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Do You Need Brain Drugging or Brain Nutrition?

By Robert H. Sorge N.D., Ph.D
Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine Since 1964

Although it may seem difficult to believe, given the endless stream of pharmaceutical propaganda that continually floods the media, no human has ever been found to be deficient in a man made drug.

As often as we are recommended various pharmaceutical drugs by orthodox doctors, one could think drugs are more essential than natural foods supplements. Drugs are being marketed as perfectly safe while natural food supplements, in some instances have been portrayed as somehow bad for you. The plain truth is the exact opposite.

Super nutrition is required for cognition ignition, whether jump starting your brain, getting out of a mental rut, eliminating brain fog, preventing anxiety, depression, negative attitudes, stimulating creativity, or insuring consistent healthy brain function. Your brain demands nutrition, and when deficiencies set in, it works less efficiently.

Deficiencies occur when the brain is not supplied with abundance of its required nutrician. If proper nutritional therapy remains unaddressed and sugar, junk food or foodless foods become an addiction, named medical conditions will be attached to the nutritional deficiency syndrome. The use of Psychotropic drugs usually follows. These types of drugs tend to only confound and complicate the condition simply because the bottom line cause is never addressed once drugging begins. Drugging only clouds the issue, it never solves the real problem.

Every drug has serious potential side effects (poisoning effects). There are no safe drugs. Even simple over the counter drugs like aspirin are responsible for intestinal bleeding, stomach ulcers, macular degeneration, pancreatic cancer and 5,000 deaths a year. Taking an aspirin a day to thin the blood to prevent heart attacks constitutes, in my opinion, mass mal-practice. There are many superior natural food supplements that work better, containing real nutrition and most importantly have zero downside effects.

The brain represents less than 2% of the body’s total mass, but it requires up to 36% of the body’s oxygen and nutrition.
Oxygen is the brain’s first essential nutrient. When the brain does not have ample oxygen it simply shuts down. It may sputter a little like your car when it lacks necessary oxygen for ignition, but without ignition, there is no cognition. Oxygen is key to optimal brain function.

A large percentage of our population is oxygen deficient at the cell level. How do we know this? When we evaluate a person’s total health, we test their blood for oxygen levels. Some people have been oxygen deficient all of their lives. These people require oxidative therapies. An infusion of oxygen and nutrients can compensate for a lifetime of oxygen deficiency. A series of hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatments, ozone infusion, far-infrared sauna therapy and I.V. nutritional infusions in conjunction with a personalized nutrition program based on one’s individual bio-chemistry has transformed many brain fogged individuals into potentially creative geniuses.

Mind Over Mood
Because our nation is consuming more junk food, we have become more nutritionally deficient than ever before. More money is being spent on prescription drugs to treat brain fog, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, attention deficit, and so called mental health conditions. Psychotropic drug treatment costs have tripled to 50 billion dollars a year.

Once hooked on these addictive substances it is difficult to get off. Most importantly, the cause of the problem continues to remain unaddressed, requiring more ever-stronger drugs to suppress symptoms.

Tens of millions of Americans are on these dangerous substances. When they ask their doctor the simple question: “When will I go off these drugs?” what do you think the answer is?

The increased spending elucidates society’s growing need for nutritional
therapy. We do not need more brain drugs. We need superior nutrition.

According to the U.S. Senate sub-committee on Human Nutrition, every American is nutritionally deficient in at least six essential nutrients. People on psychotropic drugs could easily be deficient in a few dozen nutrients. Individual diagnoses with named medical conditions could be deficient in fifty nutrients.

Nutrition is not emphasized by most medical doctors, because they have been trained primarily in drugs. Orthodox drug medicine revolves around the diagnosis. If there is no clear definitive diagnoses you are considered perfectly healthy. You could be one step from a crippling stroke, one breath from a lethal heart attack, or one cell count from devastating cancer and be told, “You’re perfectly healthy.”

It is not until an official diagnosis takes place that treatment begins. At that point, the horse has already run out of the barn.

In Naturopathic Medicine we believe in prevention rather than intervention. We attempt to catch disease before it gains a foothold – even before it is given a named medical condition. To accomplish this we must locate precursors to disease.

In Naturopathic Medicine, we see every symptom as a sign of a nutritional deficiency. Named medical conditions are generally viewed as long term nutritional deficiencies that were ignored, unaddressed, or worse, suppressed with a drug.

The viable alternative to waiting for a full blown disease to be diagnosed, is Nutritional Testing and a Personal Health Evaluation. The diagnostic technology is now available that can determine your exact nutritional, metabolic and hormonal deficiencies, long before a serious diagnoses is rendered. Definitive nutritional, metabolic, and bio-identical hormone recommendations can then be made based on your individual biochemistry.

Nutrition is the foundation to both physical and mental health. There are no short cuts or quick fixes. Get yourself nutritional testing and begin a new way of life that is drug substance and junk food free.