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When the        vitamin A supports the adrenal glands in the  high-vitamin butter oil or emu oil under the

                  body is     conversion of cholesterol into stress hormones.  tongue, several times per day. High-vitamin
                              Trauma and stress rapidly use up vitamin A,  butter oil and emu oil provide vitamin K , a
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           replete with       however, with the result that every little thing  cofactor for vitamins A and D and a key factor
              vitamin A,      can become stressful. After a traumatic expe-  for a healthy brain and nervous system.  Ap-
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                  we can      rience or period of anxiety, the temptation to  plied under the tongue, they are immediately
                              imbibe may be great, and people may turn to  absorbed, bypassing the digestion, which may
         manage stress        alcohol for comfort. When the body is replete  be compromised after a long period of alcohol
            with humor        with vitamin A, we can manage stress with  abuse and serotonin deficiency. (It’s also a good
              and grace.      humor and grace.                         idea to add a little high-vitamin butter oil or emu
                                 Vitamin D—the body’s main feel-good  oil to the cod liver oil cocktail.)
                              chemical—is a cofactor for vitamin A. We need
                              them both together. A well-known function  EGG YOLKS
                              of vitamin D is the enhancement of serotonin   Egg yolks are the best source of cholesterol
                              uptake. Although this is something that alcohol  in the human diet. All adrenal hormones are
                              does as well (at least temporarily), vitamin D can  made with cholesterol, with the help of vitamin
                              regulate serotonin without causing a hangover!  A. Egg yolks are not only a great source of vi-
                                 Replenishment of vitamin A stores should  tamin A but also of vitamins D, K , B  and B ,
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                              be the very first step in the treatment of alcohol-  along with iron and sulfur as well as arachidonic
                              ism, and cod liver oil is the best way to achieve  acid, from which the body produces endocan-
                              this. The most efficient and economical way to  nabinoids.
                              take cod liver oil is as a liquid. To make a “cod
                              liver oil cocktail,” place one to two teaspoons  BONE BROTH
                              of natural cod liver oil in a glass, mix with a   Alcohol increases dopamine levels—some-
                              little hot water, stir—and down the hatch! If  times called the body’s natural cocaine—but in
                              you prefer, you can take capsules.       a way that can cause a serious imbalance. Alco-
                                 The quickest way to heal from trauma and  hol can provide a temporary pep-up, but as the
                              stress is to use Dr. Price’s remedy. This consists  mechanism for dopamine regulation becomes
                              of putting alternating drops of cod liver oil and  exhausted, that pep-up may be harder to achieve.





                                                  ARACHIDONIC ACID



                           VITAMIN A                                            VITAMIN D





                                                 ENDOCANNABINOID

                           VITAMIN A






                                                    REGULATION OF
                                              DOPAMINE AND CORTISOL




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