How Can we Help People
Become More Accepting of Mental Illness?

There May be Something You can Do!

Thank you for this wonderful question which gives me an opportunity to share valauable  information that may give hope where perhaps there is none.

Commonly it appears that there is little you can do in the circumstances of Mental illness. I want to share a slightly different view of possible causal factors contributing to Mental illness or more accuratley cognitive disruption/disturbance.

Over the years we have worked with many people who suffer from what I would call cognitive disturbance or disruption.

I refer to it in this way because we have observed that there can be a correlation between systemic infection, systemic inflammation, toxicity and mental illness/cognitive disruption.

We have seen chemicals called endocrine disruptors (WHO Health report on Endocrine Disruptors – 2012) disturb the production of hormones contributing to mental dysfunction, leading to the disruption of neurotransmitter production.

In addition we have also seen heavy metals contribute to mental disruption.
We are exposed to heavy metals through the air, our food and water supply
(See the Who Report – Exposure to Mercury – A Major Public Health Concern)

Also take a look at The Impact of Heavy Metal Toxicity on Your Health

Mental Illness due to Infection from Gut Bacteria

I will give one example. A common issue is gut inflammation leading to gut permeability. This can lead to systemic inflammation and infection.

Originally it was thought that systemic inflammation had no impact on the blood brain barrier. However it appears that the blood brain barrier can be affected by this systemic inflammation.

The result is Permeability of the blood brain barrier - Leaky Brain. This is a big deal because with leaky gut we know that organisms (viruses, bacteria, even friendly bacteria) leak into the blood and travel around the body causing havoc.

There is one study showing how friendly gut bacteria migrated through a leaky gut, and travelled to the brain. The friendly bacateria colonised the brain and began fermenting neurotransmitters; this led to the patient suffering from 'Psychotic Episodes'.

Please see the following study:

Disclosure of the major causes of mental illness—mitochondrial deterioration in brain neurons via opportunistic infection  Katsunari Nishihara -Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry 2012

Conclusion - There May be Something You can Do!

One again thank you so much for this question and giving me the opportunity to share this information.

So what we consider to be mental illness may often be the result of far less complex health problems such as toxicity, systemic infection, systemic inflammation and gut permeability. These can all be addressed realtively easily.

We have also seen clients exhbit extreme signs of mental disturbance when eliminating heavy metals from the body during a heavy metal cleansing.

To conclude it is possible that the factors above may contribute to some people who suffer from so called 'Mental illness''.

The causes of some mental illness/disturbance may be related to less complex health issues  that are realtively simple to address.

Hypothesis: It may be possible to address Certain Cases of Mental Illness with a programme of nutrition, detoxification, reducing systemic inflammation & infection and healing the gut.

The point is there may be much that you can do and try to assist your loved ones.