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effects. Nutritional supplements also work with the mind and body, unlike drugs that try to control the mind and body. Many sufferers start to feel relief right away with nutritional supplements which encourages continued use and prevent frustration from waiting for a change.
Nutritionally supporting the HPA-axis so that a Veteran will have an appropriate response to stress is a key step in healing PTSD. The HPA-axis can be neither to active or sluggish when responding to stress or both physical and emotional symptoms will occur. The HPA-axis response needs to be fluid and fluctuate throughout the day and night and nutritional supplements allow for this, but medications do not. The next key step to healing PTSD is to quickly and efficiently remove trapped emotional traumas so that the HPA-axis is not constantly being stimulated or stressed.
“I have been on the program for three weeks. There has been an 80% difference in my mental state of being. I am much happier and my depression is almost non-existent. This is an awesome program.” – Patrick
Emotional Desensitization to Release Trapped Traumas and Emotional Triggers:
A simple way to describe how a trauma leads to PTSD is to compare it to a record player playing the same song over and over again. The song is the trauma and the mind is the record player, the song becomes the music of your life as the trauma is always in the back of your mind. Nutritional supplements are excellent for rebuilding the mind-body and reducing the volume of the music, but emotional desensitization techniques stops the music. I like to describe emotional desensitization as taking the record off the record player and putting it on the shelf. We are not denying the trauma happened, but it doesn’t have to be the background music of your life. There may be
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