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interactions between your body and your mind are only the tip of the iceberg.
     
    Consider for a moment that depression, anxiety, insomnia, attention deficit disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder—not to mention the hundreds of other mental disorders described by psychiatrists in the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(
DSM-IV
)—may be primarily caused by imbalances in the body and have very little to do with the meaning, metaphors, and myths we associated with them. It is a perfect system for describing your symptoms, but useless for helping you find the cause.

    Interestingly, there are a few conditions recognized and treated by conventional medicine that clearly show how problems in your body cause “diseases” in your brain, but the implications are ignored.
     
    For example, when someone with late-stage liver disease develops something called “hepatic encephalopathy” or temporary insanity from liver failure, the treatment is not antipsychotics, but antibiotics to clear out the bacteria in the intestine, which produce brain-destroying toxins that can no longer be detoxified by the liver.

    Imagine, treating insanity with antibiotics.
     
    Similarly, we know that alcoholics become “crazy” with a condition known as Wernicke’s encephalopathy from vitamin B 1 (or thiamine) deficiency, which can be cured by giving them a vitamin.

    And we know that an antibiotic for a streptococcal infection can cure some children who suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder. The condition is called PANDAS or Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections.
     
    Yet physicians typically don’t stop to consider whether or not other mental disorders may be related to imbalances in gut function, the immune system, problems with detoxification, or an imbalance in any of the body’s other key systems.

    I think this is because doctors tend to see what they believe and often don’t believe what they see, even when it is right in front of them.
     
    What happens in the body influences the brain, as we never imagined it could. The implications for treatment of mental and brain disorders are staggering. A whole new array of possible causes and treatments are open to us.

    Changing your diet, nutrient levels, circadian rhythms or sleep patterns, the substances you use, the amount of exercise or playtime you have, getting rid of toxins in your system, balancing your hormones, correcting imbalances in your digestive tract, boosting your cells’ ability to produce energy, and fixing food sensitivities or allergies can
all
radically transform your mood and brain function.
     
    With that in mind, consider the following:

Can lifelong depression be cured?
Can children completely recover from autism?
Can dementia be reversed?
    Conventional medical wisdom says no. We don’t see many cases in the medical literature where people recover from autism, reverse dementia, or are cured from lifelong depression.

    But just because psychiatrists and neurologists aren’t reporting dramatic recoveries like these employing the “normal” methods used to treat such disorders doesn’t mean the disorders aren’t treatable. In conventional approaches, partial relief of symptoms is sometimes possible. But cures or dramatic recoveries? You may hear doctors say,
Where is the evidence?

    The idea that psychiatric or neurological “diseases” like depression, anxiety, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, and dementia can be effectively treated, not by administering psychoactive medication, but by altering dietary and lifestyle influences and repairing the body’s systems, which affect the entire Body-Mind System in which the brain functions, is resisted by conventional psychiatry and neurology.
     
    The forces that distort our view, and keep conventional doctors locked in their way of seeing and thinking, are complex. One factor is the enormous influence drug companies have by way of