From:
  Guy R. Schenker, D.C.
  January, 2000
    
    
  Dear Doctor,
    
       Do you know what stinks?
    
       I'll tell you what stinks -- giving kids Ritalin for inattention, aggression,
  and  other disruptive behavior symptoms.  Why do I feel sick to my stomach
  every time I  hear of  yet another child being put on stimulant drugs to control
  behavior?  Here are  the  obvious reasons:
    
    1.  The drugs don't work.  How is that for a good reason to despise them? 
  The improvements reported in aggression and other disruptive behaviors in a
  few studies only applied to an educational or clinical setting.  No improvement
  was shown based on behavior observed when the children were at home. 
  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the only behavioral problem
  that shows consistent improvement, but only in educational settings.
    
    2.  The drugs are over-prescribed.  Since they have shown some positive
  effects on disruptive behavior there is a tendency for their efficacy to be used
  to justify wholesale treatment with these stimulants of every child who presents
  with seemingly deviant behavior.  There is support in the literature for the
  likely bias or over-diagnosis of ADHD as a means to legitimatize the
  prescription of Ritalin as a convenient crutch.  In other words, if a child is
  driving his teacher crazy with conduct disorder or oppositional defiant disorder
  (two conditions which show only very limited benefit from Ritalin), the doctor
  will give in to the demands of the teacher and parents to "do something" by
  pretending to find ADHD just as an excuse to get drugs in the kid, and fast.
    
    3.  Again, the drugs don't work.  Do the drugs make the kid smarter?  Is the
  child more attentive?  Does Ritalin really enrich a child's life, giving both child
  and parents a happier, healthier, more productive future to look forward to? 
  None of the above.
     
       Ritalin simply drugs the child into a stupor.  With their brains half
  scrambled by drugs, these children are more easily molded into well-controlled
  robots.  At last they can be programmed to perform the duties expected of the
  sheep in a group educational setting.
    
       Having a zombie in a class is certainly much easier on the rest of the
  flock and takes a tremendous burden off the teachers' shoulders.  Not only is
  the flock happy and the teacher happy, but since the drugged children get
  better grades (which doesn't have anything to do with learning anything) the
  parents are thrilled.
    
    4.  The stimulant drugs have horrendous side effects -- not the least of which
  is that the child is never him or herself.  Whatever creativity, ingenuity, and
  spirit the child may have had are drugged away along with the disruptive
  behavior.  Other side effects are common, including bedwetting which can last
  for years after dis- continuance of the drug.
    
    5.  My most fundamental source of exasperation over these drugs is that they
  do absolutely nothing to address the cause of the behavior disorder.  Any
  educator, and certainly any physician, who gives a hoot about the long term
  well-being of these poor children, could, with no more than a couple of hours
  invested in a literature search, track down the true causes of most behavior
  disorders.  That same literature search would also clearly reveal that the two
  most common approaches to this clinical problem -- drugs and counseling --
  are largely ineffective.  How could so many educators and so many doctors be
  so out of touch with reality to allow so many children to suffer the indignity
  and the assault of mind-altering drugs?  This sad state of affairs has existed
  now for decades -- during which the real causes of disruptive behavior could
  have been thoroughly explored and largely erraticated.
    
       Fortunately, not all professionals will unquestioningly accept the dogma
  of drugging and counseling which is promoted and financed by the
  establishment.  You read in last month's Letter of a maverick group of
  professionals who formed the Prevention Program of the Mountain View
  Community Medical Association.  They knew that Ritalin and counseling were
  not the answer.  They embarked on an open-minded search for causes and
  means of prevention.
    
       They had enough clinical experience among them to lead them to
  suspect there was likely a nutritional component to most behavior disorders. 
  To make a long story short, they serendipitously stumbled across MIGHTY
  MINS, and knew from their very first clinical experience that they had
  discovered gold.
    
       If you have been around NUTRI-SPEC long at all you are quite aware
  that there is, indeed, a nutritional component to disruptive behavior in children. 
  We have discussed on many occasions the fact that NUTRI-SPEC testing
  shows the vast majority of these children to be hypoglycemic.  In particular,
  they are glucogenic hypoglycemic with a strong sympathetic compensatory
  reaction.  What that means is that these poor children are dealing with two
  neuro-biological assaults simultaneously:
    
  1.  Crashing blood (and brain) sugar
    
  2.  Surging stress hormones (adrenalin and nor-adrenalin)
    
       Many of you have fascinating and gratifying success stories to tell
  about your clinical experience with these kids.  But the big news in last month's
  Letter that we want to follow up on now is not the successful treatment of
  glucogenic ADHD children, but the startling impact of MIGHTY MINS on
  these problem children (and all children).
    
       Recall the three children whose amazing stories you read last month. 
  These and the dozens of other children in that study (most of whom had stories
  just as dramatic) did not have the benefit of NUTRI-SPEC testing.  All they
  had was the benefit of MIGHTY MINS.  There was no counseling; there were
  no drugs -- every child who entered the study who was on drugs was able to
  stop the drugs  during the course of the study.  There wasn't even any dietary
  advice given.  MIGHTY MINS was the only means of therapeutic intervention.
    
       You are learning how childhood behavioral problems have a nutritional
  component that you are well equipped to handle with NUTRI-SPEC. 
  Further-more, the foundation of your approach to these children is the use of
  MIGHTY MINS.  And in fact, MIGHTY MINS alone will work wonders in
  many of these children, even without NUTRI-SPEC testing.
    
       But by far the most important benefit you are getting from this Letter is
  the realization that MIGHTY MINS is truly in a class by itself.  You've got a a
  children's multiple supplement that is a quantum leap above anything your
  patients can get anywhere else.  You have scientific evidence supporting
  MIGHTY MINS as being the most important thing the parents in your practice
  can do for their children.  Last month we put you on a mission selling
  MIGHTY MINS for the children of every parent (or grandparent) you know --
  as a means to add more to the length and quality of life of more young people
  than  anything you have ever done.  With the evidence of the Mountain View
  study, we have shown that there is no hyperbole in that statement.
    
       If you haven't yet taken advantage of our MIGHTY MINS special -- do
  it today.  Place your order for two dozen MIGHTY MINS (any combination of
  regular and economy size).  We will send you FREE the free-standing
  MIGHTY MINS Brochure display along with 50 brochures for the display
  pocket.  (We will also send a copy of the Prevention Program MIGHTY MINS
  Study as submitted to the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral
  Pediatrics.)  The brochure tells the compelling MIGHTY MINS story with an
  appeal that no parent or (grandparent) can resist.  Think of all the parents in
  your practice who are feeding their kids supplements that literally do more
  harm than good.  This is an opportunity you can't pass up.  Generate a steadily
  growing income stream for yourself while you get dozens if not hundreds of
  children started down the path to a long, strong, happy, healthy life.
    
       If you are one of the hundreds of doctors reading this Letter who
  doesn't do much NUTRI-SPEC testing -- this is the perfect chance for you to
  do some serious good with nutrition with literally no time and energy invested.
    
       Do you get it?  Do you see that all this talk about the Mountain View
  Prevention Program and the amazing benefits of MIGHTY MINS on children
  with disruptive behavior disorders was not to say that MIGHTY MINS is just
  for those children?  We are using the benefit of MIGHTY MINS on those
  children with extraordinary needs to illustrate the point that MIGHTY MINS
  will cover the nutrition needs of every child.  Nothing even comes close to
  MIGHTY MINS as a children's supplement.  Why?  Here is an over-view of
  MIGHTY MINS' unique features.
    
       We put this formulation together with a realistic understanding of the
  diet typical of a modern child.  Even the most caring and most nutritionally
  aware parents feed their children a diet excessively high in refined
  carbohydrates.  There are three problems with this common diet:
    
  a.  These foods distort the proportions of the child's diet in favor of excess
  carbohydrates with respect to the amount of protein and healthy fats.  The
  excess carbohydrate animates the hypoglycemic monster lurking within each
  child.
   
  b.  These foods have been stripped of many nutrients -- and thus are largely
  empty calories.
    
  c.  To give the illusion of compensating for the paucity of nutrients in these
  devitalized foods, the food industry has "enriched" these foods with B vitamins
  and vitamin C.  For reasons we are about to explain, these added vitamins  are
  worse than no vitamins at all.
    
       Now think -- what do we need to put into MIGHTY MINS to
  compensate for the typical child's diet?
    
       Our first concern is to prevent the occurrence of what we have often
  referred to as "the trace mineral tragedy."  We know that agricultural soils
  have been  depleted of trace mineral for more than 60 years.  We know
  therefore that our foods are deficient in trace minerals.  Many times we have
  discussed at length in this Letter the devastation caused by trace mineral
  deficiencies.  Literally any symptom or condition you can name can result. 
  Children (and pregnant and lactating women) are the most vulnerable.
    
       So -- what do you find in MIGHTY MINS?  You find not only an
  abundance of trace minerals in their most bio-active forms, but you find a trace
  mineral content  that is high in proportion to the vitamin content.
    
       You just read the word "bio-active," which brings us to the next
  essential benefit from MIGHTY MINS.  All the nutrients are in their most
  bio-active form.  What does that mean?  It means the form in which they are
  most effectively absorbed and utilized in the appropriate metabolic pathways. 
  To illustrate:  the form of chromium in MIGHTY MINS has been shown to be
  as much as 18 times  more bio-active than a typical chromium supplement. 
  Furthermore, this is the chromium which has the most favorable impact on
  glycemic control.
    
       Now consider the bio-activity of the vitamins.  Your MIGHTY MINS
  brochure suggests that parents take a look at the label of the bread and cereal
  that they feed their children and read the names of the B vitamins "enriching"
  these starchy foods.  They will find, for example, thiamin hydrochloride; they
  will also find pyridoxine hydrochloride.  These are not the active forms of these
  vitamins used by their children's bodies (nor, for that matter, by their own
  bodies).
    
       Now look at the MIGHTY MINS label.  You will find vitamin B1 as
  thiamin pyrophosphate and vitamin B6 as pyridoxal-5 phosphate.  These are
  the active co- enzyme forms of the vitamins as used by the body, requiring no
  prior conversion.  In MIGHT MINS you will also find vitamin C as fat soluble
  palmitate instead of the ordinary water soluble vitamin C that is so quickly lost
  form the  body.  (By the way, all of these qualitative factors apply to your
  Oxygenic B as well as to MIGHTY MINS).
    
       Now imagine the quantity of cheap vitamins your typical child gets in
  the amount of bread, cereal, "fruit drinks" and other refined trash they
  consume.  Is it likely that this child has a primary deficiency in vitamins? 
  Certainly not.  There is no quantitative deficiency -- but a qualitative
  deficiency.  That is why MIGHTY MINS delivers small quantities of extremely
  bio-active vitamins.
    
       The other problem with the abundance of cheap vitamins kids eat these
  days is the issue of trace mineral depletion.  We have often pointed out the fact
  that taking vitamins increases our loss of trace minerals (the very nutrients in
  which we are mos  likely to be deficient).  Do you begin to see why "enriching"
  foods just adds insult to injury in the refining process?  Do you see how the
  typical child's chewable multiple vitamin supplement can actually be worse than
  taking no supplement at all?
    
                       THE MIGHTY MINS GUARANTEE
  
       The delightful brochure that will sell your patients on MIGHTY MINS
  ends with "the MIGHTY MINS guarantee."  You are guaranteeing your
  patients that if they can ever find a children's multiple that is more
  comprehensive or of higher quality than MIGHTY MINS that you will refund
  the purchase price of their last bottle.  Please understand  that NUTRI-SPEC
  backs  you up in this guarantee.    In other  words, should a patient ever claim
  they have found a children's multiple that is superior to MIGHTY MINS you
  can refund their money knowing that NUTRI-SPEC will refund to you the full
  patient purchase price.
    
       Go on a mission.  Begin today -- to help as many children as you can --
  with MIGHTY MINS.
    
    
                             Sincerely,
    
    
                             Guy R. Schenker, D.C.



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