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Gosh, thanks.

Glad you liked it. In addition to 35 years in practice I spent 8 months doing the reading for that video and weeks written and re filming the video. I’m happy with the content but the sound got corrupted when I made the final edits and I couldn’t repair it, so I’m going to have to re-film it. The next version will better so it’s not a total loss.

If you mean micronutrients like zinc and lithium then yes, very much so. Also polyphenols from diet are helpful because they reduce inflammation. Is that what you mean, or are you referring to something else?

You are so welcome! I’m making a new video on lithium orotate dosage compared to lithium carbonate.

I teach the meditation techniques in online classes, you can book on my calendar link: Calendly.com/PeterSmithUK Book for week/class 1 , there are 3 weekly classes. If you want to email me: PeterSmithUK@yahoo.com

For some reason you cannot just click on the email address you need to type it into your email address bar. PeterSmithUK@yahoo.com

Many people need a strong treatment effect than low doses lithium orotate can provide. I’m next video is about this subject: what’s the equivalent treatment dose of lithium orotate to lithium carbonate. If you want to catch that subscribe and click the notifications bell. Basically there isn’t an equivalent dose, it’s not as strong. To achieve an effective treatment lithium orotate has to be combined with multiple other supplements and treatments including darkness therapy. When all these treatments are added together they can produce a powerful effect. Lithium orotate is not enough on its own for my bipolar, but when combined with a large stack of supplements and other things including a healthy diet sleeping techniques I’m able to put my bipolar completely into permanent remission. If you would like me too develop a treatment program for your type of bipolar you can book an appointment on Calendly.com/petersmithuk

High doses of lithium can negatively affect kidney function. But there’s a study showing low doses of lithium are actually beneficial to the kidneys, and slow down age related kidney decline. I’m explaining this in a new video in a few weeks. I wouldn’t take lithium orotate if it was doing to damage my kidneys.

Thanks, I’ve just made another video on lithium and that’s the first of several new videos I’m making on lithium.

Ok thanks Do you mean on this video? I thought the sound had come out ok on this one. I made a video about the 15 Causes of Bipolar in which the sound got corrupted and it’s terrible so I’m gonna have to remake that video. It takes me days of filming and editing for these videos so it’s a big deal to have to remake one, especially an hour long one. Please let me know which video has the poor sound, I want to get that right

Yes, it is. Good luck with your recovery.

@ you’re the man! Love your videos thank you!

I talk more about depression and lithium orotate in this video th-cam.com/video/AQhUBNd1cyo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=i558SzbbKIvcph5U

Theoretically it shouldn't make a difference which brand, but can lithium orotate should be the same; but in practice I'm sure I can feel a difference and many other people say the same. The 2 brands I get the best effects from our: Advanced Research Lindens available in the UK

@ I don’t live in the UK but I have access to KAL, Swanson and life extension. Which one do you recommend best or have had the best results with?

Advanced Research in the US

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments I’m in the EU.

Many of my patients do perfectly well on a healthy Paleolithic diet which includes a palm size of animal protein, a tennis ball of (healthy) carbohydrate and 50% of the plate being coloured plant foods for polyphenols. This is also an enjoyable and easy diet to follow. The other 2 therapeutic diets with great potential for bipolar disorder and other mental health problems of a ketogenic diet and the plant; interestingly they are extremely different. A diet very high in polyphenols to reduce inflammation and grow and develop the gut microbiome is a goal we should all achieve from our diet. Another goal is to minimise inflammation because inflammation is a driving force behind the big 4 mental health problems (bipolar, schizophrenia, OCD and chronic depression). In bipolar specifically inflammation drives up glutamate in the brain. The best diet by far to achieve the above 2 goals is a plant-based diet which is what I now do. The famous alternative diet for bipolar, schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder is the ketogenic diet. People often exaggerate how much evidence that is supporting the ketogenic diet for the treatment of mental health problems. There is some evidence although a lot of it involves studies that were only run for a short time and included a few people; nevertheless the results do look promising. But there is no right one size fits all diet. Last week I spoke to someone that was bipolar symptom-free when there were only ketogenic diet but they just cannot maintain it; and a poorly maintained ketogenic diet is quite harmful to the body. When you are in a state of ketosis the so much that inside the muscle and liver cells that it changes the insulin receptor sites and we are technically insulin resistant. A question which needs to be answered is does this actually matter as long as you never eating carbohydrates? But for someone that regularly breaks their ketogenic state starts eating carbohydrates they are now doing this in a state of insulin resistance and this is harmful to the body. So the first rule of the ketogenic diet is never break it, absolutely no cheap dates well maybe once a year. I it's critical have to have your levels tested to make sure that you are actually genuinely in a state of ketosis. So if a person likes a ketogenic diet and they can maintain it, permanently maintain it, then it's worth trying. To be an effective therapy for an individual diet has to make scientific sense but also be something that the person can and will actually do long-term. A big unanswered question, though there is research going on, is how therapeutic the ketogenic diet is for cases of bipolar type II as opposed to cases of bipolar type I. It may turn out that it is mainly therapeutic for bipolar type I, I believe this is being researched currently in Edinburgh University. Despite being the potentially great treatment for some conditions the ketogenic diet is not all it is claimed to be. All over TH-cam people are saying that the ketogenic diet reduces inflammation, but it does not negatively impact cholesterol and triglycerides, and they ignore the insulin resistance risk. People claim the ketogenic diet is wonderful for everything from epilepsy to heart attacks, and this is ridiculous it's not snake oil. The ketogenic diet has side effects, you should think of it like you think about most medical treatments, there are benefits and there are unwanted side effects. Another example of this is the super low fat diet developed by Dr Esselstyn that appears to reverse heart disease may be great for that job would be terrible for my depression; I just couldn't do that diet. It may be an uncomfortable truth to deal with but animal protein and saturated fat raise inflammation levels and therefore the ketogenic diet will maintain higher levels of inflammation compared to a plant-based diet. But a plant-based diet doesn't give you the benefits of the ketogenic state which appears to be powerful medicine at least to some individuals. I've been studying diet and nutrition for over 40 years, eventually you realise that there is no one size fits all, a diet that can be great for one thing may cause problems somewhere else, there can be disadvantages in every diet, you have to weigh up the advantages versus the disadvantages, and none of this even matters if the person won't do the diet. In my practice I'll prescribe a plant-based protein diet when I want to achieve the lowest possible level of inflammation and all the maximum amount of weight loss. If somebody is keen on trying the ketogenic diet for bipolar, schizoaffective and schizophrenia I'll recommend they try it, with the proviso that they do 100% right. If neither of those 2 scenarios applies a healthy Paleolithic diet may be the way to go. But only in exceptionally rare cases would I endorse the carnival diet; these cases are so rare that I've never seen one. It would have to be a case involving extreme leaky gut, with high levels of bacterial translocation from the gut into the bloodstream activating the immune system, and also autoimmunity. The famous (on social media) example of this scenario is Jordan Peterson's daughter, she had such severe autoimmunity that she had to have a double hip replacement in her teens, this is a very rare and unusual medical situation. Unfortunately she has made 2 mistakes that many people make. The first mistake is to think that the diet that works for you will work universally for other people and other conditions, and the 2nd mistake is to think that a diet does not have any negative health consequences. It's alarming to me that because of the fame of her father there are now many thousands of people across the world following a carnival diet when it may actually be harming them in the long run. People with severe leaky gut bacterial translocation may initially feel great improvement in all their symptoms when they go on the carnival diet simply because there is fibrous resident left in the intestines to ferment bacteria. But in the long run the lack of healthy gut microbiome will make the situation worse. We also know that we can exert powerful therapeutic effects over the health of our brain and our mental health by growing and developing a healthy gut microbiome. The carnival diet is a last resort for people that are seriously ill within intestinal membranes and autoimmunity. I want to make a video about all of this, many people have told me not to because I will be bombarded with anger and hostility from the keto and carnivore diet community, probably even call a vegan conspiracy theorist. I'm just a practitioner trying to right diet to achieve therapeutic goals in myself and my patients, for me diets just therapeutic tools not belief systems and tribal camps. … A bit of a long answer but…

Which link are you referring to?

Ice baths release BDNF and heat-shock proteins so they up-regulate neuroplasticity and pain tolerance. Although theses effects are great they are not enough for a complete treatment of a serious mental disorder, at least not for most people. There’s so many things to fix in mental illnesses. It’s great it works for you though.

Yes, L-Reuteri and L-Rhamnosus But don’t forget they need to have something to eat to multiply and that is a high fibre diet. I’m preparing a video on treatment options and a plan to combat anxiety. It’s not a fast process but I think we now have much more effective treatments for anxiety than the drugs or just supplements.

@@solom018 try ice bathes or cold plunge daily or cold shower for 3-10 minutes and you will see your anxiety melt away

curious about his response to this question, I took 1200 mg of Lithium Carbonate for over a decade and the Orotate dose he recommends here has been working very well for me thus far. I started taking L Orotate in 2019.

@@NAVYA11 How did you switch to Orotate? Did you stop prescription lithium on your own? Or are you doing it with your psychiatrist? Mine doesn't know much about it and recommended against it, which I understand why. I might try orotate in the future if i get off carbonate.

@@OfficialRogue I did not choose to involve my psychiatrist because they all basically denied the validity of Orotate. But I can't really recommend doing it on your own either. Perhaps there are alternative practitioners like this guy who can assist you in making the best choices. Perhaps there are naturopaths who have knowledge about how to do it responsibly.

@@NorthTonawanda1 I’m going to answer that exact question in my next video. Spoiler alert, the answer might not be what you want to hear but it is what it is.

@@NAVYA11 I’m going to answer that exact question in my next video. Spoiler alert, the answer might not be what you want to hear but it is what it is.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments Yes i like more, i would like to hear some information about dlpa and tyrosine as i experience low dopamine symptoms myself outside of my anxiety problem.

You said in a video once that we could send you an email to ask for a Relaxation Response recording. Do you still have this? I sent an email a few months ago but never got a response.

Yes, more videos please

@@IntrepidDivergenceyes I was looking for it too.

I always prescribe a base combination those plus omega 3 oil.

That’s great to hear, I spent decades of my life living with life-threatening mental illness and now I’m free for a mental illness and I love my life. What gives me the greatest pleasure is helping other people to overcome their mental illnesses quicker and better than I could. If you’d like me to put an individual program together for you, I do one-to-one consultations, but you probably already know that.

@ yes sir I do. I don’t have the money for a consultation but it’d be cool to chat sometime, maybe collaborate if you’re open to that. Either way thanks again from the bottom of my heart.

I’m teaching meditation classes specifically for mental health issues You can book directly online through my calendar link Calendly.com/PeterSmithUK The courses I’m making on resilience to stress and bipolar disorder are long-term projects in the works. I’ve made another video on bipolar disorder since this one you’ve seen, Here is the link: th-cam.com/video/aP7oBpSDYIs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=q4O_XF-C7KT49mhR and this week I’m working on shorter videos answering comments about lithium orotate from previous videos.

I’m now teaching that in classes. It’s a 3 week course, you can pay for one class at a time if you just want t try the first class. Here’s the booking link calendly.com/petersmithuk

You could try adding lithium orotate and L-theanine. I do 1-2-1 consultations if you’d like me to work an individual prescription of supplements diet and brain training exercises to boost your neuroplasticity and increase your brain’s ability to repair itself. You can book here Calendly.com/petersmithuk Good luck with your recovery, the brain is repairable over time.

@ Thanks for such quick reply. Appreciate your dedication to help people from recovering after benzo use. Do you do 1 on 1 consultations with people in US?

@@sreechandra22 yes, I have many patients in the US :-) I should have said the Calendar link shows times in your time zone.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments Got it thanks. I will book a consultation.

Great, when you put together the right combination of treatments the brain can really respond.

Supplementing low-dose lithium from lithium or rotate is a great idea for people with mild depression and anxiety. On its own it’s not strong enough to combat a serious mental illness but it’s perfect for mild cases. You could experiment with taking it every day or alternate days as you are. Another fantastic treatment for mild depression and anxiety is meditation brain training. I have just started teaching a meditation technique specifically for depression and anxiety in online classes at the weekend. Studies have shown a three month course of meditation can reduce anxiety and depression by about a third; and the great thing is that the results last for years even after you discontinue the practice, so you do not have to commit to doing it every day for the rest of your life to receive the benefits. If you would like to receive some more information on these classes, I could send you that via email, Alternatively if you wanted to go ahead and simply try the first class you can book using the link below. Calendly.com/PeterSmithUK Good luck with your treatments whatever you do

Raising and maintaining glutathione levels is a great thing to do to protect the brain. Glutathione supplements are not very efficient at doing this. What I use is NAC cysteine, it’s more cost effective. NAC also protects mitochondria and at lower doses helps control glutamate. At higher doses (above 600 x 2) it can drive up dopamine which would need to be counterbalanced. You have to miss out 1 day a week otherwise after several months you just develop tolerance to it.

@ thank you so much. You’re amazing 🙏🙏

@ how about taking gaba supplements for reducing glutamate? Does it help?

You’re welcome. Right now I’m preparing my next video. It’s going to be an update on lithium orotate and I’m going to read out and answer the comments from my other videos on lithium orotate. If you have a question about lithium orotate post it and i may get included.

GABA doesn’t reduce glutamate, it could inhibit excessive firing but you would still have elevated glutamate. Taking GABA is also not efficient, to raise GABA I use theanine, taurine ashwagansha that type of thing.

Thanks

The new understanding about what causes chronic depression is that this chronic inflammation in the brain. It's been observed that in the people with treatment resistant depression there is the highest levels of inflammation and lowest levels of BDNF/neuroplasticity. My recommendation would be to concentrate on eliminating everything you can as a trigger from inflammation; this includes infections, gut health, diet, stress responses, physical activity and more. At the same time or shortly afterwards you would take a stack of supplements and other techniques to boost neuroplasticity. Although my latest video was focused on mania there is a large section in that video on how to eliminate inflammation, this is because inflammation triggers mania in a bipolar brain and depression in a depressed brain. So the information in that video could also be useful in your case. Here's the link to that video, th-cam.com/video/aP7oBpSDYIs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=xGjE99SDGpPMMTx9 see the middle section with the flowchart on how to eliminate inflammation. Good luck with your treatment.

@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments honestly they don't know what causes mental illness for sure. There's not one cause.