The MindHealth360 Show Kirkland Newman

Awareness Is Not Enough: Reflections on The Staggering Statistics for Adolescent Mental Health: Dr James Greenblatt’s extract from IMMH Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Conference 2023. Dr. Greenblatt will be speaking at IMMH 2024: www.immh.org about Suicide Prevention Redefined: The Tragic Consequences of Ignoring Functional Medicine so come join us at the Gaylord National Harbor Resort in Washington, DC 10-13th October 2024 to hear him and our other fantastic speakers on the latest scientific research and best clinical practice around integrative mental health and functional medicine psychiatry. In this moving and important extract from child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Greenblatt’s presentation for the IMMH Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Conference 2023, Dr. Greenblatt, a pioneer in the field of integrative and functional medicine psychiatry with over 35 years of clinical experience, gives us the hard truth around the staggering statistics and crisis in adolescent mental health, the failure of current treatment models and the importance of taking an integrative and functional medicine approach which diagnose and treat the root cause and the individual biochemistry of patients to bring about sustainable healing. In this extract from IMMH 2023, he delves into the critical role of nutritional lithium in mental health, particularly focusing on the concept of lithium deficiency syndrome in children and adolescents, making a compelling argument about how low-dose lithium, a simple but often overlooked micronutrient, is essential for brain health and can significantly influence behaviours related to ADHD, autism, irritability, bipolar disorder, and aggression. In this presentation learn about: - The failure of current mental health treatment and the epidemic of mental health issues and suicidality in children and adolescents; - The correlation between aggression against self (suicide) and others (violent criminals) and low lithium levels; - Lithium as the anti-impulsive nutrient for ADHD, bipolar, aggression and road rage; - Lithium and other nutritional supplements as part of a more effective and sustainable treatment alongside, or even instead of conventional psychiatric treatments, allowing for the reduction of psychiatric medication such as antipsychotics, mood stabilisers and tranquillisers; - The clinical and research-based evidence supporting the use of low-dose lithium in treating and possibly preventing a range of psychiatric disorders such as autism, suicidality, irritability, bipolar 2, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, aggression, etc.; - Low dose micronutrient lithium and lithium carbonate both as anti-suicidality molecule according to 50 years of research; - The relationship between elemental lithium and lithium carbonate (used in conventional bipolar treatment); - Understanding functional Lithium Deficiency Syndrome due to genetics (which can be tested) and nutritional status; - Understanding who will be the most responsive to lithium supplementation, and how to test for lithium deficiency including hair mineral analysis, symptoms and family history; - Lithium’s effect on neurotransmitters including decreasing glutamate and dopamine which are excitatory, and increasing serotonin and gaba, which are inhibitory; - Lithium’s positive effects on inflammation, oxidative stress, and microglial activation ; - Best doses for nutritional lithium, side effects and best sources; - The effects of lithium on neurodegeneration and its role in dementia care. Find out more about IMMH and book your tickets for the IMMH 2024 conference: www.immh.org

Dr. Neil Nathan draws on his 40 years of clinical practice to tell us how he systematically gets to the root cause of his patients’ mental health issues.
He shows us that depression, anxiety, poor attention and memory, etc...can result from inflammation-causing mould and other toxins, and Lyme and other infections, which can contribute to imbalances in the hormonal, nervous, gastro-intestinal, detoxification and methylation systems. He also tells us how to address these root causes in order to heal. 

Yulli Tamayo Myerson, founding President of the British Society of Myofunctional Therapy, Buteyko Breathing Practitioner and Myofunctional Therapist, shows us how specific breathing techniques can help us improve our resilience to allergies and viruses such as Covid-19, while also helping us improve our cognition, concentration, anxiety, and mood.
She also shows us how proper jaw alignment and tongue position, starting in childhood, are essential to regulating our nervous and hormonal systems for optimal mental health

Functional medicine psychiatrist Dr. Achina Stein, author of “What If It’s NOT Depression: Your Guide to Finding Answers and Solutions” tells us that depression is a symptom of an underlying issue, rather than a disorder; explores the main causes of depression and other mental health issues using her SHIFT acronym (stress, hormones, infection, foods, toxins), and discusses the thorny issue of “evidence” in functional medicine psychiatry.

Paediatric neuroendocrinologist, Professor Robert Lustig, shows how our hormones and neurotransmitters drive our moods and behaviour, and shares the biochemical keys to happiness and how to achieve them (with the 4 Cs). He also demonstrates that by conflating pleasure with happiness for commercial gain, our modern societies prime us for addiction and depression, since they are biochemically inversely correlated; and how our children (and ourselves) are at risk of frying our brains.

Despite being a successful banker, Dr. Christina Bjorndal suffered years of debilitating bipolar depression and eating disorders, miraculously surviving a suicide attempt which left her in a coma. She recovered thanks to orthomolecular medicine, became a naturopath, and opened a successful clinic.
Here she shares vital information about the key macro-systems that influence our mental health, and how to optimise them through nutrition, gut repair, detoxification,  lifestyle habits, and mental attitudes.