Mental and Neurological Disorders 103
brain tissue only if there is suffi cient energy. An energy defi ciency can
be caused by an underactive thyroid. The brain generates more energy
than any other organ in the body. Although the brain is only 2 percent
of body weight, it uses up 60 percent of the body’s glucose reser ves and
25 percent of its oxygen supply in the production of energy. Because
of its voracious energy needs, a shortage of glucose is more injurious
to the brain than to any other organ.
Another cause of defi cient energy levels in the brain is a lack of the
hormone progesterone. When, because of extreme anxiety or depres-
sion, excessive levels of cortisol are circulating in the blood, there is
not enough cortisol left in the adrenal glands for its conversion into
progesterone. High estrogen levels also depress progesterone levels.
And excessive estrogen lowers energy production by destroying glu-
cose and oxygen. Progesterone is vital to the brain because it lessens
and sometimes even eliminates the symptoms of many brain diseases
(bipolar depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, neu-
ritis, and migraine headaches)—in some cases only forty minutes after
it is taken.
Depressed levels of glucose, of the thyroid hormone thyroxin,
and of progesterone, as well as excessively high levels of estrogen are
not the only reasons that diseased brains don’t generate enough
energy. If the oxidoreductase enzymes in the mitochondria aren’t
working, even higher than normal levels of thyroxin and glucose
can’t increase energy levels. Dr. William H. Philpott, an expert on
the therapeutic use of magnetic energy, states that the stumbling
block in energ y production in the brain as well as the cure of mental
disease with nutritional protocols is the paralysis of these enzymes.
According to Philpott, the oxidoreductase enzymes can be activated
by removing acidic wastes in the affected brain area with a nega-
tively charged magnet placed on the head. (See Resources for where
to find magnets.)
Besides thyroid supplements, progesterone, and magnetic energy,
the nutrients that stimulate respiration (energy production) in the
brain include saturated meat fats as well as vitamin B 1 (t hiam in) and
vitamin C (vitamin C helps produce the amino acid tyrosine, which is
converted into thyroxin, the thyroid hormone). Although most people
with mental disease have excess levels of copper in their blood, anyone
with a copper defi ciency needs to take a supplement that includes cop-