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 In a feature report in the Edmonton Vue Weekly, Connie Howard writes about EMPowerplus and its effect on a number of participants as well as some doctors' (and others) positive responses to its use. Below are a couple of stories from her article: one of a long-time Truehope participant and one of a California doctor who has been using EMPowerplus in her practice for a number of years.
Jerry's Story
“Eight years ago, Jerry Oler was at the end of her rope. The Lethbridge woman had been living with bipolar and obsessive compulsive disorder for 37 years. She made her first suicide attempt at the age of 14. She’d been hospitalized 18 times. She’d tried all the psychiatric drugs; all of them caused side effects that, to her, were worse than the illness itself. She was on a three-month waiting list for a new psychiatrist when a close friend told her about a nutritional supplement that had allegedly been working for others.
“I know you love me,” Oler recalls saying, “but I’ve been getting the best medical care and the most powerful drugs all of these years, and you think a nutritional supplement is going to fix me?” She rejected the idea. Three years later, at a wedding reception, Oler came across a pamphlet for the same nutritional supplement. A company representative (also a wedding guest) claimed that seriously ill people got well from using the supplement. Oler was spending over $600 a month on prescription medications at the time. Her daughter offered to pay for the first two bottles of the nutritional supplement, and because she felt she had nothing to lose, Oler tried it.
At first she felt worse and wanted to quit, but her husband held her to her promise to stick with it for three months. Six weeks later, on August 25, 2000, Oler took her last psychiatric drug. After 37 years of misery, claims Oler, she is well.
Over the phone from her home in Lethbridge, Jerry Oler tells me it’s been eight years since she left psychiatric medications behind in favour of a nutritional supplement.
“I was taking over 70 pills a day, couldn’t work, depended on social workers, welfare, home care support, you name it,” she says. “Now I can work, pay taxes, enjoy my grandkids. I haven’t been back to the psych ward. I haven’t needed to be on suicide watch. I used to have rages; I used to beg for death. I needed someone to stay with me when my husband went to work. Now I’m fine. And I wouldn’t go back on psychiatric meds, not for anything, not ever.””
Dr. Goldstein's Experience with EMPowerplus
“Some doctors trained in traditional psychiatric medicine have already waded in beyond the shoreline of convention. “I just love getting up to go to work,” says psychiatrist Estelle Goldstein. “It’s very satisfying to see [mental illness] symptoms recede, and to see them recede without side effects is even better. But the life changes that go over and above the change expected to come with the alleviation of symptoms…it’s just very, very exciting.” She’s talking about the people she sees in her psychiatry practice, people she now treats primarily with an array of natural health products—of which she says EMPowerplus is now the cornerstone.
Goldstein, who has served residencies in general surgery, neurosurgery and psychiatry, and fellowships in neurology and psychopharmacology, was a big fan of psychopharmacology…at least until she found herself in “some serious metabolic misery.” She learned about natural
approaches to health, and found, much to her surprise, that the topic of nutritional therapies
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Dr. Estelle Goldstein
Psychiatrist
San Diego, California |
was backed by sound science and discussed even in mainstream medical journals. Wanting to apply her newly discovered knowledge to psychiatry, she stumbled upon Truehope through the research conducted by Dr. Kaplan at the U of C.
I opened Pandora’s box,” laughs Goldstein. “I called Bonnie [Kaplan] and asked if this stuff really works and she told me ‘You bet it does!’ Which it does, though I have to insert a disclaimer here. Not everyone responds equally, and I don’t use only EMPowerplus. I use it in conjunction with essential fatty acids and specific amino acids, and, when patients still don’t respond fully, a holistic approach that addresses related underlying health and metabolic disorders. But still, I see so much I never dreamed I’d see. I’ve been in practice for 17 years and I’m amazed with the results I see. These nutrients get past the blood/brain barrier and they work.””
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