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On November 13, 2000, I made a presentation to a scientific conference held in San Francisco on mood and the brain.⁸ My staff and I had been asked to review the files of one hundred randomly selected clients who had come to our clinic with significant mood problems. Of the one hundred, ninety-eight had reported major improvements in mood within two weeks, most within twenty-four to forty-eight hours, using the amino acids, the basic nutrient supplements, and the good-mood foods that you’ll be reading about in this book. Twelve weeks later, eighty-three had sustained or exceeded those improvements. The depression, anxiety, oversensitivity, and stress that had brought them to us in the first place had disappeared.

You can expect to experience the same kind of relief from your own false moods, just as quickly. After all, you’ll be using the same techniques. As you’ve seen, many of the nutritional strategies I’ve discovered were developed while I was directing treatment programs for people with addictions and eating disorders. As a result, they’ve been honed on some very serious false moods. If the Mood Cure worked for them, it’s very likely to work for you.

But the Mood Cure is not for everyone. I would love to be able to say that at our clinic we’ve learned how to eliminate all false mood problems, but I can’t. We do not specialize in, and have very little experience with, severe false mood states such as autism, psychosis, bipolar disorder, violent rage, or paranoia—the biochemical imbalances commonly referred to as mental illnesses. Other clinicians have had experience treating these conditions with natural therapies, sometimes very successfully. Suggestions on finding practitioners, clinics, books, and Web sites that can advise you on how to deal naturally with mood disturbances that The Mood Cure does not address can be found in the “Resource Tool Kit,” page 289. If you have such problems, please do not use the supplements suggested in this book without expert guidance. They could actually make your particular biochemical imbalances worse.