Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians

by Abram Hoffer, Andrew W. Saul

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 high-dose vitamin therapy works. This book written by two leading experts with over 80 yeas of experience between them, explains the basics of orthomolecular 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.

Genres: Health, Nutrition, Nonfiction, Medicine

386 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Biochemist, physician and psychiatrist known for promotion of megavitamin therapy as a treatment for schizophrenia and alcoholism.

Reviews

[Sheila Mccaa-sanders · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wanted to read this book to find out how to correctly use B6, Zinc and other supplements to treat Pyroluria. It was very helpful in this regard but I was surprised also to find a mass of other useful information concerning vitamin treatment that A. Hoffer has used in his extremely long career. I admit I knew little about the powerful potential of many of these vitamins and found this somewhat fascinating. The book does seem technical and a bit redundant in parts but overall was pleasant to read and good to keep on hand as reference.

[Emma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredibly shameful less people haven't read this book. Will open your eyes.

[Jodi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book provides an excellent overview of high dose vitamin therapy. It is very suitable to give to doctors.

The information is very technical in parts and the focus is more on proving the worth and value of nutritional treatments rather than on giving practical advice for those wanting to start their own regime of nutrients.

For that reason, it may be best to read this book together with Dr Atkins' 'Vita-Nutrient Solution' and 'Detoxify or Die' by Dr Sherry Rogers.

This book may be too heavy-going for those with severe diseases such as M.E. as it isn't broken up into many smaller parts as well as many other books. But for those with a real interest in this topic, and healthy enough to read fairly well, this book is an essential addition to your health library.

Highly recommended, especially for doctors.

I just wish I had paid a bit more and gotten a paper copy as I am too ill to read my electronic copy again.

Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E.

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

a lot of great info on vitamins & minerals and what benefits they are to people that take them.

[Tom H · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book to be excellent. Everyone should consider reading this book because it explains the relationship of proper nutrition for a properly functioning body. The author Abram Hoffer worked with Linus Pauling who discovered and earned a Nobel Prize for the functioning of the human cell. It is Linus Pauling who coined the word "orthomolecular."

[Ed Zirkwitz · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very well laid out wholistic approach dealing with the the major and many health and disease issues
we may be facing. Strongly supported by science, treatments and therapies are suggested with references to actually case studies. Answers to health challenges that traditional allopathic approaches
may not provide good answers for. Also, approaches are given for preventative medicine.

[Joni · Rating 5 out of 5]

In this world of nutrient deficient factory farmed and highly processed "foods" each one of us need to be aware of the power of vitamin therapy for healing. This books should be in everyone's library as a reference.