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¤ >> Dear friend, thank you so
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much for watching
"It Is Written Canada."
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I am joined in studio
today by Dr. Neil Nedley.
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Thank you, Dr. Nedley, for being
here again today. >> Thank you.
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It's great to be here. >> Now,
Dr. Nedley, we've talked a
number of times about the
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different things that you have
happening in your life. Very
excited about your books.
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I've actually been able to read
a number of your books -- "Proof
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Positive," "The Lost Art of
Thinking," "Depression: The Way
Out," and "Optimizing Your
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Brain." Dr. Nedley, you're also
an internal-medicine doctor with
specialization in G.I. but also
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in the brain, and we talked a
little bit the last time. Maybe
expand a little bit about
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how those two things
are so closely related.
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>> It's interesting that we
have people that come to our --
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You know, we have a Depression
and Anxiety Recovery Program,
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and we have so many
that come with G.I. issues.
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And, you know, anxiety can cause
you to, you know, have nausea.
It can cause you to have
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abdominal pain after eating.
And, you know, one of the issues
that I tend to see is a lot of
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anxiety-related abdominal pain.
And the patient will often say
to me, "Dr. Nedley, the reason
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why I'm having anxiety is
because of my pain. If you would
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take care of my pain, the
anxiety would go away." And then
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I'll ask them a question. "Well,
what things help your pain?"
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"Well, Xanax helps my pain.
Lorazepam helps my pain. Valium
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helps my pain. Clonazepam helps
my pain." And, of course, those
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are benzos. Those are not doing
anything to the G.I. tract.
They're actually alleviating
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anxiety, and so that's kind of
proof positive that this is not
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just a G.I. issue. It's a brain
issue. And so, often, they're
coming to us for anxiety-related
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abdominal pain through our
Anxiety Recovery Program, and,
as a result of getting on much
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better choices than benzos,
they're able to have their pain
completely go away, their
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anxiety is relived, and they're
also benzo-free, as well. So,
it's very much an honor and
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a privilege to be able to help
these patients that have had
pain for so many years and so
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many problems and solve them. >>
And we've been in the midst of a
series, "Optimizing Your
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Brain," optimizing brain
chemistry, and the benefits of
that are far-reaching.
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We're gonna come back to that,
but I want to talk about -- You
said you offer some
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programs. Talk to me.
Where are these programs, and
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how might somebody learn about
them and what are some of the
programs you're offering?
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>> Okay. Well, we have a program
called Depression and Anxiety
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Recovery Program. It's a
residential program where they
do the first 10 or 11 days with
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us. Mostly we do it at Weimar
Institute, although we are
starting to expand on the
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East Coast, and our plan is,
within a year or so, we might
actually have programs right
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here in Canada that are being
run. You know, interestingly,
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we've never had a program
at Weimar where we haven't had
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Canadians there. Every single
program, we have Canadians that
are there, and that's why we
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know there would be a great
interest if we could actually
start a program here in Canada.
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The program is 20 weeks, but you
do the first 10 to 11 days with
us, and then we supervise it
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throughout the rest of the 20
weeks in their home setting, and
it's a program to not just
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control depression and anxiety
but to completely but to
completely eradicate it.
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And we have found out that
mental illness can indeed be
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eradicated. The world thinks
that we just have to kind of
alter its course because it
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can't be cured. Nature magazine
said the way we're treating
depression and anxiety today,
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there's more likely a chance
you'll be cured from cancer than
from depression and anxiety,
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because these medications have
their limitations and they're
not really cure type of drugs.
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But once we got to the
underlying cause and can treat
the brain chemistry in a natural
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way, which is what you're trying
to emphasize by these programs,
what a difference it makes, and
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so it's actually -- The most
enjoyable thing I do is to help
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people that are
treatment-resistant depression
and anxiety have it eradicated
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in less than 20 weeks. >> And
we've talked about this before
in some of our previous
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programs, and to our viewer, Dr.
Nedley and I did an entire
series called "Depression: The
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Way Out." If you'd like to
get that program, you can go to
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YouTube -- youtube.com/iiwcanada
-- or you can call our office --
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905-404-6510 -- and you can get
that series of programs, but,
Dr. Nedley, let's talk about the
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effectiveness of your
in-residence program. First
let's talk about the
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effectiveness of medications,
and you've given me the
statistic before. How effective
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are medications in treating
depression and anxiety? >> In
real-world clinical settings,
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they're effective about 27% of
the time. Now, they can improve
symptoms maybe 55%, 60%,
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some drug-company studies show
maybe 70%, but by improving,
that means you go from severe
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depression down to still severe
depression but not as severe as
it was before -- maybe going
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from a 27 to a 22. But that's
not really a response rate.
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We're looking for response rates
where the depression scores go
to at least less than half, and
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medications just don't have that
ability except in a smaller
percentage of cases.
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Even in those cases where they
do improve it, there's other
things besides medicines that
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are having a role to play, and
one of the issues with medicine
-- it gets into brain
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chemistry. One of the issues is,
although they can improve mood
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and crying spells -- you know,
women particularly like the
SSRIs, particularly if they're
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undermethylators that we talked
about earlier -- a genetic issue
-- because their crying
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spells go away, but they feel
more numb to life. In other
words, things that they
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should be getting emotional
about and intervening in, they
just feel blah and more flat,
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and, as a result, their husband
might be gambling away their
retirement, but it's like,
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"Who cares?" And then, after
it's all gone, it's like, "Wow!
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Why didn't I do something about
that?" or "Why didn't I try to
get him help or whatever?"
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And so that "I don't care"
attitude produces its
consequences, and then it also
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worsens impulsivity, and so it
improves mood while worsening
impulsivity and causing an
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"I don't care" attitude. If
we're really correcting the
brain chemistry in the
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natural, healthiest ways, we're
gonna improve everything. We're
not gonna have some bad
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effects and some good effects,
and that's why, of course, these
things have to be prescribed by
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doctors, because we're always
having to weigh benefits and
risks, and is it too risky to
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utilize these drugs? In
addition, because they worsen
impulsivity, they actually have
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black-box warnings that increase
the risk of suicide, and so, you
know, as a doctor, sometimes
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I've utilized these medicines.
I'm not talking against them
carte blanche, but I am saying
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there are far better approaches
for treating the common mental
illnesses that we have today,
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and they can produce beautiful
side effects and only positive
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effects. >> And the
effectiveness -- and we're gonna
touch on a few last things about
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your program -- but the program
there that you offer at Weimar,
the in-residence program, and
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that is also gonna be looking to
be offered on the East Coast and
then up here in Canada -- what
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kind of improvements are
you seeing there? What kind of
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percentages of individuals are
being helped? >> About 99%
experience improvement and a
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response rate of about 95%, and
that means less than 50% from
what their score was coming in,
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and that's just the 10-day
results. Now, if we talk about
the 20-week results, they're
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even better than that, so within
two weeks of going home, the
results are even better.
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And so, in fact, that's why it's
getting a lot of press and
there's been a lot of
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publication of it, because we
finally have a way of treating
depression and anxiety that can
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eradicate it and eliminate it.
>> That is so exciting, and, Dr.
Nedley, if somebody wanted
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to learn about that program --
when the next program is
offered, how to get to that
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program -- where would they find
that information? >>
Depressionrecovery.com or
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depressionthewayout.com would be
a great way to do this. I also
can give the number for
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our nurse case manager. In fact,
they can hook up if we have the
Canadian program by the
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time you're watching this. They
would know about that and they'd
be able to hook you up
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for whatever program. But our
nurse case manager's number is
580-226-8007, and she
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can deal with the East Coast
program, West Coast, Canadian,
and we're also starting a
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program in New Zealand and
Australia. I don't know if your
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program is watched in New
Zealand and Australia. >> It is.
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It is. >> And so, hopefully,
we'll have many sites,
eventually, in the next 10 years
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so that there'll be more access
to people who need the program.
>> Well, Dr. Nedley, we could
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talk a long time about that. You
and I have shared -- There have
been a number of our
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own viewers who had made the
decision to come to the
in-residence program and have
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seen phenomenal results. The
programs that we did together,
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"Depression: The Way Out," are
the most watched programs that
"It Is Written Canada" has
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experienced, and it is a
phenomenal thing to hear people
say things like, "There was no
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light at the end of the tunnel,
but today I see that there's
hope," and you read about
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individuals who just happened
-- and I don't believe in just
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happening. I believe there is
providence that God led someone
to flip the channel and they
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talk about how that day they had
made a decision that they were
going to commit suicide, but
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this transformed their thinking.
So, thank you for sharing about
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the program. So, Dr. Nedley,
we've talked about genetics and
that genetics -- just because
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you've been dealt a bad deck
doesn't mean -- or a bad hand,
rather -- doesn't mean that you
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are stricken with that for
the rest of your life. You can
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really experience change. But
let's talk about beyond genes.
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Are there -- There are hormonal
issues that sometimes happen
when we talk about the brain not
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functioning properly. Let's
talk about that a little bit.
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What's happening there?
How are genetics related to the
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hormones? What's happening
there? >> Okay. Well,
premenstrual dysphoria, or
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sometimes it's called PMS or
premenstrual syndrome -- this is
a hormonally related depression.
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The woman's feeling good, and
the ovulation comes, and when
the progesterone kicks in,
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they're sensitive to the
progesterone, and their mood
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sours. We've had individuals
that have come to our program
where their families can tell
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the moment that they ovulate
because there's such a
difference in their mood and
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personality when that happens,
and their irritability factor
goes up. So, this also -- people
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who are prone to PMS also tend
to be prone to postpartum
depression, and so whenever
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there's hormonal changes, they
have a tendency to have this
significant, overwhelming
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depression set in. And it turns
out they are being triggered by
a bad gene that they have.
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It's actually their ability to
handle metals that sets this
off, and that could be a genetic
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issue. Some of us can handle
metals more so than others, and
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we need to have certain trace
minerals that are metals, like
zinc and those sorts of things.
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But if we're not able to handle
particularly copper and some of
these other metals too well and
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carry them, the free copper
levels go up, and when that
happens, our tyrosine, which is
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supposed to be balanced and
turning into norepinephrine and
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dopamine -- Just a little bit of
background -- norepinephrine is
what provides our memory and
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focus and energy, and dopamine
is what produces our interests
and enjoyment in life.
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But when there's too much
copper, it'll drive it into too
high a norepinephrine level and
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too low a dopamine level, and if
our norepinephrine level gets
too high, it's very stressful,
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and we become very irritable.
And these are people that have a
lot of sensitivities that can be
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sensitive to sights and to
sounds and to also be sensitive
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to metals. They won't be able to
wear cheap jewelry, for
instance, because of the metal
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sensitivities, and they'll tend
to be more prone to PMS.
Fortunately, that can be treated
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through natural means. A lot
of people think, "Well, wait a
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minute. I have to just
take these SSRIs," 'cause that's
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often how it's -- You know,
they'll go to the psychiatrist,
and they're putting them on
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antidepressants that plug those
serotonin channels. And, yeah,
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it can help it a little bit, but
it's not gonna really eradicate
the PMS. It just kind of takes
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the edge off of it. But we can
actually eradicate the PMS by
bringing that copper
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level down through bringing zinc
levels up and B6 levels up. And
when zinc and B6 go up,
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copper levels can be handled
much better, and the person can
actually have the whole
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hormonal-depression issue
eradicated. >> Well, that would
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be, I think, very exciting news
to a number of our viewers. Over
60% of our viewers are
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women, and so let's talk a
little bit about this. How
would, then, someone help
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bring that copper level down and
those zinc levels up and bring
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balance? What would an
individual need to do? >> Well,
there are some dietary
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things. Fortunately, zinc is not
something that you can get toxic
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in very much. Copper is.
Now, we need small amounts of
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copper, but we don't need the
amounts of copper that these
hormonally related-depression
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women have. And so we
can actually bring it down by
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high-zinc foods. Peanuts are a
high-zinc food. Sesame seeds are
actually at the top of the list
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as far as zinc is concerned. And
some of the seeds like pumpkin
seeds, those type of
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things, can make a difference
Now, some individuals,we might
actually recommend, because
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their copper levels are so high,
their free copper levels, that
they get out of zinc supplement.
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But a little cautionary note --
just going out and buying zinc
supplements, if we bring the
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copper level down too quick, the
person will actually get even
more anxious because it's
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like drug withdrawal. And when
your body's used to copper
levels being this high
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and they come down too quick,
you can actually think you're
getting worse by taking the
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zinc. And so that's why we
like to know where their copper
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levels are at and give them
small amounts of zinc over time
and then build up on that zinc,
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and it's something that might
take weeks to correct that way,
but that way the person doesn't
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get into the problems of the
rapid copper changes in their
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bloodstream. >> Before an
individual that is not at an
extremely high copper level --
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that individual can eat some
more peanuts and some more
sesame seeds and, over time,
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actually see that copper come
down and find more balance in
their hormonal activity? >>
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That's right, and then more B6.
B6 works together to be able to
increase what we call
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ceruloplasma, which is something
that the copper can bind onto.
And these people genetically
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have low ceruloplasma levels in
relationship to the copper, and
so these would be foods like
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sweet red bell peppers are good
sources of B6. And that can also
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help them, as well. >> You know,
and I've said this before, Dr.
Nedley, and I don't
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mean to make a joke out of it,
but I always like talking to you
about the problems.
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The problems seem to involve
eating good, tasty food. And so
someone who is listening
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and hearing this and saying,
"You know, I think I do have
hormonal-related depression,"
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they can begin adding these
foods into their diet that will
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help in that area. Are there any
other nutritional factors or
lifestyle factors that can help
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in this hormonal-related
depression that then once an
individual's depressed, their
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mind isn't working properly, and
the mind's not working properly
has multiple effects on their
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life. Are there other
nutritional or lifestyle factors
that they can address?
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>> There are. Soy, for instance,
helps this condition, as well.
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That's another nutritional
factor. For several reasons,
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it's also higher in tryptophan.
And getting enough tryptophan
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can also help. Light therapy has
been shown to be very beneficial
in hormonally related
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depression. Now, with the light
therapy, normally we recommend
it in the morning, which we
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still do in hormonally related
depression to help reset the
circadian rhythm, but this would
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be a medical-grade light box
that the women also use for just
a small exposure, maybe 15
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minutes, at about 7:00 p.m.
every night, and that can also
really help this hormonally
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related depression. And, of
course, physical exercise helps
virtually all of these different
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forms, and physical exercise can
be helpful, as well. >> Now,
we've talked a lot about
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women and hormonally
related depression. Can men have
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depression that's related to
hormones? >> They can from low
testosterone, and, of course,
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this is one of the big
things that some people are
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capitalizing on. They're
recommending all men measure
their testosterone levels, and
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if you have low T, they're
wanting to give you testosterone
shots or testosterone creams or
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these type of things. But
testosterone shots have their
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side effects. They actually make
more estrogen, can become more
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irritable. It's far better for
our bodies to produce more
testosterone because what the
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body produces by the brain
telling it to produce it. And,
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by the way, our hormone-control
center in the brain for both
female hormones and male
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hormones is right here in the
brain, so if we fix the brain,
we actually get better
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testosterone output. And so the
interesting thing is light
therapy helps men double their
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testosterone levels. Just an
hour of medical-grade light
therapy in the morning will more
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than double their testosterone,
will help their libido, will
help their energy, their focus,
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and make them have more positive
masculine traits. And that's
pretty good, actually, instead
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of having to take these hormone
shots. The other thing that men
are not aware of and they're not
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being told is if they are having
too frequent orgasmic activity,
that drives down the
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testosterone levels, or if it's
supersensory orgasmic activity,
and so men need to slow down on
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that area. It takes seven days
after that event for your
testosterone to spike, and so if
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you wait longer for intimacy and
those type of things, you will
actually be able to increase
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your testosterone. If you go
two weeks, it increases it even
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more, and so slowing down on
what some men think they need
every day actually will help
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their brain in a lot of
different ways. >> That's very
fascinating. And so, Dr. Nedley,
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these are all related to optimal
brain function, and let's come
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back around. What about those
that are having some learning
disabilities, poor readers?
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Any help there? >> Absolutely,
yes. The learning disabilities
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tend to be related to a pyrrole
disorder. These are people that
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really don't like to read.
They've been advanced in school
even though they've been near
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the bottom of the class. They
have poor stress control. And
they're also sensitive to a
00:21:29.72\00:21:36.66
lot of things. These also tend
to be where your autistic people
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are at, as well, and those
people actually get better with
antioxidants, and they also
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improve with zinc and B6, so
what we said earlier about
hormonally related depression
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also helps this type of
depression or anxiety, which is
the pyrrole disorder style. >>
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Yes. >> And the amazing thing is
once we give them the
antioxidants they need and the
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amount of zinc and B6, they will
start to get better within a
week. You know, the hormonally
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related ones -- that takes maybe
four to eight weeks if we're
gonna balance it out.
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But with the learning
disability, they'll notice that
their brain starts to improve
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within a week, and it'll have a
very nice effect in about four
weeks' time, and these are the
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antioxidant. Minerals can
also help, like selenium that is
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present in whole grains. In
fact, one of the problems with
the gluten-free diet is
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we're getting less selenium
in the diet. And so we're seeing
00:22:39.25\00:22:44.49
sometimes more learning
disabilities as a result of not
enough selenium or these
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antioxidants. >> And so what are
some sources of antioxidants for
someone who has a learning
00:22:50.10\00:22:56.91
disability or has a child with a
learning disability and they
want to increase those
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antioxidants, the B6, the zinc?
What are some sources? >>
Actually, there's the top
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five antioxidant fruits.
Plums are number give. >> Okay.
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>> And the rest are berries --
raspberries, blackberries,
actually strawberries, and the
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top of the list is blueberries
-- top antioxidant fruit.
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And the top vegetables -- your
broccoli is up there in the top.
Spinach is there at the top.
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Kale is number two. And number
one is garlic -- the number-one
00:23:35.28\00:23:42.75
antioxidant vegetable. So, as we
load the patient up with
antioxidants and, at the
00:23:42.75\00:23:48.26
same time, we give them enough
zinc and B6 to take care of what
we call their pyrrole disorder,
00:23:48.26\00:23:54.83
we can see that brain start
to normalize. >> And this is so
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encouraging, Dr. Nedley. We've
got three real categories here.
00:24:01.54\00:24:05.54
There are those women that have
hormonally related depression or
stress and anxiety.
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There is hope for them, and that
hope is found in some
nutritional and lifestyle
00:24:11.85\00:24:18.95
adjustments -- getting some
light therapy, getting some
exercise, then initially getting
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some B6 and zinc, and where can
we get those B6 and the zinc,
00:24:25.43\00:24:29.73
just as a review? >> Well, sweet
red bell peppers are a great
source, and then your seeds are
00:24:29.73\00:24:34.84
gonna have a lot of the zinc,
and so this would be hemp seeds.
Peanuts actually are a pretty
00:24:34.84\00:24:40.98
good source. And sesame
seeds are up there at the top.
00:24:40.98\00:24:44.85
>> And then for men, they can
also have hormonally related
depression, stress, and anxiety.
00:24:44.85\00:24:50.32
This is often due to low
testosterone. That testosterone
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can be addressed through light
therapy. We didn't talk about
any nutritional factors there.
00:24:55.19\00:25:01.43
Any nutritional factors on low
testosterone? >> Well, walnuts
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actually can help, flax, pecans.
Blueberries actually can help
with this some, as well.
00:25:08.60\00:25:15.28
>> And then, lastly, those that
are suffering with learning
disabilities, poor readers, can
00:25:15.28\00:25:21.98
find that help in also the
nutritionally addressed issues
of upping the antioxidants --
00:25:21.98\00:25:28.42
your blueberries, strawberries,
raspberries, blackberries -- as
well as seeing the zinc and the
00:25:28.42\00:25:34.46
B6 increased, as well.
>> Correct, and maybe some
00:25:34.46\00:25:38.03
selenium. >> And some selenium,
which comes through grains. >>
00:25:38.03\00:25:41.50
Right. >> Dr. Nedley, we are
almost out of time. In the last
00:25:41.50\00:25:46.91
minute, maybe just give a word
of hope, a word of
encouragement, to that
00:25:46.91\00:25:52.61
individual that really wants to
see their brain chemistry
optimized that they might have a
00:25:52.61\00:25:58.82
life to its fullest. >> Well,
you're not stuck with the brain
you're born with, nor the bad
00:25:58.82\00:26:04.19
genes that you might have
inherited. We can actually turn
off these bad genes through good
00:26:04.19\00:26:09.06
nutritional and lifestyle
factors, and we can actually
normalize brain chemistry
00:26:09.06\00:26:14.60
through natural means and
produce what we call positive
neuroplasticity, which can be a
00:26:14.60\00:26:22.18
launching pad for emotional
health as well as intellectual
00:26:22.18\00:26:27.72
health. >> And, you know, Dr.
Nedley, with that, we're going
to have a prayer because that is
00:26:27.72\00:26:32.25
the desire of Jesus. The desire
of Jesus is that we would be in
00:26:32.25\00:26:37.26
good health. >> That's right. >>
Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we
00:26:37.26\00:26:41.00
thank you so much that You have
made our bodies in such a way
that You know and actually can
00:26:41.00\00:26:50.14
give us the instructions on how
to best take care of them. Lord,
please, change us and
00:26:50.14\00:26:55.68
transform us that we might be
more like your Son Jesus. We
pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
00:26:55.68\00:27:02.98
>> Amen. >> Dear friend, we
have been on a journey together
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seeing how God has created our
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00:27:09.76\00:27:16.77
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