Body, Mind, & Sugar by Dr. E. M. Abrahamson

Author:Dr. E. M. Abrahamson [Abrahamson, Dr. E. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hauraki Publishing
Published: 2016-08-08T18:30:00+00:00

Usually the so-called neurotic—the individual who finds it difficult to adjust to his environment—is so engrossed with his misgivings that he is difficult to question and impress. Like light-struck photographic plates, his brain cells take dim and foggy pictures of suggestions made to him. He is “negativistic”—so self-interpretive as to be impervious to whatever reaches his mind from without. He listens more to his inner voice forming the next question he is going to ask, or to the next complaint he is going to make, than to the most sincere adjurations of the psychiatrist. His brain is ill-nourished and tired from attempting to work without adequate fuel. His fatigue has begotten apprehension and his apprehension has sired distortion. Frequently he complains of many somatic ills.

Earlier it was pointed out that while chronic partial sugar starvation of the body’s cells eventually would affect some “weak spot,” the location of such a spot could not be predicted. Now, however, we can qualify that statement. Since the cells of the brain are those that depend wholly upon the moment-to-moment blood sugar level for nourishment, they are perhaps the most susceptible to damage. The disturbingly large and ever-increasing number of neurotics in our population makes this clearly evident.

After restoration of the proper nutrition to the brain, these so-called neurotics rapidly became more receptive to psychiatric persuasion. It was then that they could begin to see where the shoe pinched, where the square peg had been jammed into the round hole, where, in short, they had come into conflict with many aspects of life. And soon such patients ceased to be neurotic and were able to return to contentment in profitable pursuits. We may say that these patients had suffered from hunger not only of the body but also of the mind. When their brains were bathed in a nutrient fluid richer in sugar, they were again able to take “fortune’s buffets and rewards with equal thanks.”{81}

In support of these findings, Fabrykant and Pacella have reported electroencephalographic (brain wave) changes in hyperinsulinism.{82} It has also been shown that mental patients lack the ability to mobilize sugar in response to mental stress.{83} It is felt that this failure to respond normally is due to the fact that an excess of insulin smothers the action of the adrenal hormones to which it is antagonistic.

Of the two hundred and twenty patients who were first subjected to the Glucose Tolerance Test, two hundred and five were shown to have hyperinsulinism. All were successfully treated by means of the modified Harris diet (and by injections which will be described later). The treatment has been continued with almost seven hundred patients at this writing. In EVERY case in which the Glucose Tolerance Test has shown that hyperinsulinism was present—and these were more than 90 per cent of the total number—the patient lost his purely psychic symptoms within ten days of initiating the treatment. But another month or more is required to make the treatment stick. Several patients have learned by bitter experience that they must never take caffeine in any form.

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