Charles W. Popper, M.D.
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Dec 2001

Nutritional scientists have been well funded by agribusiness to find ways to deal with factors that interfere with animal health, including aggressive and destructive behavior. When farm animals become “violent”-when pigs start biting each others’ ears and tails, when chickens attack chickens-farmers have learned that the aggressive behavior can be reduced by adding certain minerals and vitamins to their diet, without the need for veterinary intervention. Read the rest of this entry »

Effective Mood Stabilization With a Chelated Mineral Supplement:
An Open-Label Trial in Bipolar Disorder

Bonnie J. Kaplan, Ph.D.; J. Steven A. Simpson, Ph.D., M.D.;
Richard C. Ferre, M.D.; Chris P, Gorman, M.D.;
David M. McMullen, M.D.; and Susan G. Crawford, M.Sc.

Background: To determine in open trials the therapeutic benefit of a nutritional supplement for bipolar disorder.

Method: The sample consisted of 11 patients with DSM-IV-diagnosed bipolar disorder aged 19 to 46 years, who were taking a mean of 2.7 psychotropic medications each at study entry. Three additional patients dropped out prematurely. The intervention is a broad-based nutritional supplement of dietary nutrients, primarily chelated trace Read the rest of this entry »

Patient, Heal Thyself

Business Week
BY SUSAN GARLAND
10-16-2000

Biofeedback moves toward the mainstream

Stroke survivors who are partly paralyzed have a tough time re-educating muscles to respond to mental cues. Biofeedback, a technique much derided by physicians in the past, is proving to be a most effective teaching aid. A patient’s hand, say, is hooked up to a machine that measures muscle tension. The patient then tries to close her hand. Her mind tells the muscle to tighten. The hand doesn’t move. Read the rest of this entry »

Pathway to health. (Doctor Vale Guyer discusses treatment of depression)

Saturday Evening Post
SerVaas, Cory; 03-01-1998

Guest physician Dr. Dale Guyer combines traditional and alternative methods in the treatment of common health problems.

Editor’s Note: In 1997, the Post featured a series of TV health shows exploring the growing field of complementary medicine. Response from TV viewers was overwhelming. We invited Dr. Guyer back to share his knowledge from clinical work in both the traditional and complementary fields of medicine. Read the rest of this entry »

Newsweek
July 5, 1999

By Geoffrey Cowley and Anne Underwood

She was making lunch for herself and a friend one Saturday this spring when an unfamiliar feeling swept over her. The 50-year-old social worker had fallen deep into depression two years earlier, and had given up on prescription antidepressants when the first one she tried left her sluggish, sexually dormant and numb to her own emotions. Then, in mid-March, she heard about a naturally occurring substance called SAMe (pronounced “Sammy”). She had been taking it for just a few days when she began setting the table that Saturday morning. A ginger-miso sauce was chilling in the fridge, and she was garnishing her finest plates with fresh anemones. Suddenly, there it was: a sense of undiluted pleasure. Read the rest of this entry »