The medical profession offers no explanation for the illness except that it may be caused by a lack of the mineral lithium. However, the synthetic litihum when administered, can cause many problems including kidney damage and interference with thyroid function. I feel the most important causes for manic depression include hypoglycemia, vitamin and mineral deficiencies,a previous severe emotional trauma, poor circulation of blood to the head, and abnormalities of the endocrine system. For food programs, I have found a vegetarian food program to be the best in managing the emotions. According to ancient yogic texts, a vegetarian diet helps produce a calmness in the mind.
Eatin meat tends to produce more anger, irritation, fears, and other intense emotions.
I had a client diagnosed with manic depression and her problem was that her blood sugar levels had been spiking up and down all the time, which caused her to have wide mood swings. If you can eliminate the sugar, refined flour and caffeine out of your diet, after a while, things just have to get calmer. I also had another client with manic depression who came out of his severe depression with a green food formula which he took for about a week, when he noticed his depression he had had for years was gone. He continues to take this formula. The algaes in this formula were helping to stabilize his blood sugar levels as well as supplying trace minerals and essential amino acids that he had not been getting on his Standard American meat-based diet.