"Stress is so prevalent in our daily life that we have become desensitized to it and the message it is trying to give us, which is to slow down.

Anxiety is a chemical reaction created when the adrenals glands respond to a stressful event, such as low blood sugar by releasing adrenaline. Adrenaline is very useful if you’re trying to escape from a stressful situation, because it stimulates the fight-or-flight response: the heart rate starts pumping faster; digestion slows down; energy stores are released from the liver and made available to the heart, lungs, and muscles; and the muscles of the arms and legs are activated.

All of these responses require magnesium. So each time we experience any kind of stress, our magnesium stores are tapped to create energy. This magnesium depletion itself stresses the body, which can result in panic attacks, which equals yet more stress.

Not only do our overworked adrenals cause magnesium depletion, but even more adrenaline is released under stress when magnesium levels are low in the body, leaving people feeling irritable, nervous, edgy, or even ready to explode. It’s the proverbial Catch-22. To put an end to anxiety, magnesium needs to be replaced

During stress reactions, calcium is also required to stimulate the release of adrenaline, but calcium excess causes a flood of adrenaline. However, having sufficient magnesium will buffer excess calcium and keep it within normal levels, limiting the stress response. Magnesium is important because it naturally diminishes the excitablility of the nervous system and lowers the level of calcium around nerve cells. This function of magnesium is also significant in heart disease and other stress-induced illness."  Excerpted from The Magnesium Miracle by Carolyn Dean, MD, ND

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The human body is an extremely complex biochemical machine, with chemical reactions and flows that occur in harmony and rhythmically one with another. They happen in specific sequences, in certain quantities, and at exact rates of speed. When a foreign substance such as a psychotropic drug is introduced into your body these flows and inner workings are disrupted. The drugs may speed up, slow down, dam up, overwhelm or deny critical metabolic substances.

This is why psychiatric drugs produce side effects. This is, in fact, why they produce any effect at all. They do not heal anything. The human body, however, is unmatched in its ability to withstand and respond to such disruptions. The various systems fight back, trying to process the foreign chemical, and work diligently to counterbalance its effects on the body.

But your body can only take so much. Quickly or slowly, the systems break down. Like a car run on rocket fuel, you may be able to get it to run a thousand miles per hour, but the tires, the engine and the internal parts were never meant for this; the machines flies apart.

Stimulants for ADHD should not be used in children under six years of age. Adverse reactions include: nervousness and insomnia, hypersensitivity , anorexia, nausea, dizziness, headaches, drowsiness, blood pressure and pulse changes, tachycardia, angina, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, weight loss and toxic psychosis. Some children have developed the involuntary tics and twitching called Tourette's disorder.

Major tranquilizers also known as anti-psychotics, frequently cause difficulty in thinking, poor concentration, nightmares, emotional dullness, depression, despair and sexual dysfunction. Physically, they can cause Tardive Dyskinesia - sudden, uncotrollable, painful muscle cramps and spasms, writhing, squirming, twisting and grimacing movements, especially on the legs, face, mouth and tongue, drawing the face into a hideous scowl. They also induce Akathisia, a severe restlnessness that studies show can cause agitation and psychosis. A potentially fatal effect is Neuropleptic Malignant Syndrome, which includes muscle rigidity, altered mental states, irregular pulse or blood pressure and cardiac problems.

Minor tranquilizers or benzodiazepines can cause lethargy, lightheadedness, confusion, nervousness, sexual problems, hallucinations, nightmares, severe depression, extreme restlessness, insomnia, nausea and muscle tremors. Epileptic seizures and death have resulted from suddenly stopping the use of minor tranquilizers. Thus, it is important never to stop suddenly or without proper medical supervision, even if the drugs have only been taken for a couple of weeks.

Sedative Hypnotics frequently cause the above side effects as well as a hangover effect, apparent drunken state, lack of coordination (ataxia) and skin rash.

Antidepressants (tricyclics) can cause sedation, drowsiness, lethargy, difficulty thinking, confusion, poor concentration, memory problems, nightmares, panic feelings,and extreme restelssness; also delusions, manic reactions, delirium, seizures, fever, lowered white blood cell count (with risks of infection), liver damage, heart attacks and strokes.

Selective Serotonin  Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) can cause headaches, nausea, anxiety and agitation, insomnia and bizarre dreams, loss of appetite, impotence, confusion and akathisia. It is estimated that between 10% and 25% of SSRI users experience akathisia, often in conjunction with suicidal thoughts, hostility and violent behavior.

Conclusion

If you are worried about something - a problem in life such as relationships with your friends, parents or teachers, or how your child's school grades are going - taking any drug, illegal or psychiatric, isn't going to solve the problem. If a drug is used to feel better when you are depressed, sad or anxious, the relief is only for a short while. If the problem is not fixed or helped you will often feel worse than before. As a drug wears off, whatever pain, discomfort or upset that was there before taking the drug can become stronger. It can make you want to keep taking the drug.

WARNING: No one should stop taking any psychiatric drug without the advice and assistance of a competent, non-psychiatric, medical doctor.

Click here for more information to read the above article and more.www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/

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Welcome to our "sleep" page. We hope you find what you're looking for and that we can help you sleep better. We have many testimonials on this topic as we have helped a lot of people to sleep better, ourselves included.

The inability to sleep can be caused by almost any health condition, including things like depression, heartburn, cancer, asthma, arthritis, muscle and back pain.  Other things that can lead to sleep difficulties are the side effects from medications, or drug and alcohol use, as well as a high sugar or refined carbs (starchy food) consumption or insufficient protein before bed.

Besides the B vitamins being essential for good sleep, calcium and magnesium also play a big role in helping you sleep well.  Calcium and magnesium are both essential for your nerves and hormonal system to function normally and the two minerals cannot work without each other.

The harm done by sleeping tablets, to say nothing of the thousands of dollars spent annually on them, could largely be avoided if the calcium and magnesium intake is adequate and they are in a form that can be absorbed by your body. In fact, sleep meds just worsen the problem as they have side effects and one of the side effects is the destruction of nutrients in the body, robbing your body of energy too.

The intense nervousness caused by a lack of magnesium can also make it impossible to fall asleep. Calcium and magnesium also help to prevent or relieve leg cramps and muscle spasms of the toes or feet (Charley horses) which frequently wake some people or prevent them from falling asleep.

These two minerals are part of the nerve messenger system and if they're deficient, the nerves can't relax, which makes it impossible to sleep or have a restful night's sleep. Insomnia is really just an inability to relax.

In addition, potassium cannot be retained by your cells unless magnesium is also present. Without adequate magnesium, the potassium leaves the cells, creating an artificial potassium deficiency in them, making it even harder to fall asleep.

To be used by the body, calcium and magnesium need to be in a 2:1 ratio with some kind of acid to make the correct pH.

The key is absorption into the body so it can actually get these vital nutrients and you can feel the difference.

Instant CalMag-C has been formulated exactly per the body's requirements to absorb and use it.

With kind acknowledgement to Adelle Davis.

Since I lost somebody very close to me, I have a problem with anxiety attacks.  It comes and goes but when I do get it, it stays for about a week where I cannot breath and therefore cannot sleep - even my lips go numb.  You just don't get enough oxygen into your lungs.  You want to yawn all the time in the hope that enough oxygen reaches your lungs.  Anyone who has had anxiety, will know what I am talking about!  I started taking Calmag-C and, within a few minutes of taking it, I can feel the breathing is calmer and I gasp less and less for air and eventually I am able to sleep.  The next morning, my breathing is still normal. Instant Calmag-C really helps. I can definitely recommend it to anyone who has anxiety! TG Pretoria

Your Mind and Your Body

Every mental problem can be traced back to a physical cause!

That’s right. Mental problems are always caused by something that happened to your body and the good news is that you can control or rectify them.

Your mind is separate from your body. It contains pictures or ideas.

If the pictures or ideas are negative, you are being affected by a hidden part of your mind, known as the reactive mind. It is hidden from your view but it makes you feel and act in a way that you don’t like and always makes you lose.

Seventy percent of illness is caused by what is known as psychosomatic ills. This means that the source of the illness is caused by something in your reactive mind. (Don’t get confused with the word hypochondriac. This is not hypochondria.) The illness or non-optimum sensations you are feeling are real. You’re feeling them, aren’t you?

The question is, what is causing them?

 If the pictures or ideas in your mind are positive and you’re achieving your goals in life, you’re being influenced more by your “thinking” mind, known as your analytical mind.

There is a solution to your physical and mental health problems. Click on this link and watch the videos to get the answers. http://www.dianetics.org/?branch=index/nav/videos&pageid=videos#/videos

I cannot tell you how much having, knowing and using this data has helped me, my family and hundreds of my friends. It also saved my son’s life, literally.

Nutrition’s Role in Your Mental and Physical Health

If your body is deprived of proper nourishment or adequate rest, you can and will have problems mentally and/or physically.

There is no question of that.

What happens is that too little sleep, hunger, low blood sugar, poor dietary habits – too much sugar and refined carbs, not enough raw or undercooked vegetables (organic ones), inadequate protein intake, alcohol, drugs, meds  – will cause these hidden sources of anguish in your reactive mind to activate far more readily, get “sucked” in and activated without you realizing what is happening and you can start to feel quite awful.

Conduct your own tests on this.

A simple one is to watch a child consuming sugar and turning into an uncontrollable brat.

Another one is to go without food for a few hours and see how you feel. Do you start feeling anxious, nervous, fearful, worry about things, get agitated or just plain lose it?

Watch a baby who is overdue on his feed. He sure can get angry and then, even if he’s fed, can still be disgruntled and out of sorts because his hidden sources of anguish in his reactive mind have already been activated.

The Solutions and My Recommendations

• Eat as much salad, undercooked veggies and protein (organic is best) as possible.
• Leave out refined carbohydrates like chips, cakes, pastas, etc.
• Keep sugar to a minimum. There is sugar in everything here in the USA. Check the bread some time. Where I come from, we don’t have sugar in our bread  and our cakes and cookies are waaayyy less sweet. So, look out for the hidden sources of sugar. Sugar alone can cause untold mental reactions.
• Avoid alcohol as much as possible and definitely avoid drugs and compensate for the side effects of your meds with increased nutrition and supplements. (Our bodies are not deficient in drugs or created with excess organs and glands. We have an over-medicated and over-“surgeried” society. The ongoing debates on health care reform is singularly lacking in good common sense nutrition and supplementation.)
• Keep caffeine to a minimum. If you can give it up, good. If you can’t, try and reduce your intake.
• Drink enough good quality water.
• Make sure you supplement your food with the basics: a good multi vitamin and mineral, calmag, additional minerals. (This is a great regimen for boosting your immune system too!)
• Watch the video in the link above and see how you can reduce and get rid of the hidden anguish in your life. The procedures are simple to do and can be done by you and a friend or family member. (My youngest daughter was 11 years old when she started doing the procedures on others and spoke on the radio about it. The only prerequisite is understanding and applying the simple techniques correctly.) Everyone has a reactive mind. Get rid of yours and help your friends and family get rid of theirs and watch everyone’s health improve dramatically.

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My biggest reward is helping people and knowing that they’re doing better, so please do let me know any positive results you have with any of my suggestions.
The reverse is also true. If you have a problem and need help, contact me immediately.

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