Category: Mental health

Why is EMPowerplus so effective?

To understand what makes EMPowerplus so effective for bipolar, depression, and other mood disorders, we must recognize the relationship between micronutrient deficiencies and the incidence of mental illness.

Could micronutrient deficiencies be affecting your mental health?

Despite efforts to eat a balanced diet with healthier food choices, most Americans—according to this USDA graph—don’t meet the recommended daily allowance for many essential micronutrients. This may be one reason why the incidence of mental illness and mood disorders, such as bipolar, continue to rise at an alarming rate.

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The good news? Current research suggests many symptoms of bipolar, depression, anxiety, and ADHD can be reduced or eliminated using the full-spectrum micronutrient formulation of EMPowerplus.

The role of serotonin in mood stability

The “feel good” neurotransmitter serotonin plays a critical role in mood regulation.

Most pharmaceutical treatments for depression are known as Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors, or SSRIs, and are supposed to keep the mood-balancing effects of serotonin working in the brain longer by blocking its re-absorption in the body.

A better way to look at the role of serotonin is to understand how the body creates this essential neurotransmitter.

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Anxiety disorder is the most common mental illness in the USA

Did you know that anxiety disorder is the most common mental illness in the United States? In fact, among people 18 and older, 1 in 5 have an anxiety disorder. Plus the mean age of onset of anxiety disorder is only 11 years old.

Check out our infographic below for other anxiety statistics and facts.

Anxiety: its prevalence and treatment [infographic]

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10 nutritional deficiencies that may cause depression

Therese Borchard, associate editor at Pysch Central, recently wrote an article about the connection between food (or the lack of it) and depression. Specifically, she highlighted 10 nutritional deficiencies that may cause depression:

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What if nutrition could treat mental illness?

Despite the advent of medications and other therapies over the last 50 years, mental illness rates have risen rather than declined. Over the last decade, scientists have been uncovering an uncomfortable truth: what we eat affects our mental health.

In this talk at the University of Canterbury, mental health researcher Dr. Julia Rucklidge discusses the data that shows an alarming picture of food choices serving as risk factors to all kinds of psychiatric problems. She also introduces the recent paradigm shift of using nutrients to treat these challenges,

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6 things a mental health researcher teaches us about nutritional psychiatry

Last month, Canadian mental health researcher Bonnie Kaplan was interviewed for the Economic Times about the emerging field of nutritional psychiatry.

Nutritional psychiatry involves the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders using nutrients. Here are 6 things we learn about nutritional psychiatry from the interview.

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6 reasons EMPowerplus surpasses other multivitamins

A common statement we hear from our EMPowerplus critics is that Truehope vitamins are far too expensive and you can get the same vitamins at Walmart (or anywhere else that says generic multivitamins) for far less money.

Now, if all things were equal (production process, composition, etc), this argument of our detractors would be right: our micronutrient formulation would be more expensive.

Here are 6 reasons why all things aren’t equal.

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Is There an Answer to Mental Illness? The Truehope story

Did you know that Truehope—and our flagship product EMPowerplus—was the subject of an hour-long documentary on Discovery Health?

In 2002, Discovery Health interviewed Truehope founder, Anthony Stephan, as well as several members of his family and several mental health professionals about the Truehope story. The documentary highlights the sadness and desperation felt by the family at the loss of wife and mother Debbie, but it also showcases the hope we’ve brought to tens of thousands of people around the world.

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Mental health and nutrition: is it finally mainstream?

Mental health researchers Bonnie Kaplan and Julia Rucklidge, who specialize in studying the connection between nutrition and mental health, recently wrote an article asking if we are finally at the tipping point—when an idea starts to become contagious—for nutrition and mental health.

Their writing comes on the heels of 4 recent articles exploring nutrition and mental health:

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Supplements offer alternative depression treatment

An American researcher recently published a paper in Clinical Psychological Science in which she reviews 200 published papers that studied the effectiveness of 5 nutritional supplements on treating depression.

The supplements studied in the papers included omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin B complex (vitamins B12, B6, and folate), S-adenoxylmethionine (SAMe), 5-hyrdoxytryptophan (5-HTP), and magnesium.

What she discovered was that omega 3 and B vitamin supplements seem to offer the best chances as nutritional therapies for depression.

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Why we offer free support with EMPowerplus

Having supported people in the Truehope program for nearly 20 years has offered us a lot of insight. Switching to micronutrients from medication (or taking them in conjunction with each other) can be intimidating.

You don’t have to try it alone. Over 85% of clients who have used our one-on-one phone support reduced or avoided withdrawal symptoms, side effects, and uncomfortable adverse drug reactions when beginning the EMPowerplus Advanced program.

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