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October 25, 2007, 7:51 am PDT
Amen!
Quote From: valordaveDr Phil,
I know you are a psychologist and are trained to deal with flawed thinking, and personally you seem to think most issues can be solved by an act of determined will guided by improved eithics or integrity. You have seen how biological causes (hormonal changes in your wife) can influence behavior. What if a person doesn't have the raw materials to synthesize those hormones? What if that hormone deficiency is caused by a genetically predisposed nutritional ailment called Pyroluria, discovered in the 1950's by the head of the Princeton Brain Bio research Center. Carl Pfieffer? What if the same ailment (lack of vitamin B6 and the Mineral Zinc) prevents the person from synthesizing all kinds of hormones, brain neurotransmitters and is a factor in substance abuse 40-50% of the time? Please call Dr. Joan Mathews-Larson and find out what supplimenting these essential nutrients can do for recovering alcoholics and people with unbalanced brain chemisry. Her clinic is in Minnesota. Also a prtege of Dr Pffieffer is a Brain researcher Eric Braverman MD. He was inspired by His mentors research and has built on it. He spends 70% of his time lecturing to other doctors about his findings on brain chemistry and simple treatments from Adddiction to alzheimer's. His book is THE EDGE EFFECT. DR Mmathews-Larson wrote Seven Weeks to Sobriety. (The title should read, Seven weeks to a REAL CHANCE at sobriety). Boy I wish you would give this a chance. One in ten people who watch your show could be helped by this information. I whole heartedly agree with what you've said. Most alcoholics don't want to drink and don't want to have the urge to drink. Granted, how they go about dealing with their urges and getting help is up to them, however, I got the feeling that Dr. Phil felt that this guy on the show could just turn off his craving for a drink. It's not that easy. As Dr. Phil has said many times on the show, some people are just wired differently. Alcoholics feel shameful enough and don't need somebody to be condescending on national television. It took a lot of guts for those guests to acknowledge their problem and seek help--they shouldn't be made to feel inferior for doing so.
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