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this book again for 16 years. I was wrong for ignoring him.
I learned behaviorism from Joseph Wolpe, M.D. He and
I shared the opinion that schizophrenia must be organic in ori-
gin. In 1965, he sent me an article by Theron G. Randolph,
M.D.
Amazingly, Dr. Randolph described many mental and
physical symptoms as disappearing on a five day fast and re-
emerging during food tests on deliberate food tests of single
foods. I set this article aside as impossible.
In 1969, I was a consultant to a boarding school of some
100 socially and educationally disordered adolescents. I was
responsible for a neurological and psychiatric examination on
each student. One-third either were or had been psychotic. Saul
Klotz, M.D. Internist-Allergist was responsible for their physi-
cal needs. He proposed to me that we do a double-blind study
to determine the extent to which food allergies and non-aller-
gic hypersensitive reactions related to their numerous symp-
toms. Together we did a double-blind study using food extracts.
The results were overwhelmingly positive. I now had to con-
sider how wrong I had been by ignoring the evidence that had
come to me through the years concerning maladaptive reac-
tions to foods and symptom-production.
I was invited by a private psychiatric hospital to set up a
study to determine the causes of schizophrenia. Based on the
double-blind study of Saul Klotz, I initiated a study of the re-
lation of foods to symptoms in my mental patients. To this, we
added a nutritional survey and a survey for infectious agents.
This research followed the advice of Theron G. Randolph, M.D.
of a five day fast preceding food testing of single foods. This
study resulted in the publication of two books, Brain Allergies
and Victory Over Diabetes. From 1970 through 1990, I tested
thousands of both psychiatric and non-psychiatric patients with
a five day fast followed by deliberate food testing. The patients
were monitored for pH changes and blood sugar changes. Vi-
ruses, especially Epstein-Barr, cytomegalovirus and human
herpes virus #6 emerged as being consistently in our mental
patients and those with more serious physical symptoms. All
patients maladaptively reacting to foods had some degree of
carbohydrate disorder. Maturity-onset diabetes emerged as the
end result of prolonged reactions of food addiction. The brain/
gut relationship was obvious.
Therefore, during my testing I observed many minor to
major gut reactions to foods. In 1973, a schizophrenic young
man entered my research program. His father, president of a
bank in Houston, was so impressed by his son
s recovery that
he proposed a $4,000,000 research program using my method
of treatment. This money was to be provided to the medical
school at Galveston over a four year period. I was invited to
Galveston to do the project. However, I was satisfied with my
current research program and decided not to move to Galveston
for it. I went to Galveston and explained my system of diagno-
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sis and treatment of psychotics. The medical school accepted
the $4,000,000.
To my amazement, they didn