Nutrition and Post-Trauma Recovery: Increased Nutrition Leads to Increased Mental Health

Online, September 23, 2011 (Newswire.com) - What you eat affects the chemical balance of your entire body. When your brain has the right nutrients you see improved concentation, sleep habits, and coping mechanisms. Based on giving your brain exactly what it needs for optimal functioning, the Wahls Diet delivers enormous change that can positively affect post-trauma recovery. Next on 'Your Life After Trauma' we will feature Terry Wahls, M.D., creator of the Wahls diet & PTSD survivor Lizzie Hughey, who will share her post-trauma recovery triumph, plus how she's using her journey to give back. The show airs Thursday, September 29th at 7pm EST, on Seaview Radio (95.9AM/106.9FM/960AM) and streams online at www.healmyptsd.com/your-life-after-trauma. Call in with your questions: 877.960.9960.

According to Michele Rosenthal, host of 'Your Life After Trauma', "I'm always looking for ways to improve mood, strengthen mental functioning and invigorate the body. All of these elements are necessary for having a healthy post-trauma recovery. I'm now doing the Wahls Diet and the results, frankly, have taken me by surprise: I'm filled with enormous energy, my thought processes are even clearer and I feel enormously healthy. I can only imagine what this sort of simple dietary change can do for bodies and minds that are in the process of recovering from shock. I'm excited to share Dr. Wahls' personal post-trauma recovery and the situation that lead her to discover and design the Wahls diet."

'Your Life After Trauma' brings weekly support and information to trauma survivors, plus their caregivers and healing professionals on Thursday nights from 7-8pm EST, on Seaview Radio (95.9AM/106.9FM/960AM) in southeast Florida (and streaming live online) (http://www.healmyptsd.com/your-life-after-trauma). Your Life After Trauma provides resources, inspiration, hope and specific actions to help anyone learn to formulate a recovery plan, access healing potential and apply personal strengths to post-trauma recovery.

Featuring expert and survivor guests focused on topics related to the experience of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and post-trauma life, 'Your Life After Trauma' future topics include:

· September 29th -- 'Nutrition and Post-Trauma Recovery'
· October 6th -- 'How to Be Proactive in Post-Trauma Recovery'
· October 13th -- 'Reconnecting to Your Goodness After Trauma'
· October 20th -- 'Domestic Violence Awareness'
· October 27th -- 'How You Can Transform Yourself After Trauma'

Each show features a professional and personal perspective, plus spontaneous call-ins so that listeners can ask their questions, talk to an expert, and receive personal recommendations around specific issues.

For more information about 'Your Life After Trauma', visit:
http://www.yourlifeaftertrauma.com

This week's guests will be:

Dr. Terry Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she teaches internal medicine residents in their primary care continuity of care clinics, sees patients in a traumatic brain injury clinic and conducts clinical trials. She is also a patient with a chronic progressive neurological disorder, secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. But thanks to the power of intensive, directed nutrition, Dr. Wahls restored her health and now pedals her bike five miles to work each day. She is the author of Minding My Mitochondria: How I Overcame Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis and Got Out of My Wheelchair and teaches the public and medical community about the healing power of intensive nutrition.

Lizzie Hughey. "I am from WA state until recently I moved to Dallas Tx to complete my final stage of healing. I have a background in Social Media and PR. I am a lover of music, fashion and art. I believe life is a climb and we sometimes have up hill battles and mountains that we want to move. PTSD is an uphill battle that is a daily climb. I have struggled and climbed this mountain for the past 5 yrs. But with a great support group and a great therapist I am here today to finally talk about it and embrace this journey. So I am here to reach out to others that need hope and tell you are not alone."

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a wholly treatable condition that results from a life-threatening experience in which the trauma survivor felt helpless. PTSD symptoms include insomnia, nightmares, flashbacks, emotional numbing, hyperarousal and hypervigilance.

For more information: www.healmyptsd.com Contact: [email protected], 561.531.1405.