Posted by Jasmineneroli on October 27, 2004, at 1:15:52
Hi all:
Help! Very sceptical!
An acquaintance of mine, who has bipolar disorder (mostly highly depressive, rare manic periods), recently visited me, claiming to be off all pharmaceuticals and feeling fabulous!. She did look good too!
She attributes this massive improvement to being off her drugs and taking various herbal cocktails.Does anyone here know anything about the validity of the theory behind the products she takes? A system of using herbs and botanicals to detoxify the body. Claiming that bowel toxemia causes inadequate absorption of food and toxins to build up in the body, including the brain, resulting in mental health disorders, amongst other things.
Also using enzymes to "pre-digest" everything consumed, so that bowel toxins don't build up. The enzymes purportedly aid the peptide/polypeptide conversion of tyrosine, tryptophan, phenylaline and methonine. It is claimed that if this doesn't happen, these aminos turn toxic.....Tyrosine into Phenol, Tryptophan into Indole, Tyramine from Tyrosine (a putrefactive product), with other bacterial putrefaction on undigested amino acids.
The products are supposed to be "electrically formulated" and/or "electrically available" or have "electrical integrity". Some of which make use of ion exchange etc. Such as, including hydrogen peroxide (which I understood to encourage Free-Radicals in the body, due to oxidative process?). I'm assuming all this "electrical" talk means in part, electrolytes, and also electrons in cells. But the use of "electric" in all of her descriptions was pretty vague.
It all sounded a bit like "quackery", but she really insisted how well and happy she was (and she had been EXTREMELY depressed, having made suicide attempts).
Anyone have an opinion on the validity of such a system, in terms of the "science" involved??
Any experience?
Very curious.
Thanks a bunch,
Jas
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thread:407758
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