Nutrimed Labs: ALCOHOLISM

Condition: ALCOHOLISM

SUGGESTED NUTRITION:

Glyco Plex #970
Massive doses of vitamin B-complex with chromium are often needed as major nutritional deficiency is in this area. Divided doses. ( 3 caps. twice per day)

Livatrate #982
Normalizes liver function, aiding carbohydrate metabolism and glycgen conversion into glucose to maintain normal blood sugar levels.

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PATHOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS:

An insidious form of drug addiction resulting in progressive degeneration of tissue throughout the entire body. The central nervous system is the first to be affected with degenerative changes taking place in the peripheral nerves and eventually the brain itself is permanently affected. The liver is the most seriously affected organ with eventual irreversible damage occurring in the form of cirrhosis. The gastrointestinal tract is subjected to constant irritation and gastritis appears to be related to the effect of alcohol on gastric secretions which are increased in volume and acidity while the pepsin content remains low. The heart and blood vessels also undergo degenerative changes and hypertension and coronary artery disease is commonly associated with alcoholism. Degenerative changes also take place in the kidneys, pancreas and adrenals.

PHYSIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS:

A state of malnutrition always exists in the alcoholic. A marked deficiency in vitamin B-complex, especially B-1 and B-3 is noted. Symptomatology suggests that it is allied with, or is a form of, Beriberi, or thiamin (B-1) deficiency. There is also a very marked correlation between alcoholism and hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar. E.M. Abrahamson, M.D., states in his book "Body, Mind and Sugar", that alcoholism is caused by a deficiency in the adrenal cortical hormones - whose action is antithetical to insulin, ... and that (the resulting) hyperinsulinism, with its chronic partial blood sugar starvation, is an essential underlying condition of alcoholism, thus the need for GTF Glucose tolerance factors.

TREATMENT:

We consider alcoholism to be a nutritional deficiency disease and treatment is aimed at correcting these deficiencies through adequate diet and use of natural, concentrated food supplements in large amounts, often in massive doses of megavitamin therapy.