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Better Mental Health with Natural Remedies
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Приєднався 7 чер 2019
Helping mental health problems including bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety using natural self-help techniques including natural remedies, diet and brain training techniques.
Benzo Withdrawal Recovery with Natural Remedies
Benzo withdrawal and full recovery is possible, the brain is remarkably repairable through neuroplasticity, in this video I discuss how to use natural remedies to speed up recovery of the benzo brain.
For more information see
www.balancingbrainchemistry.co.uk/peter-smith/195/A-New-Approach-to-Speed-up-Benzo-Recovery.html
www.balancingbrainchemistry.co.uk/peter-smith/195/A-New-Approach-to-Speed-up-Benzo-Recovery.html
The benzo brain has too little GABA and too much glutamate activity.
GABA puts the brakes on the brain, it inhibits synaptic firing,
Glutamate speed the brain up it increases synaptic firing. The result is the brain is speeded up.
Stimulating remedies and treatments even simple things like B vitamins may cause increased speed and make things worse unless they are balanced with remedies that help the brain to control its speed.
To help overcome this we can combine remedies that support GABA activity and control glutamate.
Some people say these remedies can act in the same way as the benzos, that they could cause a similar problem to the benzos, but natural remedies and should be avoided. But the natural remedies do not desensitise the brain to GABA or increase glutamate activity like benzo drugs; the science says they don't attach to the GABA receptors in the same way as benzos or at all. Also in 30 years in practice, I have never seen any evidence of this; no one ever became addicted to the natural remedies.
There are a lot of natural remedies that are neuroprotective preventing further brain damage and others that boost neuroplasticity to help stimulate a more speedy recovery.
After benzos the brain works to regenerate and recover balance, this is the brains natural neuroplastic capabilities, but for many people, the aftermath of benzos can last for years as the brain struggles to recover; sometimes recovery is
It's becoming increasingly understood how to boost neuroplasticity and that the health of the brain is something we can influence and change. Many natural remedies can boost neuroplasticity as can many other things from specific foods and exercises, intermittent fasting and new techniques like HYPER-thermia treatment. When you combine
I first developed a combination of natural treatments to work on my own failing brain health in 2012 since then I've been using it in my practice for drug withdrawal recovery
CAUTION: Stopping psychiatric drugs, especially abruptly can be dangerous, withdrawal effects may be severe, disabling or even life-threatening.
Further Reading
Benzo Withdrawal How to Speed up Recovery
How to taper off benzos the right and Wrong Way
A New Approach to Benzo Recovery
Benzo Withdrawal Treatment with Natural Remedies
Are Natural Remedies Safe Benzodiazepine Withdrawal?
www.balancingbrainchemistry.co.uk/peter-smith/146/Accelerate-Benzo-Withdrawal-by-Increasing-GABA-A-Receptors-Natural-Treatment.html
For more information see
www.balancingbrainchemistry.co.uk/peter-smith/195/A-New-Approach-to-Speed-up-Benzo-Recovery.html
www.balancingbrainchemistry.co.uk/peter-smith/195/A-New-Approach-to-Speed-up-Benzo-Recovery.html
The benzo brain has too little GABA and too much glutamate activity.
GABA puts the brakes on the brain, it inhibits synaptic firing,
Glutamate speed the brain up it increases synaptic firing. The result is the brain is speeded up.
Stimulating remedies and treatments even simple things like B vitamins may cause increased speed and make things worse unless they are balanced with remedies that help the brain to control its speed.
To help overcome this we can combine remedies that support GABA activity and control glutamate.
Some people say these remedies can act in the same way as the benzos, that they could cause a similar problem to the benzos, but natural remedies and should be avoided. But the natural remedies do not desensitise the brain to GABA or increase glutamate activity like benzo drugs; the science says they don't attach to the GABA receptors in the same way as benzos or at all. Also in 30 years in practice, I have never seen any evidence of this; no one ever became addicted to the natural remedies.
There are a lot of natural remedies that are neuroprotective preventing further brain damage and others that boost neuroplasticity to help stimulate a more speedy recovery.
After benzos the brain works to regenerate and recover balance, this is the brains natural neuroplastic capabilities, but for many people, the aftermath of benzos can last for years as the brain struggles to recover; sometimes recovery is
It's becoming increasingly understood how to boost neuroplasticity and that the health of the brain is something we can influence and change. Many natural remedies can boost neuroplasticity as can many other things from specific foods and exercises, intermittent fasting and new techniques like HYPER-thermia treatment. When you combine
I first developed a combination of natural treatments to work on my own failing brain health in 2012 since then I've been using it in my practice for drug withdrawal recovery
CAUTION: Stopping psychiatric drugs, especially abruptly can be dangerous, withdrawal effects may be severe, disabling or even life-threatening.
Further Reading
Benzo Withdrawal How to Speed up Recovery
How to taper off benzos the right and Wrong Way
A New Approach to Benzo Recovery
Benzo Withdrawal Treatment with Natural Remedies
Are Natural Remedies Safe Benzodiazepine Withdrawal?
www.balancingbrainchemistry.co.uk/peter-smith/146/Accelerate-Benzo-Withdrawal-by-Increasing-GABA-A-Receptors-Natural-Treatment.html
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Lithium Orotate: How to Use for Depression and Bipolar Disorder
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In this video, I discuss 5 tips you can use to make low-dose lithium orotate work more effectively so that you can get the health benefits of lithium without the toxic side effects that come from high dose lithium carbonate. For more information and references see: www.balancingbrainchemistry.co.uk/peter-smith/193/How-to-Use-Low-Dose-Lithium-Orotate.html
How Lithium Treats the Brain
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In this video is explain how lithium actually affects the brain and treat depression and bipolar disorder? I’ll explain how lithium affects neurotransmitters, neuroplasticity, brain inflammation and more to produce a powerful therapeutic effect. As you know the problem with the high doses of lithium carbonate used in psychiatric medicine is that they can produce unpleasant and even serious side...
Beat Cocaine Withdrawal Addiction and speed up addiction recovery with Natural Remedies
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When you stop taking cocaine dopamine levels in the brain plummet, and we crave more cocaine, We can boost dopamine with natural remedies to take some of the edge of the cocaine addiction. Cocain also disturbes glutamat activity in the brain and we can use natural remedis to work on rebalancing that. Cocaine reduces the volume of brain grey-matter in structures called the insular and right infe...
How I Rebalanced my Bipolar Neurotransmitters
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Learning how to control the neurotransmitters in my bipolar brain helped me to gain control over my condition and keep it stable. Neurotransmitter imbalances play a central role in bipolar disorder. Dopamine and norepinephrine levels can go too high during periods of mania or hypomania and too low during periods of bipolar depression. These neurotransmitters are involved in driving hedonistic a...
Lithium Orotate Dosage lithium orotate
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Understanding how much lithium to take from lithium orotate compared to lithium carbonate can be confusing. In this video I'll explain how much lithium is in lithium orotate compared to carbonate and how much lithium orotate to take for different conditions. I have bipolar disorder myself and used low or microdose lithium orotate as part of my wellness regime to keep my condition completely und...
My Bipolar Disorder Recovery Story
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I've lived with bipolar disorder and mental illness since I was 13, it nearly killed me many times. Now I am completely well this is the story of how I learned to take control of the imbalance in my brain and recover my mental health. Initially, I would just boost my neurotransmitters to overcome depressions but this would make me manic/hypomanic and then crash and burn back down into a depress...
Depression Diet
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In this video, I’m going to tell you how eating flavonoids rich foods can have a positive effect on our psychological state and combat depression. I’m also going to explain how you could try a personal experiment: over several weeks to see if consuming vast amounts of flavonoid-rich foods has a positive effect, you would do a happiness/depression questionnaire test at the beginning and end of t...
Healing Mental Health Problems with Natural Remedies
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This channel is dedicated to helping people with mental health problems including bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety understand the neuroscience of what causes the condition and share natural self-help techniques including natural remedies, diets and brain training exercises to improve the health of the brain and overcome or at least better manage their mental health problem. The videos w...
Overcome Anxiety by Rewiring Your Brain
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In the anxious brain there is overactivity in a neuro circuit called the default mode network, this ends up bombarding the thinking cortex with anxious thoughts and feelings. We can counterbalance overactivity in the default mode network by growing and developing the opposing counterbalancing task positive network (TPN). To grow and develop a circuit in the brain including the TPN or we have to...
Overcomming Anxiety Part 1 Default Mode Network
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Anxiety disorders are not just a chemical imbalance in the brain, they are not just a lack of GABA; the drugs that boost GABA rarely if ever permanently overcome anxiety. The revolutionary new technique to overcome anxiety is to stimulate self-directed neuro plastic change to rewire the anxious brain. In this video I discus how the default mode network is overactive and ends up bombarding the t...
How to Overcome Anxiety Part 1
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In the anxious brain scans show overactivity in a neurocircuit called the default mode network. We can combat anxiety by re-wiring our brain circuits with brain training. To read more see: www.balancingbraichemistry.co.uk Or my new site: www.PeterSmitUK.com
Treating Depression Anxiety & Bipolar Disorder with Natural Remedies
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What really causes and how to treat depression, what are the best treatment methods to use for anxiety and treating bipolar disorder with natural remedies? To learn more see www.BalancingBainChemistry.co.uk
Change Your Brain to Overcome Anxiety
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How to overcome anxiety naturally by rewiring and reprogramming an overactive amygdala. The amygdala is a structure in the brain that can trigger anxiety, it acts like a burglar alarm scanning the environment for what it has been programmed is threatening. Brain scans show the amygdala is overactive in the anxious brain that the good news is you can calm down and overactive amygdala with the ri...
Im here because imma ask my dr for it today. I've put it off for way too long. Thank you for easing my nerves
Amazing video. So glad i found you ! Can you recommend any books interested on healing trauma
Thank you Mr. Smith. I started taking kratom as a way to stop drinking, using cocaine, and managing adhd, but it had serious consequences physicaly socially and psychologically so I decided to quit cold turkey. My girlfriend had a prescription for lorazepam which she only knew as being an occasional sleep aid, and so as I was dealing with insomnia and restless leg syndrome from rapidly quitting kratom I started taking her lorazepam over a 2 weeks period, between 1 to 3 mg/night depending on my ability to fall asleep. After just 2 weeks of use I am going through intense withdrawals after running out of the pills. I didn’t realize until I looked it up that these new withdrawals were not an extension of my kratom withdrawal but are most definitely from the benzo. I am currently in a hell of my own making, so I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with people going through this nightmare.
excellent work good sir.
What is your e mail?
Hello@petersmithuk.com for some reason I cannot get UA-cam to link to my email so you’ll have to type out the addresses. If you wanted to book an appointment you can also do that directly from my website: www.balancingbrainchemistry.co.uk
I get worse...crazy...when i try to detox Mercury
Please share the herbs. Whats wrong with staying on herbs.
Your Compassion for those who have BEEN HARMED BY PSYCHIATRY IS IMMENSE. THANK YOU, SIR.❤ Your insight on this matter is extraordinary. THANK YOU.
You are very welcome
Great Job, Sir. This information is Immensely Valuable. I can't thank you enough.
Glad it was helpful!
What a great video!!
Glad you liked it! I’ve just started writing the script for my next video, it’s an explanation of the neurobiology of bipolar disorder. It should be posted within a few weeks.
Thank you so very much for your help, God Love You and be Good to You and Everyone effected from medication and or drugs, may God restore us ALL
Anyone knows the man's name? Or the website? Sir I'd like to get in contact with you...
Hi, my name is Peter Smith, my website is www.BalancingBrainChemistry.co.uk
Well done. IMHO, Google is one of the most toxic (evil) forces on Earth. People need to consciously apply their critical thinking skills in order to detect manipulations by Google -- based on their constantly expanding profiles of your (our) search-and-select behaviors.
Well articulated. I suffer from BP2 diagnosed a couple of years ago. Your description of symptoms is spot on, thanks for getting the word out there.
Dear Peter, is it possible for me to ask you a complex question/consult you on something? ‘do you have an email address i could send to or what would be the best method? i’m in the US. thank you!
Just seeing your comment now, sorry for the delay. You can book an appointment for an online consultation on my website: www.Balancingbrainchemistry.co.uk
I am curious what amount of zinc would be considered high dose for therapeutic purposes? I'm having good experiences with LO for anxiety. Thank you
Obviously Lithium didn’t help Kurt Cobain, personally make me so sick Ill do my best to get out of it
As I understand it Kurt Cobain never actually took lithium carbonate for his bipolar disorder or ADD. He was also using recreational drugs and possibly pills so his brain chemistry would have been very (tragically) messed up. The low dose lithium orotate I use is not strong enough, on it’s own, to fully stabilise bipolar but it doesn’t nave harmful or unpleasant side effects. To stabilise bipolar I combine it with other supplementals to reinforce the effects.
*Instructions Unclear* Me after 170mg of Lithium Orotate: 🗿
Please explain your question with more detail.
Are you talking about lifting orotate?
Yes I’m talking about lithium orotate.
Actually in this video I’m talking about how lithium works, in another video I talk about how to make low dose lithium from lithium orotate go further/have stronger effects by combining it with other things.
When you are tappering off a major benzo addiction you need to donit slowly. Very slowly. Never cold turkey tapper off of benzos. Benzos withdrawl can be fatal.
Yes that’s right too rapid a withdrawal can cause seizures and even be fatal. This is common knowledge and can easily be avoided with a slow taper. The other issue is that even when person does a slow taper that avoids these risks many people still experience terrible withdrawal complications. Benzos alter GABA and glutamate function in the brain and unfortunately many people’s brains are unable to recalibrate GABA and glutamate function back to a healthy (pre-benzo) balance. I’ve met a few people that quickly recovered within a couple of months, for many others their brain will recalibrate over 18 months or so, which is a terribly long time to suffer; but for too many people recovery takes even longer and can even stall or fail to progress at all; this can lead to years of suffering. In my practice I use supplements, diet and other therapies to boost neuroplasticity, There are only a few of us but there are other functional medicine practitioners doing the same. The advice on the internet is terribly behind when it comes to explaining what can be achieved by boosting neuroplasticity. I developed these techniques to treat mental health problems including depression and bipolar and recover cognitive function from brain damage and ageing; than stared applying them to speed slow recovery from benzos and or kick-start recovery in people with static recovery. Some people argue that you shouldn’t use supplements to boost your neuroplasticity and should just wait and ride it out, they believe that supplements can do more harm than good. Well of cause the inappropriate use if supplements could be harmful but the correct use can be healthy. And what about people that are not healing at all, with all their neuroplastic capacity being cancelled out by daily wear and tear in their brain. And how can people heal if they have deficiencies of fundamental essential nutrients like omega 3 oils and magnesium to name but a few. And how can someone heal their brain if they have other health issues, inflammatory bowel disease for example causing ongoing inflammation in their brain impeding their neuroplasticity. I’m saying fixing these issues and enhancing your neuroplasticity can aid a quicker and more thorough recovery. But yes you point about too rapid and cold turkey withdrawal from benzos being dangerous is completely correct.
Peter, great videos. Chronic Lyme for over a decade. Treated with nutraceuticals for a few months but couldn't detox effectively so stopped. Neurological/psychiatric symptoms over years led to nervous breakdown and benzo use for insomnia. Benzo dependent after 14 days. Been in hell since took that drug and tapered. 8 months benzo free. I started taking lithium orotate 1.25 mg last night. Is this recommended?
It sounds like you would benefit from a higher dose of 5 mg twice a day. I made a video all about benzo withdrawal and recovery you might like, I mention inflammation including from Lyme (I think I mentioned Lyme: ua-cam.com/video/JrZw92ZAdn8/v-deo.htmlsi=TeTiKtEQqUWlOhfp
Low dose Orotate DIDNT DO SHITT. I thought it was doing something.. Until I went to the head doc and took 1,800mg of REAL LITHIUM (carbonate). 1,800/ day CHANGED MY LIFE FOR THE BETTER. I waidsted SEVEN YEARS OF LIFE THINKING THAT OROTATE WAS WORKING. I dont mind getting blood work every three months. Getting bloodwork also lets me keep tabs on what is ACTUALLY HAPPENING with my Nootropic regiment.
When no one else was talking about bipolar and natural remedies, like lithium orotate ,I found you thank you , I hope your doing well, I’d love more videos
Thanks for your amazing video. I have strong depression and wanna chance from Seroquel 200 mg xr to Lithium Orotate There are no doctors in Austria who knows something about lithium and i have to make the chance by myself without a doctor :/ maybe you can help me i take now lithium orotate 15 mg and i just need 100 mg Seroquel xr with lithium, how much lithium orotate i can take ? I heard that orotate is a small dose of real lithium. Thanks 🙏
I’m in a protracted withdrawal. It’s been almost a year I try to eat healthy and I take and kinds of supplements.
Where is part 3. Please. I can’t find it.
Sorry for wasting your time. I didn’t make the part 3. This is what I do for a living, after I thought it through I decided I would make the whole thing into a course. During lockdown I got busy just earning a living. I’m currently making a new video on bipolar then bey September I’ll start making the course with all the techniques. When I first make it available for sale the price will be reduced, probably about $100. If you’d like to be informed when it’s available you could drop me an email and I’ll let you know.
@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments OK. sounds good
@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments OK. Sounds good. And you didn't waste my time.
Have you researched the consequences of taking lithium orotata or carbonate alongside iodine ? We are all meant to be deficient in iodine, yet I’m always told it’s not advisable. Help!
Lithium and iodine antagonise and displace each other i.e. take too much of one and it depletes the other. To prevent iodine deficiency from my lithium I take 500-600mcg iodine (from kelp) most days. Eating a little seaweed is also a good alternative. Don’t take too much iodine it can overstimulate the thyroid.
@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments Thank you soooo much for replying. I think your channel is very needed; brilliant. Still waiting for the meditation instruction. 👍🏼💕
Sleep is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. So the bad news is that you don't have parachute, but the good news is that you discover there is no ground. And then you're just endlessly falling and you never reach the ground. So in a sense, what i'm asking you to do is to jump. And you don't want to jump. You're saying, I'm scared. I'm too scared to jump. And I'm saying, jump. God is telling you, jump, jump into infinite love and it's going to be great. But you're like, what if I kill myself and what if something else happens? I don't know. You just jump into infinite love. Take the leap of faith and you'll discover infinite love. And you're too scared to do it. But then eventually when you do it, then you're just going to discover that there's no ground. You're endlessly falling forever and it's great. But yeah, taking that leap is really difficult. It requires you to face your death. So of course, everybody is too afraid to do it. People are just to scared.
Thank you, but i got so panicked listening to all this i ended in tears and more afraid . ADHD is what I’ve wrestled with all my life and its 4am and ive woken terrified. . I don’t know-an I the only one who would be more despairing after all this complexity? I don’t mean to be I grateful. But……
What a fantastic video!! You’re awesome! Thank you!
You are so welcome. I haven’t posted in a while but I’m starting filming a new video next week. It’s on bipolar disorder but there’ll be frequent mentions of lithium.
I remember this from a few years ago. I want to thank you, you are a delightful, intelligent, generous, handsome, gifted, fellow traveler. I enjoyed every minute.
So nice of you,you made me blush.
@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments are you taking new pts. ? I think I’m going bananas.
@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments oops it’s ok you humble sweet man.
Hey, 👋 Hi I wondered where you are ?!
Just got busy earning a living, I’m getting back on social media and making a new website soon. Next video will be out within a month.
@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments thank you for you kind reply. I’m smiling. You really helped me four years ago. And I’m happy you are working your alchemy. I’ll look forward to your staying current videos. You are a generous fellow. Best of the best.
well, i definitely am going to try lithium oratate. I'm diagnosed bipolar I. These antipsychotics are damning, and I've tried lithium carbonate but I cannot tolerate it. I'm hoping it works, the excitotoxicity is outta control right now, I can barely have an hour long conversation without having my brain feel fried. I just have no faith in wester pharma. I feel so harmed by these antipsychotics... ugh.
For speeded up brain add, zinc, glycine, taurine, bacopa, Andrographis, sleep in total (100%) darkness and wear orange blue blocking glasses for a few hours before that. If that’s not enough add D-serine and Sarcosine. My next video will go over all this and more. It’ll be a complete overview of the neuro-biology of bipolar disorder. I’ve been working preparing the material for 8 months, it should be finished within a month.
what did you take to increase bdnf levels! thank you
To be effective the prescription should take into account the individual health issues i a persons body. Eliminating specific sources of inflammation is critical, this varies from person to person. Failure to do this is likely to produce poor results and the results are likely to be undermined by the ongoing issues that are undermining ones neuroplasticity in the first place. Besides the need to individualise each prescription developing stacks of supplements and treatment combinations is what I do for my living in paid consultations; it’s taken me 35 years of study to develop my knowledge in this area. In the future I’ll release the information in video courses available to purchase. If you’d like me to look into your individual health and develop an individual prescription you can book a consultation on calendly.com/PeterSmithUK Sorry if my reply is disappointing…
“Suck it and see” “I’m doing it live “
I don’t understand your comment ?? Can you elaborate.
Oh look its mutagenic….. aka causes dna mutations, aka cancer. Yeay
Sunmarize?
I don’t understand your question, can you elaborate.
Haha sorry, i am a little lazzy, i asked for one resume....
Great video!!!
Does Lyrica ( pregabalin) cause similar withdrawal like benzo? It also has an effect on gaba receptors even if not as strong as benzos. Can lyrica also kill synapses? When I laugh, my laughter is stuck in my brain as if my brain is swollen and the laughter is inhibited. 😢I also take amitriptylin.
Idk muxh about benzo but i was taking lyrica for 3 years first 300 then 150 then 75 , now nothing i didnt notice much when stopping except tight jaw
I was following along so well then information overload kicked my benzo brain in and it exploded.... Ty who wrote the time stamps with the cliff notes. Uhg my brain :(
This is the most complete anti-anxiety video
Wow brilliant. Can't wait to try it. Thanks so much. Super informative video!
@MP-uz9xi 0 seconds ago my concern with inositol is that it lowers testosterone (this is why it's helpful for PCOS) and I believe low testosterone is a contributing factor to my depression
If your testosterone is low then you would want to try other antidepressant substances or combine testosterone boosting substances like fenugreek and strength training with Inositol. I would probably work on boosting testosterone as a first priority. Good luck on your recovery.
@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments thank you so much for replying. I only just saw it. I should say I am female by the way so I would love to know if your advice on boosting testosterone as a first priority still applies. Thank you again. I love your videos.
Do you recommend lithium carbonate or orotate?
It depends on your needs, the severity of your condition and how many other things you are willing to do. If you have severe bipolar and you only you are not willing or able to take a lot of other supportive supplements to reinforce the effectiveness of low dose lithium orotate and take othe supplements that have additional stabilising effects, and use other techniques like great sleep, exercise, brain training and the ideal diet then you should definitely use high dose lithium carbonate. If you’d like me to assess your case and develop an individual treatment prescription I’m available for 1-2-1 consultations online you can book on calendly.com/PeterSmithUK My next video will go into a lot of detail on what bipolar is and what we should target.
Can meds that you're on be causing inflammation in the brain?
Which meds are you referring to?
Hello, thankyou for your work!! I can relate to all of those. Are you still taking patients?
Yes, you can book directly online from my Calendly link: Calendly.com/PeterSmithUK
Gabapentin halts the formation of synapses in the brain. Do you think that interferes with benzo recovery?
Have you ever seen someone improve their social anxiety with lithium? I didn't find much online. I've had this issue for as long as I can think. Amongst other things I tried exposure therapy, talk therapy, CBT, hypnosis, EFT and various medications. The only thing that helps is Effexor, but as soon as I decrease the dosage, I can barely leave the house.
Is there toxicity to the liver?
I watched this whole thing, and never got any stack recommendations
This video was me telling my story of mental illness, it wasn’t a discussion about supplements. Also it would literally be dangerous and irresponsible for me share my personal supplement stack. If someone with BD takes a combination of supplements that are too stimulating for them it could flip them up into mania, put them into hospital or worse. You may think I’m being alarmist but I’m not, this happened to two of patients last year; they took antidepressant supplements (SAMe, inositol, carnitine) I had recommended they should not take and they quickly went manic. Even for simple conditions a prescription should be individualised, and BD is famously complex. There isn’t a one size fits all, the stack I take would put some people in hospital. The BD prescriptions I write for my patients consists of 3 prescriptions, one for manic phases, one for depression phases and one for maintenance during euthymic phases. The 3 prescriptions have very different effects and my patients get an explanation on how and when to use each one. My next video is going to explain the biology of bipolar disorder and I will mention some universal mood stabilising treatment approaches. Next year I’ll have a course on managing BD available to buy with detailed instructions on how to personalise the treatment.