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CHAPTER 37 - THE RESILIENCY PROGRAM: AN EFFECTIVE ALTERNATIVE FOR PTSD
Dr. Steven M. Zodkoy, DC, CNS, DACBN
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The Resiliency Program is one of the most unique and successful programs to help Veterans and service members overcome Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). What makes the program different is that it utilizes clinical nutrition and hands-on emotional desensitization techniques to restore normal function to the mind and body. The program focuses on restoring balance and control to the fight-or-flight pathway (HPA-axis, sympathetic nervous system) to improve both the physical and mental health of the participant. The added benefits of the program are that participants starts to feel results almost immediately and are completed in 180 days. This approach is dramatically different from using medications which control the nervous system and may require a lifetime drug use or talk therapy which slowly works through traumas and stressors that often takes years to complete. The personal strength and fortitude to accept, process and
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