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In this groundbreaking book you will discover how to stay happy, relaxed and 'high' using safe, natural and non-addictive substances. World-renowned psychologist and nutritionist Patrick Holford has teamed up with psychiatrist Dr Hyla Cass, expert in nutrition and mental health. Together they reveal ways to improve the quality of your life and help you feel on top of the world without resorting to artificial substances. You'll learn how to increase your energy, sharpen your mind, improve your mood, relax and beat stress, and feel connected - with herbs, nutritional supplements and simple lifestyle changes. You'll discover: - Natural blues busters such as St John's Wort and 5HTP to help you reduce depression and anxiety - Non-addictive ways to get an energy boost without resorting to caffeine or nicotine - How to reduce stress and anxiety naturally with relaxants such as Kava - Safe and effective alternatives to prescription drugs such as Prozac and Valium - Natural and legal alternatives to recreational drugs such as Ecstasy - Natural remedies and techniques to help you to reach a state of inner peace - And much more
From the Author
Natural Highs is a breakthrough. For me, it is the culmination of 22 years of research. I started out as a psychologist, searching for whatever was the greatest we can be. It led me into nutrition, for the past twenty years, exploring 'optimum nutrition' and what we need to consume to be in the best possible condition. I founded the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in 1984 to explore this concept. My interest in brain chemistry led me to team up with Dr Hyla Cass, Assistant Clinical Professor Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine in LA. She's very swtiched on and was described by the New York Times as 'the most progressive and informed psychiatrist in America today."
Together we set off on a mission - to find out what would allow us to be naturally high. We explored what happens in the brain in states of stimulation, relaxation, happiness, mental alertness and connection. We discovered that the brain makes its own natural highs - neurotransmitters. We then explored which safe, natural, healthy and legal substances, and techniques, encourage the brain to be and stay naturally high.
What we have discovered truly works. The effects of the combinations of nutrients, herbs and exercises work for (almost) everybody. (The effects feel so natural, so self-generated, that some people don't notice them immediately.) We offer them to you as a way to build yourself a lifestyle in this crazy 21st century that helps you stay in a good state.
We also offer you a website where you can post your own experiences, good or bad, and read others, from trying our recommendations in the book. They're really interesting.The website is full of fascinating features from leaders in this field. Some of these were a bit controversial for the book. We hope, through your and our combined feedback and experience, to be able to keep giving you ways and means to be naturally high.
As Sting says in the forward to the book "if there's one thing that needs to be altered in this troubled world it is the human mind, and if nature can offer us sound, safe, legal antidotes to the poisoning of the human spirit, then there can be no more improtant work in the 21st century than researching and exploring these resources." We're on the case! Patrick Holford
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