How to Cure an Opiate Addiction at Home

Magnolia Bark is an important tool for opiate addicts who wish to treat their addiction at home. This plant-medicine works with the opiate receptors, but it is not, itself an opiate. Cure Opiate Addiction At-Home UPDATE 2023: Recently, we learned about an amino acid derivative that's produced naturally in the body that can help significantly as part of an opioid withdrawal treatment protocol. This substance, known as agmatine sulfate can be added to the treatment protocol described below to lessen opiate withdrawal symptoms. Click here to read more about agmatine for opioid withdrawals. There are a number of supplements that can be used to cure opiate addiction at home. As someone who has helped people overcome addictions to meth, Facebook, chocolate, and more using the substances li...

Is Meth Addiction Curable? The Mucuna pruriens, NAC, and 5-HTP Protocol for At-Home Methamphetamine Addiction Treatment

Methamphetamine Addiction and Depression UPDATE 2023: Recently, we found scientific articles discussing a natural nootropic substance known as 7,8-dihydroxyflavone that can protect the brain from the toxic effects of methamphetamine use. Click here to read more about this substance and how to dose it properly to treat methamphetamine addiction at home. -------------------------------- In this article, I talk a lot about depression and anxiety because many people believe that meth addiction (at least in some cases) is actually an attempt to self-medicate for depression or anxiety. Major depression is an almost ubiquitous symptom of meth addiction among those who are seeking drug rehab treatment.  While some people may seek methamphetamines to self-medicate for depression, other...

The Neurochemistry of Addiction: How to Stop Addiction on Your Own

 Can you overcome addiction on your own? Without the proper amino acid supplements, your body can’t make the neurotransmitters that will make your brain strong enough to conquer an addiction. Having the right neurotransmitters available in the brain can make quitting an addiction much easier.  In this post, you’ll learn: how long it will take for the supplements, vitamins, and minerals to start working. how to self-diagnose your neurotransmitter deficiencies so you can treat yourself for deficiencies at home using aminos and plant medicines. How long does it take for the amino acids and nutrient supplements to work? You’ll notice the effects of taking amino acid supplements within 4 to 12 hours, but their effects will be cumulative over time. In other words, expe...

Social Media and Smartphone Addiction: Putting Boundaries on Social Media and Smartphone Use

Stop Smartphone and Social Media Addiction By Creating Boundaries After you take control back over your own brain to rid yourself of social media and smartphone addiction, you’ll still need to communicate with your family and friends. Until you start taking amino acid supplements and plant medicines, it may seem impossible to come up with ways to communicate outside of social media. But this is just an illusion caused by a lack of adequate dopamine in your brain.   You CAN put boundaries on social media and smartphone use to reclaim your life. Below we offer some basic rules to help you get started creating healthy boundaries for you and your family. Setting Healthy Boundaries: Basic Rules Many people feel like they can’t stop using their smartphone or social media apps b...

Anti-Addiction Supplement List for Social Media and Smartphone Withdrawals

How to Deal with Social Media Withdrawal and Smartphone Addiction Though it may seem contrary to everything you’ve ever learned about addiction, in fact there are supplements and plant medicines that can make withdrawals and detox from any object of addiction including social media or smartphones much easier.  Plan to take the supplements listed below at the recommended doses, 3 to 4 times per day (to provide a steady supply of nutrients to your brain) for up to 6 months. Six months is how long it will take to up-regulate the dopamine receptors and heal the brain completely.  During this six-month treatment period, you will need to develop new routines and hobbies that exclude the use of social media and smartphones. Consider purchasing a flip-phone or getting a land-line...

Are You Addicted to Your Smartphone and Social Media?

How to Identify Phone Addiction and Addiction to Social Media Social media apps account for 44% of smartphone usage. This percentage doesn’t take into consideration the amount of time social media users spend using these apps on their computers or other devices. Social media usage uses up a lot of time every day for both teens and adults. The average adult social media user spends 2 hours and 24 minutes per day on social media.  The average teen, in contrast, spends almost 9 hours per day on social media. The U.S. Bureau of Labor reports that more time is spent on social media than on eating, drinking, shopping, doing household chores, and shopping.  Using Social Media as a Coping Mechanism If you use social media to cope with stress, you may find that it crea...

Why Smartphones and Social Media Are Addictive

Are Smartphones Addictive?: How Social Media Algorithms Cause Addiction How are social media and smartphones programmed to be addictive? Understanding why smartphones are addictive and why social media is addictive will help you avoid getting sucked into the algorithm of addiction and make the conscious decision to avoid situations that hijack your brain. Once you understand how social media and smartphone apps are programmed to hijack your brain, you’ll be better equipped to create healthy boundaries with your computer, smartphone, and other devices. What You Need to Know:  Social Media platforms are designed to be addictive. They are funded by advertisers and then developed by programmers to cause users to become addicted to it.    A recent Harvard University blog post...

Supplements and Amino Acids for Addiction: Kick Any Habit Easily without Withdrawals

At-Home Dietary Changes, Supplements and Medicine for Withdrawals: Amino Acids Safely Take the Edge Off Any Addiction Amino Acids are the building blocks of proteins. They are nutrients that are found in high quantities in animal products like chicken, fish, eggs, and milk. They are essential nutrients that you need in order to build chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain. Neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, GABA, and glutamate all play a role in thinking, feeling, and behavior. When neurotransmitters are imbalanced, addictive behaviors and other mental health problems develop.  In addition to their role in positive moods, amino acids are also required in the diet to build muscles, skin, hair, and other structures in the body. They exist in high quan...

5 HTP / 5-Hydroxytryptophan for Addictions

5-Hydroxytryptophan: Serotonin Precursor Treatment for Addiction 5-Hydroxytryptophan, also known as 5 HTP, or oxitriptan, is a naturally occurring amino acid and a serotonin precursor as well as a metabolic intermediate that readily turns into serotonin without any limiting biochemical feedback. It first became available over-the-counter in the United States in the spring of 1995. Prior to this time, it was only available by prescription.  It has been used to treat a variety of different disorders including substance abuse and many people find relief from depression using 5HTP. On the other hand, however, depending on the cause of the depression 5HTP can also cause a worsening of symptoms.  2  4  5  9 In Europe, 5-Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) is marketed under the following names...

How to Use Your Mind to Overcome Addiction

 Tips and Tricks for Using Your Mind to Stop an Addiction Many anti-addiction programs ask addicts to quit their addiction using only their willpower and talk-therapy. It’s possible to do this. The brain will rewire itself over time if you habitually deprive it of the addictive stimulus and engage in other activities. But using willpower alone is much more difficult than if you combine the decision and the will to quit with amino acid and nutrient therapies that we discuss in these posts. A lot of people fail to overcome addiction using only talk-therapy and willpower because addiction is a nutrient deficiency problem that leads to low levels of neurotransmitters in the brain and gut. And it’s an issue with the unconscious mind which means that talk therapy alone could take many man...

What to Do When Talk Therapies Don't Work: Types of Therapies That Work with the Unconscious Mind

Entheogenic Plant Medicines, Neural Therapy, EMDR, and More.... Working with the unconscious mind is powerful and though you may go in for therapies like hypnotherapy or EFT and initially feel like “nothing happened” the work unfolds over time. Therapies that mobilize the unconscious mind causes changes that take shape in surprising step-wise changes that happen without the kind of conscious effort required with talk-therapy. Though talk-therapy can produce results over time too, unconscious therapies tend to work much more quickly and serendipitously.  Below we list therapies that you can seek out to work with the unconscious mind and we make some special notes about each one in terms of addiction, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and phobias but you can seek out these trea...