Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians

by Abram Hoffer M.D., Ph.D.,, Andrew W Saul PH.D.

Overview

Explains the basics of orthomolecular medicine, plus megavitamin therapy for arthritis, cancer, behavioral problems, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591202264
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	11/01/2008
Pages:	386
Sales rank:	671,361
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

I have lived a full, interesting and creative life supported by my family and many friends and irritated and spurred on by the hostile criticisms of a group of psychiatrists representing APA and NIMH. I was born on a farm in Southern Saskatchewan in 1917, completed High School in a rural school, my PhD at Universityof Minnesota and Medical degree at Universityof Toronto. By the time I got my first job I was 33 years old, had three children and was totally fed up with being a student. The last thing in the world I wanted to do was to become a psychiatrist, then the lowest branch of medicine. My wife Rose put up with these long student years while she brought up our three children. Bill became one of the world’s best antiquarian book experts. He died 6 years ago from lung cancer. John is a Professor of Medicine at McGill Universityin Montreal a great clinician and researcher into nutrition, and Miriam is dietitian at Women College hospital in Toronto and recently published her very good book Fueling Body, Mind and Spirit. Rose died in August 2001 and since then I am alone but absorbed with my family and my work. I have the support of remarkable friends and scientists and all of us working together will eventually overhaul medicine back to its interest in nutrition and in nutrients. Since they did not know me personally I never took it personally although I must admit I would have preferred had they been supportive. I give my critics full credit for having delayed the full introduction of orthomolecular medicine into the medical world and for having denied life, health and happiness for innumerable patients. Supporters of old paradigms never realize how much damage they do by their remarkable rigidity and adherence to old theories.

Andrew W. Saul, M.S., Ph.D., is editor-in-chief of the Orthomolecular Medicine NewsService and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. Has published more than 180 peer-reviewed articles and has written or coauthored 12 books.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

Part 1 Orthomolecular Medicine

1 What Is Orthomolecular Medicine? 7

2 The Use of Food Supplements 39

3 Niacin (Vitamin B[subscript 3]) 65

4 Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) 83

5 Vitamin E 107

6 The Other B Vitamins and Vitamin A 121

7 Vitamin D 133

8 Other Important Nutrients 143

9 Minerals 151

Part 2 Treatments for Specific Ailments

10 Gastrointestinal Disorders 169

11 Cardiovascular Disease 189

12 Arthritis 201

13 Cancer 211

14 The Aging Brain 229

15 Psychiatric and Behavioral Disorders 251

16 Epilepsy and Huntington's Disease 285

17 Allergies, Infections, Toxic Reactions, Trauma, Lupus, and Multiple Sclerosis 299

18 Skin Problems 317

Conclusion 321

Appendix Finding Reliable Information on Orthomolecular Medicine 323

References 337

Index 367

About the Authors 376