are killed by antibiotics. Willy had multiple rounds of antibiotics for ear infections as a child. Antibiotic use almost certainly caused Willy to have low probiotic levels in his gut, as well as high candida levels (one heavily relates to the other). It is inevitable (inevitable because it is the truth) that antibiotic use will be found to be a common contributory causative factor of ADHD, bipolar disorder, and autism. This is a situation that the current medical model virtually has to turn a blind eye to and completely ignore... due to the likelihood of a massive class action lawsuit against it some day, once the facts that (1) antibiotics decimate probiotics, and (2) probiotics are critical to maintaining human health (both mental and physical health) become much more widely known.

In general, Willy’s recovery was comprised of three basic parts: (1) Apply a wide array of nutrients that may be lacking (as his lab tests in 1997 showed), (2) while resolving all common factors that block such nutrients from adequately arriving into the body (hidden food allergies, low levels of probiotics in the gut, candida, a lack of digestive enzymes, underhydration, a lack of exercise such as walking, etc.) at the same time… and then (3) let God/Nature/the wisdom of the body (whatever term you prefer) do the rest, as far as healing is concerned.

It certainly appears that, in a very big way, the brain is simply "a secondary target organ" to "primary gut events”. Heal the gut of any problems it may have, avoid hidden food allergens, take in an adequate amount of essential nutrition in food and supplement form, and the brain will invariably follow suit (heal as well). This general principal not only seems to apply to the brain, it seems to apply to every other organ and cell in the body as well.

As well as Willy has become in the past few years, he continues to strive for more. A few months ago, I suggested to Willy that he should try a detoxification substance called zeolite to remove some of the deep toxins that may still reside in his body and brain, as the result of being chemically compromised for so many years as a child (a lack of nutrients leads to weakened detoxification ability, as all detoxification pathways in the body and the brain are 100% nutrient dependent). Willy has been slowly dosing up with zeolite drops these past few months, and reports to me that "this is real good stuff". Not only has it cleared up some acne issues he had, he feels somewhat better from taking it (which means it is very likely to be removing some toxins that still resided in him).

Other than my own personal experience, the knowledge that I used to help my son came out of books written by Dr. Sherry Rogers (http://www.prestigepublishing.com),"Depression Cured At Last", "No More Heartburn" - two "must reads", etc.), Dr. Doris Rapp, Dr. Jeffrey Bland, Dr. William Crook, Dr. Priscilla Slagle - a free "must read" ebook called "The Way Up From Down", and a very good beginning at conceptual understanding, at
http://www.thewayup.com,
Jordan Rubin, Bernard Jensen, and others. I cannot thank these and other alternative medical authors enough; first they saved me from over thirty years of bipolar symptoms, and then they saved my son from a severe lack of health.

Lastly, Willy, I would like to say a few words to you. You have taught the whole world something very significant about health, and about health recovery. Perhaps some day the world will have the wisdom to thank you for what you did to cure yourself, beginning at age thirteen. And son, I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Not only did you teach me a great deal, the baggie of nutrients that you insisted upon three years ago has greatly simplified my own chemical correction... and for the past few years it has profoundly helped me.

And Willy, it appears that your baggie of synergistic nutrients, in one form or another (as it becomes refined by others), when coupled with an adequate degree of "gut correction", may be destined to help millions of people some day. (Willy and I believe that the very broad based and adequately balanced nutrient approach that we are using would help many people that suffer from depression. This is especially true after Willy's baggie, some raw vegetable juice, and some allergic food avoidance got a person receiving ECT treatments for depression to stop taking them... and much better from a longstanding depressive state in only a single day.)

Allen Darman

email: allen_dar@yahoo.com

Note: More specifics of Willy's baggie ingredients, as well as a more detailed explanation of them, can be found in two prior blogs on http://360.yahoo.com/allen_dar. These same two blogs also can be found on a second site www.nutrientscure.blogspot.com