Drug and alcohol problems are the result of biochemical glitches. They are not caused by a lack of will power and cannot be solved with talk therapy. Prescription drugs such as Prozac cannot correct these problems either. I believe the exact same thing is true for anxiety and depression.

In this audio clip, you will hear Dr. Julian Whitaker describe the research of American biochemist, Dr. Roger Williams.

He found that "alcoholic" rats could be cured of their desire for alcohol with large doses of nutrients.

You will then hear Dr. Whitaker interview Joan Mathews Larson, PhD whose son committed suicide about 30 years ago after returning from talk therapy.

Dr. Larson committed her life to finding a better way, and came across the research of Dr. Roger Williams.

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Drug and alcohol problems are the result of biochemical glitches. They are not caused by a lack of will power and cannot be solved with talk therapy. Prescription drugs such as Prozac cannot correct these problems either. I believe the exact same thing is true for anxiety and depression.

In this audio clip, you will hear Dr. Julian Whitaker describe the research of American biochemist, Dr. Roger Williams.

He found that "alcoholic" rats could be cured of their desire for alcohol with large doses of nutrients.

You will then hear Dr. Whitaker interview Joan Mathews Larson, PhD whose son committed suicide about 30 years ago after returning from talk therapy.

Dr. Larson committed her life to finding a better way, and came across the research of Dr. Roger Williams.

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Joan Mathews Larson, PhD hates benzodiazepines and antipsychotic drugs the most.

In this video clip, Dr. Larson notes that…

“The group of drugs that I abhor [hate] the most…

“Are [really] the benzodiazepines [anti-anxiety drugs like Alprazolam (Xanax)], but I don’t talk about those.

“We won’t even treat people who have been on benzodiazepines for 20 years and who are 60 years old [because] you cannot get those people off [their drugs]…

“You can get them off [those drugs], but they’re crazy and they want to sue you, so don’t do that.

“This group of antipsychotics, Olanzapine (Zyprexa), Quetiapine (Seroquel), Risperidone (Risperdal)…

“These drugs are freely given for sleep in other programs.

“A study was published in 2006 in JAMA [Journal of the American Medical Association] on these three drugs.

“The subjects were elderly people [in nursing homes], and over half of them, 54%, were dead within 12 days of starting this study.

“These drugs can cause nerve damage, weight gain, pounding heart, temporary paralysis.

“These drugs are not needed to sleep.

“There are much better ways to sleep [with natural treatments].”

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High or low histamine levels in the body can cause problems notes Joan Mathews Larson, PhD in this video clip.

Symptoms of High Histamine levels (causing brain to fire neurotransmitters too fast) include:

• Compulsive Drive (Type A)
• Impulsive• High libido (high sex drive)
• Cries easily, prolific tears
• Gets by on 5-7 hours sleep
• May get diagnosed as manic
• Their minds race
• Unable to focus
• Difficult to relax and go to sleep

Symptoms of Low Histamine include:

• Tires easily
• Loss of initiative, lackadaisical
• Low libido (sex drive)
• Irritable, tends towards high anxiety and panic
• Can stand a lot of pain
• Ears may ring
• Paranoid, may hear voices
• Food or chemical sensitivities
• Pear-shaped figure

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Here is an amazing before and after picture of a woman named Mary treated for long-term depression with a nutritional approach at Joan Mathews Larson PhD’s clinic in Minneapolis, Minnesota called Health Recovery Center.

Here is what Dr. Larson says.

“I want to leave this impression as we talk about antidepressants.

“Here is a picture, and I think a picture is worth a thousand words.

“Here is a woman who had been for a long time going from place to place… 14 years.

“And her father was a medical doctor.

“And he was somewhat alarmed when she said she wanted to go to [Dr. Larson’s] Health Recovery Center, but then, looking at the whole picture, he said she was going to die anyway, and so it really did not matter.

“She truly had many drugs given to her, and was a great fan of 12-Steps [Talk Therapy] for a long time.

“This is a picture of Mary 6 months later.

“So in every one of the clients that you treat, there is a Mary waiting to be released.”

—Joan Mathews Larson, PhD, speaking at a conference on Sept 27, 2007

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SSRI’s increase the risk of suicide, Parkinson’s Disease and restless legs notes Joan Mathews Larson PhD in this video clip.

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SSRI’s may increase risk of breast cancer and prostate cancer, and interfere with REM sleep and cause memory problems notes Joan Mathews Larson PhD in this video clip.

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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as fluoxetine (Prozac) make things worse notes Joan Mathews Larson, PhD in this video clip.

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Pyroluria can cause life-long anxiety and depression as noted in this video clip of Joan Mathews Larson, PhD. Read the entire article | Email this article

For 30 years, Joan Mathews Larson, PhD has been treating addiction, anxiety and depression with natural supplements in order to correct the underlying biochemical problems which cause these conditions.

In this video clip, she tells how a deficiency of vitamin B6,, pyrodoxine, can cause extreme anxiety, nervousness, confusion, and melancholy.

She also notes that old large doses are required, and if you don't take enough, nothing happens. Read the entire article | Email this article

Joan Mathews Larson, PhD discusses the 10 common signs of hypoglycemia in this video clip. Read the entire article | Email this article

In this audio clip from 2005, Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD says that the standard mantra that psychiatrists tell schizophrenic patients is, "You will never get well. You will never get off medication. And you will never finish high school."
To me, this is exactly what modern medicine does with blood pressure, with cholesterol, with diabetes, and often, with anxiety and depression.
They tell people, "You will have to take these drugs for blood pressure... cholesterol... etc. every day for the rest of your life."
As noted in the 1993 book "Coronary Heart Disease: The Dietary Sense and Nonsense, an evaluation by scientists", doctors become the unwitting salesmen for drug companies.
They assume they have been given the scientific facts, when instead, much of the research is nothing more than propaganda for the drug companies. Read the entire article | Email this article

Doctors get NO training about nutritional treatments in medical school, and almost NO training about nutrition notes Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD.
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Doctors are more interested in the method than the results says Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD in this audio from a speech he gave in 2005.
Thus, they ignore nutritional therapies because they don't like the method, but they never consider the results. Read the entire article | Email this article

In this audio clip from 2005, Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD talks about a father, who was a doctor, who cured his 12-year-old son of schizophrenia in 1960 using Dr. Hoffer's nutritional therapy which includes large doses of niacin. Read the entire article | Email this article

In this audio clip from 2005, Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD tells stories of people recovering from schizophrenia with niacin. Read the entire article | Email this article

In this audio clip from 2005, Janet Downing, a mother, tells how she successful treated her 25-year-old son of schizophrenia using Dr. Hoffer's nutritional therapy which includes large doses of niacin.
Although her son had been diagnosed 10 years earlier, the treatment worked from the first dose. Read the entire article | Email this article

In this audio clip from 2005, Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD tells the story of a 56-year-old woman with schizophrenia who was successfully treated with niacin, and her partner was also successful treated even though he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia for a long time.
The drugs the woman had been put on caused her to gain 25 pounds, and made her feel dizzy.
She commented that the treatment, that is, the drugs, were worse than the disease. Read the entire article | Email this article

In this audio clip from 2005, Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD states that with proper nutrition, shelter, respect and nutritional therapy which includes large doses of niacin, 90% of newly diagnosed schizophrenics will recover versus 0% who are given drugs alone.
And yet, modern psychiatry has failed to realize this and continues to believe that schizophrenics will NEVER get better.
This is exactly the same as modern medicine failing to realize that nutritional therapies are effective for blood pressure, for cholesterol, for depression, for anxiety, for sleep problems, and for alcohol and drug addiction.
However, because medical school does not teach doctors about nutritional therapies, and only teaches them to use drugs, they have failed to recognize this. Read the entire article | Email this article

Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD took large doses of niacin for 57 years (1952 - 2009) and lived to be 92-years-old.

Linus Pauling, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, also took large doses of niacin and lived to be 93-years-old.

In this audio clip, Dr. Hoffer talks about a woman who is 111-years-old who had been taking niacin for 41 years, and who attributes her longevity to niacin. Read the entire article | Email this article