The UltraMind Solution (9 page)

My goal in writing
The UltraMind Solution
is to show you the new landscape of how brain function, mind, mood, and behavior are created by changes in your body and your biology. I want to show you how to use that information to cure or dramatically improve the rising tide of “broken brains,” including conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disease, psychosis, attention deficit disorder, autism, dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, and more.

Even if you don’t have one of these “diseases” and feel “fine,” feeling fine is less than what you could feel. You should and can feel alert, focused, happy, energetic, unstressed, and mentally sharp. That is, if you know how to care for your brain.

That is what I will teach you in this book.

My goal for all of you is to live your life as you were meant to live it—a life full of energy, vitality, pleasure, and happiness. This is the state of UltraWellness, and it is available to everyone if you know how to take advantage of it. The key to this is a balanced mind and body, which will allow you to experience the joys and the sorrows of life as you meet them, directly and fully.

Consider the experiences of just a few of my patients:

A fifty-three-year-old man with lifelong bipolar disease and crippling depression on a multidrug cocktail who had relief from depression for the first time in thirty years after tuning up his brain function with folate and vitamins B
₁₂
and B
₆
.

A three-year-old boy with violent behavior who calmed down after balancing his blood sugar and clearing out toxic bacteria from his intestinal tract.

A twenty-three-year-old woman with lifelong anxiety and depression that lifted after she quit eating foods that she was allergic to.

A seventy-year-old man who was losing a grip on his memory and had been diagnosed with early dementia, who after getting
all the mercury out of his body, came back to life and was able to work and function.

Or the little boy with autism, who began to talk and connect socially, after getting rid of gluten and casein (wheat and dairy) from his diet and treating yeast in his gut.

How can you explain these “miraculous” cures? It’s simple. Brain function is directly influenced by what you eat, and by nutritional deficiencies, allergens, infections, toxins, and stress. These problems are taken care of by rebalancing the seven keys to UltraWellness. This, in turn, leads to an UltraMind.

The solution to this epidemic is getting to the root of the problems by examining how our ancient genes interact with our environment to create systemic imbalances that affect our most prized and sensitive organ—the brain.

The UltraMind Solution
will show you how to correct the causes of the imbalances in your brain. Those causes often result from imbalances in other systems in your body. This book will teach you how to achieve optimum mental health and brain health without drugs or psychotherapy.

This approach is the future medicine, and will soon become the foundation for diagnosing and treating mental illness and brain diseases. It will be the standard way we achieve optimal mental health and brain function.

The last twenty years of research in the field of the brain have concentrated on what makes it able to remember or forget, be happy or sad, feel anxious or calm, and stay focused or be inattentive. Studies have uncovered a few simple underlying factors that explain why things go wrong and how to fix them.

But it can take more than twenty years for scientific findings like these to be incorporated into most physicians’ practices, and it may take even longer since they threaten the very foundation of our scientific paradigm.

You don’t have to wait another twenty years to take advantage of what we know now.

What the years of investigation have revealed is that our troubles with mood, behavior, attention, and memory don’t come from bad parenting or bad genes, but from imbalances in seven key underlying systems in the body.

And here’s the really big news:

These “diseases” really do not exist.

“Mental disorders” and “brain disorders” are simply the names of common responses our bodies have to a variety of insults and deficiencies. Fixing those underlying problems by rebalancing the seven keys may
allow the brain to heal, the body-mind and mind-body to come back into balance.

When even one of these seven core systems is out of balance, illness of all kinds can result, ranging from heart disease to diabetes to weight gain to the brain disorders you have come to this book looking to heal.

Helping people balance these seven key systems is the foundation of my medical practice. It is what I did to fix my broken brain and it is how I have helped thousands of patients from all walks of life achieve a state of health they never dreamed possible.

Every day I witness miracles.

Giving you a practical way to understand, identify, and fix imbalances in each of the seven key systems of your body (just as I do in my practice) so you can make a miraculous recovery of your own is the purpose of
The UltraMind Solution
.

This book makes available for the first time the results of new research and knowledge of the brain, mood, and body in a practical guide for everyone young and old, hyper or calm, forgetful or not. It is designed to give you the information and tools you need to treat the roots of your broken brains, and by doing so overcome their devastating effects and take a big step closer to UltraWellness.

How did I learn about this?

I call myself the “accidental psychiatrist.” I never set out to be a brain or mood expert. In fact, my focus was more on how the body works as a whole system. And people saw me not to treat depression or autism or Alzheimer’s, but to deal with chronic complaints and illnesses of the body.

People make appointments to see me from far away, often after seeing many physicians, dissatisfied with more medications and more diagnoses. They come with a deep inner knowledge that something is out of balance—they just don’t know how to find it by themselves. So many of my patients are willing to begin exploring the landscape of their bodies and minds in a new and deeper way.

Because of this I have had the unique opportunity to be a medical detective, hunting down clues and exploring the entire landscape of human biology and systems. I worked for almost ten years as the co-medical director of Canyon Ranch, and now for many years as the founder and medical director of the UltraWellness Center (
www.ultrawellnesscenter.com
).

Over the years as I worked to correct the fundamental imbalances that
are the cause of all disease (the seven keys to UltraWellness, which you will learn about in a moment), I discovered that mood and brain disorders would often magically disappear as I treated a patient’s physical problems.

Rather than dismiss this finding, I found it curious and began to investigate how treating digestive problems could cure depression, or how detoxifying a patient from mercury could bring back their memory. I investigated each of my patients carefully by listening to their stories of transformation and by examining the existing rich medical literature on this subject, which is mostly ignored.