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WWW.IHPMAGAZINE.COM MAY 2015
Rethinking Cancer Therapy
You & Your Patient: The Vital Bond
MENTAL HEALTH1 in 5 Canadians will personally experience
a mental illness in their lifetime.
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DEPARTMENTS
FEATURES
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9 Publisher’s Letter
10 Editorial Board
12 Bits and BitesIndustry and Research News
18 Product Pro�les
20 Clinic Pro�leCornerstone Naturopathic Centre
54 Exit Strategy
24 You & Your PatientThe vital bond
28 Guiding Your Patients Along the Path to Good Mental Health
30 Key phospholipid brain boosters
32 Cognitive Health – The Bene�ts That Proven, Natural Ingredients Can Provide
34 Mental DetoxAn Interview with Dr. Edward F. Group of Global Healing Centre
40 Integrative Cancer Therapy Gets Serious Support
42 Green Tea and Cancer Treatment
46 Resveratrol: A Review of Pre-clinical and Clinical Evidence in Cancer
50 Curcumin as an Adjuvant Therapy to Regular Cancer Therapy
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publisher’s letter
About two years ago, the Globe and
Mail published an article “Exposing
Canada’s ugly mental health secret,”
which revealed an astonishing truth that
many of us were not aware of.
According to the publication, men-
tal-health issues – something I refer to as
“the silent killer” – affect 1.2 million Canadian
children, and most of them don’t receive
appropriate treatment or simply don’t have
access to care.
The fifty-million-dollar economic burden
of mental health related treatments doesn’t
seem to be lightened any time soon – unless
the government introduces prevention
funding.
The idea that Michael Kirby, the founding
chairman of Partners for Mental Health,
brought up in terms of the government
funding for early diagnostics (for more infor-
mation, please go to www.ihpmagazine.com)
would not only be a step in the right direction,
but would also make more people aware of
alternative care methods and our industry.
All these elements are emphasizing the
role of practitioners in our community. With
one in five people in Canada suffering from
mental illness, help should be at an arm’s
length. Seeing that science has evolved so
much, our industry should definitely be a
part of the solution.
Fortunately, cancer research has always
had substantial support from the govern-
ment, although funding is rarely available
for the alternative cancer treatments. It’s
great news that the largest-ever North
American observation study will connect
Canadian and American health-care pro-
fessionals in studying the effectiveness of
advanced integrative oncology treatments
for late stage cancer patients – based on
both conventional and naturopathic medi-
cine. With our support and determination,
our industry can make a difference in cancer
research and save lives of those fighting
the disease.
Founder Sanjiv Jagota
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Olivier Felicio
Managing Editor Dale Sproule
Art Director Scott Jordan
Junior Designer Kaitlin Yep
Contributors Kirk A, Daniyal Abdali, Khatija Anjum, Nikita Arora, Dania Aslam, Maqbool B, Olesovsky C, Rochelle Fernandes, Jagpreet Kaler, Alex Lee, Merlano M, Shagufta Panchbhaya, Rodjanapiches R, Jordan Robertson, Mahmuda S, Nazarali S, Maisa Saddik, Tania Saha, Tanusree Saha, Billy Sun, Leonard Taylor, Ling Zeng
IHP Magazine Inc.
President Olivier Felicio
General Manager Melanie Seth
General Customer Care Manager Lucy Holden
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MAY 2015 • Volume 8 Issue 2
Olivier Felicio
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
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feature
D r. Edward Group is one of those people who – one suspects
– could speak eloquently and at length on just about any topic.
But when it comes to alternative healthcare, he’s not just
knowledgable – he is downright sagelike. Would you expect any less
from the founder of the Global Healing Centre Inc., writer of four books
and popular speaker on the topics of cleansing and detoxification?
He’s 47 years old, a fact you wouldn’t guess after experiencing
even a few minutes of his seemingly boundless energy and vitality. He
is a living testament to the efficacy of his passion for finding ways to
live a healthy lifestyle in a toxin-free environment.
He firmly believes that the toxins in our guts that create such unrest
and unhealthiness can cause just as much havoc with other major
organs – like our brains.
While some may think his extrapolations border on the paranoid,
investigation will show that there is a solid bedrock of truth underlying
all of his observations.
An Interview with Dr. Edward F. Group of Global Healing Centre
MENTAL
By Dale Sproule
DET
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feature
“One of the biggest problems we have is determining
what causes mental illness,” Group cuts directly to the heart
of the matter. “It’s not like a cancer or liver disease. There’s
nothing we can use, like blood or urine or skin or x-rays
anything that can pinpoint – or make any kind of accurate
diagnosis of mental illness.” He agrees that mental illness
stems from a chemical imbalance, but he’s one of the few
who has given adequate thought to the causes and sources
of that phenomenon and explanations for the incredible
proliferation of mental illness diagnoses in the 21st century.
“If you look back at the mad hatter or you look back in
history, all that imbalance was caused by some form of
chemical or toxin or heavy metal coming into the system
through the intestinal lining and going into the blood. One
of the reasons we have so many mental illnesses today is
because we have over 80,000 chemicals in the food and
water supply, we have excitotoxins, we are literally bathed
in chemicals all day long, through the air that we breath,
the beverages we consume, the tap water that we drink, so
many things are made with that water – every single restau-
rant cooks with it. But instead of focusing on things like
cleaning up the environment and not feeding our children
genetically modified food – we’re just creating more
chemicals.”
On his blog, Group shares a fascinating video called The
Marketing of Madness: The Truth About Psychotropic Drugs
which looks back chillingly on the historic connection
between the psychiatric profession and the increasing
prevalence of mental illness. The first edition of the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual (DSM) used as a handbook in the
psychiatric field, came out in 1952 and contained 106 mental
illnesses. The most recent volume, the DSM 5, has over 400
mental illnesses listed. What the DSMs provided was an
easy tool to diagnose mental illness.
94 percent of all people who go into a psychiatrists office
end up leaving with a prescription. And in DSM 4 they name
a condition that if you leave a psychiatrists office without a
prescription, you can be diagnosed with mental illness.
Every new mental illness defined provides “the perfect
opportunity for pharmaceutical companies to be able to
prescribe massive amounts of pharmaceuticals,” says Group.
“We gave them permission to create customers from ages
one and up. At the last world psychiatric conference they
are now saying they would like to diagnose during pregnancy
and diagnose the children in the mother’s womb for mental
illness.”
“It’s all done by design,” he says. Less by the government
than the “high level individuals who pretty much run the world
– the pharmaceutical, the giant agricultural and the oil and
gas industries – it’s really a conglomerate of industries that
are setting out to create mental illness, so they can come on
the back end to prescribe a medication not to ever cure you
but only to put you on multiple medications for life.”
Group explains that “one of the main ingredients actually
in psychotropic drugs like Prolixin, Haldol and Stelazine is
fluoride which has been used since the WWI era. One of the
things that fluoride was used for that most people don’t
know about was to calcify the pineal gland. And the pineal
gland is really where the metaphysical side is – and the
spiritual people call it the “third eye.” I’ve done a lot of
research – tracing back the addition of fluoride not only in
psychotropic drugs but the addition of fluoride in the water
system, which has basically been used to calm people down
and make them non-motivated. The whole vision is to create
a society that is dulled down, that is easily controllable – and
that relies on medications.”
He sees a huge ecological loop – a mutated circle of life
where “all these prescription medications are being excreted
back into the eco systems, having effects on fish, on the
environment.”
What we tell people to do is go through your house and eliminate all the chemicals that you consume; including the phytotoxins like MSG, artifical sweeteners and the
genetically modified food.
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You have people that aren’t even on psychotropic med-
ications that are getting them in their water supply. I think
there was a study that came out over in Europe years ago
that said that drinking one gallon of tapwater was the equiv-
alent of taking one Prozac.”
“Nobody can tell you the reaction and the effect of two
prescription drugs let alone three or four prescription drugs
at the same time. But it’s happening all the time.”
“What really scares me about the whole thing is the
attack on the children. We’re seeing children as young as
four attempting suicide. And five year olds that have actually
committed suicide. The brain is not fully functional at that
age. These kids are exposed to plastics, endocrine disrupting
chemicals, that when mixed with things like aluminum and
the compounds with the psychotropic medications it can
cause massive changes in the brain. We’re getting reports
of children between six and ten slaughtering the family pets
and not even realizing what they’re doing. That alone is
sickening and every single one of these school killers that
are going into these schools and blowing up and killing
everybody — every single one of them was on some form
of psychiatric medication and it’s completely changed their
mindset.”
“You may be born with a really good connection to God,
but these psychtropic drugs literally pull you away from
yourself. And the real question is how many geniuses are
being destroyed every single day. If you look at Einstein or
Tesla or any of the geniuses. They weren’t normal
children.”
“If you just check the ADHD medication for example –
that’s really nothing more than speed! According to the
official lists of potential side effects, these drugs can cause
psychotic and manic behaviour – so you’re trying to address
behavioural problems by giving them something that can
cause behavioural problems and depression! What happens
then? They put them on anti-depressants, because you really
only have the three big ones which are the anti-psychotics,
the anti-depressants and the ADHD medications. Then they
move on to the anti-psychotic medications, which, of course,
can actually cause psychotic and manic behaviour, plus
diabetes, obesity, convulsions and suicidal tendencies.
Everybody is being drugged up and nobody is actually
addressing the cause of the problems.
‘When you’re looking for natural solutions, you need to
address it at the root cause of the problem. What we tell
people to do is go through your house and eliminate all the
chemicals that you consume; including the phytotoxins like
MSG, artifical sweeteners and the genetically modified food.
We recommend gluten-free foods, because gluten is con-
nected with different kinds of mental illness. We have people
completely go to organic foods, which eliminates all the
pesticides and insecticides, and whatnot.
Really, it’s cleansing themselves and cleansing their
environment. Believe it or not, when you trace mood swings
or anything like that, most of it starts in the intestinal tract.
In his blog, Group states that “About 90 per cent of
serotonin is found in the intestinal tract, and roughly five to
ten per cent in the brain. In fact, a healthy intestinal tract
may correlate with healthy levels of serotonin, a monoamine
neurotransmitter responsible for regulating mood. Around
one trillion bacteria live in the gut and around 100 million
neurons also reside in the intestines, blasting the myth that
our neural health is influenced only by the brain. Really,
when it comes down to it, keeping the entire body healthy
is the only way to maintain a proper mood balance.
“You should increase your intake of probiotic food and
then acupuncture and massage can provide really beneficial
results. Sleep, believe it or not, has a lot to do with mental
illness. So make sure you’re getting eight hours of sleep and
just try to relax a little more.
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