Advanced Nutrient Therapy is an individualized, prescribed treatment of vitamins, minerals and amino acids to rebalance the brain’s biochemistry. As a “natural match” to our internal chemistry, nutrients can sustain, build, activate, modulate, repair, and support healthy brain and body function.
The Mensah Medical physicians treat symptoms by creating targeted Advanced Nutrient Therapy to correct the “root causes” of specific biochemical imbalances. Based on extensive research, this form of advanced treatment has proven to be a safe and efficient non-drug approach towards wellness.
The brain is a “biochemical factory”. Given the proper supply of building blocks and co-factors (vitamins, minerals and other nutrients), the brain creates biochemical processes essential for normal brain function. Imbalances can alter brain levels of key neurotransmitters, disrupt epigenetic regulation of synapse activity, and cripple the body’s protection against environmental toxins. Based on genetics and epigenetics, individuals are biochemically unique and therefore, a comprehensive analysis is required to normalize the blood and brain levels of these chemicals. By understanding science-based biochemical “biotypes”, nutrient therapy treatment aims to heal the brain and correct biochemical imbalances.
Advanced Nutrient Therapy is based on a comprehensive medical evaluation with a thorough diagnosis of the patient’s clinical history, observation of behavior, mood and physical symptoms including a brief physical examination. Clinical laboratory testing is ordered and evaluated to further determine the patient’s individual nutritional deficiencies and overloads. Based on concrete evidence, testing validity and reproducibility, our physicians are able to formulate a treatment plan with the proper dosing of specific nutrients required to repair and restore brain health. A review of current medications and supplement interactions is also evaluated.
The nutritional therapies that Mensah Medical provides go beyond taking over-the-counter multi-vitamins, trial-and-error single supplements or changing one’s diet. While a healthy diet is important, it cannot compensate the adequate amount of nutrients that the brain needs to function. For example, for some, it may be physically impossible to consume bushels of oranges to correct a Vitamin C deficiency. Fortunately, with an understanding of Advanced Nutrient Therapy, an individual’s specific biochemistry and imbalances can be properly identified and successfully treated. Keep in mind that taking the dosages daily is paramount to achieve optimal well-being.
The early pioneers in nutritional treatment of mental illness including Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D., and Carl Pfeiffer, M.D., Ph.D., found success in treating mental illnesses using high doses of selected nutritional supplements. The original Pfeiffer Treatment Center (now closed) and the work of William J. Walsh, Ph.D., continued Dr. Pfeiffer’s work and found that biochemical imbalances are the underlying cause of behaviors found in many common learning, mood and behavioral illnesses – AD(H)D, autism, behavior disorders, depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease. Mensah Medical physicians advance the revolutionary work of Dr. Walsh and other nutritional pioneers by using Dr. Walsh's nutrient therapy system in clinical practice. They work closely with Walsh Research Institute updating therapies and protocols, initiating new, cutting-edge paradigms, and serving as clinical instructors for WRI’s international doctor training programs in Australia, Ireland and other countries.
