Orthomolecular Medicine For Everyone

by Hoffer, Abram

• ISBN13: 9781591202264
• ISBN10: 1591202264
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-15
• Publisher: Basic Health Pubns

Summary

Recently, interest in nutritional medicine, and how to use it properly, has increased enormously, and many people are already taking supplemental vitamins in larger than standard dietary doses. Orthomolecular medicine believes that the basis for health is good nutrition. It uses nutrients and normal (ortho”) constituents of the body in optimum amounts as the main treatments.Decades of use demonstrates that megavitamin therapy works. This book written by two leading experts with over 80 yeas of experience between them, explains the basics of orthomolecular nutrition: simple rules for eating a healthier diet and effective nutritional supplementation. Vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients are explored in detail, including information on the clinical research as well as safe supplement doses.As you’ll see, orthomolecular medicine has been used to treat a wide variety of conditions, including cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal disorders, arthritis, psychoses and behavioral problems, autoimmune diseases, and even cancer. Whether you are exploring orthomolecular medicine for the first time or you are a practitioner wanting to deepen your knowledge, this book can enlighten and inform you.What you will discover is that nutritional treatment is effective, free of side effects, and inexpensive. Once you overcome the old assumption that anything cheap and safe cannot possible be effective, health awaits you.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Orthomolecular Medicine
What Is Orthomolecular Medicine?	p. 7
The Use of Food Supplements	p. 39
Niacin (Vitamin B[subscript 3])	p. 65
Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)	p. 83
Vitamin E	p. 107
The Other B Vitamins and Vitamin A	p. 121
Vitamin D	p. 133
Other Important Nutrients	p. 143
Minerals	p. 151
Treatments for Specific Ailments
Gastrointestinal Disorders	p. 169
Cardiovascular Disease	p. 189
Arthritis	p. 201
Cancer	p. 211
The Aging Brain	p. 229
Psychiatric and Behavioral Disorders	p. 251
Epilepsy and Huntington's Disease	p. 285
Allergies, Infections, Toxic Reactions, Trauma, Lupus, and Multiple Sclerosis	p. 299
Skin Problems	p. 317
Conclusion	p. 321
Finding Reliable Information on Orthomolecular Medicine	p. 323
References	p. 337
Index	p. 367
About the Authors	p. 376
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