There is research that indicates that much of our mental health conditions today result from mineral and vitamin deficiencies. My 12 year old son diagnosed bipolar at 7 dealt with issues of extreme rage. Though medicated and constantly, the symptom of rage would still surface. I began doing my own research and learned that unexplainable rage and anger could be traced to a problem with ratios of minerals in scientific studies. The most important ratio related to anger and rage is calcium to copper. It should be 1 to 1. We had my son's hair tested for mineral analysis and determined that many of his ratios and levels were out of range. His copper was extremely high and he had levels of mercury and other toxic metals due to lower amounts of buffering minerals. 3 months ago we started him on a good multi-mineral and a combination of pharmaceutical grade vitamins and nutrients to balance the entire body including the mind under the care of holistic board certified physician. His improvement has been remarkable What is really interesting is the response I received from his psychiatrist where sharing the opinion from the results of the tests. That, however, is another story.
Mar 17 2013: Chris,
Hello, thanks for your question. If you take a look at what composes a human being in terms of mass and matter, we are primarily composed of nothing;(a tiny bit of matter, a lot of empty space and electromagnetism to be specific). Yet we, being nearly nothing, think, work, create, motivate and build our reality. There is great cerebral wealth reserved for those that contemplate such bold ideas about reality.
Mar 17 2013: The modern epidemic of bullying may be an effect of a continually growing inequality in socioeconomic situations combined with the glamorization of silly, abhorrent, and destructive lifestyles. Social media allows a more brazen crowd sourced bullying behavior to occur. The answer is for us all to be gentle, kind and understanding first to ourselves and then to all others. We must celebrate our diversity and our commonalities. We must echo again and again that we are all the same and really want the same things most of the time. We must teach our children and hope that they will teach theirs to do likewise
Mar 17 2013: In my opinion, they are both expressions of our great human struggle to draft a narrative that answers one question: Is the universe friendly? Where some perceive separation due to specificity or ambiguity others prefer a view that includes continuity and connectivity of both pursuits.
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There is research that indicates that much of our mental health conditions today result from mineral and vitamin deficiencies. My 12 year old son diagnosed bipolar at 7 dealt with issues of extreme rage. Though medicated and constantly, the symptom of rage would still surface. I began doing my own research and learned that unexplainable rage and anger could be traced to a problem with ratios of minerals in scientific studies. The most important ratio related to anger and rage is calcium to copper. It should be 1 to 1. We had my son's hair tested for mineral analysis and determined that many of his ratios and levels were out of range. His copper was extremely high and he had levels of mercury and other toxic metals due to lower amounts of buffering minerals. 3 months ago we started him on a good multi-mineral and a combination of pharmaceutical grade vitamins and nutrients to balance the entire body including the mind under the care of holistic board certified physician. His improvement has been remarkable What is really interesting is the response I received from his psychiatrist where sharing the opinion from the results of the tests. That, however, is another story.
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Hello, thanks for your question. If you take a look at what composes a human being in terms of mass and matter, we are primarily composed of nothing;(a tiny bit of matter, a lot of empty space and electromagnetism to be specific). Yet we, being nearly nothing, think, work, create, motivate and build our reality. There is great cerebral wealth reserved for those that contemplate such bold ideas about reality.
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