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Wake Up Sense is a holistic healing platform based in Utah, offering a combination of cutting edge mental health education, online psychotherapy, and all natural supplements that heal the mind and body at the cellular level.
Wake Up Sense is sparking a movement towards all natural healing for a host of mental and physical health conditions. Breaking free from big pharma to bring proven alternative natural solutions within everyone’s reach.
Wake Up Sense is led by Scott A. Lifer who founded the company in 2014 with the aim of sharing a better way of healing with the world. Guided by Scott’s personal journey, we at Wake Up Sense are on a mission to help people heal naturally, recover their vitality, and feel empowered about their own health.
Our aim is to educate people about what’s really going on in their bodies, why conventional medicine is not the answer, and how orthomolecular medicine is the key to treating the root cause of mental health problems.
Our goal is simple: To be the #1 healing modality for the entire world when it comes to taking responsibility for your #1 asset, your Health.
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How do I work with my own doctor to wean off of medications when I start to feel better?
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What is Orthomolecular Medicine?
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What is nutrition?
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Why is nutrition so important for good health?
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How is normal nutrition different from
Orthomolecular Nutrition?
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Normal nutrition, as is found in supplements in health food stores for example, has lower (prophylactic) doses of vitamins and minerals, which temporarily affect the blood serum level and are readily excreted by the body. These are mainly inorganic in nature. Hence, these do not have any lasting effect on the human body and are not optimized to alter nutritional levels inside the cell (intracellular levels).
On the other hand, Orthomolecular Nutrition comprises of much larger doses of organic minerals and vitamins which have a therapeutic effect on the human body and are optimized to alter intracellular levels of nutrition – this is where the nutrition is really required. These type of nutrients are not only readily absorbed, but are also retained by the human body for extended periods of time. Once nutritional levels are correct inside a cell, they have a more lasting effect and this can help to reduce the severity of a lot of chronic diseases, which are aggravated due to nutritional deficiencies.
Altering intracellular nutritional levels is very difficult to achieve. It requires the use of nutrients in a synergistic manner, should be organic in nature and at therapeutic dose levels. These nutrients are optimized to quickly alter nutrition inside the cell and are hence know as intracellular nutrients or Orthomolecular Nutrition and the science as Orthmolecular Medicine. Hence, Orthomolecular Nutrition comprises of very complex formulations and are different from standard off the shelf nutritional supplements available at health food stores, which are low dose and prophylactic in nature.
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What are some of the practical benefits of using Orthomolecular supplements?
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Orthomolecular supplements have therapeutic benefits on the human body. For example, they can be used to reduce the severity of the symptoms of depression / anxiety, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, enlarged prostate, hormone imbalance, thyroid problems, to name a few.
Almost all chronic diseases can benefit from the use of therapeutic doses of nutrition formulated as per the requirements of Orthomolecular Medicine.
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Coming back to the depression and anxiety, what are some of the main nutrients that are found deficient at intracellular levels?
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Why do nutritional deficiencies occur in the human body?
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a) Over cultivation of land and the use of synthetic fertilizers has resulted in the depletion of soil nutritional levels. This has resulted in reduced level of nutrition in the food supply to less than 25% of what it was about 50 years back.
b) Weak digestive system which does not efficiently absorb and retain nutrition from the food we eat and the supplements that we take.
An efficient digestive system is the foundation and should be optimized for efficient use of nutrients for the treatment of chronic diseases. To achieve this, a good detoxification of all the excretory organs like the kidneys, colon, lungs, skin, blood and also the liver is very important, along with the rejuvenation of the entire digestive tract. This will ensure proper flow of digestive gastric acids in the stomach, enzymes from the pancreas required for the digestion of proteins, carbohydrates and fats, and adequate flow of bile from the liver to digest the food in the small intestine.
Optimizing the digestive system will ensure that our body receives nutrition not only form the orthomolecular supplements we take but also from the food we eat. Once a treatment is carried out using Orthomolecular Medicine, the body should rely on food alone aided by an optimized digestive system to ensure that the good effects of the therapeutic doses of Orthomolecular Nutrition taken are maintained into the future.
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How safe are Orthomolecular nutritional supplements?
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How long does it take to show some positive results?
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If your body has begun to manifest serious symptoms like depression or anxiety, it means that these deficiencies are large and need your immediate attention. It is estimated that it will take about six months of continuous supplementation to reduce these deficiencies. However, it is best to also monitor your blood levels periodically, once symptoms reduce, to ensure efficient use of the nutrients being taken.
The human body has a safety mechanism to excrete nutrients not required for its operation. This is the reason why it is very difficult to poison the human body with food taken even in excess of our daily requirements.
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What are the recent advances in Orthomolecular science?
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During the last few decades, further research in this science has resulted in a plethora of nutritional supplements which are optimized to safely enhance intracellular nutritional levels, by carrying nutrition to the center of the cell where it is really required. Ordinary nutritional supplements, available in health food stores, are designed to only temporarily alter serum nutritional levels and are weak prophylactic doses, which are not capable of therapeutic action on the human body. These prophylactic doses will therefore not be found effective for the purpose of reducing symptoms or severity of depression and / or anxiety.
Quite often carrier mechanisms are used coupled with cell membrane permeability enhancing mechanisms to help achieve intracellular penetration more efficiently. Hence, Orthomolecular Nutrition comprises of very complex formulations and are different from standard off the shelf nutritional supplements available at health food stores, which are basically low dose and prophylactic in nature.
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If I decide to take Orthomolecular supplements should I discontinue my present prescription medication.
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If your body has begun to manifest serious symptoms like depression or anxiety, it means that these deficiencies are large and need your immediate attention. It is estimated that it will take about six months of continuous supplementation to reduce these deficiencies. However, it is best to also monitor your blood levels periodically, once symptoms reduce, to ensure efficient use of the nutrients being taken.
The human body has a safety mechanism to excrete nutrients not required for its operation. This is the reason why it is very difficult to poison the human body with food taken even in excess of our daily requirements.
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What is the basic difference between prescription drugs and orthomolecular nutritional supplements?
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Prescription drugs like Prozac, Zoloft, Effexor, etc. are synthetic chemical molecules designed to treat the symptom and give immediate relief. This is the advantage of pharmaceutical preparations. They create immediate order in a chaotic situation. They are also very useful to save lives of people. However, when used on a long term bases, they tend to manifest side effects. In order to control the symptoms, these drugs need to be administered daily for the rest of your life. If you stop, the symptoms return.
On the other hand, orthomolecular nutritional supplements are designed to treat the root causes of the symptom and do not give immediate relief as they are slow acting in nature. You may need to take them for a few months to a year depending on the severity of the symptoms. The advantage is that there are hardly any side effects when administered correctly and once the symptoms are corrected you should not need to take them daily for the rest of your life. Since we are treating the root cause of the problem the symptoms normally do not return when these nutritional supplements are stopped.
It is highly recommended not to stop your prescriptions drugs when you commence taking orthomolecular supplements. These should be taken in conjunction with each other and are best taken that way in order to ensure your safety. As the severity of your symptoms subside, your physician will be more than happy to review the doses of your prescription medication.
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Prescription drugs like Prozac, Zoloft, Effexor, etc. are synthetic chemical molecules designed to treat the symptom and give immediate relief. This is the advantage of pharmaceutical preparations. They create immediate order in a chaotic situation. They are also very useful to save lives of people. However, when used on a long term bases, they tend to manifest side effects. In order to control the symptoms, these drugs need to be administered daily for the rest of your life. If you stop, the symptoms return.
On the other hand, orthomolecular nutritional supplements are designed to treat the root causes of the symptom and do not give immediate relief as they are slow acting in nature. You may need to take them for a few months to a year depending on the severity of the symptoms. The advantage is that there are hardly any side effects when administered correctly and once the symptoms are corrected you should not need to take them daily for the rest of your life. Since we are treating the root cause of the problem the symptoms normally do not return when these nutritional supplements are stopped.
It is highly recommended not to stop your prescriptions drugs when you commence taking orthomolecular supplements. These should be taken in conjunction with each other and are best taken that way in order to ensure your safety. As the severity of your symptoms subside, your physician will be more than happy to review the doses of your prescription medication.
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