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“How much pain have cost us the evils that have never happened.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

 

 

Many thanks to Dr. Carolyn Dean who wrote this article just for our Peeps. We are so proud to have her as a Peep Supporter!

 
Meet The Doctor of the Future: Thomas Edison said, “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.” Dr. Dean is The Doctor of The Future. She’s a medical doctor, naturopath, herbalist and acupuncturist. She’s authored 18 books including The Yeast Connection and Women’s Health, IBS for Dummies and the Magnesium Miracle. Radio, TV and magazines interview her regularly   including ABC, NBC and CBS. She’s also the medical advisor for the Nutritional Magnesium Association. You’re invited to join her online wellness program Future Health Now! plus receive a free subscription to her Doctor of the Future blog.

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THE CREATION OF ANXIETY

 By Carolyn Dean, MD, ND

 

 

In the past few years, I’ve had an increasing number of young people in their 20’s and 30’s scheduling telephone consultations for help with their health. Their stories are frighteningly identical. In fact, I outline a chronology of health to illness in several of my books. My clients are amazed because I can predict what happens next in their story. The chronology is as follows and the result is anxiety, depression and lack of confidence. They also have many physical symptoms like heartburn, yeast overgrowth and are swallowing a closet full of medications. But for them, their mental, emotional symptoms are the most distressing because every physical symptom they have is attributed to their mental state and their doctor just prescribes yet another anti-depressant or anti-anxiety drug.

 
Here is what can happen in our drug-addicted society from our birth.

· Vaccinations, which contained or contain mercury, aluminum and a host of other toxic components, including live viral particles, given within the first days of birth. And then throughout childhood for a total of 32. When given at the time of a cold or fever, a child’s body is especially not able to handle the toxic load.

· Infant thrush (yeast infection in the mouth) is said to be perfectly normal and antifungal drops are prescribed with no attention to the mother’s diet or the likelihood that she has yeast.

· Diaper rash, caused by Candida albicans (yeast), is mistakenly treated with cortisone creams, which encourage further growth of the yeast.

· Childhood ear infections can begin at birth as yeast infections picked up from the mother during delivery. Most ear infections are treated with antibiotics.

· Ear infections may become chronic and require multiple courses of antibiotics, leading to diarrhea and intestinal yeast infections. There are body wide side effects from the 178 yeast toxins that include anxiety, depression, fatigue, irritability, and headaches.

· Young women describe having yeast infections even before puberty, which they’re afraid to tell their mother or doctor about.

· Anesthetics used in surgery to place tubes in the ears add another toxin.

· Colic can develop due to antibiotics.

· Inability to digest the lactose in milk due to an irritated bowel leads to frequent changes of formula.

· Gas and bloating can result from hard-to-digest soy formula.

· Leaky gut can develop and cause undigested food molecules to be absorbed from the gut into the blood stream leading to food allergies and sensitivities. The most common are wheat and dairy.

 · Eczema, aggravated by food sensitivity, is suppressed with cortisone creams. Cortisone encourages yeast growth.

· Asthma, which may be environmental, is treated with medications including corticosteroid inhalers.

· Multiple colds and flus are mistreated with many courses of antibiotics.

· Annual flu vaccines contain mercury preservative, which is toxic to the nervous system and also kills good bacteria allowing yeast to overgrowth.

· Cravings for sweets can be caused by yeast overgrowth and may cause or aggravate hyperactive behavior in children.

· Dental cavities lead to multiple mercury amalgam fillings. Toxic mercury vapor may be inhaled or absorbed, disrupting enzymes in the brain, kidneys, and liver.

· Allergic reactions are treated with allergy shots, antihistamines, and cortisone sprays.

· Many adolescents take long-term oral antibiotics for acne, leading to yeast overgrowth.

· Many teens and young adults develop mononucleosis, and up to 20 percent never feel quite as healthy again.

· Bladder infections are treated with antibiotics, which cause yeast infections and yeast overgrowth in the intestines.

· Birth control pills cause chronic vaginal yeast infections, which are mistreated with antibiotic creams.

· Pregnancy hormones encourage vaginal yeast infections. Pregnancy itself depletes the mother’s nutrition, as well as the thyroid and the adrenal glands.

· Chronic sleep deprivation is common in all parents of small children and is a major stress on the immune system.

· Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can develop after a bout of diarrhea (attributed to traveler’s diarrhea or food poisoning) and is usually treated with antibiotics. Or if already suffering from yeast overgrowth, traveler’s diarrhea is the tipping point to IBS.

· Chronic sinus infections (97 percent are fungal, according to the Mayo Clinic) occur due to lowered immune system and are mistakenly treated with very strong antibiotics.

· Hypothyroidism often occurs (due to pregnancy, yeast toxins blocking receptors, lack of iodine, family history) but remains undiagnosed and untreated.

· Hospitalization for infections or any type of surgery usually warrants intravenous antibiotics and a host of other drugs, which adds to the toxic burden.

· Major colds and flus can lead to bronchitis and pneumonia, which are treated with strong antibiotics.

· Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia are treated with anti-inflammatories, sleeping pills, and antidepressants.

However, when the cause is a toxic overload, medications can make the symptoms worse.

· Environmental allergies with extreme sensitivities to inhalants, especially perfumes, colognes, household products, pesticides, and molds, are treated with corticosteroid inhalers, which cause more yeast overgrowth.

· Dysmenorrhea, irregular periods, infertility, and worsening premenstrual symptoms occur due to a buildup of toxins and lack of nutrients.

· Infertility is treated with an array of synthetic hormonal drugs producing babies that are born with a load of synthetic drug toxins.

· Depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and palpitations are treated with antidepressants and psychotherapy instead of magnesium and B vitamins that are woefully depleted.

· Menopause is medicated with synthetic hormones.

Body nutrients including all the vitamins and minerals are depleted with every step of this scenario and result in a total body burden of drugs, toxins, and various stressors. The end result is an exhausted, nervous, shaky individual who has nowhere to turn and thinks no one can help her.

My clients have often consulted with dozens of doctors, but whether it’s an allopathic or a naturopathic doctor, the search is on for the drug or supplement for their symptoms, which often proves fruitless. Take another look at the chronology of health to illness and tell me how on earth a drug or supplement is going to make a dent.

What is required is a lifestyle change! I begin by going over a person’s health history and describing how nutrient depletion occurs, how hormone imbalance is created, and how toxicity starts blocking body functions. If you are reading this and want to know where to begin – start with your diet. The first thing you can do is avoid sugar, wheat and dairy. The second step is to get a good source of magnesium.

Reading The Magnesium Miracle chapter on anxiety and depression and chronic fatigue can give you much more information.

Amy Here: As a gift to all of the Peeps, Dr. Dean is giving us  a copy of the first module FREE. No card info required.  I myself am on week 6 of the plan.  Has great ideas on how to be healthier.  I have noticed a big difference!  For the price of a new book every month I am getting real practical advice.  You will love it!

 Click here to download the first section 

 
*Future Health Now! is a series of 48 weekly “consulting sessions in print.” Every seven days, I guide you step-by-step on how to add natural practices to your daily routine. Daily consistency will undoubtedly give you the best chance at lasting physical and mental health.
© 2009 Dr. Carolyn Dean MD – All Rights Reserved

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From your Peeps!

   

 

As many of you know I lost a dear friend of mine a few weeks ago.  We are only a few months apart in age – it’s been hard.

 

Her husband, our newest Peep, wanted to share her story…..

 

My wife had an anxiety disorder. She went to a psychiatrist who prescribed her alprazolam, (a sedative/hypnotic) and zolpidem (a sleep aid). This combination of pills, complicated by the fact that she was medicating herself and using the psychiatrist as a “prescription pad”, I believe ultimately resulted in her recent death.

The path Amy chose and is promoting on this wonderful site, was not chosen by my wife. Instead, she chose the prescription medication path, possibly due to the long term illness her mother had, because medicating is what she knew. Her mother died young and was most likely the source of her anxiety. She was convinced she killed her mom.

My wife also had health problems which complicated her treatment path. She had gastric bypass surgery and was not in the best physical health.

I observed my wife’s mental condition slowly deteriorate over the last two years of her life. She started taking the alprazolam, but took more than the prescription called for and ran out early. After a few days of having none, she had a seizure while holding our 7 month old child and fell flat on her back, hitting the back her head on the concrete. This caused a lesion on the front part of her brain and compounded the anxiety issues she already had. Seizures are a side effect of abruptly terminating usage of this drug.

Six weeks after the head injury she tried to kill herself. She spent some time in a mental hospital, but knew that if she signed herself in voluntarily she could sign herself out.  She actually met someone at the hospital who had the same psychiatrist. She ended up going to the mental hospital 2 more times in the next 4 months, once on her own, and once forced by the police. She never spent more than 5 days on any stay, as she knew what to say to get out. Everytime I took her back home, we stopped off at the pharmacy and walked out with new prescriptions. The diagnosis from one of the hospital stays was “severe depression”. She was prescribed anti-depressants but would not take them.

She was also prescribed zolpidem “for sleep”. Over time I can say this drug stops working and resulted in her sleep walking and cooking things while ‘asleep’. I woke up to a burning smell many times, only to find she had put something in the microwave on 60 minutes, or all the burners on the stove on high. After a couple of months of use, it would only last 2 hours max. She even started taking it during the day. When I informed her doctor of her abuse, they did not stop prescribing it. My attempts to hide the medicine and control the dosage resulted in her hiding things I needed, to trade for the pills.

After the seizure due to alprazolam withdrawal, she started taking Quetiapine fumarate, a strong anti-psychotic. This drug would make her slur her speech and many times I found her passed out and barely breathing. After a visit to the doctor, he told us to use a daily pill scheduler, so she would not have to remember if she took the medicine. This did not last more than a week. One time when I hid the medicine for when she was suppose to take it, she hid my work computer until I gave her the medicine.

The addiction got so bad, she was arrested and convicted for altering two prescriptions. At the moment I write this I do not know what ultimately killed her, but after seeing her push the limits of what a human body can take, I suspect it all finally caught up with her. As my 11 year old daughter says, “I guess she is not as invincible as she thought she was.”

I always considered my wife a smart person. But when it came to prescriptions she made many mistakes. I partly blame the doctors for leaving the patient in control of these psychiatric medications. It makes no sense to put the patient in control of the medication when the medication affects the decision making process. In the end, it was really her choice to take this path, and her choice to ignore all the help everyone was trying to give.

I know she is at peace now and no longer suffering the anxiety issues she could never seem to shake. I also pray that people read this testimony and choose a less risky and more permanent solution to the their anxiety problems through the information on this site.
 
Amy, I wish she would have listened.

 

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Amy:  Big hugs to her family!  Many thanks to her husband for sharing!  My friend and I sat many times talking about her journey.  I tried so many times to show her mine.  However, I wasn’t able to get through & get her to understand how scared I was for her. 

 

Medication was not the road for me, although if it’s working for you great!  Please, please, please listen to your doctor!  Don’t skip, stop taking or change your dosage.  I want you happy, healthy & free!  All the ideas on our site will help if your on meds or not.

I love you all & want you to ENJOY your life!  If I can get there anyone can!

I am always close by if you need a boost or a hug!