The Missing Link: Transforming Mental Health with Precision Nutrient Therapy – Issue 01

Village Green Nutrition Team on 07/24/2024

We are in the midst of a mental health crisis. Millions of Americans (more than 30% of the population) are struggling with conditions like anxiety, depression, ADHD, autism, addiction, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, among other mental health disorders. Rates continue to rise, despite more and more individuals taking psychiatric medications. Our medical system’s one-size-fits-all approach of treating symptoms isn’t proving effective. It is failing to address underlying root causes and ignoring the fundamental role that nutrients play in mental health. There is an overwhelming need for a new paradigm in mental health.

Unlocking the Potential of Precision Nutrient Therapy

In conventional care, mental illnesses are often viewed as single disorders. For example, in mainstream psychiatry, it is believed that all depression involves low serotonin, so antidepressant medications are given. While this can be helpful for some, for others it can have detrimental effects. We now know that depression and anxiety and other mental health disorders are just umbrella terms for conditions that can involve very different underlying imbalances and require very different treatment approaches. It is essential to understand and address each individual’s unique needs.

Precision nutrient therapy is the powerful missing link for transforming mental health. By using a highly personalized approach that focuses on lab testing, we can accurately assess one’s biochemical needs and provide targeted nutrients to effectively correct imbalances and optimize each person’s brain chemistry. This game changing breakthrough can revolutionize how we address mental health conditions and help millions of people.

Nutrients: Essential Brain Building Blocks

The brain is a chemical factory that requires an ample supply of specific nutrient raw materials to produce neurotransmitters, like serotonin and dopamine. Nutrients—including amino acids, vitamins, and minerals—play a pivotal role in both nourishing and protecting the brain, as well as optimizing mood and mental well-being. Given the proper amount of building blocks and co-factors, the brain can create the biochemical processes critical for healthy cognitive function. However, without the necessary nutrients, the brain simply cannot function optimally.

Biochemical Individuality

Many people have underlying genetic risk factors that can make them more vulnerable to developing mental health conditions. For example, people can exhibit an inborn tendency for abnormal levels of key nutrients directly involved in brain chemistry. In addition, environmental oxidative stress (toxins, trauma, etc.) can overwhelm the body’s antioxidant system and impact gene expression. As a result, individuals can have nutrient deficiencies and/or nutrient overloads that can have a serious impact on mental health and cognitive function.

An individual’s Epi-Bio-Genetics® (epigenetics, biochemistry, and genetics) plays a major role in how and when mental health conditions manifest. Therefore, a critical piece to providing the most personalized and effective mental healthcare is understanding one’s unique biochemistry and nutrient needs.

Root Causes Impacting Mental Health

The Walsh Research Institute has the world’s largest database that contains more than 3 million chemical test results for patients diagnosed with autism, ADHD, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and behavior/learning disorders. Forty years of data shows that 95% of mental health patients have distinct biochemical imbalances as compared to the rest of the population. These specific imbalances are present in a wide variety of mental health conditions because they directly impact the synthesis or regulation of major neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, dopamine, and GABA.

Key Imbalances

Research shows that 70% of people with mental health disorders exhibit a methylation imbalance. Methylation is a biochemical process that is involved in many of our most vital body functions, such as detoxification, controlling inflammation, DNA repair, immune function, energy function, neurotransmitter balance, and turning genes on and off. Because nutrients are key players in the methylation cycle, deficiencies, overloads, as well as oxidative stress can significantly disrupt this pathway and contribute to a wide variety of mental health conditions and other serious health conditions.
Over 90% of mental health disorders are associated with low zinc levels. When zinc is low, copper is often elevated. Copper overload is strongly associated with symptoms of anxiety, panic, sleep issues, impulsivity, mood swings, aggression, and depression. In addition, high levels of copper are commonly seen in women and linked to post-partum depression.
Pyrrole disorder is another common imbalance in mental health conditions and is strongly associated with poor stress tolerance, mood instability, anxiety, high irritability, depression, and anxiety. Elevated urine pyrrole levels are correlated with low levels of zinc and vitamin B6, as well as increased levels of oxidative stress.

Test, Don’t Guess: The Importance of Specialty Lab Testing

Because accurate diagnosis is essential for effective treatment, lab testing is critical. Village Green Apothecary’s Brain Chemistry Panel includes five key biomarkers that have been shown to accurately determine imbalances in 90% of individuals. Based on one’s methylation status, zinc and copper balance, and pyrrole levels, a nutrient plan can then be designed to correct imbalances.

One of the unique features of the Brain Chemistry Panel is that it measures whole blood histamine levels, which is a very reliable marker for determining one’s methylation status. Elevated blood histamine indicates undermethylation and low histamine is evidence of overmethylation. You may be familiar with the popular genetic MTHFR test, which tests for methylation variations. While it can be helpful for identifying one’s weakness in methylation, the MTHFR gene test cannot determine the net impact that this SNP, in addition to the many other SNPs involved in methylation, have on the body. Individuals that are undermethylated require a very different set of nutrients compared to individuals that are overmethylated.

The Transformative Power of Precision Nutrient Therapy

As compared to foreign molecules found in medications, nutrients are the only accurate biochemical keys that the brain can use for neurotransmitter balance, protection, and repair. Therefore, we can use carefully formulated nutrient blends to directly target and correct imbalances in brain chemistry and improve mental health, without side effects.

Precision nutrient therapy is a highly personalized and powerful approach of correcting one’s biochemical imbalances using specific nutrients, in precise dosing and synergistic combinations, based on one’s test results. Formulated by a skilled health practitioner, custom compounded nutrient formulas allow for enhanced absorption and increased compliance.

Research shows that by focusing on a handful of select nutrients, and balancing them, we can help most people with mental disorders. In fact, with targeted nutrients, 85% of patients report significant improvements in their mental health as well as reduced medication needs.

Village Green Apothecary & Your Path to Optimal Mental Health

If you or a loved one is struggling with a mental health condition, we can help! Our team of nutritionists and compounding pharmacists specialize in helping individuals safely and effectively restore balance and optimize their brain health using precision nutrient therapy.

To get started, simply:

Order the Brain Biochemistry Precision Nutrient Program to determine your unique needs.
Read through our Precision Therapy FAQs to learn more details about the lab testing and consultation process.
Share our 7 Simple Steps with anyone you think could benefit from this root cause, individualized approach to supporting mental health.

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The Missing Link: Transforming Mental Health with Precision Nutrient Therapy – Issue 01

Unlocking the Potential of Precision Nutrient Therapy

Nutrients: Essential Brain Building Blocks

Biochemical Individuality

Root Causes Impacting Mental Health

Key Imbalances

Test, Don’t Guess: The Importance of Specialty Lab Testing

The Transformative Power of Precision Nutrient Therapy

Village Green Apothecary & Your Path to Optimal Mental Health

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