Healing with DMSO by Amandha Vollmer

Author:Amandha Vollmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Published: 2020-04-07T00:00:00+00:00

Mental Health

Your mental health is extremely important and you should always consult your holistic therapist or properly trained psychologist before making changes to your mental health regimen. In this section we will focus on why DMSO might be helpful for certain mental conditions, but I will not provide any DMSO-based therapies as I’ve done for other conditions.

The first thing to note is that there is a strong link between inflammation and mental health issues. Danish researchers found a strong correlation between infection, autoimmune disorders, and mood disorders, supporting the hypothesis that depression is directly linked to inflammation.83 Another study found that high levels of a by-product of inflammation, quinolinic acid, are associated with suicidal tendencies and chronic depression.84

Researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s (CAMH) Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, scanned the brains of 20 patients with depression and 20 control participants with positron emission tomography (PET).85 The scans showed statistically significant inflammation in the brains of those with depression, correlating the most depressed with the most inflammation. A 30 percent inflammatory increase was seen in those experiencing clinical depression. Another CAMH study showed that people with untreated depression for more than 10 years had higher brain inflammation than those who were treated.86

The reason why it’s important to note the correlation between mental health issues and inflammation is because DMSO can act as an anti-inflammatory agent. One study found that DMSO was useful in treating various mental conditions like schizophrenia, manic depression, psychosis, delusional states, anxiety, and others.87

In this study, researchers observed 14 acute and 6 chronic patients with schizophrenia who were treated with intramuscular injections of 50 to 80 percent DMSO in saline. All patients were discharged from the hospital after 45 days. Three patients recovered completely within 15 days. One of them stated, “I have been out of my mind. I don’t know what happened to me. I wonder what my children are going to say.”88 They all experienced a quick decrease in agitation, recession of persecution or paranoid feelings, a better tendency to communicate, a return to alertness, and a sense of calmness.

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