Green Mental Health Care - How to Get Off & Stay Off Prescribed & Pushed Drugs

The NY Time’s "Queen of Green" Joins Genita Petralli's Biosanctuary

2011-05-24T02:01:00.000-07:00

Debra Lynn Dadd, titled “The Queen of Green” by The New York Times has accepted an offer to the Holistic Detox Diva Genita Petralli’s BioSanctuary and Clinic! We couldn’t be more thrilled to share this with you because we know the impact her expertise in Green Living Consulting is going to have on SUSTAINABLE recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol.

Researching the fundamental cause of today’s mental health symptoms as well as those that develop addictive biochemistry which leads to addiction to legal / illegal drugs and / or alcohol – or really any dis-ease such as the epidemic heart, degenerative and diabetes dis-eases we are inundated with as a society today, it doesn’t take long to learn that it is the toxic diet and environment that is the fundamental or strongest contributor to the development of these diseases today including addiction!The BioSanctuary, not only entirely detoxes participants from the endocrine disruptors, neuro / excitotoxins, and carcinogens that are the precursors to symptoms and also that which is preventing people from achieving long term recovery, but we also teach you how to build a healthy GREEN non-toxic habitat for yourself. This is key in long term recovery because if you simply detox in an in or outpatient capacity, if you go back to the toxic environment that created your condition, it is only a matter of time before your symptoms return and you are reaching out for relief again.

This is why we are passionate about making sure those that work with us leave no stone unturned in greening thier diet and personal environment so that they may rid themselves once and for all from all those invisible crazy-makers that are preventing them from living the life they are capable of and wish to live.

Enter Debra Lynn Dadd, “The Queen of Green” and author of Home Safe Home who has now joined The BioSanctuary / Shangri La BioSpa as our Green Living Consultant. It is her books and websites that we go to when we’re researching products for our client’s homes, body’s, cosmetics, etc… so we thought, why do all the work? Why not just ask the expert if she would like to join the team?Debra is a true NON-TOXIC advocate. Not less toxic like the kind of products you’ll find in most health food stores. She has the same purist, GREEN filters we have when it comes to what we use in our homes and on our body or lawn. She will not only provide the right information, but save you days – even months of research because it can take that long to really figure out how to do it right and who are the ethical companies out there really making products with you and the planet as the core value.

Debra Lynn Dadd (http://debranontoxic.com) brings more than thirty years of research and real-life experience to her work as a health-oriented consumer advocate. She was the first to alert consumers to the toxic chemicals present in everyday household products and reveals both the short- and long-term health effects, as well as safe alternatives. Her books on the subject have been continuously in print since 1984. Debra was the first to catalog nontoxic products, making them easily accessible to everyone.

Today Debra is still the leader in her field with her Toxic Free Zone (debranontoxic.com) website, an online guide to toxics in consumer products, their health effects, safe alternatives, and detox. It features a directory to 1000s of nontoxic products, a Q&A blog, a bookstore and more. Debra is a consultant to individuals and businesses, and lectures frequently.

Welcome to The Biosanctuary / Shangri La BioSpa Debra Lynn Dadd!

Genita Petralli H.H.P., N.C., M.H.
Medical Director, The BioSanctuary, Shangri-La BioSpa & The 101 Program
www.biosanctuary.com
www.shangrilabiospa.com
www.the101program.com
http://genitapetralli.weebly.com

The Oxidative Stress Link to Addiction & Mental Health - The Importance of Organic Food

2011-05-24T01:55:00.000-07:00

The fundamental cause of dis-ease is oxidative stress caused primarily in today’s world by toxins in our environment, food and water, and medicine. Oxidative stress is another term for free-radical damage which is another term for cellular death. Oxidative stress is caused by toxins in the food, water and air that we eat, drink and breath and it is also caused by the toxins in our personal hygiene, home and garden care, industrial and agricultural pollutants, and medicine – drugs and vaccines.

Oxidative stress also creates an enormous tax on the minimal nutrition you get into your body if you are eating in a conventional way because it requires nutrients to metabolize and eliminate toxins and it also requires nutrients to repair the damage that they have done. And let’s face it, we humans are losing the oxidative stress / repair and replication race because our environment, food, water and medicine are pushing toxins in in alarming amounts while our diets are depleted more and more of the nutrients required to save us from their disease causing nature.

Your body and mind need to be in growth mode (repair and replication of cells) to achieve a healing event and eliminate your symptoms, and greening your diet and environment is the quickest way to get your body into growth mode. Let’s face it, the laws of health are not negotiable and it was your lifestyle that brought you to your healing crisis- if you are in one- so that lifestyle will have to change to enable a healing event. The donuts, pesticides and coffee simply are not worth the blood sugar roller coaster and anxiety they are causing you and taking away your peace and enjoyment of this one precious life.

Healing begins with reverence for the body and that which sustains it, planet earth. I am hoping that the healing you achieve with this introduction to ??Continued Next Page?creating a healthy relationship with food will also encourage a passionate ?reverence for the source of your medicine, planet earth and the bountiful foods it produces which your body requires to detoxify and feed the cells that sustain the beautiful cloth your spirit wears, the protein machine that has developed a relationship with planet earth over three million years – a relationship that when not treated with reverence develops dis-ease, and when treated with the respect it deserves provides not only health but joy, inspiration, peace and a enlivening awareness of spirit.

The American Medical Association published that 85% of dis-ease is caused by diet and lifestyle. The British Journal of Medicine reported that 95% of dis-ease is caused by diet and lifestyle. Then why is it that when you go to the doctor regarding symptoms or conditions of ill health, you are typically given toxic drugs that only add to the toxic conditions that caused your dis-ease and are not provided guidance for eliminating those things in your diet and lifestyle that are hurting you and instructions on how to eat properly for nurturing the body as opposed to destroying it? Contained in this book are the instructions that you should have received the last time you went to the doctor for ANY ailment.

I do a lot of lecturing all over the world and the most common question I get (as well as at The BioSanctuary from my patients) is “But doesn’t organic cost more?” I guess being a nutritional biochemist and knowing very well what pesticides do to a body and mind and how they rob both of health – therefore me of my quality of life, I would never consider cost a justification for putting a poison in my body. However, the good news is that it does not for these reasons:A naturopathic student did a study by creating a meal plan for one week for her family of 4. Fat for fat, protein for protein, carb for carb and saved $1.23.

When you eat right you do not buy snack foods throughout the day such as chips, cookies, gums, and drink cokes and caffeine, etc…Excess simple sugars / carbohydrates cause insulin spikes which cause insulin resistance over time. Both insulin spikes and resistance cause extreme blood sugar fluctuations throughout the day which cause false hunger due to low blood sugar episodes. Your body doesn’t need more food it just thinks it does because your insulin can’t get glucose (energy) into your cells and shut the brain’s hunger alarms off. When the brain goes low on energy it sends out the ??Continued Next Page?signals for you to eat because it is charged with keeping all your involuntary ?survival functions such as heart rate and breathing going.

Anyone that is overweight is likely experiencing some degree of insulin resistance – Syndrome X. Insulin resistance reduces the body’s ability to get glucose into the cells to provide energy for the body and brain so you will eat more than you should at each sitting and more often because the brain can not register the fact that you have enough food in you because the glucose or energy from the food is not making its way into the blood where it can be delivered to the body and brain. False hunger means you eat more – therefore it is more expensive to operate your body.People eat too much. Even if eating organic was let’s say 10% more expensive, I’m sure anyone asking the question “Isn’t eating organic more expensive?” could do with eating 10% less. Obviously your health has not been your priority.

If you want to be healthy, you must develop a healthy relationship with food such as the diet plan we provide at The BioSanctuary. Our health is determined by how close our diet and lifestyle is aligned with the laws of health – laws that were determined by the three million year relationship our body has forged with mother nature. Good food, water, rest, sunlight, recreation / play / exercise and the air you breath are the foundations of health. The better you are at providing yourself these and avoiding toxins in all areas of your life, the healthier you will be.

Genita Petralli H.H.P., N.C., M.H.
Medical Director, The BioSanctuary, Shangri-La BioSpa & The 101 Program
www.biosanctuary.com
www.shangrilabiospa.com
www.the101program.com
http://genitapetralli.weebly.com

Food For Humans

2011-03-25T11:52:00.000-07:00

By Genita Petralli, Global Green Mental Healthcare Expert and Author of Food For Humans

The fundamental cause of dis-ease is oxidative stress caused primarily in today’s world by toxins in our environment, food and water, and medicine. Oxidative stress is another term for free-radical damage which is another term for cellular death.

Oxidative stress is caused by toxins in the food, water and air that we eat, drink and breath and it is also caused by the toxins in our personal hygiene, home and garden care, industrial and agricultural pollutants, and medicine – drugs and vaccines.

Oxidative stress also creates an enormous tax on the minimal nutrition you get into your body if you are eating in a conventional way because it requires nutrients to metabolize and eliminate toxins and it also requires nutrients to repair the damage that they have done. And let’s face it, we humans are losing the oxidative stress / repair and replication race because our environment, food, water and medicine are pushing toxins in in alarming amounts while our diets are depleted more and more of the nutrients required to save us from their disease causing nature.

Your body and mind need to be in growth mode (repair and replication of cells) to achieve a healing event and eliminate your symptoms, and greening your diet and environment is the quickest way to get your body into growth mode. Let’s face it, the laws of health are not negotiable and it was your lifestyle that brought you to your healing crisis- if you are in one- so that lifestyle will have to change to enable a healing event. The donuts, pesticides and coffee simply are not worth the blood sugar roller coaster and anxiety they are causing you and taking away your peace and enjoyment of this one precious life.

Healing begins with reverence for the body and that which sustains it, planet earth. I am hoping that the healing you achieve with this introduction to   Continued Next Page creating a healthy relationship with food will also encourage a passionate  reverence for the source of your medicine, planet earth and the bountiful foods it produces which your body requires to detoxify and feed the cells that sustain the beautiful cloth your spirit wears, the protein machine that has developed a relationship with planet earth over three million years – a relationship that when not treated with reverence develops dis-ease, and when treated with the respect it deserves provides not only health but joy, inspiration, peace and a enlivening awareness of spirit.

The American Medical Association published that 85% of dis-ease is caused by diet and lifestyle. The British Journal of Medicine reported that 95% of dis-ease is caused by diet and lifestyle. Then why is it that when you go to the doctor regarding symptoms or conditions of ill health, you are typically given toxic drugs that only add to the toxic conditions that caused your dis-ease and are not provided guidance for eliminating those things in your diet and lifestyle that are hurting you and instructions on how to eat properly for nurturing the body as opposed to destroying it? Contained in this book are the instructions that you should have received the last time you went to the doctor for ANY ailment.

I do a lot of lecturing all over the world and the most common question I get is “But doesn’t organic cost more?” I guess being a nutritional biochemist and knowing very well what pesticides do to a body and mind and how they rob both of health – therefore me of my quality of life, I would never consider cost a justification for putting a poison in my body.

However, the good news is that it does not for these reasons:

A naturopathic student did a study by creating a meal plan for one week for her family of 4. Fat for fat, protein for protein, carb for carb and saved $1.23.

When you eat right you do not buy snack foods throughout the day such as chips, cookies, gums, and drink cokes and caffeine, etc…

Excess simple sugars / carbohydrates cause insulin spikes which cause insulin resistance over time. Both insulin spikes and resistance cause extreme blood sugar fluctuations throughout the day which cause false hunger due to low blood sugar episodes. Your body doesn’t need more food it just thinks it does because your insulin can’t get glucose (energy) into your cells and shut the brain’s hunger alarms off. When the brain goes low on energy it sends out the   Continued Next Page signals for you to eat because it is charged with keeping all your involuntary  survival functions such as heart rate and breathing going. Anyone that is overweight is likely experiencing some degree of insulin resistance – Syndrome X. Insulin resistance reduces the body’s ability to get glucose into the cells to provide energy for the body and brain so you will eat more than you should at each sitting and more often because the brain can not register the fact that you have enough food in you because the glucose or energy from the food is not making its way into the blood where it can be delivered to the body and brain. False hunger means you eat more – therefore it is more expensive to operate your body.

People eat too much. Even if eating organic was let’s say 10% more expensive, I’m sure anyone asking the question “Isn’t eating organic more expensive?” could do with eating 10% less. Obviously your health has not been your priority.

If you want to be healthy, you must develop a healthy relationship with food. Our health is determined by how close our diet and lifestyle is aligned with the laws of health – laws that were determined by the three million year relationship our body has forged with mother nature. Good food, water, rest, sunlight, recreation / play / exercise and the air you breath are the foundations of health. The better you are at providing yourself these and avoiding toxins in all areas of your life, the healthier you will be.

[This is an excerpt from the Food For Humans book.]

For more information on this new book and fabulous recipes for healthy eating, pick up your copy of the book here:
http://greenmentalhealthcare.blogspot.com/2011/03/biosanctuarys-food-for-humans-recipe.html

The "Queen of Green" Joins The BioSanctuary and Green Body & Mind!

2011-03-23T18:51:00.000-07:00

Debra Lynn Dadd, titled “The Queen of Green” by The New York Times has accepted an offer to join our team! I couldn’t be more thrilled to share this with you because I know the impact her expertise in Green Living Consulting is going to have on our patients’ SUSTAINABLE recovery!

Researching the fundamental cause of today’s mental health symptoms as well as those that develop addictive biochemistry which leads to addiction to legal / illegal drugs and / or alcohol – or really any dis-ease such as the epidemic heart, degenerative and diabetes dis-eases we are inundated with as a society today, it doesn’t take long to learn that it is the toxic diet and environment that is the fundamental or strongest contributor to the development of these diseases today including addiction!

At the BioSanctuary, we not only entirely detox you from the endocrine disruptors, neuro / excitotoxins, and carcinogens that are the precursors to your symptoms and also that which is preventing you from achieving long term recovery, but we also teach you how to build a healthy GREEN non-toxic habitat for yourself. This is key in long term recovery because if you simply detox in an in or outpatient capacity, if you go back to the toxic environment that created your condition, it is only a matter of time before your symptoms return and you are reaching out for relief again.

This is why we are passionate about making sure you leave no stone unturned in greening your diet and personal environment so that you may rid yourself once and for all from all those invisible crazy-makers that are preventing you from living the life you are capable of and wish to live.

Enter Debra Lynn Dadd, “The Queen of Green” and author of Home Safe Home who has now joined Green Body and Mind and the BioSanctuary as our Green Living Consultant. It is her books and websites that I go to when I am researching products for people’s homes, body’s, cosmetics, etc… so I thought, why do all the work? Why not just ask the expert if she would like to join the team?

Debra is a true NON-TOXIC advocate. Not less toxic like the kind of the products you’ll find in most health food stores. She has the same purist, GREEN filters I have when it comes to what I use in my home and on my body or lawn. She will not only provide the right information, but save you days – even months of research because it can take that long to really figure out how to do it right and who are the ethical companies out there really making products with you and the planet as the core value.

Debra Lynn Dadd (http://debranontoxic.com) brings more than thirty years of research and real-life experience to her work as a health-oriented consumer advocate. She was the first to alert consumers to the toxic chemicals present in everyday household products and reveals both the short- and long-term health effects, as well as safe alternatives. Her books on the subject have been continuously in print since 1984. Debra was the first to catalog nontoxic products, making them easily accessible to everyone.

Today Debra is still the leader in her field with her Toxic Free Zone (debranontoxic.com) website, an online guide to toxics in consumer products, their health effects, safe alternatives, and detox. It features a directory to 1000s of nontoxic products, a Q&A blog, a bookstore and more. Debra is a consultant to individuals and businesses, and lectures frequently.

In service we shine!
Shine!

Genita Petralli H.H.P., N.C., M.H.
Medical Director, The BioSanctuary

The so-called “War On Drugs” has a new battleground – your doctor’s office

2011-03-23T13:17:00.000-07:00

Where the unholy alliance between the pharmaceutical and psychiatric industries presents a pseudo medical model that inflicts addictive, chemical abuse on innocent victims while lying to the public with sales science and calling it medicine...

Their drugs are nothing more than variations of the very same illegal drugs the government has spent billions of dollars fighting—not because they care about you, only to preserve pharmaceutical sales.

Make no mistake; a drug is a drug —pushed or prescribed. They are all toxic, and psychotropic pharmaceuticals are far more toxic to brain tissue and the liver; diminishing quality of life, causing multiple addictions and ultimately resulting in disease and death—never health and wellness!

My life is dedicated to reclaiming lives from psychiatric drugs and exposing psychiatry for what it truly is; nothing more than a gang of white collar drug pushers robbing our society of every resource that supports it right down to our future; the children.

As a scientist and licensed practitioner I want to educate all those interested in what is causing the epidemic mental health crisis of today, how to avoid it, how to get off of psych drugs if you are on them now, and why toxic drugs should not ever be called medicine.

My work is toward a medical model for all mental health issues to be based on patient outcomes and not profit.

If you have questions about the FIRST, ONLY and ORIGINAL Green Medical Model, then I encourage you to take part in the 6-Week series, "Reclaim your Life – How to Get Off & Stay Off Illegal / Legal Drugs and Alcohol".

You won't want to miss this coming Tuesday's session where I will be revealing my exact, step-by-step formula for safely tapering off of drugs and alcohol.

In Service We Shine!
Genita Petralli H.H.P., N.C., M.H.
Medical Director, The BioSanctuary

A Team of Integrative Physicians Join The BioSanctuary and Green Body and Mind!

2011-03-23T12:00:00.000-07:00

We will be providing all the details in our next newsletter, however, we couldn't wait to share that we are bringing on a TEAM of Integrative Physicians to The BioSanctuary and Green Body & Mind. These are Medical Doctors with both MD and ND or Chinese Medicine, etc.. credentials.

We believe the answer in a total healing event is in Integrated Medicine – not excluding valuable medical technologies, processes and doctors just because they may fall under “allopathic”. We do not live in an either / or universe – we live in a rich, abundant and integrated universe and our medicine should reflect that truth. These are passionate doctors that have both the Medical Training and Reverence for the natural healing process you require for a true healing event.

We have teamed with them because we want to offer our patients the BEST OF BOTH WORLDS! Yin and Yang. Structure and Creative. Nature and Science.

Our mission is to provide the very best for our patients; a Green Medical Model that is Aligned with Nature and Supported by Science and now we are at the cutting edge and are offering it to ALL our patients.

The best possible chance that you have for the life you wish to live resides in pulling from all evidence-based treatments, ancient healing technologies, traditional medicine, allopathic and spiritual philosophies that you resonate with.

Now you have a team that can not only provide the best of all available disciplines but believes in YOU!

So be sure to look for next week’s newsletter when I introduce our new Medical Team Members! If you're not already signed up for our newsletter, you can do that over there on right where it says:

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30-page Pamphlet based on the book
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Ritalin - Is It The Same As Cocaine?

2011-03-21T08:30:00.000-07:00

Ritalin has the same pharmacological profile as cocaine.

Ritalin and cocaine block dopamine brain transporters to cause their identical psychoactive results.

Ritalin is actually more potent in the brain blocking 70% of dopamine transporters. Cocaine is known to block around 50 per cent of these transporters, leaving a surfeit of dopamine in the system, which is responsible for the hit addicts crave. Since Ritalin is taken orally, the slower process of ingesting is the reason the legally addicted people do not receive the same rush as cocaine users who usually snort or shoot it. Read Dr Nora Volkow’s interview in the Journal of American Medicine.

Pet Scans of the effects of Ritalin and Cocaine on the Brain
The Pharmaceutical Industry Mimics Your Natural Pharmacist: The NeuroEndocrine System (NES). The NES produces the popular neurochemicals below in addition to hundreds more.

It’s true, deficient production of neurochemicals, damage to their receptor sites, or over or under activity of their regulating enzymes cause many symptoms ranging from anxiety to audible and visual hallucinations. Why are they becoming more and more deficient in people causing the mental disorder epidemic today?

Why Not Make Your Own Drugs Naturally - The Way Nature Intended?
The proof is in, there is a deficiency of these neurochemicals in mentally symptomatic patients, but why? When you find out why, you can cure the root cause of the symptoms never having to touch a drug.

Prescribed Drugs are Synthetically Made & Legalized Illicit Drugs
Remember, a toxic drug causes extreme oxidative stress on the system - this and their ability to change natural biochemical processes that have been developed over millions of years into chaotic chemical reactions make them extremely dangerous to your health. Because of their synthetic nature and the body's difficulty in metabolizing them, they can do even more damage than street drugs!

Your Natural Pharmacist Has Been Off-Shored and Replaced By the Pharma Cartel at a very high price, your health, quality of life and many times life itself, and they don't get you anywhere near the natural high.

Isn't it time you started listening to YOUR natural pharmacist again?

A Comprehensive Addiction Recovery and Green Mental Health "How To" Program

2011-03-19T15:13:00.000-07:00

Reclaim Your Life - 6 Week Course

You're Invited to a Special Event...

"Reclaim your Life – How to Get Off & Stay Off Illegal / Legal Drugs and Alcohol"

A 6-Week Course on the award winning Green Mental Health Care model and Orthomolecular Neurochemical Rehabilitation Provided by Genita Petralli H.H.P., N.C., M.H.

In this 6 week course that Genita Petralli, Medical Director of The BioSanctuary lectures with powerpoint, you'll learn step by step instructions for a safe taper off psychiatric drugs and / or illegal drugs and alcohol as well as what supplements to take for detox and which adjuvant therapies would be useful for your condition.

Topics are covered in detail!

Topics Covered:

CD1 - Awakening the Physician Within
CD2 -The Green Mental Health Program: Detox, BioRepair and Sustainable Recovery; Maintenance
CD3 - A Basic Detox Protocol - Which Supplements to Use and When
CD4 - Cause of Today's Epidemic Mental Health Symptoms & Addiction - Part 1
CD5 - Cause of Today's Epidemic Mental Health Symptoms & Addiction - Part 2
CD6 - The Green Body & Mind Safe Taper - Guided Process
CD7 - Which Water - Which Filter? The Importance of Minerals & Electrolytes
CD8 - Food for Humans: Creating an Exciting Whole Organic Food Plan and How to Eat for Long Term Recovery, Quality of Life and Longevity!
CD9 - Understanding Addiction - Neurochemical Adaptation
CD10 - It's Not All in Your Head! Lab Tests / Diagnostics and How to Manage Your Doctor
CD11 - The Key to a Succesful and Safe Taper as Well as Sustainable Recovery from Illegal Drugs & Alcohol - Building a Healthy Body to Move Into and Healing the Pharmacist Within
CD12 "The Queen of Green", Debra Lynn Dadd Consults on Non Toxic Personal Hygiene, Cosmetics, Home and Lawn Care and More!

Are you ready to start your journey?

Here's where you get on board.

17 years of psychiatric drugging and living in hostiles. Matthew no longer feels anxiety, he has regained energy, lost weight, has clearer, brighter skin and is now off all drugs and is stabilizing using natural therapies for SUSTAINABLE HEALTH!

Just 8 weeks later!

Are You Ready To Feel Like YOU Again?

With this Seminar Course you will also receive:

A Green Body & Mind Program Checklist to help keep you organized on the program.

A standard Detoxification Targeted Nutritional Therapy Protocol – this is a list of what to take and when for the first phase (Detoxification- 8 weeks) of your recovery program.

Food for Humans - ebook of the BioSanctuary's actual meals with recipes for juices to assist chelation, liver cleansing, sauna, arthritis - other degenerative diseases and many more!

Alkaline Body ebook

Food Chart - easy reference guide for what is allowed during detox and what you absolutely have to stay away from!

Food for Humans food guide - a detailed mini book on what are the best foods to eat such as the right oils, best grains, etc. as well as what to be sure to avoid!

How to get off and stay off psychiatric drugs ebook

GB&M non-toxic home care - a simplified guide that teaches how to use non-toxic products for cleaning the bathroom, floors, kitchen, laundry etc..

Ms. Petralli’s Preferred Vendors Guide - it can take months to find the truly non-toxic products available for your personal hygiene, home and lawn care, children's clothes and toys, etc. as well as researching the right water and air filters - this guide will direct you to the best and truly non-toxic (not less toxic) products and services available.

A Guide to the best Adjuvant Treatments for your program such as Colon Hydrotherapy, Acupuncture, Holosync Meditation, The kind of counseling / Integral Life Coaching, Cranial Sacral and Lymph Drainage Massage and many more...

Alcoholism: The Cause & The Cure ebook

Within these program materials and the 12 CD set you will learn:

    * What exactly IS Green Mental Health Care?

    * The Advantages of Non-Toxic, Non-Invasive, and Non-Addictive Mental Health Care over Psychiatric Drugs and Self Medication with food, illegal drugs and alcohol...

    * How to manage your doctor for the best services they can offer!

    * What’s the first thing you should do if you are suffering anxiety, depression, mental / physical fatigue ...

    * After you’ve learned all the much needed details of Staying Sane in a Toxic World, I will give you step by step guidance in gracefully tapering yourself off drugs – the key to avoiding painful and frightening withdrawal symptoms is to first build a healthy body to drop into!

    * The real reason you are gaining weight! Drugs and food chemicals are Endocrine disruptors and cause weight gain!

    * How you can save tens of thousands of dollars while providing yourself even better treatment than most costly rehabs could provide you... I know… my outpatient practice has done for former patients in rehabs could not accomplish at the facility!

    * How to Achieve Excellent Mental Health Beyond Your Wildest Expectations!

    * The exact lab tests that can expose the root cause of mental health symptoms...

    * Environmental Medicine – How Green Mental Health Care Awakens the Natural Healing Process...

    * Detoxification - Green Mental Health Care Strategies for Today’s Adverse Mental Health Conditions – that work within days for depression, anxiety, mental physical fatigue, and many other common conditions...

    * Causes of Today’s Epidemic Adverse Mental Health Symptoms...

    * Integral Life Practice Counseling - Your Perspective as Your Master Pharmacist... an introduction.

    * How to be the Highest Vision of Yourself and follow it daily!

    * And much, much more...

You're also going to find out...

    * Everything you need to know about the process that will set you free...
    * Step by step guidance on how to get off psych drugs while minimizing withdrawal...
    * Orthomolecular Neurochemical Rehabilitation Strategies for complete mental health...
    * Where are the "invisible crazy makers" and how do you avoid them?

You'll ALSO receive mp3 recordings and transcripts of each session:

    * Download MP3 recordings so you can listen again and again...

    * Download transcripts of all the calls so you can refer back to the training easily as you progress on your health journey...

Sound good? It is! We guarantee you that you can’t get this kind of help – the real help you need anywhere else – and that's not all.

From this home study course, you will have everything you need to get started and succeed right away. But we want more for you. We want you to have this forever to use over and over. And Genita wants to share every single thing she KNOWS as a medical director for a very successful Holistic Drug Rehab Clinic about clinical detoxification, actually healing of the root cause of your symptoms, and addiction treatment.

AND how to live a vibrant healthy life because Genita also knows that is really what you want -- not JUST to be drug and alcohol free, and the key is in being healthy in all terms of the meaning of the word.

So she's going above and beyond to make sure you are provided with all the information you'll need in this 6-week series to succeed. Her Green Mental Health Care medical activism, which comes from her own pocket, proves that she CARES and wants you to be successful!

Get Started NOW!

P.S. If you are not sure if this is right for you, or if you have any questions about this series, feel free to email our treatment coordinator, Lisa, at findpeace@shangrilabiospa.com.

The BioSanctuary's Food for Humans recipe book is NOW AVAILABLE!

2011-03-17T15:27:00.000-07:00

Many of you have been waiting for some time for this ebook to finally become available and it now is!

We not only provide the exact foods that we prepare for our patients during their clinical detoxification, but we also provide the many healing juices and teas for chelation, arthritis and many more of today's epidemic mental and physical health issues today. These are the exact foods and juices that we use to heal our patients while they go through their in-patient recovery with us. We also provide tips on how to Green your kitchen - what kind of pans, juicers, utensils etc. to use to avoid the many toxic substances today's conventional kitchen is exposing you and your family to. Now you can have these 5 star recipes to turn your kitchen into an organic, whole foods, non-toxic sanctuary for you and your family to enjoy and recover their health!

There is over one hundred recipes for advanced healing in this book. It can be used for not only clinical detoxification, but also candida, arthritis recovery, heart disease, diabetes... it will assist anyone through any healing event! The mystery is over - here is how you prepare delicious, organic, healthy food! Food meant for Humans!

You are all heroes and healers! Thank you for choosing the only way to truly heal - being a Body & Mind Environmentalist by default makes you a planetary superhero - helping to save earth and eliminate end disease and death by toxic assault!

In service we shine,

Shine!

Genita Petralli H.H.P., N.C., M.H.
Medical Director, The BioSanctuary
Addiction Recovery & Green Mental Health Care

Green Mental Health Care - Medicine, Aligned with Nature & Supported by Science!

From the Medical Director of The BioSanctuary

Genita Petralli H.H.P., N.C., M.H.

Hi Readers and Patients!

Over the years of working with my patients I developed a food plan for the Bio-Sanctuary, our in-patient clinic, for optimum healing and herein is the medicine we use to initiate the healing event our patients come to us to achieve. While I have the official title as Medical Director, the food we eat and juices we drink are really the doctor.

This is not an ordinary book of recipes. Contained in the book is an action plan for saving the planet starting with your health which rests in making the right decision for each cell of your body. This is about Body & Mind environmentalism which naturally translates to becoming an environmental super hero!

Healing begins with reverence for the body and that which sustains it, planet earth. I am hoping that the healing you achieve with this introduction to creating a healthy relationship with food will also encourage a passionate reverence for the source of your medicine, planet earth and the bountiful foods it produces which your body requires to detoxify and feed the cells that sustain the beautiful cloth your spirit wears.

This book is not only a 5 star organic culinary adventure that will serve any healing event from any dis-ease, but it will teach you how to make healing green juices, teas and how to green your kitchen!

If you are suffering from any health issue, the very first thing you need to do is remove the neurotoxic, endocrine disrupting and carcinogenic toxins from your food, water, air, and medicine.

Contained in this book are the instructions that you should have received the last time you went to the doctor for ANY ailment and you will be amazed at how quickly it happens!

Genita Petralli H.H.P., N.C., M.H.

Medical Director, The BioSanctuary

One-time only FREE WEBINAR: Staying Sane In A Toxic World

2010-10-05T09:33:00.000-07:00

Who is this woman with me in the photo, and why are we smiling?

Because we're about to shake things up in the healthcare world like never before -- on a FREE webinar on Tuesday, October 5th!

(In a hurry? You can just register here now.)

Listen up closely...

At one recent event we attended, we were enlightened to, well, all the *B.S.* when it comes to the "education" people are getting about what's causing their physical and/or mental symptoms. Speaker after speaker spoke about the lies and the tactics large pharmaceutical companies are using to pocket your hard-earned money.

Have you noticed that people in general are getting tired of it too?

They are waking up feeling tired -- no matter how much sleep they got the night before.

They are coming down with degenerative diseases left and right and being told there is nothing that can be done for them.

And they are realizing that no matter how many times the dosage is adjusted for their current medication -- or how many times they are switched to a different medication to "see if this one will work" -- it's just NOT working (in some cases, they are feeling worse).

People are not being helped to truly feel well, energetic and healthy. And it's affecting their BODY as well as their MIND.

This was shocking to the event hosts (who are already "in the know" with this kind of stuff). It was painful for everyone in that room to hear.

That way of dealing with symptoms stinks!

We sat in that room and quietly smiled, thinking, "It's finally happened..."

People are smartening up. That old school model of drugging and covering up your sick, rundown and unhappy patients is gone. People are fed up with being bossed around, insulted, and lied to. And this is the perfect opportunity for the NEW wave of healthcare practitioners to step up and shine.

And we are.

Meet my good friend, Rachel Karl, a humanitarian and marketing maven, who routinely helps people like me spread the word about real programs that really help people and really work. And you're likely aware of my own Green Mental Healthcare model that's safe, non-toxic, and non-addictive (and not just for drug addicts or people diagnosed with mental illnesses).

Well, Rachel and I want you to know: Genuine practitioners who care about your symptoms and your mental and physical health do NOT require drugging people, tricking them, or lying to them.

What if I told you that feeling healthy and vibrant could not only be fast, but POSSIBLE for you? In fact, even downright enjoyable? (Imagine that!)

AND having a healthy body and mind can be a super life-changing event for you, more than ever...IF you follow my proven, scientifically-formulated model.

I'll be revealing all on our one-time only FREE WEBINAR encore happening today, Tuesday, October 5th...

Finally...a truly possible and fast way to Staying Sane In A Toxic World!

Rachel and I have only done this once before, and the turnout was overwhelming. In fact, many people were not able to make it on the call, so we are only doing this ONE MORE TIME.

So, you will definitely want to get in on this and reserve your spot now.

Shine!
Genita Petralli

P.S. We are already HALF FULL, so feel free to invite friends and colleagues, but please remember to reserve your spot HERE first! :)

The Toxic Environment

2010-10-02T17:55:00.000-07:00

Today’s very toxic world is the number one cause of mental health problems that people suffer.

Everything is toxic today; our food, air, water, soil, home cleaning and personal hygiene products, lawn and garden care, even Mr. Bubble!

Unfortunately, now the “medicine” (drugs) to “cure” people’s mental problems are in fact the most dangerous toxic chemicals of all—resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths per year in the U.S. alone.

So when someone is given psychiatric drugs they are simply adding more toxic chemicals to what is in all likelihood, an already toxic body whose mind is symptomatic because of it!

In the U.S. alone, there are over 100,000 toxic chemicals released into our air, food, water and soil.

Most of the toxins are brain and endocrine system disrupters and accumulate in the system causing cross contamination toxicities. The body and mind are being assaulted daily by these life- and presence-of-mind robbing agents and unfortunately when the symptoms from their damage present themselves, instead of finding out what is causing the problem, they are further victimized by toxic “medicine” that aggravates the root cause of the symptoms and places the person in even graver health risk danger.

Since the majority of all toxins cause brain and endocrine damage, resulting in adverse mental health symptoms, I’m sure you realize that this builds a strong case for Green Mental Health. Toxic chemicals are directly linked to negatively affecting these body functions:

• Our immune system
• Our endocrine system
• Our nervous system
• Our reproductive system

As an example of toxins in our environment, a study conducted by the Environmental Working Group sheds light on the extent of toxins in our environment:

A study conducted on newborns by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found an average of 200 industrial chemicals and pollutants in umbilical cord blood from 10 babies born in August and September of 2004 in U.S. hospitals.

Tests revealed a total of 287 chemicals in the group. The umbilical cord blood of these 10 children, collected by Red Cross after the cord was cut, contained pesticides, consumer product ingredients, and wastes from burning coal, gasoline, and garbage.

Of the 287 chemicals detected in umbilical cord blood, 180 cause cancer in humans and animals, 217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 208 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests. The dangers of pre- or post-natal exposure to this complex mixture of carcinogens, developmental toxins and neurotoxins have never been studied. ( http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/execsumm.php)

So, what's the solution? Read the labels of everything you buy. Do a "Green" sweep of your home, hygiene, foods, and other products you have. Buy organic foods and use non-toxic products.

Need help figuring out what's truly organic/non-toxic and what's not? Stay tuned for details on our encore presentation webinar, How To Stay Sane In A Toxic World, where Genita Petralli will cover this topic as well as many others.

Mark your calendar for this Tuesday night at 9pm EST.

==> Register here right now.

To Your Health!
The Green Mental Healthcare Team

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Excerpted from Chapter One of the book, Green Mental Health Care; How to Get Off & Stay Off Psychiatric Drugs, by Genita Petralli, H.H.P., N.C., M.H.

What Your Doctor/Healthcare Provider Should Be Looking For

2010-09-17T21:08:00.000-07:00

Trying to figure out exactly what is making you symptomatic can often be overwhelming. You should print this list and take it to your doctor to determine your Toxic Load.

A full toxicology report should be run on you. Depending on where you live, your lifestyle, where you work and diet you could be a walking toxic chemical cocktail.

Sounds scary, but once you have the toxicology report, you will know exactly how to Green Your Body And Mind:

·      Reduced hormonal output of your pituitary.

·      Liver function: low or sluggish liver function results in toxic waste build up in the body and causes neurological damage / dysfunction of the brain resulting in many of today’s mental health issues.

·      Hypoglycemia – blood sugar dysregulation is the #1 cause of mood swings, what is diagnosed as bipolar, anxiety, insomnia, mental and physical fatigue, etc.

·      Adrenal fatigue. The lion’s share of adults and many children test positive for low adrenal function.

·      Low thyroid function

·      Candida, fungus, mold and bacteria infections.

·      Allergies

·      Heavy metals

·      Krebs Cycle[1]

·      Methylation[2] Cycle

·      Neurochemistry

·      Pyroluria[3]

·      Excess adrenochrome if you are having psychotic episodes.

·      Nutritional status – malnutrition psychosis is extremely common. Don’t be fooled by a full belly of toxic, empty calories.

·      Hormonal assay. And do not fall into the Bio-identical Hormone Therapy trap. Work with a practitioner that will help you heal your endocrine glands so they produce adequate levels of the various hormones for you.

Summary

If your doctor is unable or unwilling to run these tests, contact us today, and we will send you an in-home testing kit that can be diagnosed by an independent 3rd party lab.

We can then go over the findings and create an 8-week Neuro Endocrine Support and Toxicology Program. This program is one that focuses on getting the toxins out of the cells and the most potent nutrients in quickly to reestablish healthy bodies and minds quickly. People have cleared everything from depression and anxiety to ADD / HD and degenerative diseases on this scientifically formulated program.

It's a fraction of the cost as compared with residential treatment programs (including our own residential treatment program that we offer in Costa Rica).

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This article is an excerpt taken from the free pamphlet Green Mental Health Care: How to Get Off & Stay Off Psychiatric Drugs; Staying Sane in a Toxic World, by Genita Petralli, H.H.P., N.C., M.H.. Download the entire booklet for FREE by clicking right here. <==

Footnotes:

[1] Krebs Cycle: one of a series of chemical reactions in which the body's cells metabolize glucose for energy.

[2] Methylation: Methylation is the chemical reactions that place a methyl group (a combination of one carbon atom and three hydrogen atoms) at a particular spot on one’s DNA during development of the organism. Testing for DNA methylation is said to help improve diagnosis of certain maladies.

[3] Pyroluria: a relatively unknown blood disorder which is hypothesized to cause a deficiency of vitamin B6 and zinc in a person. Pyroluria has been said to cause anxiety, depression and withdrawal.

What Causes Mental Symptoms?

2010-05-20T10:33:00.000-07:00

When you get a pain in your side your brain reports the pain but you realize that it’s a muscle cramp or gas causing the pain. You realize it’s not your brain causing the pain.

However, people don’t realize that their mental health symptoms do NOT originate in their brain—the brain is simply the messenger.

Your body is trying to save your life by letting you know something in your body is going wrong. Your brain is doing what it’s designed to do—reporting the problem.

Your brain is the reporting system for your internal and external environment. It is not a brain problem if it’s cold outside and you’re uncomfortable without

adequate clothing, no more than it’s a brain problem if you are experiencing anxiety due to the damage your adrenals are suffering as a result of over stimulation from excess coffee or other stimulants.

It is not a brain problem if your brain is not getting all of the nutrients it needs to produce the neurotransmitters and hormones it requires for good health.

It’s not a brain problem if a malnourished brain can’t help you get through life’s common emotional and psychological challenges, such as the loss of a job or loved one.

So many people enter crisis today in such marginal mental and physical shape that it is nearly impossible for them to climb out of the adverse emotional and psychological strains they suffer. Your brain relies on the healthy functioning of each and every organ of your body to provide you strong mental health in good times and bad.

It is vital that you take care of the WHOLE body to achieve Green Mental Health.

How Neurotoxins Cause Adverse Mental Health Symptoms

A ‘Neurotoxin’ is any substance that causes damage to nerves or nerve tissue. For example, lead, mercury, aspartame, and many other chemicals are neurotoxins.

Neurotoxins target brain cells and do most of their damage within the brain and nervous system. However, that damage is also known to cause endocrine or

hormonal issues that show up as many of today’s adverse mental health

symptoms.

Neurotoxins shrink vital glands and centers within the brain such as the hypothalamus and the pituitary. Neurotoxins also damage the mitochondria in your cells. This will have a harmful effect on the entire body and mind since the mitochondria supplies the energy for the cell.

Reduce the energy of the cell and you reduce its ability to utilize nutrients and remove waste. This will cause stress and damage to the brain and nervous system and disrupt the entire endocrine system as well.

Anxiety
Bi-Polar
Insomnia
Depression
Extreme Fatigue
and many other symptoms are a sign that there are neurotoxins present in the system.

These can come from many sources, so it's important to determine the exact cause of your symptoms.

Shangri La Bio Spa & Green Mental Healthcare Center helps people diagnose the exact cause of neurotoxins in the body.

Email: questions@shangrilabiospa.com

Phone: 877.285.9266

Drugging Our Children—Side Effects

2010-05-20T10:29:00.001-07:00

Beautiful video by CCHR. We are proud to support them and their campaign Fight For Children.

3 Steps to Psychiatric Drug Detoxification

2010-05-13T18:35:00.000-07:00

WARNING: Do not read this unless you or someone you know are sick and tired of being in a toxic, drug-induced state and are ready for a change.

Detoxification from psychiatric medications is a three step process that can usually be done concurrently.

These three steps -- carried out by a qualified practitioner trained in psychiatric drug detoxification and neuroendocrine rebalancing -- will ensure minimal transitional discomfort and quality mental health.

Step One: Detoxification

A thorough detoxification is the first fundamental step that needs to taken to rid the body and mind of those substances and accumulated waste that is causing the epidemic of mental illnesses and distresses today.

Step Two: Diagnosis

This step includes state of the art diagnostics, including over 240 tests that range from:

Heavy metal toxicity
Chemical toxicology
Suspect foods groups
Commercial foods because of the neurotoxins (aspartame, msg, etc.), and other chemicals they contain, that are known to disrupt brain chemistry
Sugars and refined carbohydrates
Caffeine because of the known damage that caffeinated products inflict on the neuroendocrine system
Environmental stress
Hormonal imbalance
Low thyroid and adrenal function
Allergies
Brain shrinkage
Neurochemical imbalances
Digestive / GI disorders
and many more...

Once the correct diagnosis is achieved, the root cause of your symptoms is uncovered, and healing can begin.

Step Three: Replenishment Through Orthomolecular Targeted Nutritional Therapy (TNT)

Orthomolecular Medicine is a treatment that both cures the damage -- at a cellular level -- from the addiction -- then addresses the underlying psychological, physical or emotional cause of the symptoms.

Industrial living today, with the stresses, food and environmental toxicities is breaking the body and mind down at an alarming rate.

Children as young as 3 years old are experiencing adrenal fatigue from exposure to environments that over stimulate the sympathetic nervous system and from the foods that further damage the neuroendocrine system’s ability adapt to these environments.

At the very root of the mental health issue of today is the body’s inability to adapt to its environment and the malnutrition caused by industrial products that are called "foods".

The sympathetic nervous system is the part of the body that control functions like heart beat, breathing, and other involuntary functions. And when this system is over-stimulated for extended periods of time the inhibitory neurotransmitters (which produce relaxation, sound sleep, tranquility, peace and favorable states of mental well-being) are emptied out due to being exhausted from trying to maintain balance with the chronically elevated excitatory neurotransmitters.

This is the typical scenario due to our over stimulated and neurotoxic environmental and dietary exposures.

Providing the body and mind a maximum-strength, nutrient-rich diet for each and every cell to flourish and function at its best is the second course of action.

A diet developed for optimum neuroendocrine function, using the best of Orthomolecular Functional Medicine (a combination of traditional and evidence-based alternative medicine), provides the best therapies known that minimize, and many times dismiss, withdrawal symptoms.

This is the key to restoring balanced mental health.

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These three steps, and a long-term Green Mental Healthcare strategy, are vital to successful drug detoxification and a return to a balanced physical and mental state of health.

THIS is the non-toxic, non-invasive, non-addictive way of life you've been searching for...

Shangri La Bio Spa & Green Mental Healthcare Center provides these services as well as makes referrals to our in-network Green Mental Healthcare certified Medical and Holistic Health Care practitioners.

Contact us TODAY to explore all your options:

Email: questions@shangrilabiospa.com
Phone: 877.285.9266

*Do not try to undertake these steps without consulting a qualified practitioner.

5 Reasons Why You Don’t Want to Get Started on Psychiatric Drugs: Part 2

2010-05-11T16:55:00.000-07:00

First and foremost you have to look at what to take out of the body in order to begin the healing process...

Most doctors on both sides of the fence will consider first what you should add to the body and this is not good—when you treat symptoms you will be treating them forever.

Western Medical doctors will add Statins (a class of drugs used to lower cholesterol) or cholesterol-lowering drugs to their diseased heart patients. Psychiatrists will add brain and liver damaging, neurotoxic drugs to mask ill mental health symptoms. And many holistic practitioners will add Vitamin C for a cold.

None of these approaches address the root cause of your heart disease, mental distress, or cold. Statins are the number one drug prescribed in the U.S., and heart attacks are the number one cause of death.
Prescribing toxic drugs for mental health issues only allows the root cause to continue to manifest, while doing additional damage to the body and mind. Vitamin C will help clear the cold a bit faster but does not address strengthening your immune system to best avoid flues, and other colds throughout the year.

So the first thing you want to do is to take out of the body what could be potentially making it ill.

Since I can give you at least 10 different biochemical pathways for each of the popular mental health complaints such as anxiety, ADD/HD, depression, bipolar, etc., (which confirms the need for laboratory tests before treatment is defined) the best way to approach a mental health healing event is to first, take out all things known to deteriorate and strain mental health.

This is more commonly known as detoxification. 95% plus of today’s mental health issues are a direct result of diet and lifestyle.

And now more than ever because conventional foods are becoming more and more adulterated with chemicals that are neurotoxic, inflicting damage of the brain and nervous system, and are toxic in many other ways inflicting the same damage on the rest of your critical organs.

When the body and mind is being poisoned, stress and the standard challenges of making it in today’s world are perceived to be far greater than they actually are because you are being slowly physically and mentally poisoned and deficient and wake up feeling overwhelmed and unable to meet the day’s responsibilities and fear, paranoia, anxiety, depression and worry can become chronic.

A Green Mental Health Strategy starts with what you take out of your body!
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To find out what to do if you are symptomatic and not on psychiatric drugs, get my FREE pamphlet today:

Green Mental Health Care: How to Get Off & Stay Off Psychiatric Drugs

Drugs for life?

2010-05-10T23:13:00.001-07:00

Watch this movie trailer: http://j.mp/cA86YX

2010-05-08T14:41:00.001-07:00

RT @washingtonpost Cancer panel: 'Grievous harm' posed by unchecked chemicals in U.S. http://bit.ly/dBPRlP

5 Reasons Why You Don’t Want to Get Started on Psychiatric Drugs: Part I

2010-05-06T00:04:00.000-07:00

To get well you are going to have to discover the root cause of your symptoms and a
“chemical imbalance” is not the root cause...

The cumulative effects of neuro (affecting the nervous system) and other toxins in our food and environment is the number one cause of mental health issues today.

So it doesn’t make sense to go to a doctor to get more neurotoxins to get well. It won’t happen.

Going to a doctor to get yet more toxins to poison the body and mind will add to your mental health problems and will erode the health of many other organs as well.

There Are A Lot Of Reasons Why You Don’t Want To Even Get Started On Psych Drugs:

* They are addictive and extremely hard to get off of due to the frightening and painful withdrawal symptoms they are known to produce when you try to detox from them.

* The extreme withdrawal symptoms are caused not only from the body trying to readapt to the absence of the drug, but the damage that they have done to each and every one of your organs and how they take natural biochemical processes hostage which directly affects your brain chemistry and function.

* This promises even more symptoms with increased severity you will have to manage yourself out of if you try and get off of them.

* While you are on them, not only does the original root cause of your symptoms continue to manifest and become more serious as a threat to your health, but the neurotoxic nature of the drug and the oxidative stress they cause actually accelerates the underlying health issue that caused the symptoms in the first place.

* This is what invariably gives the many diseases they are associated with opportunity to manifest. The root cause of your symptoms is never explored, exposed and treated appropriately so it continues to get worse.

* They cause mitochondrial damage. The mitochondria is the power house of the cell—the energy producer. It converts carbohydrates to energy. When it becomes damaged, all functions of the cell begin to deteriorate and biochemical systems fail thus causing symptoms and then diseases, which, if untreated, can cause death.

What is very serious about this is because you are on drugs that prevent the body from reporting symptoms, you have no idea that a disease is manifesting within you, and if you do have side effects and complain, they will simply put you on yet another drug to silence that negative condition which can only manifest into a serious health issue.

The Costs Involved

The best medical models available: Orthomolecular Neurochemical Rehabilitation (ONR) applied to Functional Medicine and Nutritional Neurochemistry services and medical oversight to safely get you off of drugs with minimal transitional discomfort and provide the Green Mental Health strategy that best responds to your individual needs for full recovery is typically an out of pocket expense.

This medical model and the lab tests, other diagnostics, and specialized treatments required to get you sane in the membrane again and feeling peace and joy within can be quite costly and insurance does not cover it!

They will pay to get you addicted, but will basically tell you you’re on your own when you want to get off. Sometimes they will do everything in their power to keep you on them such as threaten commitment (you are a threat to yourself or others) and force you into hospitalization. They wouldn’t know how to help you off with minimal transitional discomfort anyway. All they know is how to get you on the drug—it is intended that you stay on them for life so they really don’t know how to help you off.

Additionally, it is becoming more and more popular to deny other health services if you do not comply with “standards of care” and these days that is toxic drugs. Many people are being forced into psychiatric wards today if they refuse medication. The entire system is built to get you in it and kept there. It is not a curative model; it is a managed care, treatment for life model.

A life that is shortened an average of 25 years due to the toxic nature of psychiatric drugs!

You can avoid all these costs in health, time, money and loss of quality of life while enduring the long list of side effects and risking the well known psychotic and deadly ones which can result in suicide and murder simply by dismissing the idea of using a toxic drug to address your mental health issues and following the steps below to create a Green Mental Health Strategy that addresses your individual requirements to heal and enjoy excellent mental health.

There are no shortcuts; the laws of health are not negotiable. You must find the right health practitioner that is qualified to explore and discover the root cause of your symptoms and provide you proof in the way of diagnostics. You want the concrete evidence that justifies their evidence-based non-toxic, non-addictive and non-invasive treatment strategy.

And then you must follow that treatment strategy.

The very good news is that if you are not on psychiatric drugs you can many times completely avoid a health care practitioner by following the strategy I provide you in my FREE pamphlet: Green Mental Health Care: How to Get Off & Stay Off Psychiatric Drugs.

Click here to get your copy NOW

2010-04-30T22:38:00.001-07:00

Find out what toxins and everyday foods and products are causing your depression: http://ping.fm/fK0ja

2010-04-30T22:33:00.001-07:00

Neurotoxic effects of pesticides cause brain cell death, hyperactivity, inability to focus, learning disabilities, and even depression.

Genita Petralli: 2010 Recipient of the Prestigious Citizens Commission on Human Rights award

2010-04-27T15:47:00.000-07:00

Genita Petralli H.H.P., N.C., M.H., the Medical Director of Shangri La BioSpa & Green Mental Health Care Center, received the 2010 prestigious Citizens Commission on Human Rights award. This award is given only to a select few individuals each year.

Here is her speech from the awards ceremony held in Los Angeles, California on February 27, 2010:

It is with deep gratitude that I accept this award from CCHR - and I thank you for the countless lives you have saved through your passion and dedication to such a noble cause.

Not one of us should have to settle for what psychiatry is offering -- misinformation, false labels and lethal drugs which do nothing -- but destroy the body and mind.

Our children deserve better.

Our friends and family deserve better.

Humanity deserves better.

The unholy alliance between the pharmaceutical and psychiatric industries presents a
pseudo medical model that inflicts additive, chemical abuse on millions of innocent
victims under the guise of medicine.

Well isn't time we said, “ENOUGH” ?

Isn't it time we started demanding that our governments stop funding this
pseudoscience, this grim fairy tale called psychiatry?

Just examine their statistics -- billions of dollars in funding yet they have no cures, no successes. Only victims.

It is time for a new model of mental health care to emerge -- one with respect for the body and the mind and compassion for those in distress.

One that treats patients with respect and with dignity. One that has proven success,
one that actually cures. That model...is Green Mental Health Care.

We need to spread the word. There is a non -toxic, non-invasive and non-addictive
solution for mental health issues.

And we must -- all of us -- REFUSE to settle for less.

You are all healers and you are all heroes.

Thank you,

Genita Petralli H.H.P., N.C., M.H.,
Medical Director Shangri-La & Green Mental Health Care Center
2010 Recipient of Citizens Commission of Human Rights Award.
Author, Alcoholism, The Cause & The Cure (Foward by Dr. Abram Hoffer M.D)
& GreenMental Healthcare, How to get off & stay off Psychiatric Drugs.

What is Green Mental Health? Genita Petralli speaks about Green Mental Health Care

2010-01-19T12:42:00.000-08:00

The Time is NOW for a Green Mental Health Movement!

2010-01-04T19:26:00.000-08:00

Why a Green Mental Health Movement?

Because Green Mental HealthCare is the Medicine of the Future that Saves our Future!

If we don’t address the epidemic mental health issues suffered by all citizens of the world today, in a non-toxic, non-invasive and non-addictive way – a GREEN way, we are not going to be in the presence of mind and body to enjoy the planet that all the other very noble Green Movements are trying to save! In fact, practicing Green Mental Health strategies creates a full spectrum environmentalist of you because when you break it down and do what is right for an individual cell in your body (and brain), you are by default practicing every Green lifestyle that is necessary for saving the planet. We are fully integrated. The biosphere is an organism that requires the same non-toxic environment as your cells to thrive and I will explain how they tie together.

The crown of all Green initiatives should be Mental Health because it actually works out favorably in addressing each and every aspect of the poisoning and polluting of our earth and the animals inhabiting it that the other Green Movements focus on.

How? Well, first I have to explain what is causing today’s epidemic adverse mental health symptoms and then what a Green Mental Health strategy consists of to overcome them.

Today’s very toxic world is the number one cause of the epidemic mental health issues we are currently suffering. Everything is toxic today; our food, air, water, soil, home cleaning, personal hygiene, and now psychiatric “medicine” because the standard of care for these mental health issues is usually the most toxic chemical in our bodies resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths yearly –just in the US. Essentially everything we eat, breath and put on our bodies unless it is labeled organic is neurotoxic – meaning it damages and then kills brain and nervous system cells, therefore disabling healthy functions of the entire body and mind. Depending on your inherent chemical sensitivities, general lifestyle, dietary habits and health of your liver which is loaded down with the responsibility to attempt to detoxify these brain and nervous system damaging agents, your level of poisoning will adversely affect you resulting in each and every one of the symptoms psychiatrists are labeling as mental disorders such as anxiety, fatigue, bipolar, depression, schizophrenia, OCD, ADD/HD, social phobias and sadly the list goes on and gets larger every year as Big Pharma is always looking for a new way to market their toxic products in the disguise of medicine. In addition, many people do not know that food allergies can cause many of these symptoms and many times these food allergies are a direct result of the liver being sluggish from years of chemical abuse including psychiatric drugs!

The most important thing to learn in today’s world is that while yes, these neurotoxic poisons do damage the brain and nervous system which is causing the epidemic mental health crisis we are experiencing, they also damage every other critical organ and greater than 90% of the time it is the failing of one of these organs such as the adrenals, thyroid, liver, pancreas and stomach / intestines that is the root cause of the adverse mental symptoms people suffer today from depression and anxiety to bipolar and schizophrenia.

They are called neurotoxins because their particular chemical structure has an affinity for damaging the cellular structures of neurons – the cells of the brain and nervous system.

Neurotoxins cause mental health symptoms via two biochemical pathways: neurochemical adaptation commonly known as “addiction”, and oxidative stress.

Neurotoxins are addictive because in order for the brain to keep you alive it must make neurochemical changes to accommodate the presence of the drug. If it did not do this, you would fall over dead from either a heart attack, seizure or your lungs ceasing to breath. This neurochemical adaptation causes a REAL chemical imbalance as the brain must over and under produce various neurochemicals to keep you breathing in the presence of the neurotoxin/s. However, you must always remember, because Big Pharma is always trying to convince the public that they are symptomatic that THEY inherently have a chemical imbalance and this is simply untrue! You remove the toxins in your diet and environment and the symptoms go away.

Neurotoxins also damage and kill neurons because they cause seriously accelerated oxidative stress. Oxidative stress is also known as free radical damage. Both refer to how cells are damaged by an over abundance of oxidants in the body. Oxidants “steal” electrons from cells making them unstable. If there are not enough anti-oxidants in the system, they will cause a cascade reaction that causes first cellular death, then death of larger groups, or legions of tissues which will interfere with the functioning of the organ affected and then if not addressed appropriately, will kill the organism; you!

So, when the many neurotoxins in your diet, vaccines, and environment accumulate to the point of serving up mental health issues, why would you want to take a “medicine” that is really no more than a toxic drug that adds to the oxidative stress and then also at the same time “hides” the symptoms of the damage being done? Scary!

In addition, from the very first dose, psychiatric drugs begin damaging the mitochondria of your cells. The mitochondria is the energy production plant for the cell which uses carbohydrates to make energy for the cell to do what it is designed to do; repair and replicate. As the mitochondria becomes “sick” or sluggish, it is unable to create the energy that the cell requires to function and this results in the body (and brain – you can not separate them) going into toxic overload because the cell doesn’t have the energy to detoxify or get the waste out. When the mitochondria of cells become damaged there is no limit on what kind of disease or mental symptom can develop as each and every cell of the body relies on the mitochondria for healthy functioning. Mitochondrial damage results in “side effects” (which are really direct effects), and the plethora of diseases psychiatric drugs are linked to from diabetes to cancer. A large part of the reason that psychiatric drugs cause weight gain is due to the mitochondria’s progressive inability to properly convert carbohydrates and fats to energy.

It’s also important to note that it is not just the neurotoxins in our vaccines (mercury, aluminum), food (pesticides, MSG, Aspartame and hundreds of others), air, water, homes, schools, lawns and psychiatric drugs that are deteriorating the mental health of people but also the excessive caffeine and sugar which over stimulate the sympathetic nervous system causing anxiety, low blood sugar issues (hypoglycemia), insomnia, depression, and each and every one of the conditions mentioned throughout this article.

So, when faced with adverse mental health symptoms why not, instead of adding to the problem risking disease, death and certainly diminishing quality of life, why not take the toxin out?

Enter, Green Mental Health Care!

Green mental health care is non-toxic, non-addictive and non-invasive care of your mental health and it works!

Let’s face it; with the poisoning of the planet came the poisoning of the body and mind and we are suffering from the toxic chemicals that have been used to create and sustain toxic products (top of the list is food), methods of agriculture, vaccinations, industrial processes and increase shelf life, addict the person, and then medicate the person suffering from food and environmental toxicity with more toxicity disguised as medicine.

The Green Mental Health movement marks a shift from the reverence for nature that we lost during the industrial age which viewed the human body as a profit center and set out to manipulate the person to increase sales of its various products with no regard what so ever for he health of the consumer, toward a recognition for the critical value of an unadulterated, clean and wholesome planet that serves our health and wellbeing – particularly our mental health as that is where the symptoms are expressed when any critical organ of our body is suffering. People recognize when they have a cramp in their side that it is a muscle that is serving up the pain or gas, not their brain. But few people recognize that depression can be caused by low thyroid function; that anxiety can be caused by low adrenal function and that extreme mood swings can be caused by hypoglycemia or low blood sugar. The real mood swing fun is when someone is experiencing both low blood sugar symptoms and adrenal fatigue – low cortisol levels means you have a very low tolerance for any kind of stress: emotional, psychological or physical – add to that low blood sugar symptoms and you have guaranteed recipe for extreme mood swings. 99.5% of all mental health issues can be directly traced to a malfunctioning organ, typically of the neuroendocrine system – your pharmacist within.

So, beginning with a renewed reverence for the you’re body’s fundamental need to have a healthy relationship with the environment, meaning a clean, organic place to work, rich in all the raw materials (nutrients) it requires to function well, the first thing you must do to engage your Green Mental Health strategy is investigate all the foods, environmental and other toxic influences in your diet and lifestyle and one by one remove them! Now you’re going green and it is the greenest of all the green movements because it involves the whole person which directly has a positive impact on the whole planet!

This is more commonly known as detoxification. Nearly all of today’s mental health issues are a direct result of diet and lifestyle. And now more than ever because conventional foods are becoming more and more adulterated with chemicals that are neurotoxic inflicting damage of the brain and nervous system and are toxic in many other ways inflicting same damage on the rest of your critical organs.

Remember, as you read this article and all of your favorite products are mentioned as contributing to your mental health decline that there is no magic bullet. In fact, the drugs that are promoted as such are more like just bullets. Psychiatric drugs are directly related to each and every one of the symptoms they are supposed to treat, however the damage doesn’t end there. Like all other neurotoxins such as pesticides, insecticides, and aspartame they cause disease and death in a torturous, slow way unless the death is by suicide or the many murders committed by those on them. You can learn the hard way, or you can create your Green Mental Health strategy today and live your precious life in the full capacity you were born to live it fully present in mind and body!

The Standard Green Mental Health Strategy Starts with what to TAKE OUT of your body!

1. Food additives such as preservatives, colorings, Aspartame, MSG, hydrogenated fats, essentially all chemicals used in food processing. These products are excito-neurotoxins, and carcinogenic which over stimulate and poison you, causing everything from depression and anxiety to seizures, aneurisms and cancer. Over-stimulated and symptomatic people are suffering and toxic to the people in their immediate environment which has a domino effect. These chemicals are toxic to all living organisms they come in contact with.

2. All sugar substitutes except Stevia (adverse health effects are being reported by Xylitol users). NutraSweet, Equal, Aspartame are all excito/neurotoxins and are likely to be causing the lions share of todays many neurological degenerative diseases including mental health decline. Aspartame which is in the lion’s share of sugar substitutes is made by Monsanto. Monsanto products have destroyed more earth, human and other life than possibly any other company. Their products include chemical warfare agents (Agent Orange), industrial materials (PCBs), food additives (NutraSweet), agrochemicals such as extremely toxic pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and insecticides which are all neurotoxins, and of course they make the crown of the crown of neurotoxins, pharmaceuticals. Not only do you not want the disease causing and deathly effects of their products in your home, food and “medicine”, but through purchasing their products you are empowering their pharmaceutical wing to control and manipulate the FDA and Congress. It is pretty much accepted fact that Wall Street runs Congress now so we’ve got to run Wall Street and you do that every time you spend your money. It is questionable if your vote matters every four years these days. Make sure your vote matters by using your dollars to vote and purchase only products made from companies that are not destroying the planet and especially in the case of pharmaceutical companies using their wealth to control your medical choices and even take your freedoms away such as in the case of forced drugging! We put them in power by using their products, we can disempower them by discontinuing use of their products. In fact, they may be the only way we have left; it seems like just about everyone is paid off by them. And make no mistake; a big reason why your news is skewed in favor of their products is because they own the airwaves with their advertising dollars.

3. Alcohol simply because it has no place in a detoxification process or a mental health crisis. Once your symptoms are cleared, and only if you do not have a problem with it, you may enjoy it occasionally.

4. Tobacco. If you’re not ready to quit, switch to organic cigarettes such as American Spirits. Conventional cigarettes have over 500 other chemicals in them besides nicotine; the majority being neurotoxic. Please visit http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_chemicals_are_in_cigarettes and vist this link on smoking and mental health http://old.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact15.html The chemicals used in conventional cigarettes spread their toxicity every place a butt lands or the smoke reaches. Discontinuance of the rampant killer will help save your life and the life of the planet.

5. All caffeinated coffees and teas – including green tea. Caffeine, MSG and sugar substitutes are at the top of the list of the stimulants that are driving people crazy today robbing them of their peace of mind and everyone’s around them. Eliminating the toxic actions of those suffering these over stimulating, neurotoxic agents Greens up the community!

6. Sugars – all of them for at least two months – even the rich man’s diabetes causing products such as agave, honey, fructose powder, etc. After that period of time you can enjoy natural sweeteners such as organic agave, yucon, and honey. The sugar industry is yet another evil empire that is contributing to the lion’s share of today’s mental health problems. Creating healthy minds and body’s so our homes, communities and nation is not consumed with disease and death is Green!

7. Pesticides. These very harmful and neurotoxic products are found in your food, water, personal hygiene products and on their lawns. Do not for a second under estimate the neurotoxic effects of pesticides especially on children. They cause brain cell death and damage the nervous system causing hyperactivity, inability to focus, learning disabilities and even depression. They also damage the dopamine pathways in the brain which can cause low and high dopamine levels in the brain. Low dopamine is responsible the inability to focus and loss of coordination among many other neurological dysfunctions. High dopamine can cause obsessive and compulsive conditions and is also linked to schizophrenia. Discontinuance of conventional foods that are produced with the use of pesticides will reduce the demand for these foods thus the growing practices that produce them! There are vast wastelands in the farming areas of our nation due to these very neurotoxic and carcinogenic products which kills all life it comes in contact with from the crickets to the birds.

8. Use all organic lotions for the skin and face. All conventional skin care products contain many chemical that are both neurotoxic and carcinogenic. Transdermal (through the skin) exposure to these toxins are extremely potent in a damaging way to all organs of the body including the brain because they go directly into the blood stream gaining first pass exposure to all organs of the body before being neutralized by the liver. A very inexpensive method of nurturing the skin is using organic coconut oil with your favorite cold pressed oil / scent. The production of these toxins, the bottles they come in, and the toxins themselves bleed into our biosphere through many different avenues from the factory to the landfills they end up in.

9. Remove dairy and meat for one month to clear out old toxic saturated fats and provide a cleaner environment for detoxification. Conventional meats have a plethora of antibiotics, stimulant drugs, pharmaceuticals, and hormones in them of which many are neurotoxic. After that, consume only organic, pasture raised meats. The conventional animal for food industry is the most inhumane and one of the most toxic practices on earth today. Stop eating their products and put an end to animal suffering! If you are a carnivore, choose your meats from conscious organic farms that feed the animal what the animal was designed by nature to eat. Bugs and grass for chickens and grass for cows. Grains cause numerous diseases that the animal must suffer with including neurodegenerative conditions such as arthritis. And that is very painful especially when you consider the unnatural weight gain intended by the feed that they suffer. Also consider reducing your meat intake- you don’t need that much. There are plenty of other excellent protein sources to consider. Balance your choices when it comes to eating animals with reverence. Lack of reverence for nature and all forms of life is what got us into this toxic mess. Reverence is at the heart of all Green Movements.

10. Remove grains which have gluten in them and reduce your general grain consumption. Grains are “inefficient foods” which clog cells and induce inflammatory conditions. Clogging cells is not a good idea because it inhibits the detoxification process and that is not good in this unfortunately toxic world. Grain production for animal feed (whom are not intended to eat grain) and humans supports a labor intensive, resource depleting agricultural model that drains resources that could be better focused in other areas such as organic vegetable and fruit farming.

11. Discontinue eating Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO). These are food products that have been genetically modified via gene splicing and chemical alteration to produce their own pesticides and pharmaceuticals among other Frankenstein like goals. These pesticides are known to be neurotoxic; ergo, cause adverse mental health symptoms. Biotechnology led by Monsanto has literally opened Pandora’s Box and no-one knows what the end will look like but it certainly won’t be a healthy one. The body does not recognize GMO products as food and they are linked to birth defects and it is not hard to understand why. DNA transmutation is a fact of life on the planet. You are what you eat. These food products are so protected by news agencies held hostage by the companies that keep their lights on that people are effectively being kept in the dark regarding the extent of the dangers they present. Do begin your education you can start at www.seedsofdeception.com and www.safe-food.org. The repercussions of Monsanto’s and other Biotechnology companies scientists playing God in the laboratory could quite possibly cost us our planet – or the one we know and need to survive anyway. They are producing a new and heightened level of toxicity in food which are directly related to mental health issues. The FDA has claimed it was not aware of any information showing that GM crops were different “in any meaningful or uniform way,” from non-GMO crops and therefore didn’t require testing. But 44,000 internal FDA documents made public by a lawsuit show that this was a complete lie. The overwhelming consensus among the FDA’s own scientists was that GM foods were quite different and could lead to unpredictable and hard-to-detect allergens, toxins, new diseases and nutritional problems. It turns out that FDA scientists, who had urged superiors to require long-term studies, were ignored. See http://www.seedsofdeception.com/GMFree/GMODangers/FAQs/index.cfm. The production and use of GMO products is such an extreme act of terrorism upon human life and every single other life form including our planet that the positive impact on all living creatures through the discontinuance of the use of these products should be quite evident. In fact, stopping their production may be the single most important thing we must do to save the planet as we know it.

12. You must look at the ingredients of each and every box, bag, wrapper or can containing foods that you are considering eating. Look them up at the Environmental Worker’s Group website www.ewg.org and be sure they are not toxic in any way. There are over 40 different names for monosodium glutamate now. Even better, eliminate all processed foods from your diet. Food manufacturers and distributors have license NOT to put over 1,500 chemical and food additives they use on the label because they are considered GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) by the FDA. The FDA also allowed Viox which killed 60,000 people into the consumer market and Aspartame which has more complaints from anxiety and aneurisms to diabetes, seizures and heart palpitations than any other product ever approved for human consumption by the FDA. It has earned the crown in neurological symptoms complaints. A good place to begin your education on this chemical killer is http://www.321recipes.com/aspartame.html

The accumulative effects of these thousands of food toxins is devastating on every aspect of the life of the planet and the animals that inhabit it. I would have to write a mile long tome to explain the breadth and depth of the damage food chemicals have inflicted on our planet. These chemicals destroy life in and on the soil, water and wildlife in the air.

13. If you have a long commute to work, you can create a lot more Green time in your life by moving closer to work. This also eliminates the stress of the commute. This Green Mental Health practice reduces emissions and helps the CO2 reduction to stop global warming.

14. Purchase Green, non-toxic products for the home from environmentally conscious companies. This provides protection for you and your family from symptoms caused by the chemical assaults that are endured by the many, many neuro / excito and carcinogenic toxins found in carpets, paints, toys, plastics, and the thousands of other useless products people buy. It also redistributes the wealth in the country toward companies that are helping the planet away from people that are harming the planet.

15. Purchase only organic, non-toxic cleaners for the home and workplace. Also, encourage your local schools to do the same. The neurotoxins associated with conventional cleaners are linked to many mental health symptoms and even to causing asthma attacks. Please visit the Environmental Worker’s Group for more information and this particular link regarding our schools: http://www.ewg.org/schoolcleaningsupplies/overview. Reducing the demand for these chemicals helps to reduce the chemical exposure and waste the planet is suffering from.

16. Replace aluminum pans with stainless steel or titanium. Preventing your loved ones from developing diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s which is associated with aluminum deposits in the brain, ensures a happier home which creates happier communities.

17. There is thimerosal in vaccines and flu shots. Thimerosal is mercury. Heavy metal poisoning is a direct contributor to adverse mental health conditions such as anxiety, panic attacks, yeast infections which cause a plethora of mental health problems, depression, and even cancer. It is strongly advisable to be tested for heavy metal toxicity and then if tests are positive, find a health practitioner skilled at chelation therapy. Chelation therapy removes heavy metals from the system. There are transdermal, oral and intravenous methods with varying treatment options within each modality. It is best to find and work with a knowledgeable health care provider to be sure it is done correctly and the metals are removed. Post treatment testing should be used to confirm success. Heavy metal contamination from our industrial waste and manufactured products is a major contributor to the death of ocean and all other forms of life.

18. Do your best to eliminate the use of Styrofoam, aluminum and plastics. There are numerous toxins that bleed into your food from these products which contributes to the toxic overload in the body that is causing the mental health epidemic of today. Reducing the demand for these products saves the earth’s resources and reduces the toxic overflow into our water, soil and air.

Of course this only serves as the tip of the iceberg in exposing the true impact in how your Green Mental Health strategy will save the planet, but it should be enough to make the simple point; that through saving your mental health you are saving the planet and all other living beings!

Now that you have taken the bad stuff out, here’s what you put in:

The pillars of excellent health:

1. Organic whole foods: you absolutely must stay away from conventional meats from animals raised on antibiotics, hormones, stimulants, pesticide drenched feed, etc. These products were no good for the animal and are just as bad for you, even worse because you are getting the stronger doses in their fats. The farms that raise these animals are corporations that have absolutely no value for their lives or yours. Animals are tortured by what the food and conditions do to them and your health will be compromised as a result. Meat from sick and tortured animals can only make you sick and tortured by the symptoms their meat creates.

2. Clean, filtered water

3. Sunshine

4. Adequate sleep

5. Exercise – due to the unfortunate decay of our biosphere and the toxicity inflicting it, it is absolutely necessary to detox every day. It is advisable to exercise six days a week and on your off day take a sauna.

Basic Nutritional Therapy:

1. An organic whole food based vitamin / mineral supplement

2. 3 to 5 grams of Vitamin C daily

3. 400 mg. of CoQ10

4. Cod Liver Oil

Some treatments to consider:

1. Alkalizing your body. Yeast, cancer and colds prefer acidic systems and most people today are acidic. Many mental health symptoms are caused or aggravated by acidic pH.

2. Chelation Therapy. Removing heavy metals from the body. Toxic levels mercury, lead and aluminum are linked to many mental health issues today. Amalgam (silver) fillings and vaccinations are the two most potent contributors of heavy metal toxicity and the symptoms that go along with them. It is also wise to consider getting the amalgam fillings removed and replaced with zirconium. I say advise zirconium because composites have a mixture of less, but still toxic metals in them.

3. Yoga, meditation, Tai Chi, Qi Qong and focused spiritual practice are all promoters of good mental health and are proven to reduce stress.

4. Infrared Sauna. Has clinically demonstrated improve mood, kill bacteria, yeast and fungus; move water through the cells better than standard saunas and reduce inflammation. Being more efficient at moving water through the cells.

5. More recreation and socialization and less TV! Excessive television promotes sedentary and isolated lives. Very unhealthy for your mind and your body.

All of the above addresses the physical body which directly affects your mental health. However, you must also remove toxic people, relationships, situations, and work environments which also have a negative impact on your physical body which adversely affects bio/neurochemistry; ergo, your mental health.

Stress causes oxidative stress which harms all your critical organs and weakens the immune system. If you are experiencing any kind of chronic stress you must identify its origin and then create a plan to migrate out of it. If you feel you require counseling or guidance an excellent place to start is reading the first two free chapters of “Integral Life Practice” offered at http://www.integral-life-practice.com. It is what we use at my clinic and it has provided the best results I have witnessed in helping people practice those systems that create quality lives.

In conclusion, the majority of today’s epidemic mental health symptoms are caused by the cumulative effects of the products below and the damage that they do to all critical organs of the body including your brain!

1. Psychiatric drugs

2. Sugar substitutes (Aspartame, NutraSweet, Splenda, Equal, etc.)

3. Excess caffeine

4. Food chemicals

5. Excess natural and processed sugars

6. Drug and alcohol addiction

7. Tobacco

8. Chronic use of over the counter “medicines”.

9. Pesticides on foods

10. Excess conventional dairy and grains

11. Excess toxic saturated fats found in animal meats

12. Reduced nutritional value of conventional produce

13. Processed foods

14. Lawn and Garden pesticides, insecticides and herbicides

15. Home cleaning chemicals

16. Body lotions, deodorants, and other neurotoxic products such as Mr. Bubble

17. Industrial pollution

18. Genetically modified foods

19. Heavy Metals such as mercury, lead and aluminum (main sources are vaccinations and amalgam (silver fillings).

If you are presently suffering any mental health issue today and you take the information in this article to heart and use it to formulate your own Green Mental Health strategy, I guarantee you, unless you have a genetic abnormality causing your mental health issues which is estimated to be less than one percent of the symptomatic population, you will overcome your symptoms and enjoy peace of mind, joy, inspiration, higher consciousness and will be better equipped to quickly and healthfully get through life’s natural disasters such as loss of a loved one; even the IRS knocking at your door! You will enjoy all the blessings that come with enhanced health and will be making a dramatic difference toward the positive change needed to save this planet and every living creature on it!

I like to think of human consciousness as the collective consciousness of the planet. We are fully integrated with all living beings and our planet. If our planet is suffering, so will we and that suffering will be reported by our consciousness or what we call our mental health. We must practice Green Mental Health in order to save our minds, our bodies and our planet.

Your brain is only reporting the bad news that your BODY is suffering…

Don’t Kill the Messenger with Psych Drugs!

Shine!

Genita Petralli Lic: H.H.P., N.C., M.H.
Medical Director, Shangri La BioSpa & Green Mental Health Center
Legal / Illegal Drug & Alcohol Orthomolecular Neurochemical Rehabilitation
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How To Get Off & Stay Off Psychiatric Drugs - Green Mental Health Care

2009-10-22T16:11:00.000-07:00

How to Get Off Psychiatric Drugs

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Important! You absolutely must work with a licensed and fully educated (in the areas I discuss below) health care practitioner to safely and sanely get off psychiatric drugs. They are toxic poisons that have skewed every normal, healthy biochemical process in your body and attempting to get off of them without caring, clinical supervision can present potential physical, psychological, and emotional harm to you and / or anyone around you.
One very criminal exchange between those on psychiatric drugs and their addiction enabling “doctors” is when they have tried to get off of them without the expert care of someone that actually knows how the body and mind works and knows how to help them do it correctly, as they begin to suffer the horrific symptoms of withdrawal and share their experiences with their “doctor” in hopes for help, the “doctor” will tell them that the symptoms they are suffering are proof that they are “sick” and need the drug. Nothing can be further from the truth! This is like telling someone detoxing from heroin or cocaine that their withdrawal symptoms are proof that they need the drug! Any time you detox from a drug you are going to experience withdrawal symptoms if you are not doing it with the support of a knowledgeable practitioner. You are not sick in the mind. Withdrawal symptoms are a product of the phase in-between the drug leaving the cells thus reducing the synthetic pharmacological effects they had on the body and mind and the body and mind responding with its own natural drugs in the form of neurotransmitters and hormones. This is why it is supremely important to supply the cells (body and mind) with all the raw precursors and the right environment for the body and mind to make its own natural drugs so that you may quickly experience the natural high- the product of Green Mental Health Care!

First Goal: Detoxification and Stabilization with Minimal Withdrawal (transitional discomfort)
First, find a Functional Medicine Practitioner that is formally trained in Orthomolecular Neurochemical Rehabilitation (ONR). ONR is what practitioners like Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D., Dr. Joan Mathews-Larson and myself practice. The science of ONR brings together clinically assisted detoxification, Targeted Nutritional Therapy (TNT), very helpful adjuvant services such as Integral Life Practice / Recovery, Acupuncture, Infra Red Sauna, Lymph Drainage Massage, Chelation Therapy, Cranial Sacral Massage, EFT, Cranial Electrical Stimulation, and the practice of Environmental Hygiene through identifying and eliminating all sources of neuro and other toxic influence in the person’s food, drink, personal hygiene, home, work environment etc. All things that influence your cellular function must be explored and corrected in order to achieve true healing and sustainable mental health. The more you eliminate oxidative stress (free radical damage) to the brain and other critical organs charged with the care of your mental health, the better and faster you will heal.
To pull ALL environmental influences together on all levels of your psychological, emotional and physical being-ness together and align them with your personal goals of health and beyond I personally employ the Integral Recovery & Life Practice counseling which will first focus on Integral Recovery and then apply the health and abilities you achieve as you heal into a Integrated Practice of excellent lifestyle skills that are there only to function as enablers of your highest vision that you create for yourself. For further review of this extremely effective coaching therapy that brings all areas of your life together and in alignment with what you want out of life, please see www.integralrecovery.com and Ken Wilber’s www.integrallife.com.
ONR requires a deep understanding of Functional Nutrition, neurochemistry and the neuroendocrine system. It is the network of endocrine glands and how they are able or not able to respond to the messages of the nervous system and the functional chemistry of the brain (primarily influenced by the feedback system of the neuroendocrine system) that is the home of the root cause of all ill mental health symptoms except for genetic abnormalities which represent less than 1% of mental health issues. A genetic link would be one which demonstrates that DNA damage exists and that has even been proven to be helped if not corrected with ONR treatment. Even those mental health symptoms that arise from DNA abnormalities will express themselves through the neuroendocrine system which provides a roadmap right to the root of the problem. The science that has established that the environment of the cell is far more predictive of the cell’s health or dis-ease than the gene is called “epigenetics”. Epigenetics has proven that your genes do not control your destiny nor the health or absence of it that you experience along the way. So that means there is a Green Mental Health Care solution for 99% of you and hope for increased quality of life and possible resolution of symptoms through Green Mental Health Care for the other 1%.
Remember, this is a life or death decision many times because if you choose the wrong practitioner, and that would be one that is minimally qualified or one that practices nutrition but has little understanding of nutrition applied to neurochemistry and the neuroendocrine system, you won’t achieve the sustainable mental health you seek and more dangerous, you may lose hope.
By the time you are done reading this book, you will know all the right questions to ask. If the practitioner you are interviewing can not answer them with confidence and the answers do not resonate with you, move on. Also, if they try and move you into another direction, that means they are not qualified in this field but still want your business so they will try and talk you into their treatments based on their limited understanding of Functional Medicine applied to Orthomolecular Neurochemical Rehabilitation.

Definitions of the Qualifications You are Seeking in a Practitioner:

Functional Medicine: (as described at www.FunctionalMedicine.org).
Functional medicine is personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of symptoms for serious chronic disease. It is a science-based field of health care that is grounded in the following principles:
• Biochemical individuality describes the importance of individual variations in metabolic function that derive from genetic and environmental differences among individuals.
• Patient-centered medicine emphasizes "patient care" rather than "disease care," following Sir William Osler’s admonition that "It is more important to know what patient has the disease than to know what disease the patient has."
• Dynamic balance of internal and external factors.
• Web-like interconnections of physiological factors – an abundance of research now supports the view that the human body functions as an orchestrated network of interconnected systems, rather than individual systems functioning autonomously and without effect on each other. For example, we now know that immunological dysfunctions can promote cardiovascular disease, that dietary imbalances can cause hormonal disturbances, and that environmental exposures can precipitate neurologic syndromes such as Parkinson’s disease. (all of which can create mental health disorders).
• Health as a positive vitality – not merely the absence of disease.
• Promotion of organ reserve as the means to enhance health span.

Orthomolecular Medicine: As conceptualized by double Nobel Prize Winner (Chemistry and Peace), Linus Pauling (scientist), “aims to restore the optimum ecological environment for the body's cells by correcting imbalances or deficiencies on the molecular level, based on individual biochemistry, using natural substances such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, hormones and essential fatty acids."
Any thing that influences the cell and promotes healthy cellular function is Orthomolecular Medicine. However, you must start with the biology of the individual. Correcting biochemistry makes the “soil rich” for mind / body / energy therapies. Acupuncture, EFT, HeartMath, NLF, Cranial Sacral Massage, Chiropractic, skillful and gifted talk therapy (such as that offered by the Integral Institute), counseling, etc. are all very helpful adjuvant therapies that engage and assist the healing process, however, if the body is poisoned and the biochemistry can not sustain healthy cellular functions you will not be able to receive the therapy well and it will not be able to initiate and sustain redirecting the flow of bioenergetics in order to align the cell to the subliminal laws of health and that is harmony with its environment. It is very difficult to penetrate an inflamed, clogged cell to correct its internal functions and it is also impossible to bring a cell to life that has no food in its environment to draw from to operate its internal machinery. You must also bring the cell into “growth” mode and that is the state of functionality that is able to use its nutritional stores for repair and replication rather than metabolizing toxins which puts an enormous energetic and nutritional tax on the body so thorough detoxification is fundamental to any healing event. Bringing a cell to growth mode also involves a stress free environment as the cell can not be in growth and protection mode at the same time. Just as your body’s energy focus (where it applies its energetic and nutritive abilities) is pulled away from digestion and nurturing the body when you are running from a tiger, the cell does the exact same thing on the microcosmic level. With no digestion, there can be no repair and replication, and without repair and replication there can be no healing.
ALL things that influence the cell in a way that assists its inherent wisdom to thrive; that is repair and replicate, is Orthomolecular Medicine, right down to how good that hug feels from your kid. Because there are so many “vehicles” of delivery (treatments) in Orthomolecular Medicine, diagnostics is extremely important. Your practitioner must be very skilled and knowledgeable in how the neuroendocrine functions in order to expedite the process of discovering what is wrong and then be able to uncover and treat the biochemical pathway/s that are deficient or “broken”.
So Orthomolecular Medicine is Functional Medicine, however, you should be working with someone that is adept at exploring and exposing the root cause of your symptoms in the neuroendocrine system. Your practitioner should also know how the elements of nature (nutrition) will affect your condition and which ones are the most appropriate, ergo, the most effective for correcting the cellular dysfunction that is creating the bio / neurochemical dysfunctions producing your symptoms. Targeted Nutritional Therapy is a science. It is not achieved by someone sitting across the table from you taking down your symptoms and then prescribing. That is no more accurate than a psychiatrist doing the same just with toxic drugs. The only difference is, is that nutritional supplements won’t harm, cause disease or kill you but you are still wasting your money and time. Targeted Nutritional Therapy can only be achieved through rigorous laboratory testing and thorough exploration of your environmental influences- your lifestyle. You also want a practitioner that can orchestrate a targeted protocol utilizing the best of mind / body / energy healing techniques for your condition. One very important aspect of mind / body / energy healing is that since it involves the more subliminal energies of your being-ness it will certainly involve your belief system so that should absolutely be considered in selecting the right adjuvant therapies for you. If you believe swinging a sock full of dog dung will help you, you should be given the opportunity to swing dog dung over your head as many times a day as you feel is necessary. If it doesn’t work, you will move on without feeling like you are being cheated of something you believe will help you. If it does help, great, let me know so I can add it to my repertoire of suggestions with my patients! I’m sure the comedy of the moment will be an adjuvant therapy in itself!
You want your practitioner educated, skilled, and gifted in environment toxicities and their impact on cellular function (such as toxicologists Doris Rapp, M.D. I also suggest reading her book Our Toxic World), biochemistry, neurochemistry, molecular biology, nutritional neurochemistry (what the cells need to perform various functions). You want your practitioner to have a track record of proficiency in successfully getting people off of drugs AND achieving Green Mental Health. What is also extremely important is that this practitioner not only listens to you but respects you and your body! Ideally, you want to work with a practitioner that is passionate about their work.
Remember, you want their qualifications in bio and neurochemistry to be focused on the functionality of the neuroendocrine system since that is what you are going to be fixing- your pharmacist within. Your internal pharmacy relies on your general biochemistry to deliver the raw materials your brain (remember, your brain is a full body entity with its crown on the top of your shoulders) needs to produce the neurochemicals that make you feel good. And all of this is dependent on the cells of your body having the right amounts of amino acids, minerals, vitamins, and essential fatty acids to work with and the right “energy” (chemically and energetically (stress) toxic free) in their environment to assist and manage the processes of health and well being. When your cells are able to repair and replicate they are happy; they are in harmonic resonance with their environment and because their needs for survival are being fulfilled you feel at peace and happy- there is an innate wisdom built into your cells that is focused on survival- this is why wounds heal without your intervention- thank God- we wouldn’t know the first thing to do if we had to heal our own wounds mindfully- and remember that the next time you go to your doctor’s office. How much do we really know about the human body and mind? Not much- so it is best to stick with, assist and respect the relationship it has developed with its environment over three million years to survive. Our utter ignorance is highlighted in conventional medicine’s notion that it can control it with drugs. This notion is a big contributor to iatrogenic illness (death by medical treatment or procedures- including drugs) being the number one cause of death in the United States.
Essentially, you want Jane or Tarzan of the microcosmic bio/neurochemical jungle working for you; someone that knows how to navigate the fascinating world of those 60 trillion cells that are there simply to help you express the authentic you and enjoy the macrocosmic world you live in.

Neurochemical: (from Wikipedia) A neurochemical is an organic molecule, such as serotonin, dopamine, or nerve growth factor, that participates in neural activity. The science of neurochemistry studies the functions of neurochemicals.
Neurochemicals are found throughout the body as they pertain to nerve cells. The bulk of neurochemicals are found in the brain which presents the perception that neurochemical deficiencies are “mental” conditions when in fact they are products of deficient functions of the body and the brain and are most of the time created by toxicity, stress (over stimulated environment), and malnutrition. Do not be fooled by a full stomach. If you are not getting the nutrition your body and brain needs, you will suffer symptoms of malnutrition psychosis of which include many of the popular DSM “conditions”. (the DSM is psychiatry’s bible of get rich quick schemes they call the Diagnostic Statistical Manual).

Rehabilitation: to restore to an ideal functional state which is always the one determined by nature.

Orthomolecular Neurochemical Rehabilitation: The application of Functional Medicine (nutrition, mind/body/energy healing, and environmental factors) to restore the health of the brain and neuroendocrine functions through clinically assisted detoxification, Targeted Nutritional Therapy (TNT), and creating an environment for the cells to heal which naturally corrects bio / neurochemistry.
All things that influence cellular development and function must be considered in a fully comprehensive treatment program based on the individual’s personal biochemistry, environment, and lifestyle.
Stopping the toxic, destructive damage being done to the body and mind and providing a nutritive, non toxic environment (this includes people, things and places), restores healthy bio and neurochemical functions which by default heals mental symptoms.

Your Treatment Strategy Should Follow This Process

Your treatment strategy should be comprehensive, meaning, it does not stop at detox; it must also include healing those biosystems that were causing the initial symptoms that led you to the psychiatrist’s office. A comprehensive strategy includes three phases: detox, biorepair, and maintenance.

Phase One: DETOX

The first 6 weeks involves two practices:
1. Clinically assisted detoxification involving supportive supplements for the liver, lymph, and GI.
2. Provision of nutritional supplements to mimic the drug/s you are detoxing from and to help re-establish naturally healthy neurochemistry.
You can augment your detoxification by including these practices in your 6 week program:
• Exercise. You absolutely must exercise to oxygenate the system, clean out the system, and promote healthy cellular activity. It also helps tremendously toward better sleep and reduces withdrawal symptoms considerably.
• Infrared Sauna
• Colon Hydrotherapy
• IV Nutritional Support such as Glutathione, vitamin C, and neuroendocrine supportive nutrients.
• Lymph Drainage Massage
• Chelation Therapy (heavy metal removal).

Week One

Detoxification: The proper way to detox is a long one. I suggest six weeks of the cleansing detox diet with a minimum two day and highly recommended three to five day fast at the end. No caffeine, sugar, diary, processed foods or meats should be taken in; only whole, organic foods. Just in case you don’t know or forgot what those are, they are vegetables, fruit (no more than two pieces daily), nuts, seeds, beans / legumes, gluten free grains (Quinoa is best- it is a seed yet passes as a grain on the plate), protein (NOT SOY) burgers. Lots of vegetable juicing is also highly recommended especially at the beginning of the detox.
A note on raw foods: Many people seeking enhanced health on their road to freedom from psych drugs and the mental issues that landed them on them fall into the Raw Food movement. This is NOT RECOMMENDED. As a nutritional biochemist I can guarantee you as it is clinically and scientifically proven that you receive 30 to 40% less nutrition from raw foods and that is not a good diet in a world that is so nutritionally demanding, (metabolizing toxins and managing stress) especially when you are in a “healing event” needing all the nutrition you can get from natural sources to break free from drugs and the symptoms they masked. Nutrition (food) is your medicine- get all of it in the most dense amounts per bite you possibly can!
Your practitioner should know the pharmacology of the drug/s you are on and how to nutritionally expedite not only the detox for that specific drug/s but how to support the brain chemistry in achieving natural neurochemical balance (homeostasis) while detoxing from the drug/s which employs combinations of orthomolecular amounts of nutritional supplements that will “mimic” the drug/s neuropharmacological properties.
In approaching your detox in this manner you will minimize and many times nearly or entirely avoid any transitional discomfort (withdrawal).
PLEASE NOTE: Your detoxification involves a six week cleansing period which eliminates all processed sugars, all the sugar substitutes (forever), the rich man’s diabetes in the forms of agave, yucon, and honey (small amounts of these can be used after the cleanse) caffeine, processed foods, meats, pesticides (organic food only- please see the pesticides section of this book regarding the damage they cause to the brain, nervous system and other critical organs).
Organic vegetable juicing is highly recommended. This would not be a fruit juice detox or fast! Besides making my skin curl at the nonsensical premise of this practice, fruit juice detoxing and fasting causes multiple problems during and after the detox. Many people have multiple conditions such as yeast infections (Candida), hypoglycemia or poor blood sugar management issues (most everyone on psych drugs), low adrenal and thyroid function etc. that will be given a chance to literally take off on them during a fruit juice fast! Fruit juice fasting is not recommended at any time for any reason. It throws the pH balance of the body off and opens multiple opportunities for add on health issues. Juice fasting is a sugar junkie’s (sugar is the gateway drug) paradise. It has no place in a healing event.

Week Two

Approximately five to seven days after beginning your detox diet you can start tapering per your practitioner’s advice. Starting one week after you begin your detox diet serves two purposes:
One, as your cells clean out and become unclogged, you will get a much bigger bang per milligram of your drug so reducing your drug intake is easy because your response to the drug will be far more enhanced, giving you the same effect with less.
Two, the “load time” (time it takes to start feeling / getting a neurochemical effect from your nutritional supplementation) of the supplements you are taking will have had time to begin creating the healthy changes in your bio and neurochemistry.
Remember, you are also giving the cell what it needs to function correctly now so when the drug disappears the cellular function will be prepared to provide you that sense of well-being you are seeking in mind and body. Not doing this is one of the biggest reasons people fail and psych drug detox is so difficult. Not only are they not doing everything possible to abate withdrawal symptoms but the very same dietary and other lifestyle deficiencies that likely got them in trouble in the first place are not corrected. Now they are suffering both psych drug detox withdrawal and the mental symptoms that brought them to the psychiatrist’s office. There is another level of consideration that many do not address in their detox strategy and that is the symptoms from the damage to the brain and other critical organs the drugs caused! Do not despair, they can be corrected- at least in all the cases I have supervised, including Tardive Dyskinesia; but you do have to have your practitioner specifically address them in your Targeted Nutritional Therapy.

Week 7

By this time you should be cleared of your psych drugs and withdrawal issues such as the initial fatigue (the body and mind do need rest after such assault and will ask for it for the first couple of weeks of your detox). In fact, by now you should be drug free, feeling great and on top of the world!
Providing you have been entirely off of your psych drugs for a minimum of two weeks and are a minimum of 6 weeks into your cleanse and detox, you should fast for a minimum of two days and a recommended three to five days. There are many different ways to fast responsibly. I am a fan of providing the organs the minimum in nutrients to function in order to continue to metabolize and remove toxins efficiently. This “seals the deal” so to speak. Not only is it a great insurance policy in getting all residues of the drugs out but it also does a great job at “retuning” the cell’s bioenergetics (as they can carry functional memory from the drugs for a while) and awakening the physician within which gets the body and mind functioning at its best and believe me, you will feel it!
For one week after the fast- and this is extremely important; this is where all your hard work pays off toward maintaining and building on the health you have achieved during your neurochemical assisted cleanse, you will eat like you expect to eat as a general lifestyle maintaining the healthy choices of all organic, whole foods. You may re-introduce dairy and meats if you like, however, they should be purchased from organic, free range sources to avoid the pesticides, hormones, drugs, and antibiotics the unfortunate animals are being poisoned with.
Continue to exclude all processed sugars, foods, and stimulants (coffee and tea). Regarding the sugars, this includes the Rich Man’s Diabetes sugars such as agave, honey, yucon, etc. They are much better for you than processed sugars, however, you are in a healing event and they will continue to tax the neuroendocrine system, aggravate and even help to cause withdrawal symptoms, all of which will hold your progress back. And even the “better for you sugars” will cause diabetes if over consumed.
Be sure to eat only organic foods void of GMOs and pesticides during this week as they are neuro-excitatory (stimulate the sympathetic nervous system) and will skew your test results.
Do not take any nutritional supplements or drink protein shakes during the week prior to your tests!
On the 7th day, have your practitioner run your neuroendocrine functional tests. This should include comprehensive testing of the thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, adrenals, hormonal status, pineal, pituitary, hypothalamus, and brain chemistry factors such as serotonin, beta-endorphin, GABA, dopamine, norepinephrine, glutamate, and epinephrine at minimum. A sampling of the tests I run and of course suggest are at the end of this section.
This is a beautiful time in your road to recovery as not only are you feeling really good at this point but your practitioner will have the opportunity to collect a true “baseline” picture of how you function under the hood on a healthy diet (which you should be practicing for a lifetime). This provides concrete evidence as to what you need in your Targeted Nutritional Therapy following your detox to correct any biochemical dysfunctions still needing assistance to heal from likely a lifetime of varying abuse to the body. Healing the organs of the neuroendocrine system through focus on correcting cellular function is how you establish the biochemistry that supports the neurochemical changes you need to make for the excellent mental health you seek. This is how sustainable Green Mental Health is achieved. Sustainable meaning that your body and mind relies on its own natural resources to function in the way it was designed to which produces excellent mental health, naturally. This is the only way that mental health that expresses the authentic you can be achieved.
NOTE: Do not even consider taking a neuroendocrine functional test such as brain chemistry or any measures of any other organ of that system if you are currently ingesting pesticides, GMOs, caffeine, processed foods, sugars (rich and poor man’s), hormone riddled meats etc. The test results are useless for a Green Mental Health Care practitioner. All of the mentioned chemicals are not only cause of symptoms but they skew test results which will misinform your practitioner. A person with low serotonin will likely test okay in their serotonin levels if they just had a candy bar and cup of coffee- not 90 minutes later of course. The point is, you want your practitioner to be provided with evidence of your actual deficiencies / excesses in bio/neurochemical functions so he/she can identify the areas of the neuroendocrine system causing your mental health disorders and provide a truly “targeted” healing and nutritional protocol for you to recover and enjoy naturally great mental health. It is mandatory that you are off all chemicals for this testing in order to get to the root cause of your symptoms!

Laboratory Tests for Mental Health “Disorders”

• Functional measures for thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pancreatic, pituitary, hypothalamus, and pineal glands.
• Brain Chemistry, serotonin, norepinephrine, epinephrine, GABA, dopamine, beta-endorphin, glutamate, acetylcholine, anandamide, adenosine neurotransmitter metabolites
• Oxidative Stress
• Amino Acids
• Vitamins / Minerals
• Essential Fatty Acids
• Toxic and Nutrient Elements
• GI Dysfunctions / Functional Imbalance
• Liver Detoxification Dysfunction / Toxic Exposure
• Methylation
• Allergies
• Histamine
• Kreb’s Cycle
• Pyroluria (B6 & Zinc deficiency common in addictive biochemistry and mental health issues.
• Disease Risk
• Toxic Exposures (heavy metals)
• Complete Blood Count (CBC) – kidney, immune, metabolic, thyroid, liver profiles (static measures)
• Mitochondrial Dysfunction (fatigue and metabolism issues)
• Malabsorption and Dysbiosis Markers
• Bacterial Dysbiosis Markers
• Cellular Energy
• Organic Acids / Cofactors
• Fatty Acid metabolism
• Inflammation / Eicosanoid Precursors
• Membrane fluidity

Phase Two: BioRepair

Bio-Repair: For typically six to nine months after the cleansing / detox period you should remain on the Targeted Nutritional Therapy (TNT) provided by your practitioner to heal and retrain the neuroendocrine system. The good news is, is that you can develop new tissue for the brain, liver etc. All organs renew themselves when provided the nutritive and stress free environment to do so.
You will be symptom free for the entirety of the six to nine months while in your biorepair phase TNT, however, do not be fooled. To really heal your condition (if it was suffered long and you were on drugs for an extended period of time) you must remain on a focused healing regiment to truly re-establish sustainable good health and truly heal the body and mind.
When six months have elapsed, if you want to do a follow up with your practitioner, make an appt. for another battery of testing to establish your maintenance phase TNT which will be dramatically reduced and should resemble that of any health conscious person’s nutritional supplemental protocol, however, yours will be justified with the evidence of your individual biochemical requirements responding to your lifestyle and environment, not guesswork. Be sure to spend at least two weeks completely free of pesticides, sugars, and caffeine (which you should have continued to avoid for your BioRepair phase) before testing. Also, be sure not to take any nutritional supplements for one week prior to testing.

Phase Three: Maintenance

Maintenance: Typically 6 months to a year following a Bio-Repair TNT and adjuvant therapy program to heal the organs of the neuroendocrine system and the biochemical communications between them (correcting the brain neurochemistry naturally), I strongly suggest retesting before changing your TNT. However, if you really can’t afford it, the basics I take to maintain excellent health and fight the good fight of oxidative stress (free radical damage- cell death) verses “growth”; repair and replication is:
Since “As above, so below” is true, there really is no such thing as a difference between our subliminal and dense existences, but to categorize by our sense of 3D perception:
Nutritional (dense energy)
• Double to triple suggested dose of a food based organic vitamin / mineral multiple vitamin supplement.
• Cod Liver Oil
• 3 to 5 grams vitamin C
• 400 mg CoQ10
• Daily Organic Whey Protein Shake
• At least an hour of sun every day
• I drink plenty of water and herbal teas daily
• Eat organic produce / nuts / seeds / and use Quinoa instead of grains for the most part and eat gluten free grains when I do eat grain.
• Make my own bread from Quinoa, pumpkin and sunflower seeds
• Make my own protein burgers with no sugars, dairy or soy. (hard to find in stores)
• Since I am an Ovo-Pescatarian, I eat only fresh eggs from chickens that eat grass and bugs (no chicken feed- some ethical farmers will give them corn with minerals added because even they need supplemental help!), and wild fish (nothing from fish farms!) that are low on the mercury toxicity chart http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1521 - http://www.epa.gov/hg/advisories.htm
• Chelate once a year (just too much heavy metal toxicity in the environment not to)
Environmental (subliminal energy)
• Exercise every day (cleanses the body)
• Meditate daily (cleanses the mind and helps me connect with the higher self)
• Practice Tai Chi daily – it’s fun
• I cut away special time for my family and friends religiously every week for huge blocks of time.
• I am a political, medical, and environmental activist which not only helps change the world for the better but extends my social circles in a positive way. It also helps me to feel better about the cold truth that humanity is being poisoned to death – that CHILDREN are being forced on drugs and society as a whole is not up in arms about this. These poor kids are literally living in a twilight zone being robbed of their childhood and chemically ushered into a psychologically numbing cloud of alienation to the environment around them. Being part of the solution that has to one day stop this victimization of innocent people helps me maintain hope for our future and hope is good orthomolecular medicine!
Made a career out of my spiritual, medical, environmental, and political passion to create a better relationship between humans and nature so that we may both survive and enjoy each other in the process. We absolutely must align and live in harmony with nature to survive and be healthy. The number one reason for our health issues, both mental and physical is that we have denatured ourselves and cut off the natural communication systems between ourselves and what sustains us- our environment. So I get a lot of joy from what I do and great feedback from my environment. Side note: if you ever want to cause cancer in a living tissue- simply cut off communication between the cells. Think about it.
My physical, spiritual, medical, environmental, and family/community/global values and activities are all aligned with my fundamental belief system. It’s very important that your activities are aligned with your belief system and desires.

Genita Petralli H.H.P., N.C., M.H.

Medical Director, Shangri La BioSpa & Addiction Clinic
FindPeace@ShangriLaBioSpa.com ~ www.ShangriLaBioSpaCostaRica.com
United States 831.440.8686 ~ Costa Rica 506.8313.0512
"Physicians pour drugs of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less, into humans of whom they know nothing." Voltaire (1694-1778)

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Download This Free Pamphlet

Green Mental Health Care

How to Get Off & Stay Off Psychiatric Drugs

Staying Sane in a Toxic World

Attached is the Free Pamphlet of excerpts from my book Green Mental Health Care ~ How to Get Off & Stay Off Psychiatric Drugs (if it is not attached, you can download it at http://www.shangrilabiospa.com/) I have included in this pamphlet probably the most important message of the book – the chapter How to Get Off & Stay Off Psychiatric Drugs – so if you know anyone that needs help, they need to read this pamphlet.

Also, if you email the free pamphlet to at least 10 other people I will send you an eBook of the full paperback and you can let them know I will do the same for them. Copy FindPeace@GreenBodyandMind.com when you forward it and I will have an eBook of the full paperback sent to you. I want this pamphlet to spread – to both help people get well and to help encourage them to get active in letting their congressmen/women know they want non-toxic solutions to our Mental Health issues today. Their email addresses will not be used for anything except verification that you sent them the pamphlet – promise!

I hope to one day live in a world where no child is victimized by drugs. Where no one is ever force drugged or their human and constitutional rights are not withheld to coerce them into taking them. Where people are safe from drugs and the people who prescribe and make them.

A world where Green Mental Health Care is the First Strategy in our public and private Mental Health Care medical services.

I hope to one day live in a world where medical care is patient outcome driven and not profit driven. A world where the cures already known are provided and not hidden to propagate a medical model based on treatment for life. I hope to live in a world where this very, very ugly side of humanity is buried deep in our history books and humanity is allowed to flourish to its full potential.

Shine brothers and sisters, shine!

Genita Petralli H.H.P., N.C., M.H.
Medical Director, Shangri La BioSpa & Addiction Clinic
FindPeace@ShangriLaBioSpa.com ~ www.ShangriLaBioSpaCostaRica.com
United States 831.440.8686 ~ Costa Rica 506.8313.0512

"Physicians pour drugs of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less, into humans of whom they know nothing." Voltaire (1694-1778)

Introduction- Mad Scientist? Yes, I'm Mad as Hell!

2009-10-22T15:49:00.000-07:00

Introduction

Mad Scientist? - Yes, I'm Mad as Hell!

(thank you for the byline Aaron Russo! RIP)

This book is dedicated to reclaiming lives from psychiatric drugs and exposing psychiatry for what it truly is; nothing more than a gang of white collar drug pushers robbing our society of every resource that supports it right down to our future; the children.
As a scientist and licensed practitioner I am going to educate all those interested in what is causing the epidemic mental health crisis of today, how to avoid it, how to get off of psych drugs if you are on them now, and why toxic drugs should not ever be called medicine.

Please send an email to FindPeace@ShangriLaBioSpa.com if you would like a free copy of the pamphlet version of my book, Green Mental Health Care - How to Get Off Psychiatric Drugs & Stay Off - A Comprehensive Guide to Staying Sane in a Toxic World.

I wish and work toward a medical model for all dis-ease based on patient outcome and not profit. That would be a model focused on treating and curing that is not what I have developed for addiction (neurochemical adaptation) - and it is accomplished with Orthomolecular Neurochemical Rehabilitation (ONR). You will have a Ph.D. in it if you follow this blog.

If you are in a mental health crisis right now: please call 877.285.9266. My ONR Treatment Coordinator on call will help you whether or not you have out-of-pocket funds for your mental health crisis. Here, you will find people who truly care and want to help. We're simply not going to win this and reclaim the quality of society before psych drugs if we do not step up and take on the responsibility of helping each other. Try it, it feels great and makes the world a better place at the same time!

I wish all the blessings of enhanced mental and physical health to all!

Petralli Genita H.H.P., N.C., M.H. Fractal Environmentalist
• Nutritional Biochemist and Licensed Practitioner Specializing in Rehabilitation for Orthomolecular Neurochemical Addictive Biochemistry
• Medical Director, Shangri La Biospa & Clinic - Addiction Recovery - Rehabilitation Neurochemical Orthomolecular http://www.shangrilabiospacostarica.com/
• Director of Patient Services, Alternative to Meds Center - San Francisco
• President, Green Body & Mind www.greenbodyandmind.com
• Author, Alcoholism: The Cause & The Cure (Foreword by Dr. Abram Hoffer MD, Ph.D) - An Orthomolecular Comprehensive Treatment Model that cures the underlying physiological causes of addiction. www.the101program.com
• Author, Green Mental Health Care, How to get off and stay off drugs prescribed and pushed
• Published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine
• Commissioner - Citizens Commission for Human Rights (CCHR)
• Featured in the documentary, "Making A Killing"
• High Level Medical and Celebrity Endorsements - see attached
• Radio / TV Addictive Biochemistry Specialist spokesperson and guest
• Public Speaker & Lecturer

Why did I write this book?

Because the psychiatric patient with Prozac in his/her medicine cabinet is in even more danger than the crack head smoking crack in the crack house. This is because the crack head knows they have to stop smoking crack to get well- the psychiatric patient thinks they are taking medicine and that their condition is the best they can hope for- when neither is true.

I can’t sit on the sidelines and do nothing while I watch people suffer. I know what these drugs do to cells, tissues, critical organs and brain function and I can’t just turn my head because everywhere I turn I see more pain and suffering while Big Pharma continues to make bank and control society. They are literally using our money against us because they use it to force out all the evidence-based holistic options that should be sponsored by public medicine like their drugs are, and they are using our taxes and out of pocket cash spent on their drugs to buy lobbyists in Washington to get their laws and forced medical practices pushed through such as the Mother’s Act. Come on, the notion of giving an anti-depressant to a pregnant woman? These drugs are extremely harmful to grown adults; can you imagine what they do to the development of a fetus that doesn’t have the functional maturity to even try to protect itself from them? They will stunt every process of development in that child and can cause birth defects due to the toxic levels of oxidative stress they cause!

Psychiatric Drug use is destroying our society. All mass school shootings are done by young adults on psych meds (see www.ssristories.com) (people will say that “well, that’s why they were on meds, there was something wrong with them.” Don’t believe this for a second, kids have been going through all the challenges and discomforts of adolescent bullying, ostracism etc… since the beginning of time and it wasn’t until our toxic health care system started drugging them that they started taking guns to school and initiating mass murders.

Psychiatric drugs are responsible for increased car accidents, incarcerations, domestic violence, emergency room visits, hospital admissions, diabetes, cancer, aneurisms, tardive dyskenesia, they are more abused by school children today than their illegal counterparts. As the damage that these drugs do to the health of our global citizens takes its toll, they turn once productive people into parasites of society as we pay through our taxes for their subsidized housing, health care costs, and SSI / Disability payments monthly. Is it their fault? No- after all, they were told to take their medicine to get better- the only fault is that they believed their doctor whose practice is dictated by the “standards of care” created by a corrupt Drug Company Gang called Big Pharma. We are all suffering the deluge of destroyed lives by these drugs and humanity as a whole is becoming crippled by them. I want to help stop the pain and suffering these drugs cause and teach what is causing their symptoms, how to find out what is the root cause, and how to cure it and live this one precious life we all share in the full spectrum capacity they were born capable of living it. I want to see humanity flourish and witness the beauty we are capapble of creating on this planet… I want the planet to be inhabitable by my grandchildren and I don’t want them forced onto drugs for being children.

Government agencies are now forcing children to take drugs if a psychiatrist labels them with a “mental illness”. And they are calling those who speak against the government’s toxic health care initiatives “terrorists” and “crazy”, incarcerating and drugging them. The day I always feared has now seen its dawn; when we are losing our right to refuse “medical care”, even with the volumes of evidence piled up that proves it is harmful, toxic and does not deliver its recipients to health, and the people are too fog-brained by and addicted to their pushed and prescribed drugs in their food, environment and medicine to see what is happening and reclaim their lives and the potential of humanity that “God” is capable of. People are literally chemically lobotomized today and it is a pandemic. You are no longer a free-thinker if you are addicted to a drug be it pushed or prescribed and people are becoming more and more compliant as legal drugs become more and more prolific in our society. Only someone addicted, misinformed and symptomatic would find it plausible to believe that a toxic drug is a medicine and that that “medicine” has any chance of producing health and wellness and Big Pharma has done a very good job at getting all three of these goals realized in very short period of time. The drug companies now control our medicine, Standards of Care, our government and the FDA. They have become so powerful that they run our government to the point of using our own police to enforce laws that are unconstitutional that require parents to drug their children if their child is diagnosed with a mental disorder. Yes, parents have had their children taken away for refusing to give them psychiatric medications! Yes, our own police officers have removed children from homes because their parents wouldn’t give them legal cocaine (Ritalin)!

This book is my contribution toward helping them get well and bring them from the dark corners they have quietly suffered in, into the light of health and wellness, hope, and the empowering feeling of being embraced by the love and compassion that those of us who have been able to survive this toxic world (mostly) symptomatic free have for those harvested by the pushers of toxic “medicine”. With each person I detoxify and help to natural mental health, I am building an army of healthy environmentalists. By making the decisions you need to make to get wel- starting with the needs of an individual cell to get well, you will by default become an environmentalist helping the planet detoxify and survive as well. When we discontinue the demand for the products that are making us crazy, we take their power and ability to buy Washington, the FDA, the NIH and their front people; psychiatrists (grants, ghost writing payoffs, schools etc.) away and our medicine and laws will become patient outcome driven as opposed to profit driven and those toxic chemicals which are causing disease, death and loss of quality of life will no longer be pushed upon us and offered at every turn of our head.

We live in a era of “harvesting”. People are being harvested by psychiatry. The institution’s methods are paved by the pharmaceutical companies that are making the laws that force their drugs into people now. Psychiatrists are being sent to grade and intermediate schools to evaluate our children, they are the first “doctors” people being incarcerated see, elderly people in senior homes are being drugged to death, if you lose a loved one and are sad you get drugged, if you get in a car accident you are drugged, if you have anxiety about finals in college you get drugged, if you are going through a divorce you get drugged, if you’re not good at math you get drugged, if you speak against the government you are crazy and drugged, psychiatric medication prescriptions skyrocket for those 65 and older, psych drugs are being pushed on television, in newspapers, magazines and through schools… the unholy alliance between Big Pharma and psychiatry is causing more deaths yearly than any other illness if you consider not only the suicides and murders but the diseases they are associated with.

The unholy alliance between Big Pharma and Psychiatry is literally sucking the life out of humanity and destroying the ability to achieve the quality of life people hope to reclaim when they go to their doctor. Making the decision to get off of psychiatric drugs is not only a responsibility to yourself and family so that you can be present in this life and enjoy quality of life with those you love and who love you, but it is a responsibility toward the preservation of the human race! Stop taking their drugs and they will go away!

Be all that you can be. Get well naturally and allow your authentic self to flourish!

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2009-09-29T13:35:00.000-07:00

Green Mental Health Care

How to Get Off & Stay Off Psychiatric Drugs

A Comprehensive Guide to Staying Sane in a Toxic World

An Information Pamphlet Based on the Book

Important! If you are on illegal drugs such as cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamines this pamphlet is for you too and it will save your life as well!
The mechanisms of addiction to illegal drugs were studied and perfected by the pharmaceutical companies. They mimicked the biochemical pathways of the illegal drugs with their synthetic versions and called it medicine. The alliance between psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry is no different than the alliance between Columbia cocaine manufacturers and your corner street pushers. Both Big Pharma and psychiatrists are nothing more than a drug gang of white collar dope pushers. In fact, their products are even more harmful than the street

Pushed & Prescribed Drug Chart

Pharmaceutical drugs are designed to mimic the mechanisms of action of neurotransmitters, enzymes and hormones the healthy you would produce naturally. The difference is, is that these synthetic drugs disable to some degree all healing processes and inflict oxidative stress (tissue damage) to all organs of the body including the brain. They also all have their counterpart in the illegal market. One other very important aspect of psyche drugs to note is that they are purposely not easily metabolized in the body which means their neurotoxic nature is afforded even more time than illegal drugs to cause damage to your brain and other critical organs.

Ritalin has the same psychoactive properties as Cocaine and is more Potent than Cocaine

Ritalin has the same pharmacological profile as cocaine. Ritalin and cocaine block dopamine brain transporters to cause their identical psychoactive results. Ritalin is actually more potent in the brain blocking 70% of dopamine transporters. Cocaine is known to block around 50 per cent of these transporters, leaving a surfeit of dopamine in the system, which is responsible for the hit addicts crave. Since Ritalin is taken orally, the slower process of ingesting is the reason the legally addicted people do not receive the same rush as cocaine users who usually snort or shoot it. Read Dr Nora Volkow’s interview in the Journal of American Medicine.

Pet Scans of the effects of Ritalin and Cocaine on the Brain

The Pharmaceutical Industry Mimics Your Natural Pharmacist: The NeuroEndocrine System (NES). The NES produces the popular neurochemicals below in addition to hundreds more.

It’s true, deficient production of neurochemicals, damage to their receptor sites, or over or under activity of their regulating enzymes cause many symptoms ranging from anxiety to audible and visual hallucinations. Why are they becoming more and more deficient in people causing the mental disorder epidemic today?

Why Not Make Your Own Drugs Naturally?

The Way Nature Intended?

The proof is in, there is a deficiency of these neurochemicals in mentally symptomatic patients, but why? When you find out why, you can cure the root cause of the symptoms never having to touch a drug.

Prescribed Drugs are Synthetically Made & Legalized Illicit Drugs

Remember, a toxic drug causes extreme oxidative stress on the system - this and their ability to change natural biochemical processes that have been developed over millions of years into chaotic chemical reactions make them extremely dangerious to your health. Because of their synthetic nature and the body's difficulty in metabolizing them, they can do even more damage than street drugs!

You Natural Pharmacist Has Been Off-Shored and Replaced By the Pharma Cartel at a very high price, your health, quality of life and many times life itself, and they don't get you anywhere near the natural high.

The New Battleground for the War On Drugs - Your Doctor's Office

2009-09-28T22:12:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone!

This blog is dedicated to reclaiming lives from psychiatric drugs and exposing psychiatry for what it truly is; nothing more than a gang of white collar drug pushers robbing our society of every resource that supports it right down to our future; the children.

As a scientist and licensed practitioner I am going to educate all those interested in what is causing the epidemic mental health crisis of today, how to avoid it, how to get off of psych drugs if you are on them now, and why toxic drugs should not ever be called medicine.

Please email FindPeace@ShangriLaBioSpa.com if you would like a free copy of the handbook version of my book, Green Mental Health Care - How to Get Off Psychiatric Drugs & Stay Off. A Comprehensive Guide to Staying Sane in a Toxic World.

I wish and work toward a medical model for all dis-ease based on patient outcome and not profit. That would be a model focused on treating and curing that is not what I have developed for addiction (neurochemical adaptation) - and it is accomplished with Orthomolecular Neurochemical Rehabilitation (ONR). You will have a Ph.D. in it if you follow this blog.

If you are in a mental health crisis right now: please call 877.285.9266. My ONR Treatment Coordinator on call will help you whether or not you have out-of-pocket funds for the treatments your mental health crisis requires. Here, you will find people who truly care and want to help. We're simply not going to win this and reclaim the quality of society before psych drugs if we do not step up and take on the responsibility of helping each other. Try it, it feels great and makes the world a better place at the same time!

I wish all the blessings of enhanced mental and physical health to all!
Petralli Genita H.H.P., N.C., M.H. Fractal Environmentalist

• Nutritional Biochemist and Licensed Practitioner Specializing in Orthomolecular Neurochemical Rehabilitation and Addictive Biochemistry
• Medical Director, Shangri La Biospa & Clinic - Addiction Recovery - Rehabilitation Neurochemical Orthomolecular www.ShangriLaBioSpaCostaRica.com
• Director of Patient Services, Alternative to Meds Center - San Francisco
• President, Green Body & Mind www.greenbodyandmind.com
• Author, Alcoholism: The Cause & The Cure (Foreword by Dr. Abram Hoffer MD, Ph.D) - An Orthomolecular Comprehensive Treatment Model that cures the underlying physiological causes of addiction. www.the101program.com
• Author, Green Mental Health Care, How to get off and stay off drugs prescribed and pushed
• Published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine
• Commissioner - Citizens Commission for Human Rights (CCHR)
• Featured in the documentary, "Making A Killing"
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