Joan Mathews Larson, hypoglycemia in 60% of depressed, anxious patients

http://fatnews.com/ Hi, this is Larry Hobbs @ FatNews.com.

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 notes that hypoglycemia, that is low blood sugar after eating sugar and other refined carbohydrates, affects 60% of patients with anxiety, depression and other psychiatric problems, and affects 88% of alcoholics.

Although she does not mention this in this video clip, if hypoglycemia is causing depression, drugs like Prozac cannot possibly solve the problem.

In another video clip she notes that the only way to solve its is to control blood sugar by restricting easily absorbed carbohydrates.

"88% of alcoholics we tested were hypoglycemic.

"4% were diabetic.

"A few had a flat curve, but I also consider them hypoglycemic because they don't get any rise [ in blood sugar ].

"You often get a sawtooth curve in a person with allergies [ food allergies or being allergic to something in their environment ]...

"And when that test is over and they go out to eat, they don't come to from food. They have had an allergic reaction to the sugar [ from the glucose tolerance test ], and they are in it for the day.

"So you can tell what's happening to them afterwards, so you know where they fit, [ that is, ] an allergic alcoholic [ or a person with a psychiatric illness caused by an allergy ].

"A glucose tolerance test should be given for five hours, not three hours which is typical.

"[ During a glucose tolerance test, some people's blood sugar levels ] dropped into the 30s, and sometimes into the 20s...

"These people [ whose blood sugar drops like this ] are half dazed from the whole thing."

Dr. Larson is the author of "7 Weeks to Sobriety", "Depression Free", and "7 Weeks to Emotional Healing".

Joan Mathews Larson, PhD
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[larryshobbs]

@tiatdivad I added Dr. Larson's contact info, including her email, in the Video Description.

[larryshobbs]

@tiatdivad Joan Mathews Larson PhD is the expert on this.

I don't know that she uses glutamine for anxiety / depression.

In her book (p. 84, 7 Weeks to Emotional Healing), she says for hypoglycemia she gives

- 1000 mg 30 minutes before lunch and

- 1000 mg 30 minutes before dinner

On page 286, she says that as part of her Food Allergy Repair Formula, she gives

- 3000 mg twice a day on an empty stomach

(for a total of 6000 mg -- 6 grams -- per day).

I would suggest emailing her and asking.

[larryshobbs]

@tiatdivad I am taking iodine + iodide in liquid form because that is what I have on hand.

I am taking 7 mg of iodine + 19 mg of iodide simply because that is a convenient dose -- a dropper full of Atomidine iodine solution plus one drop of potassium iodide (SSKI).

However, I am certainly not the expert here.

I took 1.2 mg of iodine for the past two years, but recently increased it dramatically and added iodide after reading Dr. David Brownstein's stuff on iodine / iodide.

I'm still learning

[larryshobbs]

@tiatdivad Some website say that spirulina contains lots of iodine, however, one site says "100 grams of organic powdered spirulina, there are 1.2 mcg of iodine".

Do a Google search for that phrase. The webpage is "Faces of Perfection".

This means 10 grams of spirulina only contains 0.12 mcg or 0.00012 mg -- almost nothing.

Dr. Brownstein uses 12.5-50 mg of iodine / iodide.

He uses Iodoral tablets which contain 5 mg iodine + 7.5 mg iodide.

He says one tablet often works well.

Larry Hobbs

[larryshobbs]

@tiatdivad I take 300-600 mg of tyrosine in the form of N-acetyl-L-tyrosine usually 2X per day, sometimes 3X per day.

Many would tell you to take amino acids on an empty stomach, but I take the tyrosine with some food to avoid causing any stomach problems.

I took L-phenylalanine a couple times a day an empty stomach for 12 years -- 1982-1994 -- which caused stomach problems. There is a specific reason for this with phenylalanine, and I just want to make sure to avoid this with tyrosine.

[larryshobbs]

@tiatdivad In a speech Broda Barnes MD PhD gave in the 1970's, he told doctors that if they have patients who have complaints, but the doctors can't figure out the cause, try desiccated thyroid first.

Barnes believe that in the 1970's about 40% of American had low thyroid, and thought this would increase to 50% in the next generation.

He also found that blood tests are NOT accurate.

See video of Mark Starr MD who found he had low thyroid even though his TSH levels were normal.

Larry Hobbs

[larryshobbs]

@tiatdivad I would also watch the videos on hypothyroidism and desiccated thyroid and try to figure out of you have any symptoms of low thyroid -- cold, dry skin, puffiness in the face, constipation, etc

Broda Barnes MD PhD, one of the great thyroid experts of all time, said the best way to test for low thyroid is check your underarm temperature for 10 minutes before getting out of bed in the morning.

He said it should be between 97.8 and 98.2 degrees F.

He said try desiccated thyroid first.

[larryshobbs]

@tiatdivad I only take tryptophan at bedtime because it makes me feel tired during the day.

You might also try L-tyrosine -- I prefer N-acetyl-L-tyrosine -- a couple times during the day.

It is the precursor to dopamine, noradrenaline and adrenaline.

Dr. Larson uses this.

I've taken it for 29 years.

I would also be sure to read the article on iodine/iodide by Dr. David Brownstein.

I've recently dramatically increased my dose of iodine base on this and am sleeping and feeling even better.

[larryshobbs]

@tiatdivad Dr Williams also notes that when healthy, pregnant rats fed a mixture of yellow corn meal, wheat protein, calcium, salt and vitamin D, one-third of their young had gross abnormalities.

The point of all this is that what we may think is a good diet, may not be adequate or good for us.

Also, if we are missing and adequate dose of just one nutrient -- and some people may need MUCH more than others, 8-40 times as much -- it can cause problems.

100% of the RDA may be totally inadequate.

[larryshobbs]

@tiatdivad Roger Williams PhD also notes in his book "The Wonderful World Within You" that if you are missing just one component, it can cause problems.

He says that when pregnant pigs are fed a vitamin A deficient diet early in their pregnancy, in one litter of 11 piglets, every one of them were born without eyeballs. They also had cleft palate, cleft lip and other physical abnormalities.

He also notes that rats fed a diet deficient in iron do not develop properly and die before maturity.