PTSD - Regenerative Nutrition Should Help Vets

Phillip Leveque is a Combat Infantryman, Physician and Nutrition Biochemist.

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(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Veterans are injured, the VA is broken, and it is time for someone to step up to fix this problem. Many, including myself, talk about how medical marijuana helps veterans with PTSD. Regenerative nutrition can help anyone with PTSD, whether they use medical marijuana or not.

The Veteran’s Administration (VA) is not staffed to handle the influx of PTSD veterans. Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are not receiving proper care or respect. Most have not sought treatment and those that do have often stigmatized and given ineffective prescriptions that erode their quality of life.

Last week the (Military Personnel Evaluation Question 21) was amended to exclude military service or family issues as reasons to penalize a serviceperson's career. Nearly 20 percent of military service members who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan -- 300,000 in all -- report symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder or major depression, yet only slight more than half have sought treatment, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

Let’s give them something that may actually work, now. Regenerative Nutrition helps all parts of the body repair and should help the body repair the neurological damage of PTSD.

We are assembling a pilot study to examine the impact of a regenerative nutrition product in people with PTSD. This cell renewal beverage from a high-end biotech company has been found to improve mental clarity, focus, vital energy, stress management, and cognitive function in the general population. If the average person is aided by this beverage, how much of a difference it could make in the lives of people with PTSD. This study could show a simple way to improve the quality of life in veterans with PTSD.

According to the Veteran’s Administration website, 8% of the population will have PTSD at some time in their lives and 5.2 million Americans each year suffer from PTSD. The VA reports that PTSD affects 30% of Vietnam veterans, 10% of Desert Storm veterans, 6-11% of veterans from Afghanistan, and 12-20% of veterans from the Iraq war. The real numbers today are probably much higher.

A 2004 study in the New England Journal of Medicine examining veterans from the current combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq found that only 23-40% of veterans and military personnel with PTSD sought treatment for the condition. PTSD has not been treated very effectively with western medicine. Clinics have tried every anti-psychotic and anti-depressant in the book as well as highly potent pain killers like Oxycontin and Morphine with minimal success for PTSD. They did end up with thousands of drug addicts and alcoholics. Veterans are suffering. Rates of suicide and depression among army personnel reached a 26-year high last year, according to the recently released 2006 Army Suicide Event Report. Improvements to the treatment of PTSD could vastly benefit those afflicted, their families, and a society that has been charged with their care.

People with PTSD need to repair their damaged nervous systems to be able to heal. The cell renewal beverage is made from nature’s pharmacy and is safer than the food we eat. Unlike dangerous pharmaceutical drugs which merely mask symptoms, this beverage could go to the root of the problem, by helping the body repair damage to the brain.

We should not let people with PTSD or their families continue to suffer. We need a solution for PTSD. This cell renewal beverage can’t hurt, but it could make all the difference in the world for people with PTSD. The VA doesn’t have an answer, but perhaps we do.

Please help us make a difference: Join our study and help us to take action now. Email us at info@hopefromrenewal.com to get involved.