Alternative Mental Health – Call (800) 301- 3753Are you ready to get healthy and change your life? Would you like to address a serious health related issue such as stress, depression, anxiety, or biochemical cravings? Are you interested in natural health care solutions that can help individuals get off prescription medications and restore them to a natural state of well-being? If the answer to any of these questions is YES, then you are ready to discover natural ways to get healthy again. |
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Customized Neurotoxin Removal
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This program was designed for persons who have accumulated toxins and to specifically remove those toxins. It was taken into consideration that many persons participating in this program will be on medications for the symptoms they have been having. In most cases, the need for the medications will be reduced as a person progresses. These medication issues need to be addressed. Read More…. |
Program Overview
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Our purpose is to help a person regain their mental health, so that they can succeed at being happy in life. This is obtained by stabilizing the neurochemistry using naturally occurring substances, removing the heavy metal and other neurotoxins, and gradually replacing medications with natural alternatives. Read More….. |
Alternative Mental Health Care
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Alternative to Meds Center is an Alternative Mental Health Care treatment facility. We explore all of the medical reasons why a person may be depressed, anxious, psychotic, or in emotional or physical pain, and treat those issues with the best available holistic methods. We also handle psychiatric medication withdrawal and address the causes of cravings and addictive biochemistry. Read more….. |
Addictive Behaviors and Alternative Mental Health
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Through discovering the causes of mental symptoms by actually measuring neurochemical markers, we can discover the biochemical factors that drive addictive cravings. This unique program specializes in restoring healthy neurochemical function naturally, offsetting the addictive biochemistry which may be a main factor in relapse, and reducing or eliminating the need for psychiatric medication. Read More…. |
Chemical Toxicity and Orthomolecular Medicine
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When a person becomes symptomatic in a mental health way, most commonly they are put on a psychiatric medication. Many times this is the extent of the treatment. It is uncommon for any investigative effort to take place. We are finding more and more that people have accumulated toxins from their environment, and those toxins are interfering with the chemical processes necessary for mental health. Read more….. |
Orthomolecular Nutrition
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In 1960, the Nobel Prize winning chemist, Linus Pauling, coined the term “orthomolecular” to express the idea of the right molecules in the right amounts. His contemporary, Abram Hoffer, a Canadian psychiatrist, suggested and demonstrated that optimum molecular concentrations of naturally occurring substances in the human body were essential to maintaining optimum mental health in humans. Read More…. |
Lab Tests
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Analysis of the levels of toxic metals in urine after the administration of a heavy metal detoxification agent is an objective way to evaluate the accumulation of toxic metals. It is common to observe a chronic, low-level exposure to toxic metals that can result in significant retention in the body that can be associated with a vast array of adverse health effects physical and mental… Read More… |
Treatment Office
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Our treatment offices are located at 40 Goodrow Lane in Sedona. Services that are performed at this location include Customized Neurotoxin Removal, Acupuncture, Massage, Colonics, and Ionic Footbaths. This location is located next to the Sedona Rouge, and there are signs saying “Detox Shoppe” and “Alternative to Meds Center”.. Read More….. |
Peer Support
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Many of the staff have been through similar situations and can share their own experiences with the clients working toward a more holistic lifestyle. Clients also have the opportunity to share their experiences with their peers, who are working toward achieving the same result, in a collective community environment. Read More… |
Smoking Cessation
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Toxins such as what are found in cigarettes, damage the balance of healthy neurochemistry. Imbalances in the brains neurochemicals lead to addictive cravings. Smokers are between three to four times more likely to relapse on drugs than a non-smoker. Over 50 million Americans smoke. Worldwide, one out of three persons over the age of 18 is a smoker… Read More… |
Founder
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Lyle Murphy, ATMC Founder and Director, was trained as a chiropractor with participation in the Diplomate of Neurology program. He began the Alternative to Meds Center after himself having been given an anti-psychotic medication injection for what turned out to be hypoglycemia. He then fell into a low blood sugar coma lasting two weeks. Read More… |
Professionals
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Alternative to Meds Center has a very specialized and unique staff. The educational backgrounds are very diverse, and together form a professional family committed to the wellness and progress of each resident. They do take their work home with them, and treat those that they care for as peers not patients. Read More….. |
Success Stories
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With the help of the Alternative to Meds Center, my daughter is being freed from the harmful effects of the drugs she was forcibly put on, and being returned to her normal, bright self. Her aspiration, and always previously a very realistic one, is to become a nurse so as to help others. This goal will now again be obtainable, thanks to ATMC and no thanks to the drugs forced on her by the mental facility. Read more… |
Articles
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Fibromyalgia is a painful condition expressed by widespread tenderness in the muscles, joints, tendons and other tissues. With fibromyalgia, it is also common to see depression, fatigue, anxiety, arthritis, insomnia and other psychiatric symptoms expressed concurrently. We have noticed a sharp improvement in fibromyalgic symptoms as a result of our body cleansing process. Read more… |
