Novel Treatments for Bipolar Disorder

Manic-depressive illness, or bipolar disorder as its known in modern psychiatric parlance, is a devasting disease affecting at least 15 million people in the U.S. alone during any given year. In reality this number is likely significantly higher as the disease tends to be under-diagnosed. I've always researched bipolar disorder because it strikes a chord very near and dear to me, you see the disease runs in my family.

Recently I came across several renegade and experimental treatments which might show some promise to millions of sufferers. The first are a number of clinical trials in which the the drug ketamine, offered relief within the matter of hours. Ketamine is traditionally used as a dissociative anesthetic. The drug made its way onto the streets, and became extremely popular on the rave scene. Users would typically snort amounts, much lower than those used in full anesthesia to enter a realm consciousness where they able to navigate a novel dream-like realm, benignly detached from their bodies and their normal waking consciousness, moods,emotions and fears. Ketamine blocks a pain receptor called N-methy-D-aspartic acid (NMDA). This receptor is critical for the reception of neuronal signals produced by glutamate, and the dysregulation of glutamte seems to be one of the pathways involved in bipolar disorder and depression.Antidepressent effects of ketamine in depressed patients

Another interesting option came about with complete serendipity. There was a strange trend spotted among both depressive and bipolar patients who had recently undergone an MRI for reasons completely unrelated to their conditions. Some were reporting that they felt significantly better after the MRI. The idea that high frequency electromagnetic energy could influence the health of living cells isn't new. Pioneers such as Nikola Tesla(for more about the brilliant Nikola Telsa) hypothesized as much at the turn of the last century, and George Lakhovsky expanded on Tesla's designs to produced machines aimed at curing all manner of disease as far back as 1940. Modern researchers began subjecting subject to repetitive bursts of electromagnetic waves and found very promising results. Unfortunately the FDA seems to be dragging its feet hear in the U.S., while therapuetic devices are being approved and used in various countries throughout the world. Informative article from NeuroPsychiatry Review on rTMS therapy.

Centers for rTMS research.

Lastly trials have show the efficacy of both fish oil and coenzyme Q10 in alleviating some of the symptoms associated with the disorder. I've spoken to many customers through the years who have struggled with bipolar disorder. If anyone would like more information, please make a post, and I'll see if I can be of help. Happiness, Andy @

Comments

[Aaron]

I'm a psychiatrist. Not a bad. You've done your research. Kudos.

[Sentient Sapient]

Dear Andy,

First and foremost, allow me to congratulate you on your efforts. Your website, products and blog are very important in this day and age and i hope you realise that. I hope you do not get discouraged by the general lack of communication between the community members since that takes time and trust. I for one, being a technologist am aware that freedom of speech and anonymity of speech are two different things. I support the latter as it is more comprehenisive.

I wanted to make a suggestion for the blog. I was wondering if you could use the categorising option when posting blogs. Breaking them into distinct subjects may aid the reader and maybe stimulate contribution since some might be interested in one aspect of entheogens and not the other. For example, you could have a category on growing and caring for plants, another may be ethical or opinion surrounding enth. Maybe even categories on shamanic practices. Scientific articles could be a category of their own. another one could be user feedback on entheogens used and so on.

This however would raise the question of whether you'd want to do all the supplying of such information or would you allow others to contribute.

I think this is enough for now since it is my first post.

Keep up the good work.

Peace and blessings,
SS

[aries]

Wow...this is very interesting info that could be of help to a friend of mine. Thanks for posting!

[Kris]

Hey Andy, my favorite saying is "Don't sweat the petty things, just pet the sweaty things" Sometimes it is hard to be an EARTH person when our society doesn't tend to what they are walking on....but take some comfort there are those of us out there who are BORN with certain gifts and appreciation for what it is we were so lucky to be given.....((((YOU ARE INCREDIBLY BLESSED)))) And it is very cool that you are WILLING to go above and beyond to share your gift(s) with US. Thank~you for allowing me to learn from you!!!
Your friend *~Kris~*

[Michael]

Thank You for this blog. I suffer with Bipolar Disorder and your info and links are a tremendous help. -best, Michael

[Alex]

makes a whole lot more sense than a high dose of lithium, and an all nighter in the rubber room. I don't know how it is in Illinois but on the east coast Manic depression is becoming the new ADD and lithium the new rhidalin, never mind that it kills your kidneys.

[henry]

This is not real shamanism, this is modern day puke. I have the cure for Bipolar disease and its not more chemicals. We already have enough of that in our bodies just from the air we breathe and the food we eat. I use to be severely Bipolar, Manic Depressive, and scytsophrenic but now I am completely cured. These are diseases unheard of in any other time. The cure is to stop eating food from all these companies who rip people off by putting fake ingredients into food instead of using real food, leaving everyone malnourished and highly toxic. That's one of the biggest things. To only eat organic food or better yet only eat food you grow yourself. Another thing is the fact that peoples brains are telling them that something is wrong, but they don't know what it is. They should be depressed because of the lifestyle that we live, but people don't know that because they were born into this life style and they don't know of any other way.

[Lungfish]

Will any of this get to the general world, doubtful, hey man I hate to bring politics into anything, but you being a like minded individual from Illinois how do you feel about Obama???

[michael jones]

I just want to thank you for the great post about the bipolar disorder help! That post is wonderful! Great job!

[joel]

congratulates andy on your efforts. Your website, products and blog are very important in this day and age and i hope you realize that. I hope you do not get discouraged by the general communication between the community since that takes time and trust. I for one, being a technologist am aware of that speech and anonymity of speech are two different things. I support the latter as it is more comprehensive.
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