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Emotional Technique. Within hours of treatment, I called my wife in a state of euphoria. I had emotions I hadn’t felt for years and definitely not since commanding a combat brigade during Surge Operations in Iraq. I’m able to be happy again and, as my wife put it, “You finally came home,”” – Colonel Dave S.
Nutritional Support for PTSD:
The idea that nutritional supplementation could change the outcome of PTSD is completely beyond the realm of traditional medicine. The common thinking in the medical field is, that if a drug isn’t strong enough to help with PTSD...how can nutritional supplements. The reason nutritional supplements are more effective than medications in PTSD is because drugs push a biochemical pathway in only on direction, but our moods need to fluctuate with the changing events throughout the day. Nutritional supplements by nature bring the mind-body into homeostasis or balance so that it can adapt to life’s daily changes. It is nutritional supplements ability to restore homeostasis to the mind-body that restores a PTSD sufferer’s sense of well-being and happiness.
Military medicine wanted no part of nutritional supplements or natural approaches to helping with PTSD. The strongest argument was that there were no studies to prove that nutritional supplements would help in any way with the mental or physical complaints of active duty personnel. To prove that nutritional supplements can improve the emotional and physical complaints of active duty Marines I did a study, with the support of command officers looking for a way to help their Marines. I lectured to 100s of Marines on the signs and symptoms of Burnout, a less threatening term than PTSD, and had a group of volunteers ready and willing to be helped.
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