Posted by Larry Hoover on December 10, 2005, at 11:22:45
In reply to *DON'T MISS THIS* - Listen to Dr. Tracy on SSRIs.., posted by ReadersLeaders on December 10, 2005, at 1:26:01
First thing I'd like to say is that Ms. Tracy uses the honorific Dr. deceptively. She is not an M.D. She is a Ph.D. To use the honorific Dr. in the context of discussions of medicine is improper.
I just roamed the web for about an hour or so, looking for quotations by Dr. Ann Blake Tracy. I thought I'd show where her thinking was erroneous, or whatever. The usual debate process. But, I don't need to do that. I'll just let you read her own words. I didn't keep any links, but if you know how to use google, you can find the sources quickly. Individual "finds" are numbered, solely to keep them separate from one another.
Quack, quack, quack, beginning here:
1. "If feeling depressed, please take one tab of LSD or inject one-quarter gram of PCP. This will have the same effect on the human body and mind as a prescription for common antidepressants such as Prozac, Paxil, and Luvox", according to Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, a Ph.D. in psychology and health sciences and executive director of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness.
2. "And many of these drugs were approved by the FDA when there was only five to six weeks of research done on them."
{{I cringe at this one...}}
3. "It is also why I have great concern over cities where the water is fluoridated. With Prozac being 18% fluoride and it being a main ingredient in Paxil, Luvox, Phen-Fen, etc. I am concerned that there may possibly be a synergistic effect from the water that could throw patients on these drugs into toxic reactions."
4. Dr. Tracy in her interview told of a study on bipolar depression which indicated that there was a high rate of diabetes among bipolars and the study admitted they've known for decades that all mental illness is blood sugar related. So Dr. Tracy asks, "Why should we be surprised to find a high rate of diabetes among those who have it?" According to Dr. Tracy, often times simply removing sugar from the diet will cause the problem to be cured.
5. "Medical research documents that what is beneficial is an increase in the metabolism of serotonin. Here are the results of elevated levels of serotonin (5HT) and decreased levels of serotonin metabolism (5HIAA):
Elevated 5HT (serotonin) levels:
schizophrenia, psychosis, mania, etc.
mood disorders (depression, anxiety, etc.)
organic brain disease - especially mental retardation at a greater incident rate in
children
autism (a self-centered or self-focused mental state with no basis in reality)
Alzheimer's disease
old age"
{{I can't resist a comment.....Elevated serotonin causes old age.....}}
6. "Large numbers of Prozac patients report false memories of abuse. As disruption of serotonin alters perception, reality and dreams seem one and the same, creating a stronger hypersuggestable state than hypnotism."
{{Here's a question and answer from a discussion forum....}}
7. My Email first quoted Dr. Tracy in an interview and then I asked my question:
According to Tracy, "There's a lot of science to demonstrate that depression is the result of an inability to metabolize serotonin, but somehow the drug companies have got the world believing that an increase in serotonin, rather than an increase in serotonin metabolism, is what the depressed person needs."Dr. Tracy, then how does a person increase the metabolism of serotonin? I've been trying to research to discover this, but can not find the information.
Please help.....
Darlene
Her reply to (the) email is as follows:
" I discuss them in my book and tape. The only things I have found that do this are natural. One is sunshine, garlic, negative ions, exercise, and anything that will help the pineal gland to function better like frankensence oil or brain power oil . . . and I wonder about digestive enzymes. We are still looking for ways to accomplish that. That is why chemically increasing levels is so terrible . . . we know so little about increasing it."
Dr. Tracy
8. "All mental illness is blood sugar related," Tracy said. "Therefore, all depression and other mental illnesses can be fixed by proper exercise and diet. Also the right amount of sleep can help the illness", said Tracy
9. "It is rare for me to interview someone who is using Prozac who is not drinking at least a gallon or generally two to three gallons per day of diet soda sweetened with NutraSweet!"
10. "Can you remember two decades ago when depressed people used to slip away quietly to kill themselves rather than killing everyone around them and then themselves, as they do while taking an SSRI antidepressant?"
11. "We have never seen drugs so similar to LSD and PCP as these SSRI antidepressants are."
12. "When you understand the problems behind the SSRI hypothesis it becomes clear that these are among the most deadly drugs the world has ever seen and should NEVER be reserved for anyone for any reason. They are in the same class as LSD and PCP."
13. "The day will come that we will recognize that the drug (Prozac) is so similar to PCP and LSD that we will question why we ever accepted the drug as helpful in any way."
14. "People on these SSRI antidepressants average 60-70 pounds in weight gain."
15. "Sugar pills are 25% more effective than antidepressants."
16. "The most significant thing essential oils do is to get the pineal gland working again. The pineal gland metabolizes 50% of the serotonin in the system. After using these antidepressants, which inhibit the metabolizing of serotonin, you need to get it working again to clear out the overload.
When that pineal gland is overloaded, the result is something like that experienced by Andrea Yates. She said that she felt possessed, like someone else's brain was in her head.
The pineal gland is known as the third eye, the seat of the soul. It's the connection to the higher self, the connection to the spirit. With high levels of serotonin in the brain, that connection is literally severed.
Therapeutic-grade essential oils that are high in sesquiterpenes — like frankincense, myrrh, sandalwood, lavender and peppermint, and the blends that contain these oils — are especially helpful in this clearing process, because sesquiterpenes have the ability to cross the blood-brain barrier to oxygenate the brain and clear out plaques and toxins."
17. "The reason for the danger in this combination of cough and Luvox use lies in the interaction between popular cough medications containing dextromethophan and the serotonergic antidepressants. The mixing of these two can greatly increase the possibility of a toxic reaction known as serotonin syndrome leading to PCP (Angel Dust) reactions."
18. "They wanted me to tell you a little bit about what is in my tape about what oils to use?I will condense it. Some of the first products of Young Living's I'd recommend is PowerMeal™?anything to help regulate the blood sugar, its very important to get the blood sugar balanced; and Theives™ oil blend, because the blood sugar is going crazy when withdrawal from these antidepressants and also will help with psychotic breaks that come with the withdrawal.
Other oils that people reported that really helped them are Joy™ oil blend (you got to remember, Joy contains Belmont (sic) which has been used for centuries for bipolar or manic depression) and Clarity™ oil blend (because of the confusion you will get), BrainPower™ oil blend of course (you got to get the pineal gland to work again, its just been too much overload with too much serotonin, because the main function of the pineal gland is metabolism of serotonin. It handles 50% of the serotonin in the system), and Frankincense after these drugs (because of the risk of getting cancer; we know Paxil increases the risk of breast cancer by 7%. So if you are getting an increase with one of them, they all work the same way, they are all going to do it), Idaho Balsam Fir is another one I'd strongly recommend because of its effect on cortisol (because these drugs raise cortisol at an absolute alarming rate, you got to do that). Those are the main things I'd recommend."
There you have it. All mental illness is blood sugar related, and you can fix those problems with essential oil blends. Oh, and something about pineal overload.
Lar
P.S. I'd be happy to explain why her information is flawed, if there any questions about that.
poster:Larry Hoover
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URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20051203/msgs/587759.html