Alcoholism
Have you talked to an alternative physician about nutritional therapy? I ask, you mean you can be cured with vitamins? It is not as simple as that, but nutrition can help. As I explain in another article on thyroid, low thyroid function can cause depression. For some, alcohol is a way to alleviate the depression. For others, the depression or alcoholism is a result of chemical imbalances traced to poor nutrition.
What is most important to me, in writing this article, is that you feel empowered. For sufferers and their loved ones, alcoholism takes away control of their lives. If you drink or have a loved one who drinks, I have news that will save you a broken heart and/or a broken life. Through nutrition, you can take charge of your health and become clean and sober for the rest of your life. Good nutrition is all-important in getting off the bottle. In fact, I was amazed to discover that even the American Dietetic Association has determined alcoholics can benefit from nutrient therapy and that most hospitals now incorporate improved nutrition in their alcohol programs. The ADA even performed its own study to see if nutrition would help the alcohol rehabilitation success rate.
This bottle-breaking study compared two groups of alcoholics, each on the standard AA 12-step therapy. The only difference was one group was put on a special diet of complex carbohydrates (beans, peas and whole grains), low sugar and no caffeine. Those on the special diet said they experienced less craving for alcohol and were more successful in kicking the addiction. Researchers at Loma Linda University School of Public Health demonstrated that a diet of mostly simple carbohydrates and junk food – white bread products and sugar – could increase the craving for alcohol. In their experiment, rats placed on a junk food diet drank a weekly average of what would be a quart of 100 proof whisky a day for a man. Rats on the same diet but with the addition of vitamin and mineral supplements drank a third less, and rats fed a balanced human diet drank one-seventh the original amount. The addition of nutrients and food to their diets in truth made them need less alcohol. Now, here is a staggering observation: in a previous study, 20 percent of the rats on a complex carbohydrate diet developed no taste for alcohol – until sugar was added to it. Then they became the heaviest drinkers of all, drinking in a week what would be 1-/2 quarts a day for a man.
The connection between nutrients and cravings and the brain is very interesting. I do not think we quite realize, or fully comprehend, the effect our diet has on out mental health. It appears nutritional imbalances can actually alter brain function to such a degree that it causes cravings, depression and even psychosis! What came first, the chicken or the egg? Do nutritional imbalances create the craving for alcohol or does the alcohol create the imbalances, and an addiction? I think the answer is both. Many alcoholics started with a depression problem. They seek a way out, and the craving for alcohol becomes a secondary problem.
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