Healing Mental Illness: Orthomolecular Approach

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https://yourhealthisnobigthing.net/

In this episode, I introduce you to Dr. Susan DeLaney.

Dr DeLaney graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a

registered nurse and practiced for 8 years in various clinical settings. She then completed the

four-year, full-time residential post-graduate naturopathic medical program at National College

of Natural Medicine in Portland Oregon, one of the eight accredited schools of Naturopathic

Medicine in North America as well as an international residency with a Homeopathic physician

in India, where, like in many parts of Europe including England, Germany and France,

homeopathy is an accepted medical system. Returning to her native North Carolina, Dr.

DeLaney set up medical practice in Carrboro where she has been treating patients since 1987.

Dr. DeLaney uses centuries-old natural, non-toxic therapies and modalities informed by the

most current advances and research in the study of health and human systems.

In 2014 she began her studies with Dr. Wiliam Walsh and has continued to use his treatment

protocols for anxiety, depression, ADD, OCD and other mental health issues. She uses the Walsh

protocols along with homeopathy, nutrition, herbal therapies, to assist and support the body’s

own innate healing systems.

She has created a series of videos about nutrition for your health which challenges the low-fat

dogma and supports eating real foods along with healthy fats. Avoiding processed oils and

sugar are keys to improving your health. Check her site at https://yourhealthisnobigthing.net/

Today she speaks about:

Her Unorthodox Background and Training (3:50)

Orthomolecular Approach and Methylation (13:33)

Holistic Approach to Mental Health (20:32)

Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) (28:41)

Join me for this episode of Mommy Heal Thyself to learn more about healing mental illness with an orthomolecular approach..

Transcript
(Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast)

Speaker 1 0:25

Welcome everyone to another episode of mommy heal thyself. Today I have with me the phenomenal Dr, Susan Delaney, now I was blessed to be a part of a webinar that she did a couple of weeks ago with regards to mental health and addiction. When I heard her speak, I said, we have got to get her onto this podcast. And the reason for that is, as you know, Dr Delaney, we are dealing with a significant upsurge of mental health illnesses and addiction, especially when it pertains to our children. And unfortunately, we live in a world where the current medical paradigm is one of simply treatment that continues forever and ever and ever and ever amen till the person dies, as opposed to actually helping someone to heal. And we mamas, we want our babies to heal. And for those of us who are personally dealing with addiction, personally dealing with mental health issues, we want to be able to heal ourselves. So that is one of the reasons why I invited you to be able to speak with us today, and I would love for you to start off by telling us a little bit more about yourself and how you came to this world.

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I first started out over the RN graduate professor and eight years of clinical training, and then I moved on to a graduate degree in graduate four, um, on very often, so I went to India and

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studied there for about a year and a half back and started my practice In North Carolina, as a generalization of Boston research like 12 years

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ago, I heard Dr Walts, and

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I thought, I don't know who every this

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guy is so smart so. Up.

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I went every

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year, online, people,

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so I'm curious, is there something from your own historical backdrop that made you be drawn to what he was saying and the topics that he was discussing.

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I that. So what do you find is a common character trait of People who find themselves wanting to work with you.

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Yeah, so what is the

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significant misunderstanding that people have as it pertains to mental health, illness and addiction, that your training with Walsh has given you a very different perspective and different approach to

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I don't know Genetic, but also

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biogenic. Begin to criminal

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Like COVID and

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those people, Oh, my God, my first.

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COVID

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One of my favorite

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alcohol the definition of An

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alcoholic, someone

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knows what they should do. That's the same drug addict. That's why Dr wall decided less of workers are really want and started to change his mind, because addicts their basic problems might be successful. It doesn't really

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matter, but it does, but the chicken has

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anxiety and their self

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medical alcohol Is the alcoholics

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and I love the fact that you emphasize that it's not about just throwing everything in, including the kitchen sink at a person, but really dialing into what Walsh and Pfeiffer refer to as ortho molecular approach, the right molecules. I was curious if you could identify what are some common imbalances or deficiencies or toxicities that you have found in correlation with, say, Addiction versus add or depression or things of that nature.

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It. Those things

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are so true. They are under the.

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Me, so now

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we want to try and dig geekify this for us, normal human beings, when you say over methylation and under methylation, What exactly does that mean? In common person speak methylation?

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Your body from

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your parents. A lot of that is not enough of those individuals,

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traits as well and normal

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methylation. A normal methylated

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they're Going down

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the numbers So

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all sorts of

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other, but Not you could grow six, so my first Part

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of sexual methylation had over

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methylation five. Copper and thyroid, so very

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strong inbound part of it being

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presented,

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uh, so you know, when we talk about quote, unquote, over methylation and under methylation, one of the things that I say to people is that God creates a beautiful rainbow and we're all different. I think the biggest challenge is when we live in a world where our foods are depleted, nutritionally speaking, and we are in a very toxic context, and those things are the the agents that kind of push people over the edge, you know? So it's not that we want to get rid of. Artists, or get rid of our, you know, executive corporate people who are like, yeah, yeah, yeah, type a people. It's that we don't want them to be in that zone where it is so much to the extreme that it creates disruptions in the rest of their lives. So I was curious if you could tell us a little bit more about maybe the toxins or the nutritional deficiencies that can lead to that imbalance of that tipping of The of the scale, so to speak.

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I progress.

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Progressed.

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It goes back

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a lot of the Yeah, yeah, I like the fact that you're you're affirming the reality that when we're dealing with complex issues such as autism, even add ADHD, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, it's definitely multifactorial. And you know, we live in a world where people want to have a simple pill for the ill. They want to feel like, you know what? This is the problem. And if I do this one thing, it will resolve that issue. And what we're what you're emphasizing to us is that we need to be a lot more holistic in how we address the symptom profile that we're dealing with. So you know whether you're dealing with autism or add or schizophrenia or or depression, anxiety, whatever it is, the root causal factors are similar, and it's just that it will manifest differently in different people based on their genetic profile. So for one person, an imbalance in the gut microbiome will manifest as autism. For another person, it can manifest as depression, for another person, that can manifest as anxiety, and a whole slew of other things depending on the backdrop, you know, so for us to not be locked into what I refer to as medical Hexing, where everybody gets so caught up in the label and we're we're so obsessed with labeling people that we forget that we're dealing with people. We're dealing with unique creations that are divinely molded together, that come into this world and will interact with the world in different ways. I

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that? Yeah.

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Uh, diff exactly, and for us to recognize those differences, because I think when we use prefixes such as over and under, it gives that kind of judgmental perspective as you're less than, or you're more than, as opposed to you're just different. You know, if we could just sit to the scale and say, Okay, on a scale of one to 10, your methylation is this or that, but it's not an indicator of you being less than it's just a matter of you interacting with your world differently. And we need all people you know, so I actually look at even the people who have say, pathways, detoxification pathways that aren't as robust as other people. I love those people because in reality, those are our canaries in the coal mine. Those are our signalers that say to the rest of us, you know, robust detoxifiers, hey, there's something toxic. You may not be aware of it, but I'm just going to let you know that there's something not too copacetic in this world, and if you don't address it, then you too are going to be affected if you let it get out of hand. So I love the fact that we have various different people with different modalities. You know, some people are strong, robust, gut people, and some people are not. They're going to respond to the gluten more so than other people, but they're the ones that we need, because they're making us realize that this gluten is having a detrimental effect on our microbiome that we may not have recognized until it was too far gone, because, you know, we've got kind of stone stomachs, or whatever it is. So we appreciate all the various types of canaries that we have in our world. And every single one of us is some sort of Canary. There's nobody that has, you know, optimal everything, every single one of us has a weak link that makes us the signal for something in our environment. So anyway, is there anything that we have not discussed today that you feel is really critical for Our audience to know.

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Hmm, the

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community, Hmm,

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yes,

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yeah, yeah, it's anyone who has four or more of the ACES the adverse childhood events has a higher risk factor. I think it's about 70% increase risk factor for developing a chronic illness. And I love that you bring up that point, because, unfortunately, we live in a world that is constructed around the physical, and I don't think that we truly have an appreciation for the emotional, mental, spiritual journey that an individual has and how it contributes to The creation of disease and the Evolution of chronic illness. Absolutely.

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Yeah. Very, very important. Wow, I.

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