Visionary endocrinologist John O'Dea MD has developed a powerful new system that exploits the hidden powers of the adrenal, sexual & thyroidal hormones over brain & mind so as to generate new, exciting, hormone-based, far more user-friendly methods in the effective management of mind-based disorders. 

A potent, collaborative vision

Far from obstructing the efforts of modern, science-based psychiatrists, a hormonal approach may complement their earnest efforts while reducing or even in the process eliminating a dependence on & the heavy-handed use of mind-altering, side-effect laden drugs that crudely, forcefully & directly target the brain.  Enlightened collaborations like these, between endocrinologists, gynecologists, neurobiologists & neuroimagers operating as a team can & will help clinical psychologists & psychiatrists to achieve improved mental outcomes & their patients to live better, more productive & rewarding lives, considering the fact that many persons with mental health challenges are far more intelligent than the average mental  "norm".    

The hormone/mind connection

O'Dea is an Irish physician who believes for scientific rather than arbitrary reasons that hormonal methods can revolutionize the fields of clinical psychology & psychiatry.  In extreme cases such as schizophrenia & major depression the hormonal link is an obvious one, witness the hormonal nature of postpartum depression & postpartum psychosis, but it also applies to more subtle situations such as PMS/PMDD, global anxiety disorder (GAD) & panic attacks, as well as such seemingly hormone-insensitive disorders as OCD, autism, Parkinson's disease & Alzheimer's dementia.  Furthermore we already are fully aware that disruptions in stress response machinery, involving the adrenal hormone cortisol, are a core feature of all of the disorders of mood, and have the potential to be re calibrated, with dramatic benefits. 

Never the less modern clinical medicine depends almost exclusively on psychoactive drug therapy for the forceful treatment of so-called "mental" problems, as if there was a line in the sand separating mind from body, and operates on the assumption of never-ending treatment instead of reversal or cure.  Unfortunately despite the proven, scientifically validated connections running between hormones, even the sexual ones, and mind, hormonal methods are still rarely considered in the diagnosis and/or treatment of these kinds of mentally-afflicted patients.   

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