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Authors: Mark Hyman
fix my broken brain and it is how I have helped thousands of patients from all walks of life achieve a state of health they never dreamed possible.
Every day I witness miracles.
Giving you a practical way to understand, identify, and fix imbalances in each of the seven key systems of your body (just as I do in my practice) so you can make a miraculous recovery of your own is the purpose of
The UltraMind Solution
.
This book makes available for the first time the results of new research and knowledge of the brain, mood, and body in a practical guide for everyone young and old, hyper or calm, forgetful or not. It is designed to give you the information and tools you need to treat the roots of your broken brains, and by doing so overcome their devastating effects and take a big step closer to UltraWellness.
How did I learn about this?
How I Became an Accidental Psychiatrist
I call myself the “accidental psychiatrist.” I never set out to be a brain or mood expert. In fact, my focus was more on how the body works as a whole system. And people saw me not to treat depression or autism or Alzheimer’s, but to deal with chronic complaints and illnesses of the body.
People make appointments to see me from far away, often after seeing many physicians, dissatisfied with more medications and more diagnoses. They come with a deep inner knowledge that something is out of balance—they just don’t know how to find it by themselves. So many of my patients are willing to begin exploring the landscape of their bodies and minds in a new and deeper way.
Because of this I have had the unique opportunity to be a medical detective, hunting down clues and exploring the entire landscape of human biology and systems. I worked for almost ten years as the co-medical director of Canyon Ranch, and now for many years as the founder and medical director of the UltraWellness Center ( www.ultrawellnesscenter.com ).
Over the years as I worked to correct the fundamental imbalances thatare the cause of all disease (the seven keys to UltraWellness, which you will learn about in a moment), I discovered that mood and brain disorders would often magically disappear as I treated a patient’s physical problems.
Rather than dismiss this finding, I found it curious and began to investigate how treating digestive problems could cure depression, or how detoxifying a patient from mercury could bring back their memory. I investigated each of my patients carefully by listening to their stories of transformation and by examining the existing rich medical literature on this subject, which is mostly ignored.
Many years ago I treated a woman with a bacterial infection in her gut from a bug called Clostridia (which produces a molecule called DHPPA, which has neurochemical effects) with an antibiotic. Not only did her digestive symptoms clear up, but also her lifelong depression, which was resistant to treatment with medications like Prozac, lifted almost overnight.
Experiences like these as well as my own struggle with a chronic illness allowed the mysterious world of how the body influences the brain to open up to me.
Hence I became an “accidental psychiatrist.”
Since then I have found remarkable patterns and connections that link the body to the mind. The wonder of the body continues to delight and amaze me, as I understand more clearly how the entire body and the mind is one interacting, interlocking, networked system.
Nowhere is this truer than in how the brain is connected to the rest of the body.
Through the prism of one boy’s story told below, you will learn how powerful this approach can be for fixing your broken brain. This one story, and this boy’s two homework assignments done two months apart, will clarify the bidirectional communication between the brain and the body more than any complicated explanation of biochemical pathways.
While this is a story about one boy, the story of his imbalanced system and
Every day I witness miracles.
Giving you a practical way to understand, identify, and fix imbalances in each of the seven key systems of your body (just as I do in my practice) so you can make a miraculous recovery of your own is the purpose of
The UltraMind Solution
.
This book makes available for the first time the results of new research and knowledge of the brain, mood, and body in a practical guide for everyone young and old, hyper or calm, forgetful or not. It is designed to give you the information and tools you need to treat the roots of your broken brains, and by doing so overcome their devastating effects and take a big step closer to UltraWellness.
How did I learn about this?
How I Became an Accidental Psychiatrist
I call myself the “accidental psychiatrist.” I never set out to be a brain or mood expert. In fact, my focus was more on how the body works as a whole system. And people saw me not to treat depression or autism or Alzheimer’s, but to deal with chronic complaints and illnesses of the body.
People make appointments to see me from far away, often after seeing many physicians, dissatisfied with more medications and more diagnoses. They come with a deep inner knowledge that something is out of balance—they just don’t know how to find it by themselves. So many of my patients are willing to begin exploring the landscape of their bodies and minds in a new and deeper way.
Because of this I have had the unique opportunity to be a medical detective, hunting down clues and exploring the entire landscape of human biology and systems. I worked for almost ten years as the co-medical director of Canyon Ranch, and now for many years as the founder and medical director of the UltraWellness Center ( www.ultrawellnesscenter.com ).
Over the years as I worked to correct the fundamental imbalances thatare the cause of all disease (the seven keys to UltraWellness, which you will learn about in a moment), I discovered that mood and brain disorders would often magically disappear as I treated a patient’s physical problems.
Rather than dismiss this finding, I found it curious and began to investigate how treating digestive problems could cure depression, or how detoxifying a patient from mercury could bring back their memory. I investigated each of my patients carefully by listening to their stories of transformation and by examining the existing rich medical literature on this subject, which is mostly ignored.
Many years ago I treated a woman with a bacterial infection in her gut from a bug called Clostridia (which produces a molecule called DHPPA, which has neurochemical effects) with an antibiotic. Not only did her digestive symptoms clear up, but also her lifelong depression, which was resistant to treatment with medications like Prozac, lifted almost overnight.
Experiences like these as well as my own struggle with a chronic illness allowed the mysterious world of how the body influences the brain to open up to me.
Hence I became an “accidental psychiatrist.”
Since then I have found remarkable patterns and connections that link the body to the mind. The wonder of the body continues to delight and amaze me, as I understand more clearly how the entire body and the mind is one interacting, interlocking, networked system.
Nowhere is this truer than in how the brain is connected to the rest of the body.
Through the prism of one boy’s story told below, you will learn how powerful this approach can be for fixing your broken brain. This one story, and this boy’s two homework assignments done two months apart, will clarify the bidirectional communication between the brain and the body more than any complicated explanation of biochemical pathways.
While this is a story about one boy, the story of his imbalanced system and
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