PREVENT RELAPSE WITH BIOCHEMICAL RESTORATION
Most alcohol dependent people fail to meet their brain’s nutritional needs. In addition, due to the presence of alcohol in their system, and any other drugs or medications they are taking, their bodies are unable to metabolize healthy food, even if it is present. When the brain and body are lacking in vitamins, minerals, amino acids, essential fatty acids, trace elements and enzymes, all the physical, emotional and mental symptoms common to alcoholism are present. Conversely, when the brain and body are restored to biochemical balance, most of these symptoms are relieved as well.
Many emotional and mental symptoms are relieved
simply by normalizing brain chemistry.
Suka Chapel-Horst, PhD, RN, Director of ARISE Alcohol Recovery treatment program, conducted a survey of 62 alcohol dependent people in a hospital-based medical detoxification program. In this 2009 study 95% of the people surveyed did not have adequate nutrition for maintaining balanced brain chemistry. In another research study of 100 alcohol dependent individuals approximately 88% were hypoglycemic, 73% had allergies, 55% had environmental sensitivities and 55% of women and 35% of men had histories indicating probable candida overgrowth.*
Talk therapy cannot heal these physical problems.
Researcher and author Emanuel Cheraskin, M.D. states, “Too much therapeutic emphasis has been placed on psychological factors, while more basic biochemical deficiencies and defects in body chemistry have received relatively little attention.”**
Only biochemical restoration can bring the brain and body back to normal. Permanent recovery, without dry drunk symptoms, cravings or relapses, is rarely possible unless the physical brain and body are restored to a healthy condition.
* Joan Matthews-Larson, Ph.D. , Seven Weeks To Sobriety, 41-42
** E. Charaskin and W. Ringsdorf, New Hope for Incurable Diseases (New York: Arco, 1971), 61-62
