Earlier this week, I posted an email I received about a nutritional supplement called EM Power Plus. The makers of this product, a Canadian company called TrueHope, claim that it can alleviate the symptoms of bipolar disorder.
In the comments to that post, PalMD, author of the WhiteCoatUnderground blog, is having what appears to be an on-going debate with Peter Helgason, the quack who emailed me.
Update: PalMD has written about the miracle cure.
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I received this email yesterday:
Hello,
I just read your post [on augmented cognition] and found it intriguing. I have been experimenting with a nutritional supplement for the past several years which was designed to treat bi-polar disorder (and it works amazing well for that purpose…
The Archives of General Psychiatry has an
open-access article about bipolar disorder in childhood (
href="http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/65/10/1125">Child
Bipolar I Disorder). I started to write
about that. But then, as often happens, I stumbled upon
something else.
The LA…
tags: bipolar disorder, manic-depression, mental health, mental illness, behavior
Image: Gerald Slota, The New York Times Magazine.
A couple days ago, I heard an interview with Jennifer Egan on WNYC about her upcoming article in tomorrow's New York Magazine about bipolar disorder, often known as…
GrrlScientist wrote
href="http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/02/diagnosing_bipolar_disorder_wi.php">a
post last month about a potential genetic test for bipolar
disorder. Read that first to get some background.
Now, it turns out that a company is selling a testing kit that you can…
Rather than continue to monopolize your bytes, I did a quick article on him on the blog. Thanks for fighting the good fight, and I hope you don't mind if I keep dropping by to put in my 2 cents (given to me by Big Pharma to do such things).
As I say in the other thread, I'm happy to have such a lively debate on my blog. Feel free to comment whenever you want to.