CREATING ANXIETY
by Carolyn Dean, MD ND
October 4, 2009
In the past few years, I’ve had an increasing number of young people in their 20’s and 30’s scheduling telephone consultations for help with anxiety. It used to be mostly people in their 50’s and 60’s with this complaint. All their stories are frighteningly identical. My clients are amazed because I can predict what happens next in their story. Besides anxiety, depression and lack of confidence, they also have many physical symptoms like heartburn, sinusitis, muscle spasms, and yeast overgrowth. And they’re swallowing a closet full of medications. But for them, their mental, emotional symptoms are the most distressing. Every physical symptom they have is attributed to their mental state and their doctor just prescribes yet another anti-depressant or anti-anxiety drug.
Here is an extensive list of what can happen to us in our drug-addicted society beginning at birth.
• Vaccinations contain mercury, aluminum, and a host of other toxic components that can include live viral particles given within the first days of birth and throughout childhood for a total of about 32. Given at the time of a cold or fever, a child’s body is especially not able to handle the toxic load.
• Infant thrush (yeast infection in the mouth) is said to be perfectly normal and antifungal drops are prescribed with no attention to the mother’s diet, probiotic intake, or the likelihood that she has Candada albicans (yeast).
• Diaper rash, caused by yeast is mistakenly treated with cortisone creams, which encourage further yeast growth.
• Childhood ear infections can begin at birth as yeast infections picked up from the mother during delivery. Most ear infections are treated with antibiotics.
• Chronic ear infections requiring multiple courses of antibiotics can lead to diarrhea and intestinal yeast infections.
• Anesthetics used in surgery to place tubes in the ears add another toxin.
• Chronic yeast overgrowth causes body-wide side effects including anxiety, depression, fatigue, irritability, and headaches from the documented 178 yeast toxins.
• Colic can develop due to antibiotic overuse.
• Irritable bowel symptoms can be caused by the inability to digest lactose in milk due to yeast overgrowth.
• Gas and bloating can result from hard-to-digest soy formulas.
• Leaky gut can develop and cause undigested food molecules to be absorbed from the gut into the blood stream leading to food allergies and sensitivities. The most common are wheat and dairy.
• Eczema, aggravated by food sensitivity, is suppressed with cortisone creams. Cortisone encourages yeast growth.
• Asthma is treated with medications including corticosteroid inhalers, instead of beginning with the safest treatment, which is magnesium.
• Multiple colds and flus are mistreated with many courses of antibiotics, yet doctors put no attention on probiotics, proper diet, and food-based, organic supplements.
• Annual flu vaccines contain a mercury preservative that is toxic to the nervous system and also kills good bacteria allowing yeast to overgrow.
• Cravings for sweets can be due to yeast overgrowth and may cause or aggravate hyperactive behavior in children.
• Dental cavities lead to multiple mercury amalgam fillings. Toxic mercury vapor may be inhaled or absorbed, disrupting enzymes in the brain, kidneys, and liver when you chew.
• Allergic reactions are treated with allergy shots, antihistamines, and cortisone sprays.
• Young women can have yeast vaginitis even before puberty, which they’re afraid to tell their mother or doctor about.
• Acne in adolescence is treated with long-term oral antibiotics leading to intestinal symptoms and yeast overgrowth.
• Mononucleosis is common in teens and young adults; up to 20 percent never feel quite as healthy again because it’s often treated with antibiotics and not natural approaches.
• Bladder infections are treated with antibiotics, which cause yeast infections and yeast overgrowth in the intestines.
• Birth control pills are given to girls because their cycles are irregular or painful due to yeast overgrowth and poor diet. These synthetic hormones can worsen the problem and cause chronic vaginal yeast infections, which are mistreated with antibiotic creams.
• Pregnancy hormones encourage vaginal yeast infections. Pregnancy itself depletes the mother’s nutrition, as well as straining the thyroid and the adrenal glands. Post partum depression is often due to hypothyroidism and magnesium and zinc deficiencies.
• Chronic sleep deprivation is common in all parents of small children and is a major stress on the immune system.
• Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can develop after a bout of diarrhea (attributed to traveler’s diarrhea or food poisoning) and is usually treated with antibiotics.
• Chronic sinus infections (97 percent are fungal, according to the Mayo Clinic) occur due to lowered immune system and are mistakenly treated with very strong antibiotics.
• Hypothyroidism is epidemic (due to yeast toxins blocking receptors, lack of iodine, family history, and pregnancy) but remains undiagnosed and untreated.
• Hospitalization for infections or surgery usually warrants intravenous antibiotics and a host of other drugs, which adds to the toxic burden.
• Severe colds and flus can lead to bronchitis and pneumonia, which are treated with strong antibiotics.
• Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia are treated with anti-inflammatories, sleeping pills, and antidepressants. However, when the cause is a toxic overload, medications can make the symptoms worse.
• Environmental allergies with extreme sensitivities to inhalants - perfumes, colognes, household products, pesticides, and molds are often aggravated yeast overgrowth but are mistreated with corticosteroid inhalers, which cause more yeast.
• Dysmenorrhea, irregular periods, and PMS occur due to a buildup of toxins and lack of nutrients (especially magnesium).
• Infertility is treated with an array of synthetic hormonal drugs producing babies that are born with a toxic load of synthetic drugs.
• Depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and heart palpitations are treated with antidepressants and psychotherapy instead of magnesium and B vitamins.
• Menopause symptoms are made worse with all the preceding stressors and medicated with synthetic hormones.
Vitamins and minerals are depleted at every step of this progressive decline in health and result in a total body burden of drugs and toxins. The end result is an exhausted, nervous, shaky individual who has nowhere to turn and thinks no one can help him or her.
My clients have often consulted with dozens of doctors, but whether it’s an allopathic or a naturopathic doctor, they only look for drug or supplement to treat symptoms. Take another look at the chronology of health to illness and tell me how a drug or supplement is going to make a dent.
What is required is a lifestyle change! I’ve been working in the natural health field for over 30 years and I haven’t found a magic pill or celebrity supplement that will undo a lifetime of stresses. Yet, the body is very forgiving. If you make some small steps to change your diet and begin to exercise, I promise you, your cells will remember why they were created and start improving their function.
If you want to know where to begin – start with your diet by avoiding sugar, wheat and dairy. The next step is to take some magnesium. You can read my book, The Magnesium Miracle for the chapters on anxiety and depression and chronic fatigue. I also have many magnesium articles on my website to get you started. If you would like more detailed information on how to change your lifestyle and improve your health visit my website and sign up for my free newsletter that has tips and techniques for getting healthy and staying healthy. Even better, join my Future Health Now! wellness program*.
*Future Health Now! is an inexpensive series of 48 weekly "consulting sessions in print." Every seven days, I guide you step-by-step on how to add natural practices to your daily routine. Daily consistency will undoubtedly give you the best chance at lasting physical and mental health. http://drcarolyndean.com/futurehealthnow
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