Bipolar and Schizophrenia Recovery

Many people can recover from bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, and many other chronic illnesses.

What we eat affects our brain and our whole body. A whole food, plant-based lifestyle can prevent and reverse most chronic illnesses. Many people can recover from bipolar disorders and schizophrenia with a lower protein, whole food, plant-based lifestyle. For many people hallucinations and delusions can be eliminated with fasting or a very low protein, whole food, plant-based diet for a short time. Many people can recover from heart disease with a low fat, whole food, plant-based lifestyle. This past year Dean Ornish, M.D. showed that many people can recover from early Alzheimer’s.

If people are on medications it is very important to work with their provider regarding their medication and not to stop or reduce medication on their own. Psychotropic medications usually need to be tapered. They need to be tapered especially slowly at the end when usually minute amounts are needed which are much smaller than the smallest pill before they are discontinued.

My brother was accepted to medical school at age 19, then diagnosed with schizophrenia. He want on to study medicine successfully afterwards, but later dropped out after two and a half years. He experienced many challenges during the 44 years he was diagnosed with either a bipolar diorder or schizophrenia as so many other people with a mental illness and their families experience every day. We can do much better!

I have spent my life searching for how people can recover and trying to share this information with others. I share my brother’s story as well as the recovery of others and important little known international research and programs to transform healthcare, particularly mental health care. Use the principles in this eBook as well as the resources and links to help yourself, your loved ones and friends, patients, community, and the world.

Shirley Saucerman, M.D., Nutritional Psychiatry, Lifestyle Medicine, Anchorage, Alaska

“FOOD AS MEDICINE” is a different edition of almost the same book with different title which emphasizes the broader nature of the book for preventing and reversing many chronic illnesses.

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