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Benzodiazepine horror story on The Mental Wellness Summit 2

August 27, 2017 By Trudy Scott 28 Comments

The Mental Wellness Summit 2, airs online September 25 – October 2, 2017

Whether challenged by depression, anxiety, stress, addiction or another mental health challenge, every single person is impacted and affected – you, your family, friends, neighbors and coworkers -either directly or indirectly every single day.

This Mental Wellness Summit 2 will provide you with the information you need to:

  • Overcome the silence, isolation and fear of your struggle
  • Transcend outdated, prescription-based healthcare systems
  • Find holistic practitioners and natural solutions for your pain
  • Implement expert practices, tools and tips into your daily routine

My interview covers the dangers of benzodiazepines and why GABA is a more effective option for anxiety.

Here are some snippets from my interview where I discuss benzodiazepines which are

  • a class of psychoactive drugs / tranquillizers with sedative, sleep-inducing, anti-anxiety, anticonvulsant, and muscle relaxant properties
  • they target the GABAA receptor and enhance the effect of the neurotransmitter GABA
  • the common Brand name/drug name are: Xanax/ Alprazolam, Klonopin/Clonazepam, Valium/ Diazepam, Ativan/ Lorazapam

These medications are commonly prescribed for:

  • Anxiety, social anxiety, panic, pain/dental pain, insomnia, fear of flying, Lyme disease, ER visits for back/neck spasms
  • Children with autism
  • IBS
  • pre-surgery anxiety
  • ICU patients needing ventilation
  • during chemotherapy for cancer treatments – for anxiety, nausea and anticipatory nausea

I share this true benzodiazepine horror story:

Been totally disabled by benzos for over 3 years. I have been off meds for 17.5 months and the impact of these meds makes any anxiety I ever felt a cake walk. Please run from the poison.

When I turned 21 I went to the doctor for dizziness and they put me on xanax. I started to feel anxious and they then added Zoloft. That was the start of a long journey. I was shifted from one anti-depressant to another. At 34 I was told I was treatment resistant and they added lamotrigine. Then my world crashed at age 37. I have been on xanax, then klonopin, then Ativan, then back to xanax, then valium to taper. I had also been given ambien to sleep in early 30s.

I tapered off meds over a period of a year. I was on 1.5 mg xanax and tapered off valium as prescribed. I have tried many supplements but I react poorly to all of them. I get very agitated and revved up.

I have locked shoulder muscles, neck, jaw; I have internal vibrations, I get bad headaches, jelly legs, distorted vision like floaters and squiggles and fireworks, my teeth all feel like they will fall out but they are not loose, it feels like adrenaline or cortisol rushes through the body. Sometimes my arms go numb. I am pretty tortured every day. These meds are truly causing chemical warfare on some of us. 

This is one of the many reasons I do this work – so more people don’t end up in this situation and so everyone knows about the dangers of benzodiazepines and that there are nutritional solutions for anxiety. One of them is the amino acid GABA and I discuss this in the latter half of the interview.

I hope you can join us on The Mental Wellness Summit 2 summit!

Registration details are here

Filed Under: benzodiazapines, Events Tagged With: anxiety, benzodiazepine, GABA, Mental Wellness Summit

Encore day Mental Wellness Summit – Gut, root cause, inflammation, pyroluria

August 17, 2015 By Trudy Scott 2 Comments

A heads up that today is encore day of the Mental Wellness Summit and the last day to purchase at the summit special price.

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These talks were voted the best of the best talks and are available for a 24-hour period (I’m honored and humbled be in the top 5 favorite talks!)

  • Kelly Brogan, MD: Holistic Medicine and Root-Cause Resolution
  • David Perlmutter, MD: Microbiome: A New Frontier in Mental Health
  • Chris Kresser, MS, LAC: About the Brain-Gut Connection
  • Julie Daniluk, Holistic Nutritionist: Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Reducing Depression and ADHD
  • Trudy Scott, Certified Nutritionist: Anxiety, Pyroluria and Amino Acid Therapy

Here is a gem from Dr. Kelly Brogan:

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Here is a gem from Dr. David Perlmutter:

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Here is a gem from Chris Kresser:

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Here is a gem from Julie Daniluk:

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Here is a gem from my interview (we’re talking about pyroluria here):

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If you’ve already signed up – enjoy the encores (and big thanks if you voted for me!)

In case you haven’t yet signed up you can do so here and listen to these encores – enjoy!
https://vt239.isrefer.com/go/summitreg/trudyscottcn/

Once the encore presentations expire on Tuesday at 10 A.M. U.S. eastern (tomorrow!), the prices to own the entire set of interviews increase from $47 to $97, and from $97 to $147.

Gain lifetime access to all expert mental health interviews. Click here to purchase The Mental Wellness Summit expert talks. They also come with some great bonus gifts, like eBooks, videos and much more (including an eBook on pyroluria from me!)
https://vt239.isrefer.com/go/summitorder/trudyscottcn/

 

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Chris Kresser, David Perlmutter, Julie Daniluk, Kelly Brogan, Mental Wellness Summit, Trudy Scott

Lithium, bipolar and heavy metal detox on the Mental Wellness Summit

August 9, 2015 By Trudy Scott 16 Comments

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Ross McKenzie, Co-founder of Mental Wellness Summit, Filmmaker of Bipolarized : Journey Beyond Meds, is interviewed by Dr. John Dempster on The Mental Wellness Summit. Here are a few snippets from the compelling interview “Journey Beyond Meds”:

  • I was playing soccer. Our soccer team in college, we were number one in the country. And then 6 months later, I’m at this seminar. I’m having this huge euphoric bliss. And then I’m in a straightjacket in a white-padded room. I’m like okay, what on Earth just happened to my life?
  • I’m just watching my life pass me by. And the expression I think of how it felt for so many years is I felt like the walking dead without the actual benefits of being dead. It was a nightmare. It was like being trapped in my body. And it was brutal.
  • So I had this big wake up call. One of the things with lithium is that you have to get your kidneys tested. It’s very hard on your organs. And you have to get blood work done just to make sure that you’re not in toxic levels. My first year of taking it, I actually almost died of lithium toxicity. It was so bad. I actually felt my body shutting down from that, which was terrifying.

Ross also talks about detoxing from prescription lithium and how he was then able to start filming his story and making the movie Bipolarized; and how there is this grassroots awakening happening right now [in integrative mental health]. His message is very clear and inspiring:

  • become your own best doctor. Become an informed consumer, do your research
  • we can actually address root cause symptoms, heal these symptoms. These diseases are not for life.
  • So there’s a place for all of it… an integrated mental health holistic model. And to have that be the norm on the planet. What an incredible thing that would be

Ross also says:

I know I can speak from experience now, too, having gone through the [heavy metal] chelation process. There are studies now saying it’s affecting the central nervous system. It can cause anxiety. It can actually lead to psychosis.

During the summit, Ross McKenzie also interviews Dr. John Dempster, who is his doctor and helped him address his high levels of heavy metals – both mercury and lead.   Here are some snippets from this interview: “Heavy Metal Detoxification and Functional Medicine”:

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  • Heavy metals are a neurotoxin. And they’re an endocrine disruptor. And in English, that means that they are going to break a lot of the chemicals, such as your neurotransmitters, which make you feel great. They make you sad. They make you sleep. They make you feel energized. They make you focused. This is your dopamine, your serotonin, your GABAs.
  • there’s a difference between what we call a toxic metal burden, which means much in your body’s tissues, versus a heavy metal toxicity, which is a bit more in the acute state of where it circulating your blood.
  • And if we aren’t being careful and we’re mobilizing these toxic agents and they get stuck in these organs, we’re going to have some kidney function issues that can affect all sorts of other aspects of our health. So this is where it does have to be done with somebody who is been trained properly in the proper detoxification programs and processes.

Dr. Dempster goes on to talk about functional testing, food, and the importance of healing the gut, sleep, nature and much more – for anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and ADHD.

Join The Mental Wellness Summit, online, August 10-17, 2015, to hear both these interviews:

  • Ross McKenzie Co-founder of Mental Wellness Summit, Filmmaker of Bipolarized: Journey Beyond Meds
  • John Dempster, ND, Co-founder of Mental Wellness Summit: Heavy Metal Detoxification and Functional Medicine

And you can listen to all the other amazing interviews that address functional and integrative approaches to root cause resolution of anxiety and depression.

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Register for FREE now at the following link: https://vt239.isrefer.com/go/summitreg/trudyscottcn/

If you know you want to purchase the interviews/transcripts, now is the time to do so – grab them at the BEFORE EVENT summit special price.

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You can place your order here https://vt239.isrefer.com/go/summitorder/trudyscottcn/

Hope to “see” you on the summit!

Please leave your comments, questions and feedback below.

 

Filed Under: Bipolar disorder, Events Tagged With: John Dempster, Mental Wellness Summit, Ross McKenzie

The Mental Wellness Summit starts soon!

July 27, 2015 By Trudy Scott 10 Comments

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The Mental Wellness Summit, online, August 10-17, 2015.

An online educational and empowering experience that explores better ways to approach and treat mental health from a root cause perspective.

Today’s powerful treatment options, including specialized diet and improved nutrition, targeted supplementation, integrative medicine, naturopathy and functional medicine, somatic therapy, chiropractic care, acupuncture, yoga and meditation, to name a few, are available but rarely considered for treating mental health. Let’s go beyond just psychiatry and drugs, and explore the best options for wellness in this evolving field.

Here are a few of the many interesting topics that will be covered at The Mental Wellness Summit:

  • Kelly Brogan, MD: Holistic Medicine and Root-Cause Resolution
  • Robert Whitaker, PhD: The Perils of Big Pharma
  • David Perlmutter, MD: Microbiome: A New Frontier in Mental Health
  • Chris Kresser, MS, LAC: About the Brain-Gut Connection
  • Ross McKenzie Co-founder of Mental Wellness Summit, Filmmaker of Bipolarized : Journey Beyond Meds
  • John Dempster, ND, Co-founder of Mental Wellness Summit: Heavy Metal Detoxification and Functional Medicine
  • Trudy Scott, CN: Anxiety, Pyroluria and Amino Acid Therapy (my interview airs on August 15th if you haven’t yet heard me speak on this topic)
  • Mansoor Mohammed, MD: Methylation, Genomics and Mood Disorders

Here are some snippets from the interview with Mansoor Mohammed, MD: Methylation, Genomics and Mood Disorders

  • getting our genetic results “moves from being generic knowledge to knowledge that is personalized. And I think that’s where the power is at.”
  • CNV: copy number variation i.e. we thought we had two copies of everything but some of us have no copies of some genes
  • were we to know our individual [detox] capacity and capability, we can far better act upon it, far better adjust our diet accordingly, improve our environment
  • the body uses methylation to reduce a very pro-inflammatory marker, something called homocysteine
  • in the last several years, there’s been a far better appreciation of the intimate link between [cardio] vascular health and mental health
  • if you have the version of COMT that is the overly fast version, when you produce dopamine, your dopamine is here one moment and gone the next
  • the 5-HTTLPR variation…. affects how well serotonin is taken back up into the cells
  • one of the most exciting genes and variations recently discovered is a gene called ADRA2b – a variation of this gene is intimately linked to how sensitive we stay to emotionally traumatic arousing events – so there are individuals that are way more likely to have that fearful personality, and that anxiety because of the strong mental links they have to certain traumatic events in their lives

Register for FREE now at the following link: https://vt239.isrefer.com/go/summitreg/trudyscottcn/

 

 

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Mental Wellness Summit

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