Dear Dr. Ettinger,
I am a holistic psychiatrist who has been purchasing goji powder from your company. I was wondering what percentage polysaccharides are found in the freeze dried goji powder that your company sells. I also was wondering about the pros and cons of dried goji berry juice as opposed to the whole berry.
Thank you,
Dr. Alice Lee-Bloem
Dr. Lee-Bloem
It’s 240mg per 6000mg of goji powder. There will be less in the juice than the whole fruit powder or whole dried berries.
I hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Alice,
I wanted to share with you a couple of specialty products I use in my practice to exchange psychiatric medications for nutraceuticals.
Gabatone by Apex Energetics. Gabatone has 10mg of Lithium Orotate and other good stuff. I take one before bed myself and my mild ADD/OCD/Type A personality is way better. I can actually drive Southern California Freeways in Traffic and not want to shoot someone. I have at least 20+ clients on it and when it went on back order from Apex I had a lot of really pissed off people, so it must be doing something.
Sometimes Amoryn. I mainly have used this, in conjunction with a lot of DHA, zinc 50-100mg’s and Gabatone 1-3, with patients who have come in on Abilify or other antipsychotics. For these clients I also try to get them in Ketosis (monitoring every day w/keto sticks). The brain really loves ketone bodies. Far, far more than glucose. Plus, with ketosis there are no sugar crashes or sugar highs. I have actually been in ketosis for the last 17 days and have never felt more clear headed in my life. More info on what I am doing here – My Personal Ultra Lite Program
Norival by Ecological Formulas http://www.naturalhealthconsult.com/Monographs/norival.html (for information only). I use AK and/or CRA to see if this needs to be added. I only have two clients on this and the swear by it.
I would love to hear if you have any favorite products that you use in your practice.
Take care,
Marcus
Hi Marcus,
Thanks for the following information. It was very generous of you to take the time to share what you have learned in your practice. I took some time to learn about the U lite program. It seems to be a diet that emphasizes the reduction or elimination of fast burning carbohydrates: sugars, breads, and pastas, but keeps the meats and vegetables as sources of nutrients. I have not done this in my practice, but I do have patients get rid of wheat, dairy and white sugar as much as they can.
With regard to lowering antipsychotic medications, I am still in a learning phase. I emphasize GABA support as well, in the form of having patients eat GABA rice and use the inhibitory amino acids that Neuroscience makes: TravaCor or TravaCor Jr. But in addition, I use a lot of L-Taurine.
The new generation antipsychotics block many receptors and subcategories of various classes of receptors, which makes them especially hard to get off of after being on them for several years. I have started a “step down” approach that seems to make the process easier. Zyprexa affects 17 different receptors (various Ds and 5HTPs etc.), while Seroquel affects 10 different receptors. So I have patients take a little Seroquel as I lower their Zyprexa, then when they are only on the Seroquel, I shift them to Haldol (liquid), then off altogether. Also, I have found that it is critical to wait a period of time (two weeks) before I lower the antipsychotic again. This allows the number of receptors to be reduced in number after the amount of antipsychotic medication blocking them has been reduced.
In addition, I like using whole food antioxidants such as goji powder, acai powder, and maqui powder (freeze dried). Most of my patient come with high levels of oxidative stress.
Also, I do a lot of muscle testing for information both for supplements, meds, and energy healing work. The energy healing work helps a lot too.
With regard to lithium, I am routinely using a product called Li-Zyme Forte or Li-Zyme by Biotics Research. It seems to be superior to lithium orotate as well as the oligo lithium I was using through Deseret Biologicals (no longer available).
With regard to energy work, I work with patients to help them use EFT, TAT, Emotion Code Technique (by Dr. Bradley Nelson) to heal from traumas. The release of traumas facilitates the physical healing process and detoxification quite well.
I try to avoid anything that would be too stimulating in those trying to get off sedating meds. So, I avoid glutamate, aspartate, and histamine amino acids.
Sometimes, I like to refer patients to a good chiropractor or acupuncturist around here.
All the best,
Alice
