Dr. Gersten has practiced amino acid therapy, mental imagery,and functional medicine for 35 years and has written extensively on the subject. In the past few years he added Polyvagal Theory to his treatment approach. In this video you will learn the fundamentals of amino acids, what they are, what they do, how they build protein, and how amino acid analysis is interpreted. What is integrative psychiatry? This is our main focus. Amino acid therapy is used to assist in the treatment of depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, and much more. This is the first in a long series on Amino Acid Therapy.