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You & Your Patient
The vital bond
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Guiding Your Patients Along the Path to Good Mental Health
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Key phospholipid brain boosters
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Cognitive Health – The Benefits That Proven, Natural Ingredients Can Provide
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Mental Detox
An Interview with Dr. Edward F. Group of Global Healing Centre
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Integrative Cancer Therapy Gets Serious Support
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Green Tea and Cancer Treatment
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Resveratrol: A Review of Pre-clinical and Clinical Evidence in Cancer
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Curcumin as an Adjuvant Therapy to Regular Cancer Therapy
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publisher’s letter
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bout two years ago, the Globe and
one in five people in Canada suffering from
Mail published an article “Exposing
mental illness, help should be at an arm’s
Canada’s ugly mental health secret,”
length. Seeing that science has evolved so
which revealed an astonishing truth that
much, our industry should definitely be a
many of us were not aware of.
part of the solution.
According to the publication, men-
Fortunately, cancer research has always
tal-health issues – something I refer to as
had substantial support from the govern-
“the silent killer” – affect 1.2 million Canadian
ment, although funding is rarely available
children, and most of them don’t receive
for the alternative cancer treatments. It’s
appropriate treatment or simply don’t have
great news that the largest-ever North
access to care.
American observation study will connect
The fifty-million-dollar economic burden
Canadian and American health-care pro-
of mental health related treatments doesn’t
fessionals in studying the effectiveness of
seem to be lightened any time soon – unless
advanced integrative oncology treatments
the government introduces prevention
for late stage cancer patients – based on
funding.
both conventional and naturopathic medi-
The idea that Michael Kirby, the founding
cine. With our support and determination,
chairman of Partners for Mental Health,
our industry can make a difference in cancer
brought up in terms of the government
research and save lives of those fighting
funding for early diagnostics (for more infor-
the disease.
mation, please go to www.ihpmagazine.com) would not only be a step in the right direction, but would also make more people aware of alternative care methods and our industry. All these elements are emphasizing the role of practitioners in our community. With
Olivier Felicio Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
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r. Edward Group is one of those people who – one suspects – could speak eloquently and at length on just about any topic. But when it comes to alternative healthcare, he’s not just
knowledgable – he is downright sagelike. Would you expect any less from the founder of the Global Healing Centre Inc., writer of four books
By Dale Sproule
and popular speaker on the topics of cleansing and detoxification? He’s 47 years old, a fact you wouldn’t guess after experiencing even a few minutes of his seemingly boundless energy and vitality. He is a living testament to the efficacy of his passion for finding ways to live a healthy lifestyle in a toxin-free environment. He firmly believes that the toxins in our guts that create such unrest and unhealthiness can cause just as much havoc with other major organs – like our brains. While some may think his extrapolations border on the paranoid, investigation will show that there is a solid bedrock of truth underlying all of his observations.
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What we tell people to do is go through your house and eliminate all the chemicals that you consume; including the phytotoxins like MSG, artifical sweeteners and the genetically modified food.
“One of the biggest problems we have is determining
end up leaving with a prescription. And in DSM 4 they name
what causes mental illness,” Group cuts directly to the heart
a condition that if you leave a psychiatrists office without a
of the matter. “It’s not like a cancer or liver disease. There’s
prescription, you can be diagnosed with mental illness.
nothing we can use, like blood or urine or skin or x-rays
Every new mental illness defined provides “the perfect
anything that can pinpoint – or make any kind of accurate
opportunity for pharmaceutical companies to be able to
diagnosis of mental illness.” He agrees that mental illness
prescribe massive amounts of pharmaceuticals,” says Group.
stems from a chemical imbalance, but he’s one of the few
“We gave them permission to create customers from ages
who has given adequate thought to the causes and sources
one and up. At the last world psychiatric conference they
of that phenomenon and explanations for the incredible
are now saying they would like to diagnose during pregnancy
proliferation of mental illness diagnoses in the 21st century.
and diagnose the children in the mother’s womb for mental
“If you look back at the mad hatter or you look back in
illness.”
history, all that imbalance was caused by some form of
“It’s all done by design,” he says. Less by the government
chemical or toxin or heavy metal coming into the system
than the “high level individuals who pretty much run the world
through the intestinal lining and going into the blood. One
– the pharmaceutical, the giant agricultural and the oil and
of the reasons we have so many mental illnesses today is
gas industries – it’s really a conglomerate of industries that
because we have over 80,000 chemicals in the food and
are setting out to create mental illness, so they can come on
water supply, we have excitotoxins, we are literally bathed
the back end to prescribe a medication not to ever cure you
in chemicals all day long, through the air that we breath,
but only to put you on multiple medications for life.”
the beverages we consume, the tap water that we drink, so
Group explains that “one of the main ingredients actually
many things are made with that water – every single restau-
in psychotropic drugs like Prolixin, Haldol and Stelazine is
rant cooks with it. But instead of focusing on things like
fluoride which has been used since the WWI era. One of the
cleaning up the environment and not feeding our children
things that fluoride was used for that most people don’t
genetically modified food – we’re just creating more
know about was to calcify the pineal gland. And the pineal
chemicals.”
gland is really where the metaphysical side is – and the
On his blog, Group shares a fascinating video called The
spiritual people call it the “third eye.” I’ve done a lot of
Marketing of Madness: The Truth About Psychotropic Drugs
research – tracing back the addition of fluoride not only in
which looks back chillingly on the historic connection
psychotropic drugs but the addition of fluoride in the water
between the psychiatric profession and the increasing
system, which has basically been used to calm people down
prevalence of mental illness. The first edition of the Diagnostic
and make them non-motivated. The whole vision is to create
and Statistical Manual (DSM) used as a handbook in the
a society that is dulled down, that is easily controllable – and
psychiatric field, came out in 1952 and contained 106 mental
that relies on medications.”
illnesses. The most recent volume, the DSM 5, has over 400
He sees a huge ecological loop – a mutated circle of life
mental illnesses listed. What the DSMs provided was an
where “all these prescription medications are being excreted
easy tool to diagnose mental illness.
back into the eco systems, having effects on fish, on the
94 percent of all people who go into a psychiatrists office
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You have people that aren’t even on psychotropic med-
then? They put them on anti-depressants, because you really
ications that are getting them in their water supply. I think
only have the three big ones which are the anti-psychotics,
there was a study that came out over in Europe years ago
the anti-depressants and the ADHD medications. Then they
that said that drinking one gallon of tapwater was the equiv-
move on to the anti-psychotic medications, which, of course,
alent of taking one Prozac.”
can actually cause psychotic and manic behaviour, plus
“Nobody can tell you the reaction and the effect of two
diabetes, obesity, convulsions and suicidal tendencies.
prescription drugs let alone three or four prescription drugs
Everybody is being drugged up and nobody is actually
at the same time. But it’s happening all the time.”
addressing the cause of the problems.
“What really scares me about the whole thing is the
‘When you’re looking for natural solutions, you need to
attack on the children. We’re seeing children as young as
address it at the root cause of the problem. What we tell
four attempting suicide. And five year olds that have actually
people to do is go through your house and eliminate all the
committed suicide. The brain is not fully functional at that
chemicals that you consume; including the phytotoxins like
age. These kids are exposed to plastics, endocrine disrupting
MSG, artifical sweeteners and the genetically modified food.
chemicals, that when mixed with things like aluminum and
We recommend gluten-free foods, because gluten is con-
the compounds with the psychotropic medications it can
nected with different kinds of mental illness. We have people
cause massive changes in the brain. We’re getting reports
completely go to organic foods, which eliminates all the
of children between six and ten slaughtering the family pets
pesticides and insecticides, and whatnot.
and not even realizing what they’re doing. That alone is
Really, it’s cleansing themselves and cleansing their
sickening and every single one of these school killers that
environment. Believe it or not, when you trace mood swings
are going into these schools and blowing up and killing
or anything like that, most of it starts in the intestinal tract.
everybody — every single one of them was on some form
In his blog, Group states that “About 90 per cent of
of psychiatric medication and it’s completely changed their
serotonin is found in the intestinal tract, and roughly five to
mindset.”
ten per cent in the brain. In fact, a healthy intestinal tract
“You may be born with a really good connection to God,
may correlate with healthy levels of serotonin, a monoamine
but these psychtropic drugs literally pull you away from
neurotransmitter responsible for regulating mood. Around
yourself. And the real question is how many geniuses are
one trillion bacteria live in the gut and around 100 million
being destroyed every single day. If you look at Einstein or
neurons also reside in the intestines, blasting the myth that
Tesla or any of the geniuses. They weren’t normal
our neural health is influenced only by the brain. Really,
children.”
when it comes down to it, keeping the entire body healthy
“If you just check the ADHD medication for example –
is the only way to maintain a proper mood balance.
that’s really nothing more than speed! According to the
“You should increase your intake of probiotic food and
official lists of potential side effects, these drugs can cause
then acupuncture and massage can provide really beneficial
psychotic and manic behaviour – so you’re trying to address
results. Sleep, believe it or not, has a lot to do with mental
behavioural problems by giving them something that can
illness. So make sure you’re getting eight hours of sleep and
cause behavioural problems and depression! What happens
just try to relax a little more.
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