| Allergy and Mental Disease | | | | simple that anyone with a high school education |
| The following may come as a surprise to most | | | | can easily learn how to do it, although the learned |
| people, including most medical doctors. | | | | clinicians will (as usual) protest the necessity of a |
| Most mental disease is caused by unsuspected | | | | professional approach. (This in spite of no record |
| brain allergies! | | | | of harm being done to anyone, and no license |
| This fact was illuminated for me by Dr Marshall | | | | being required to practice this simple therapy.) |
| Mandell in the early 80’s. He appeared on | | | | In 2001, Dr Jiri Tyrl of the Czech Biofeedback |
| the Phil Donahue show, and had videos of persons | | | | Society listed papers about EEG biofeedback that |
| with mental problems caused or worsened by | | | | showed the following mental diseases as being |
| allergen testing. He was the first to name such | | | | either cured or greatly improved by this feedback: |
| as brain allergies. | | | | Epilepsy; ADD/ADHD, Learning Disabilities, |
| In 1982, Dr Von Hilsheimer introduced the first | | | | Academic-Cognitive Enhancement; Anxiety |
| End-Point-Titration allergy testing into Florida, and I | | | | Disorders, PTSD, Sleep Disorders, Depression, |
| worked with him at an allergy clinic in Orlando. | | | | Hemispheric Asymmetry, Anger, Addictive |
| We amazed several MD allergists in that clinic with | | | | Disorders, Brain Injury, Stroke, Coma, Spasticity, |
| depression and many other cases being solved. | | | | Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, |
| During that time, I studied allergy/sensitivity | | | | Autoimmune Dysfunctions, Headache and other |
| extensively. I found a list of mental diseases | | | | Pain, Schizophrenia, Obsessive Compulsive |
| caused by allergens that surprised me. None of | | | | Disorders, Parkinson's Dystonia, Tourette's |
| my previous experience and learning in psychology | | | | Syndrome, Autism; Cognitive Decline with Aging, |
| had prepared me for such. I found the following | | | | Asthma Hypertension Dissociative Disorders, |
| in a standard text on allergies as Mental | | | | Creativity, Optimal Functioning, Criminal Recidivism. |
| Symptoms. It surprised me, and probably will | | | | This list was further proof (to me at least) that |
| you. | | | | allergens were involved in much more mental |
| Schizophrenia, depression, hyperactivity (ADD | | | | disease that was suspected, and that this |
| ADHD), Emotional instability or hypersensitivity, | | | | particular EEG biofeedback (now known as raising |
| Insomnia, Chronic fatigue, crying jags, stuttering, | | | | the SMR brain wave), DID somehow relieve this |
| excessive daydreaming, anxiety, panic attacks, | | | | allergen susceptibility. (Both my wife and I have |
| withdrawn, listless, seizures, aggressive behavior, | | | | either cured or alleviated lifelong allergies.) |
| anger, irritability, silly, tense, restless, excited, | | | | |
| agitated, behavior problems in children, difficulty | | | | In 2004, one of those comic light bulbs went on |
| concentrating, memory loss, poor comprehension, | | | | above my head, and I realized that it should be |
| confusion, impaired attention, obsessive thoughts, | | | | possible to do the same thing - namely raise the |
| compulsive behavior, feelings of unreality, | | | | SMR brain wave - by use of subliminal |
| disorientation, false beliefs or delusions, | | | | messaging. |
| hallucinations, suicidal, feel like hurting self. | | | | I put out a call for volunteers, and got over 20, |
| While giving a 4 day orthomolecular seminar in | | | | who sent me weekly emails for 4 weeks. Most |
| Soviet Georgia in 2000, I was introduced to the | | | | were various types of ADD/ADHD, with a few |
| latest EEG biofeedback therapy of raising the | | | | depressives and insomniacs mixed in. The results |
| amplitude of the brain waves just above Alpha, in | | | | definitely showed that both my allergen theory |
| the range of 12-15 Hz. (later named the SMR | | | | and my subliminal theory were correct. |
| brain wave) In the discussion, I remembered that | | | | In 6 more volunteer tests since that time, we |
| list of mental diseases caused by allergens. I | | | | have shown that this therapy (named Neuroliminal |
| then proposed the following theory: Raising | | | | Training) is at least as effective as EEG |
| the SMR brain wave somehow changed the | | | | Biofeedback (aka Neurofeedback) for ADD |
| affect of allergens on the brain. To date, no | | | | ADHD, depression, insomnia, autism, and |
| other theory fits the data. | | | | epilepsy. |
| When I returned to the US, I started the first | | | | We’re going even further with a current |
| leasing of EEG BF equipment for home use. As | | | | test that includes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, |
| you can imagine this did not endear me to the | | | | Fibromyalgia, PTSD, Depression of all types, etc. |
| clinicians who were charging up to $250 per half | | | | This test will end in January 2009. |
| hour for the service. The actual operation is so | | | | |