Dr. Mark Gordon has been working on this area for about 19 years in the U.S. He's been working with U.S. veterans including Green Berets, Navy Seals, Army Rangers, etc. He was looking at traumatic brain injuries particularly, but he's also found that with post-traumatic stress disorder there are certain metabolic pathways when individuals have got brain trauma. I think of PTSD very differently. It's actually trauma to the brain. It's secondary to extreme stress or cumulative stress, but it actually causes dysfunction in the brain. I don't like the whole mental health thing.
He has basically established that there are these metabolic pathways, and I'm in the process of doing all the reading and trying to get up to speed to pass this exam, so I can actually start doing this in Canada. When you correct those, it's not by using drugs. It's actually by using precursors and compounds that are normally found within the body. When you correct those pathways, then it corrects the symptoms.
Very quickly, there's a thing called cortisol steal. Under a lot of stress, people have to produce cortisol. When they do that, the other pathway is to testosterone. That ends up not being produced. A lack of testosterone in the brain will cause things such as anxiety, insomnia, irritability, and concentration problems. So when he treated those pathway disorders in an individual, Andrew Marr, who he actually treated, his symptoms all settled and he got off all his psychiatric medication. That's the direction I think we need to start going.