Posted by Ed O`Flaherty on December 21, 2005, at 15:58:27
In reply to Also, question for Ed O'Flaherty, posted by Laurie Beth on December 21, 2005, at 11:45:45
Dear Laurie,
The big centre for nutritional treatment of psychiatric illness is the Pfeiffer Center in Chicago (www.hriptc.org).There they try to find alternatives as we do on this board. They (especially William Walsh Ph.D,one of the founders) discovered that pyrolurics are low in arachidonic acid,an omega-6 fatty acid, which is treated with evening primrose oil and not fish oil. Those two oils have a similar pathway into the brain and too much fish oil will keep the EPO low.I send a blood sample to the lab to measure the omega-3 and the omega-6 levels in my psychiatric patients and I find that while Walsh`s view is generally correct here in Ireland where I live the different diet gives different results and I often use omega-3 as well as omega-6 for pyrolurics.Other nurients for this condition would be zinc,B6,manganese,Vit.C,Vit. E. I have seen very good results in patients with depression, bipolar and schizophenia who have this condition,which in my experience is quite common and missed by most physicians who never heard of it and indeed who do not want to hear of it.
poster:Ed O`Flaherty
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