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Rethinking Cancer Therapy

You & Your Patient: The Vital Bond

MENTAL HEALTH1 in 5 Canadians will personally experience

a mental illness in their lifetime.

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9 Publisher’s Letter

10 Editorial Board

12 Bits and BitesIndustry and Research News

18 Product Pro�les

20 Clinic Pro�leCornerstone Naturopathic Centre

54 Exit Strategy

24 You & Your PatientThe vital bond

28 Guiding Your Patients Along the Path to Good Mental Health

30 Key phospholipid brain boosters

32 Cognitive Health – The Bene�ts That Proven, Natural Ingredients Can Provide

34 Mental DetoxAn Interview with Dr. Edward F. Group of Global Healing Centre

40 Integrative Cancer Therapy Gets Serious Support

42 Green Tea and Cancer Treatment

46 Resveratrol: A Review of Pre-clinical and Clinical Evidence in Cancer

50 Curcumin as an Adjuvant Therapy to Regular Cancer Therapy

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publisher’s letter

About two years ago, the Globe and

Mail published an article “Exposing

Canada’s ugly mental health secret,”

which revealed an astonishing truth that

many of us were not aware of.

According to the publication, men-

tal-health issues – something I refer to as

“the silent killer” – affect 1.2 million Canadian

children, and most of them don’t receive

appropriate treatment or simply don’t have

access to care.

The fifty-million-dollar economic burden

of mental health related treatments doesn’t

seem to be lightened any time soon – unless

the government introduces prevention

funding.

The idea that Michael Kirby, the founding

chairman of Partners for Mental Health,

brought up in terms of the government

funding for early diagnostics (for more infor-

mation, please go to www.ihpmagazine.com)

would not only be a step in the right direction,

but would also make more people aware of

alternative care methods and our industry.

All these elements are emphasizing the

role of practitioners in our community. With

one in five people in Canada suffering from

mental illness, help should be at an arm’s

length. Seeing that science has evolved so

much, our industry should definitely be a

part of the solution.

Fortunately, cancer research has always

had substantial support from the govern-

ment, although funding is rarely available

for the alternative cancer treatments. It’s

great news that the largest-ever North

American observation study will connect

Canadian and American health-care pro-

fessionals in studying the effectiveness of

advanced integrative oncology treatments

for late stage cancer patients – based on

both conventional and naturopathic medi-

cine. With our support and determination,

our industry can make a difference in cancer

research and save lives of those fighting

the disease.

Founder Sanjiv Jagota

Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Olivier Felicio

Managing Editor Dale Sproule

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feature

D r. Edward Group is one of those people who – one suspects

– could speak eloquently and at length on just about any topic.

But when it comes to alternative healthcare, he’s not just

knowledgable – he is downright sagelike. Would you expect any less

from the founder of the Global Healing Centre Inc., writer of four books

and popular speaker on the topics of cleansing and detoxification?

He’s 47 years old, a fact you wouldn’t guess after experiencing

even a few minutes of his seemingly boundless energy and vitality. He

is a living testament to the efficacy of his passion for finding ways to

live a healthy lifestyle in a toxin-free environment.

He firmly believes that the toxins in our guts that create such unrest

and unhealthiness can cause just as much havoc with other major

organs – like our brains.

While some may think his extrapolations border on the paranoid,

investigation will show that there is a solid bedrock of truth underlying

all of his observations.

An Interview with Dr. Edward F. Group of Global Healing Centre

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“One of the biggest problems we have is determining

what causes mental illness,” Group cuts directly to the heart

of the matter. “It’s not like a cancer or liver disease. There’s

nothing we can use, like blood or urine or skin or x-rays

anything that can pinpoint – or make any kind of accurate

diagnosis of mental illness.” He agrees that mental illness

stems from a chemical imbalance, but he’s one of the few

who has given adequate thought to the causes and sources

of that phenomenon and explanations for the incredible

proliferation of mental illness diagnoses in the 21st century.

“If you look back at the mad hatter or you look back in

history, all that imbalance was caused by some form of

chemical or toxin or heavy metal coming into the system

through the intestinal lining and going into the blood. One

of the reasons we have so many mental illnesses today is

because we have over 80,000 chemicals in the food and

water supply, we have excitotoxins, we are literally bathed

in chemicals all day long, through the air that we breath,

the beverages we consume, the tap water that we drink, so

many things are made with that water – every single restau-

rant cooks with it. But instead of focusing on things like

cleaning up the environment and not feeding our children

genetically modified food – we’re just creating more

chemicals.”

On his blog, Group shares a fascinating video called The

Marketing of Madness: The Truth About Psychotropic Drugs

which looks back chillingly on the historic connection

between the psychiatric profession and the increasing

prevalence of mental illness. The first edition of the Diagnostic

and Statistical Manual (DSM) used as a handbook in the

psychiatric field, came out in 1952 and contained 106 mental

illnesses. The most recent volume, the DSM 5, has over 400

mental illnesses listed. What the DSMs provided was an

easy tool to diagnose mental illness.

94 percent of all people who go into a psychiatrists office

end up leaving with a prescription. And in DSM 4 they name

a condition that if you leave a psychiatrists office without a

prescription, you can be diagnosed with mental illness.

Every new mental illness defined provides “the perfect

opportunity for pharmaceutical companies to be able to

prescribe massive amounts of pharmaceuticals,” says Group.

“We gave them permission to create customers from ages

one and up. At the last world psychiatric conference they

are now saying they would like to diagnose during pregnancy

and diagnose the children in the mother’s womb for mental

illness.”

“It’s all done by design,” he says. Less by the government

than the “high level individuals who pretty much run the world

– the pharmaceutical, the giant agricultural and the oil and

gas industries – it’s really a conglomerate of industries that

are setting out to create mental illness, so they can come on

the back end to prescribe a medication not to ever cure you

but only to put you on multiple medications for life.”

Group explains that “one of the main ingredients actually

in psychotropic drugs like Prolixin, Haldol and Stelazine is

fluoride which has been used since the WWI era. One of the

things that fluoride was used for that most people don’t

know about was to calcify the pineal gland. And the pineal

gland is really where the metaphysical side is – and the

spiritual people call it the “third eye.” I’ve done a lot of

research – tracing back the addition of fluoride not only in

psychotropic drugs but the addition of fluoride in the water

system, which has basically been used to calm people down

and make them non-motivated. The whole vision is to create

a society that is dulled down, that is easily controllable – and

that relies on medications.”

He sees a huge ecological loop – a mutated circle of life

where “all these prescription medications are being excreted

back into the eco systems, having effects on fish, on the

environment.”

What we tell people to do is go through your house and eliminate all the chemicals that you consume; including the phytotoxins like MSG, artifical sweeteners and the

genetically modified food.



You have people that aren’t even on psychotropic med-

ications that are getting them in their water supply. I think

there was a study that came out over in Europe years ago

that said that drinking one gallon of tapwater was the equiv-

alent of taking one Prozac.”

“Nobody can tell you the reaction and the effect of two

prescription drugs let alone three or four prescription drugs

at the same time. But it’s happening all the time.”

“What really scares me about the whole thing is the

attack on the children. We’re seeing children as young as

four attempting suicide. And five year olds that have actually

committed suicide. The brain is not fully functional at that

age. These kids are exposed to plastics, endocrine disrupting

chemicals, that when mixed with things like aluminum and

the compounds with the psychotropic medications it can

cause massive changes in the brain. We’re getting reports

of children between six and ten slaughtering the family pets

and not even realizing what they’re doing. That alone is

sickening and every single one of these school killers that

are going into these schools and blowing up and killing

everybody — every single one of them was on some form

of psychiatric medication and it’s completely changed their

mindset.”

“You may be born with a really good connection to God,

but these psychtropic drugs literally pull you away from

yourself. And the real question is how many geniuses are

being destroyed every single day. If you look at Einstein or

Tesla or any of the geniuses. They weren’t normal

children.”

“If you just check the ADHD medication for example –

that’s really nothing more than speed! According to the

official lists of potential side effects, these drugs can cause

psychotic and manic behaviour – so you’re trying to address

behavioural problems by giving them something that can

cause behavioural problems and depression! What happens

then? They put them on anti-depressants, because you really

only have the three big ones which are the anti-psychotics,

the anti-depressants and the ADHD medications. Then they

move on to the anti-psychotic medications, which, of course,

can actually cause psychotic and manic behaviour, plus

diabetes, obesity, convulsions and suicidal tendencies.

Everybody is being drugged up and nobody is actually

addressing the cause of the problems.

‘When you’re looking for natural solutions, you need to

address it at the root cause of the problem. What we tell

people to do is go through your house and eliminate all the

chemicals that you consume; including the phytotoxins like

MSG, artifical sweeteners and the genetically modified food.

We recommend gluten-free foods, because gluten is con-

nected with different kinds of mental illness. We have people

completely go to organic foods, which eliminates all the

pesticides and insecticides, and whatnot.

Really, it’s cleansing themselves and cleansing their

environment. Believe it or not, when you trace mood swings

or anything like that, most of it starts in the intestinal tract.

In his blog, Group states that “About 90 per cent of

serotonin is found in the intestinal tract, and roughly five to

ten per cent in the brain. In fact, a healthy intestinal tract

may correlate with healthy levels of serotonin, a monoamine

neurotransmitter responsible for regulating mood. Around

one trillion bacteria live in the gut and around 100 million

neurons also reside in the intestines, blasting the myth that

our neural health is influenced only by the brain. Really,

when it comes down to it, keeping the entire body healthy

is the only way to maintain a proper mood balance.

“You should increase your intake of probiotic food and

then acupuncture and massage can provide really beneficial

results. Sleep, believe it or not, has a lot to do with mental

illness. So make sure you’re getting eight hours of sleep and

just try to relax a little more.


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