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A Conversation with Dr. Alice Lee-Bloem – Holistic Psychiatrist

February 6th, 2010

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. Alice Lee-Bloem

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,

Dr. Marcus Ettinger

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

Ultra Lite – Day 19

February 5th, 2010

It’s the morning of day (19) on the Ultra Lite program and I’m now down 11 lbs – 163.5 lbs.  Eleven pounds may not sound like that much until you try walking around with two five pound bags of sugar, for 8 hours.  Try it for just 10 minutes and see how you feel.

My mom says it's just baby fat.

My mom says it's just baby fat.

Here is an interesting observation: Since I’ve been on this program I have been sharing my story with everyone I know, meet or have as a friend on the net.  You know how many people have said, “you know, I would like to lose a few pounds too and get back into shape?”  One!  And she signed up today to complete the program.  My conclusion, which may be right or wrong, but I feel it’s more correct than not – most people are satisfied with their current weight and level of health.  Either that or they have gotten so used to how they look and feel that change is not in their reality.

You would think that most people would want to live a long and healthy life, and take proactive steps to guarantee that it would be that way, when they’re seniors.  For some reason it’s not working out that way.   As an example: Most of my friends are in there mid-forties and have known me for over 20 years.  The number of those friends that has asked me for advise or help, one or two.   Now maybe it’s because they think of me more as their buddy, than as a doctor, but they know what I do, how I look and how I act.  So, really there are no excuses.

That’s my two cents for the day.

Ultra Lite – Day 17

February 3rd, 2010

It’s the morning of day (17) on the Ultra Lite program and I’m now down a total of 10 lbs – 164.5 lbs. This is new territory for me. I haven’t been here or below since undergrad. As a gauge, I graduated high school at 157lbs, though with not much muscle. It will be interesting from here.

I still feel great, energy high and sleeping good. There are no cravings and I have to force myself to eat all the food Ultra Lite want me to. Lunches are the hardest. I fill-up very quickly. It’s not a bad thing, as I will eat the rest an hour later for a snack.

Ultra Lite – Day 16

February 3rd, 2010

It’s the morning of day (16) on the Ultra Lite program and I’m now down 9.5 lbs – 165 lbs, my marriage weight of June 2003. I would be down more but tried a 24hr experiment that failed miserably.

So, I wanted to see how my body would respond to a cheat day, as I know somewhere along the program a patient may have cheat day.  It might be a wedding or birthday and they will not want to follow the program on that day.  I wanted to see what that would do to me having already been on the program for almost two weeks and having a pretty good diet beforehand.

Friday night I had a friend over and we had some wine (3 glasses of Carol Shelton’s Maple Zin).  My breakfast,  lunch and dinner Friday was per the program.  The only cheat, Friday, was the wine.

2005 Maple Zin
Saturday morning I woke-up and weighed in at 163.5, 1.5 lbs down from the day before.  A ketogenic diet can cause a lot of water loss.  So that combined with the alcohol, I became quite dehydrated. I drank 44oz of water between 7am-12pm before I ever went to the bathroom.  For breakfast Saturday I had a Ultra Lite sanctioned meal.

Now the ultra-cheat.  For lunch the family went to Oggi’s for a pepperoni pizza and beer.  I had three pieces of pizza and a 16 ounce Torrey Pines IPA, yummy.  For dinner we went out with some friends to the Lazy Dog Cafe in Orange.  I had a 22 ounce Stone IPA, braised lamb shank with mashed potatoes and vegetables.  For desert, a little vanilla ice cream.

The let down.  Sunday morning I weighed in at 167.5 lbs., a net gain of 2 lbs (I’m not counting water weight lost the day before).  I went from 163.5 to 167.5 in one day.  That’s 1.5lb of water lost between Friday night and Saturday morning,  back, and 2 lbs of water and food from Saturday lunch and dinner.

By Tuesday I was back on track and lost an additional .5 lb to 165 lbs.

The moral of the story is this: it doesn’t pay to cheat when you are trying to lose weight.  I came back quickly, but I am also starting from a body fat and weight point that most others won’t be at.  A cheat day for them may take a full week to get back into ketosis and back to losing weight.  It’s not worth it and I learned to not try that again.

Ultra Lite – Day 12

February 3rd, 2010

It’s the morning of day (12) on the Ultra Lite program and I’m now down 9lbs – 155.5lbs.  .5lb more and I will be at exactly where I was at when I got married, in June of 2003.  This is the easiest program I have ever tried and I fell more energetic than I have in years, and I have ADHD.  Tonight I am going to try a little experiment.  Check back later for the results.


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