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Have pig farmers done for sufferers of bipolar disorder what the most brilliant medical minds have thus far failed to accomplish? If you ask 36-year-old Autumn Stringham from Alberta, Canada, you’ll probably get a resounding yes. Mental illness runs in Autumn’s family. Her mother had bipolar disorder for years and committed suicide at age 40. Her grandfather took his life years earlier with the same illness.
Married at 18, Autumn was soon pregnant with her first child and in a deep depression. She emerged, only to turn manic, paranoid, and obsessed with the urge to stab herself in the belly. She gave birth to a healthy son, but by age 20, she too was hospitalized with bipolar disorder and began taking a five-drug cocktail of anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, and anti-anxiety medications. Still, she was barely functioning and taking care of her child.
As Autumn continued her struggle with bipolar disorder, her 15-year-old brother Joseph began spiraling out of control with bipolar-related episodes of violence, anger, and aggression. Autumn’s father, Anthony Stephan, terrified he’d lose two of his children the same way he lost his wife, began to look for help outside of traditional medications. That’s when he met David Hardy, a former biology teacher and livestock feed salesman.
When Stephan described the family’s history of mental illness and his son’s violent tendencies, Hardy made a connection. It sounded a lot like a condition seen in pigs that become hyper-irritable, hyper-active and aggressive to the point of killing each another. The farmers “cure” the disorder known as ear-and-tail-biting-syndrome by adding a vitamin and mineral formula to the animals’ feed.1
Could the same thing possibly help his children? Stephan decided to find out. With Hardy’s help he spent his nights at the kitchen table determined to create a human vitamin formula based on the animal version. Finally, in January of 1996 he had a formula he was satisfied with. He tried it first on his son. Within a few days he was feeling noticeably better. After 30 days, he was symptom-free.
Then it was Autumns’ turn. After 2 days of taking the formula, her depression and mood swings began to subside. A few days later, the hallucinations that plagued her disappeared. She reduced her meds to just one per day. 2
Stephan and Hardy believed they had a formula with the potential to help thousands of people with bipolar and other psychiatric-related disorders. They convinced neuropsychologist, Dr. Bryan Kolb of the University of Lethbridge in Alberta to test it on 13 of his patients —children diagnosed with ADHD. Remarkably, he noticed promising improvements in their symptoms.1
Next, research psychologist, Dr. Bonnie Kaplan and psychiatrist, Dr. Steven Simpson both of the University of Calgary studied the formula on 11 patients with bipolar disorder. They noted that both depression and mania in all the patients improved significantly. Most were able to cut down on their prescription medication use and some were able to completely stop taking them.
Dr. Kaplan noted afterward that the most striking improvement they observed in all the patients tested, was in mood and regulation of emotions. 2
At this point you might think that the medical establishment would be open-minded and eager to learn more about the seemingly miraculous nutritional formula that was conceived through trial and error at Anthony Stephan’s kitchen table. That was not the case. Health Canada, the medical regulating body of the Canadian federal government put a stop to a 100-person clinical trial that was to be conducted by Dr. Kaplan in 2002, stating they had never received a formal application for approval.
Stephan and Hardy were not deterred. As health professionals and patients continued to report successes with the formula, they formed a company called Truehope Nutritional Support to produce and sell their product named EMPowerplus throughout Canada and the US. Health Canada responded by trying to shut them down on the grounds that EMPowerplus was an unlicensed drug.5 Stephan and Hardy geared up for a legal battle.
In 2006, Dr. Kaplan and psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Popper from Harvard University gave expert testimony in support of EMPowerplus to an Alberta court stating that many of their patients who could not be helped with traditional medications improved dramatically after taking the nutritional formula. (Dr. Popper estimated that 80% of his patients showed improvement while taking the supplement.)2 He added that if the formulation were discontinued, it would result in hospitalizations, aggressive behavior, incarcerations, and even suicides. Judge G. M. Meagher found in favor of Truehope and dismissed the case noting:3
Thousands of individuals who had found relief from mental illness through the supplement [EMPowerplus] without the negative side effects of conventional medications were relying upon them [Truehope] to continue to sell and distribute their product and to maintain the Truehope program.
As for Autumn Stringham and her brother Joseph, 13 years later they continue to take the nutritional formula and remain free from the nightmare of bipolar disorder. Autumn’s marriage stayed intact and she is now the mother of 4. In 2007, she wrote a book called A Promise of Hope in which she chronicles her family’s painful struggle with devastating mental illness and her remarkable road to recovery.4
Autumn does not consider herself cured of mental illness, but says the nutrient formula she takes every day allows her to have a normal functional life, 2 free of the demons that nearly destroyed her. One thing seems certain. Like Autumn, thousands of people who currently take powerful psychotropic drugs may simply have higher than normal nutritional needs that can easily be corrected with the right combination of supplemental nutrients.
References
- http://www.healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/Synergy/News/mdc0401evenson.html.
- http://www.cyclediet.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=100&forum_id=18.
- http://www.truehope.com/truehope_bipolar_disorder_court.aspx.
- http://www.scribd.com/doc/9244072/Vitamin-supplement-showing-promise-in-Bipolar-Disorder-3.
- http://www2.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=a26b6b56-364c-476f-9cf4-c1cb76e12ac0&sponsor=.
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Well written. The references support my opinion and belief that “Western Medicine” is not the end all be all. I will get this information to several people I know who suffer from this condition.
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 7:10 am. PermalinkWhere can we obtain this supplement from in South Africa - or can we buy via mail?
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 7:11 am. PermalinkThank God for doctors and people that will take a stand to do whats right. I will pass this on.
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 7:32 am. PermalinkThis stuff works! I have a family history of mental disorders and suffer from low grade depression which escalates when I do not take it. It’s not cheap, but worth the price so I don’[t have to deal with the side effects from traditional medication.
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 7:44 am. PermalinkI am happy to hear that a supplement has been found here in Canada. I am presently on 900 mg of lithium a day and I am very stable, the problem is that the drug is very toxic. It eventuallly can affect our kidneys, liver and or become diabetic. I can’t take any NSAID for pain and I have to make sure I don’t dehydrate for the lithium is going to be more potent and I can go septic and possibly die !
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 7:56 am. PermalinkIt is wonderful to hear of those medical and research professionals who truly care about people and not the almighty dollar. God bless you all. I wonder can it work on autism.
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 7:56 am. PermalinkThis article is proof that the western diet is full of harmful chemical drugs and additives and is the main problem of the mental and physical health of the population at large.
One of the main problems is the lack of minerals in the food supply.
Nature has provided the necessary substance we need to have optimal health. Then man came along and has tried to change that with chemicals, and it should be a crime to keep hiding the fact that what Nature has provided is not the proper diet for humans.
Profits and greed are what is keeping us from the health we need to keep our bodies free from disease and sickness.
If nature didn’t create it, don’t eat it, if you want to stay healthy. The soils have been depleted of the proper trace minerals our cellular system require to have a balanced metabolism so every cell functions as needed for our bodies to heal and stay healthy, mentally and physically.
Until the farming lands have their minerals replaced so plants can take up the trace minerals our bodies need, we will continue to have health problems.
It is so simple to replace those minerals, by adding the sea solids back to the farming lands where they were washed through erosion.
The minerals are in all the sea water and mud of the oceans and can be extracted for replacement to the farming lands.
We could then stop spraying chemical poisons on our food supply, and have a healthy population once again.
Our bodies desperately need those trace minerals for proper health.
Marine phytoplankton contains all those minerals and nutrients we need to change the health of the population.
Read about the “Marvels of Marine phytoplankton” on my blog.www.my-healthy.info/4u
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 7:58 am. PermalinkI saw the info. but not place to get it or any hint of what is in the formula
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 8:00 am. PermalinkSure wish I knew of this back then, I had two family
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 8:10 am. Permalinkmembers afflicked with bi-polar, eventually ending with two suicides.
I am shock abeit glad to know that there is hope of positive treatments for those suffering from bipolar disorder.Many pyschotic drugs has serious side effects but this is the first time I come across such a wonderful article that provides simple mineral and nutrition solution to such a serious problem. I am glad to know that the solution described could help to save the rest of those suffering from bipolar syndrome.
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 8:22 am. PermalinkI love your site and actually have a folder of all your newsletters, but I am astounded and appalled that you are promoting a product that has such ENORMOUS controversy surrounding it…(of which nothing was said)..Have none of you looked into the company, the years-long court battles in Canada, the bait and switch tactics going on with this product in Canada and the U.S…or, more importantly, the content and true efficacy of this product? Instead of just printing some promotional advertising copy, how about doing some indepth research, and getting back to us with your findings?
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 8:43 am. PermalinkSincerely,
Melanie Colbeth
I have met so many families and people plagued by this too often life devastating disorder. This news should be shouted from every roof top in the nation.
Michael J Preston
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 9:04 am. PermalinkThanks for this information which is proof that nutrition is key to healthy life. We knew years ago that nutrition was the way to treat depression. You can’t get nutrition from eating food only, you must supplement. Dead Doctors Don’t Lie!
I read the one comment, where Melanie was appalled of the promotion of this Canadian product. I think the overall message is that “Something” worked and it was centered around vitamins & minerals vs. a pharmaceutical killer.
I have witnessed that even the hormonal changing puberty years in teens is much easier with supplemental vitamins & minerals added to their diet.
Thanks
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 9:37 am. PermalinkI am 49 years old, and I found out at 40 that I was ADHD/ADD. What I do not understand is why it has to cost so much? Is there any way to get this at a reduced price?
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 10:08 am. PermalinkI don’t know about the rest of you, but my life is a mess! I screw everything up, no matter how hard I try…and have since childhood.
My family keeps me because I can not hold down a “real” job; I stay at home trying to eek out a living online…not making much headway there, either.
I know you all say this works, but how can I find out it works for me? I am not asking for a handout, ( I applied for SSI; was told that’s asking for a handout; not eligible, their, either); but a hand up.
Lately, I sis around crying about every little thing…we are behind in our rent, electric, Internet…and it’s my fault. I can not seem to remember to do things until it’s to late…ie. shut off!
Great article, but it left me hanging. What is the vitamins or minerals that is being talked about? Can we purchase the formula and what is it called?
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 10:16 am. PermalinkPigs Can’t Fly - People Still Die!
Total Health Breakthrough’s Dredgin’ The Slop Trough
April 1, 2009
By Connie J. Lewis
Could-Be Editorial Supervisor, Total Health Breakthroughs
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Mental illness runs in Autumn Stringham’s family. She’s from Alberta Canada, and claims “pig pills” her daddy concocted on his kitchen table with his mormon buddy cured her bipolar condition, and saved her from the inevitable suicide that ended life for both her mother and grandpa.
Total Health Breakthrough’s astonishing report claims that Autumn’s mother “had bipolar for years”, when, truth is, Autumn herself says her mother had “undiagnosed bipolar affective disorder”. Either way… I’m glad they left the cure up to Dad and his mormon pig farmer friend! The kitchen table seemed like the best place to stir up the the family’s answer since it had surely worked to keep pigs from biting each other’s tails and ears!
Ear-and-tail-biting-syndrome, they call it. Pigs do it randomly, and frequently. Apparently Autumn’s dad had a friend who thought it was a serious problem, and caused by a lack of minerals. After skeptics and actual professionals began investigating the so-called “pig-pills” and all the hype surrounding them, it was concluded with little research that pigs biting ears and tails is likely caused from “boredom” and there is little scientific evidence to support it having much to do with minerals or a lack thereof in the diet. They say it’s from boredom. I say it’s what pigs do. Who really knows when a pig is bored?
Even the company that makes the pig-pills does not deny there is little scientific evidence to support the biting thing has to do with minerals or lack thereof in the diet.
What? But back it up to the suicidal family getting help from the mormons at church! Isn’t that what started the whole company? Isn’t that where the miraculous answers came from? Weren’t the kids acting just like the pigs?
As for pigs needing minerals, that is not rocket science. We all do. Our soil has been depleted for decades and it’s long since been determined that supplementation to either the earth or its inhabitants is essential. To that, there is little argument. Except, perhaps, in Canada…
Seriously! After chatting with mormons about pigs, Anthony Stephan “decided to put together a series of vitamins and minerals that would help, and when he was satisfied enough, he tried them on his children.”
Why was he so desperate? He’d lost his wife (suicide) and her father had also committed suicide 16 years earlier and now… he was left with children that seemed “lost”. Gee, if my dad was mixing vitamins to “fix me”, and discussing how much my behavior mirrored their pigs in church, I might be “lost” too. Is it remotely possible this family had other issues?
Let’s take a closer look…
Autumn had been sexually molested by her uncle. Alone, that could cause most any young married woman with a young son to have depression, anxiety, and a host of other symptoms, depending on the scope of the abuse.
Who said Grandpa was bipolar or why he died?
Mom, on the other hand, left information in her own handwriting as to why she opted to take her own life.
The truth begins to unravel. So… the family had back tax issues that literally drove the wife to commit suicide - she left a note to dear ol’ hubby. She told him to use her life insurance to pay off the taxes. And we’re calling this bipolar? The tax problem didn’t surface until after Mr. Pig Pills mixed his concoction for profit and blamed his wife’s condition on mental illness - bipolar to be sure.
Why is bipolar so closely related to suicide repeatedly in the articles? Holy cow - (or pigs in this case) these folks don’t even have the ability to “speak cognitively” or take care of their young children in this story… but 5 days after taking Pappy’s homemade concoction of pig vitamins, they stop hacking on themselves and become great parents, and learn to speak! No more suicidal urges. Dad is a flippin’ genius after one visit to the mormons talking about pigs and their ear-and-tail-biting syndrome. It’s a miracle!
Another son, at only 15, was known as a seething, angry hulk of a boy, fat and out of control - even afraid to wake up in the mornings, and was warned by his psychiatrist he too may soon become suicidal. Ah ha! Dad to the rescue with his home-made vitamins. Back from the barn just in time. The boy was transformed within days!
Thankfully everyone with such severe mental illness was “cured” within days of one man’s mixing products at home. Or so they say…
After government intervention and investigation, some of the ingredients used to make the “pig pills” proved to be less than safe. One ingredient alone, government documents point out, germanium, used over extended time in high doses is linked to renal failure and 31 reported deaths.
But alas, our Total Health Breakthrough staff is willing to title pig pills “An Astonishing Recovery from Bipolar Disorder” and announce “Why Pig Farmers Should Win A Nobel Prize!” When Pigs Fly!
With all due respect to what I have continually read with some degree of respect, this article is lacking research, any basis in good science, and a healthy degree of common sense. Does anybody on staff understand what the term “bipolar” means?
Try reading some credible information on the topic before recommending Nobel Rrizes to pig farmers for profiting from home-made concoctions, lacking any research involving blind, controlled trials - the gold standard in testing - in which the effects of treatment would be compared to those of a placebo or another treatment. No testing except experimental has been completed at this time.
We guess why pigs bite each other. We call a suicide over taxes bipolar (when undiagnosed), and assume the father died of the same disease. A sexually abused daughter with depression and other symptoms blames family history of undiagnosed illness and praises untested, table-top cure Dad and his mormon pig farming friend discuss at church and concoct together? I should think not!
Why are these children not outraged at their father’s mentally challenged behaviors of comparing them to pigs in public?
Why are these folks allowed to continue to profit when claims of worsened symptoms from use of Pig Pills are filed, book sales soar, and pigs are still biting ears and tails?
Perhaps the answer lies in reports in ETR’s Total Health Breakthrough recommendation for Nobel Prize nominations for pig slop in the world of nutrition!
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 11:11 am. PermalinkI have seen the terrible effects of bipolar in many people and I knew that nutrition was the answer. I am very thankful
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 12:14 pm. Permalinkthat someone had the guts to stand up to the medical profession.I practice natural over the medical profession and will continue to do so no matter what laws may be passed on this matter. Keep up the good work and I will always be receptive to this kind of mail. Thanks
Thanks for the article. If this stuff works and doesn’t do harm like other side-effect meds, than one should pass on to help MANY AFFECTED OTHERS.
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 12:28 pm. PermalinkPerhaps the pig farmer could do more research and come up with a formula that would cause authors to use proper punctuation.
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 12:39 pm. PermalinkI found the article very interesting and feel that many health problems can be corrected or at least alleviated with nutritional supplementation. Whether the “pig pills” were adequately formulated and concocted is uncertain, but if they did, indeed, help the family, that’s wonderful. I assume the company that makes the pills did not sponsor any advertising with THB and that’s why the name or information on how to obtain the pills was not included in the article.
I tried to print the article to provide to those who might be interested, but found I could only print page 1. Is that because my printing program is not set up correctly or is it the way the web page works?
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 2:07 pm. PermalinkOne thing that Connie Lewis didn’t seem to mention is the extent that Harvard has been using this supplement. It is being used to treat hundreds of their patients, successfully relieving their bipolar symptoms. The psychiatric doctor under oath in the Canadian court stated that should he find himself with a bipolar diagnosis, he would take this supplement before he would consider drugs.
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 2:45 pm. PermalinkPerhaps, Connie, you have stock in pharmaceuticals or need to try the supplement for an attitude change yourself. And no, I have no connection with the family or the sale of the product. But I have experienced its help.
excuse me -
Did you ever read the first link you supplied as a recommendation?
http://www.healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/Synergy/News/mdc0401evenson.html.
article says:
In December, a Finnish study published in the journal BioMed Central Psychiatry found depression patients responded significantly better to treatment if they had high levels of vitamin B12 in their blood. I suspect future research will show some mental illness is related, in part, to nutrient deficiency. And two patients with the same diagnosis may be ill for quite different genetic reasons; one may respond to products like Empowerplus, while the other may not.
- it clearly continues saying:
But the product is represented as effective in treating a wide range of disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety disorder, autism, bipolar disorder, fibromyalgia, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic attacks, schizophrenia and Tourette’s syndrome. That’s a big red flag all by itself.
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Being a finnish slaughterhouse official veterinarian - you know, the country where one of the studies in that article was done - I can say to you.. that tail-biting is NOT treated with vitamins, if it was.. there wouldn’t be that - and it is one of the biggest problems with pig farming.
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 3:00 pm. PermalinkPig Pills or Guinea Pig Pills?
Gail - Where did you find your information on the “hundreds” of Harvard patients using pig pills successfully, relieving their bipolar symptoms? I read of a study by Dr. Popper with 22 patients with half of them receiving help.
Beyond that, the following is a direct quote from supporting materials for today’s article:
“Stringham, who has four children of her own, quotes Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Charles Popper and Dr. Bonnie Kaplan at the University of Calgary, both of whom have been supportive of her recovery method:
The only way to know whether a vitamin-mineral approach is effective for people with bipolar disorder generally is by conducting a series of large-scale scientifically rigorous clinical trials.”
It is apparent that my position is clearly misunderstood. Gail, how I wish you were correct at this time in life in your assumption that I owned stock (and a whole lot of it) in pharmaceutical companies. Not that I would use them, but my portfolio would obviously be in better shape than it currently is.
As for using the supplement (pig pills) to acquire an attitude adjustment… well, no thanks. I didn’t realize we are not allowed to have opinions that are not in favorable “group agreement” without having bipolar remedies recommended by other posters on the forum. But perhaps I will take a walk, just to be sure.
Here’s my truth, just so you’ll know, Gail. Fourteen years ago I discovered the value of nutritional supplements for personal health and wellness over pharmaceuticals on a very personal level. If there is a way to avoid drugs, and find a healthy alternative to medicine, I’m all for it.
Unfortunately, my husband and I fell victim to being “guinea pigs” for a U.S. based company that was not “mixing and stirring” on the kitchen table, but rather in a laboratory when they went into product development with many years of experience under their belt. Although we only tested their “new” product for a few short months, we suffered long term effects for years to follow. The whole point of my response was not to be so quick to grant kudos and recommend awards to those seemingly so uneducated about a topic such as bipolar disorder to begin with, let alone for using human beings as guinea pigs for untested products developed in such a barbaric manner.
Always, I vote supplementation over medication whenever possible. And I do mean always!
One final comment, then I’m back to helping people with nutritional needs, and writing about it as well. I too thought the article was very interesting and obviously thought provoking. If nothing else, it proves how desperate people are in looking for alternatives to modern medicine and all its side effects.
Wait! One more thought…
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 3:38 pm. PermalinkAre we to assume these are the first and the last group of folks to ever give thought to using supplements vs. drugs for helping treat mental illness?
Please read about the history of the company and the products early days.
http://www.pigpills.com
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 4:42 pm. PermalinkLoved the information, have a grandchild with the condition. Am going to send this too her, to see if she wants to try.
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 5:19 pm. PermalinkWhere do we purchase this product to try for BP disorder and some active links to scientific research and papers, to understand the product itself. The sales thing is a bit of waffle really, and I would suggest if you mixed it with facts for the “analyticals” you would satisfy a greater audience. What a fabulous discovery if its bone fide.
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 7:53 pm. PermalinkThankyou and I am very keen to try this product. Where and how do we order it please.
i am currently taking empower by truehope and it has done just that,, it has given me “true hope”
Entered: April 1st, 2009 at 11:11 pm. Permalinki have been on a lot of meds and tried a lot of different natural things and nothing has come close to the help that i have received from the empower.
i have bipolar and will be forever grateful for this supplement that has helped me and my family SO MUCH!
you can go to truehope .com ,,,, i think ,, to get more info. about the empower.
In response to all those folks who so desperatly want to find an alternative to traditional meds, I say it can be done. At the end of my response I’ll tell you how and with what.
Entered: April 2nd, 2009 at 10:31 am. PermalinkI too have had very personal experiences with serious illness made worse for literally decades by traditional meds. It wasn’t until I smartened up and discovered all bodily processes start with nutrition, and yes, simple vitamins and minerals, that I took charge of my own health and started feeling better, bit by bit. I have conquored a 15 year deficiency of vitamin B’s which wreaked havoc on my body, Bi-Polar disorder, ADD, and horrible esophegal and bowel disorders.
I started off using products that you could find at the health food store, tablets and capsules. They didn’t do much, but because they did something, so I knew I was on the right track. I used some liquids, they tasted aweful! How can something help if you can’t get it past your lips? My real turning point came when a dear friend offered to send me some “liquid vitamins that tasted great”. I was skeptical, because how can vitamins taste good….and actually work? Suprise, Suprise! When I tried them, they tasted good. Then I felt the effects they had on me. Wow! Now THIS is what I’m talkin’ about!
Fast forward almost a year, I can’t believe the positive improvements. No more meds for depression or Bi-Polar. No heartburn and bowel problems. Understand this is not a cure all for everyone, but by thinking about my symptoms, and being willing to experiment by adding and taking away products, I figured out what my body needs and I feel great! The product is Biometics, it’s super absorbable. You can read more at http://www.bio-wow.com
Poppycock! None of the references given are in quality peer-reviewed journals, no double-blind trials have been performed with a sufficient number of observations to provide an acceptable statistical power, single observations do not amount to proof, hearsay is not admissible and too many people are prepared to accept a word-of-mouth account because they have some gripe against “scientists” (read here people with more knowledge than they have) to a publicly-scrutinized scientific study. Even though the public may have an open forum, this does not necessarily make their views informative. There are those who still believe the earth is flat. That does’nt make it flat.
Entered: April 2nd, 2009 at 10:58 pm. Permalink“Big Pharma” rules your life through super expensive and very dangerous so called prescription drugs. Please hope that these brave individuals who are “bucking the wheel” in trying to honestly help people rather than money gouge will be able to continue. why can’t things such as this get reported in the newspapers and juornals?
Entered: April 3rd, 2009 at 9:03 am. PermalinkI noticed some heavy writer in the comments who is addicted to double blind peer reviewed studies. There is always a couple people like that. I am sure they hope no one knows about the NY Times report last week that exposed over 20 such studies that were fabricated by one researcher alone. On a basic level, how could most of them be true when the results are so bad.
As for animals having violent reactions to malnourishment, this is clearly documented in the experiments of Dr. M Pottenger and her book Pottenger’s Cats. It is not just pigs and humans who react the same way when their food is more chemical than mineral. Some info on that is found in this amazing clip from the Price-Pottenger Foundation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPCOGSnjP5w
The human research on the subject is vast and is brilliantly presented by Dr. Russell Blaylock in his video lecture titled “Nutrition and Behavior”. It is free on google at this link. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2963728494205235281&ei=gVHZSYHbO5Sw-gG79IX7Aw&q=nutriton+and+behavior
People get depressed and violent when they eat bad food because the body is hardwired for survival. The less good food in any environment, the more violence is beneficial. The negative feelings are just the body trying to associate negative emotions with the garbage foods and unhealthy lifestyles. Simple stuff our medical community never even considers.
Health and nutrition is from the neck up. Ask Dr. Mark Hyman who wrote a complete book backing up the same findings discovered by the Empowerplus team. His book is called The UltraMind Solution. Healthy people are healthy because they avoid medications and lead healthy lifestyles that include proper nutrition, exercise, proper sleep, clean water etc. You cannot get around that with any study. Drugs are bad, regardless who is selling them.
Entered: April 5th, 2009 at 8:04 pm. PermalinkGreat Article, would be interested in the product!
Entered: April 7th, 2009 at 3:29 pm. PermalinkTo those that want to know where to get the supplement: Use google or yahoo search. You’ll find the company and the controversy.
To Connie J. Lewis: That’s some great research you did digging up the dirt on the people making this treatment available (while requesting studies be done to find out WHY it works). Care to divulge where you found out about the family problems you mentioned?
Entered: April 8th, 2009 at 2:07 pm. PermalinkHello,
I am from Muntinlupa, Philippines and I have a daughter, 39 yrs. old, who has bipolar syndrome. How do I get hold of this supplement.
Thanks and best regards.
A. Q. Kanapi
Entered: April 8th, 2009 at 9:22 pm. PermalinkA.Q.,
Entered: April 9th, 2009 at 1:11 pm. PermalinkThe Biometics Micellized liquid vitamins? (They’ve made a world of difference for me and many others I’ve helped.) Or the pig pig formula? For the Biometics you can click on my permalink.
Dear Henry,
This morning I spent several hours pouring over the links provided by the author of the original article to provide you with proof of many things. Twice I tried submitting the article of response, first with links, second time, without. Both times it was kicked back as “too spammy”, saying they just don’t “like that”.
Perhaps I mentioned the author’s name too often in the second article, after removing the links?
The questions I raised were about conflicting information within the materials about the following:
Different numbers of children the Stephan family had. One place says ten, the other six.
Was the daughter, Autumn, sexually abused by her uncle? It’s in her own book, “A Promise of Hope”.
Reviewed by Chris Summerville
“The first half of the book documents the painful, uncomfortable dance between a mother and daughter who endure a love-hate relationship, while the father passively enforces the rules of dysfunctionality: “Don’t talk, don’t feel, don’t trust.”
As “mom’s time on the couch stretched from days to months,” a pre-teenage Autumn is terrorized by the sexual abuse of an uncle who “licks his fat lips.”
Did Anthony Stephan’s wife commit suicide due to manic depression or taxes?
If you read the very first reference you can learn all about the note Anthony’s wife Deborah left, according to the Reader’s Digest article, about the taxman driving her to the brink, and her telling him to use her life insurance policy to pay off the taxes. Anthony threatened to sue Revenue Canada over the death.
Then there was the question as to whether Deborah was even bipolar. The first line of Shelly Page’s article in the fifth reference said “Autumn Stringham grew up in small town Alberta with a mother who had undiagnosed bipolar affective disorder.”
As for how many people Dr. Popper treated with pig pills, there are a couple of places it references 22 and one place it jumps to 150. Yet still, he felt the need for a cautious afterword in Stringham’s book:
“He confirms controlled scientific studies of Empowerplus are in the works, though results will take years. “It would be a mistake to enthusiastically rush to use this treatment,” he writes, “and it would be a mistake to off-handedly dismiss it.”
He acknowledges that people with bipolar disorder should exercise “caution and balance in reacting to the initial observations on this seemingly promising approach.”
Maybe my article got kicked back because I claim to have house-trained two kids, several dogs, and one pig without a Harvard education, and realized all by myself that supplements do make sense. Common sense. They do help. But, having said that… making wise choices in what kind, where to buy, who to buy from, and how they are developed, manufactured, and distributed are all factors for consideration.
Maybe I shouldn’t have suggested following the money trail. Could it have been the quote about the $70 a bottle, two bottles a month at first… stripped down to the bare essentials, the entire vitamin content of 18 pills could be distilled into a single capsule?
Honest to Henry… it wasn’t spammy. It was well written, well documented, and too much truth for this website, perhaps? We’ll see if the third try is the charmer!
Thanks for noticing I took time to read the author’s references though Henry. I do appreciate it.
Entered: April 9th, 2009 at 2:08 pm. PermalinkHi: Thanks for fascinating article on bipolar and vitamins. But I was left wondering what are they? More info please.
Kay
Entered: April 10th, 2009 at 5:52 pm. PermalinkMy comment is solely in response to the appearance of TrueHope’s detractor/stalker, Terry Polevoy.
Polevoy is the author of most information critical of TrueHope. There are no facts that support Polevoy’s position; only ignorance and hate. Polevoy has made numerous false and vexatious complaints to regulators concerning TrueHope and none of his complaints have been found to have any basis in fact.
Polevoy is a physician who quizically does not practice medicine. His regulator’s lips are sealed tight when asked why is Polevoy registered with the CPSO, but does not (or is not allowed) to practice. What is equally disconcerting is the amount of evidence suggesting that beyond his consistently disgraceful and unprofessional behavior, Polevoy is clearly unfit and certainly not qualified to offer “medical opinion”: opinion that has no basis in expertise, skill or fact.
Polevoy makes reference to his published “research” on TrueHope. Interesting that he could not find a publisher and resorted to vanity-publish and truely defamatory view of TrueHope’s research, work and results.
Entered: July 31st, 2009 at 9:45 am. PermalinkI have been using Empower plus for several years and it completely changed my life. I was very suicidal and wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for this supplement. I thank god everyday for guiding me to find it.
Entered: August 9th, 2009 at 10:33 am. PermalinkI am really interested in getting more information about Empower plus for Bipolar disorder. My 10 year old grandson has been diagnoised with Bipolar and Anxiety Disorder. He is out of control without medication. He is outstanding in sports, but can’t play them because of his anxiety. Please let me know where we can purchase the Empower Plus. Thank you.
Entered: November 5th, 2009 at 1:31 pm. Permalink