User's Guide to the B-Complex Vitamins
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Book details
- Author
- Burt Berson
- Imprint
- Basic Health Publications, Inc., an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Health & Fitness › Diet & Nutrition › Nutrition
Medical › Physiology - Topics
- B vitamins · nutrition · dietary supplements · energy and aging · heart disease prevention · mood and mental health · DNA repair · homocysteine
- ISBN-13
- 9781591201748 (Paperback)9781681628776 (Hardcover)
About the author
BURT BERKSON, M.D., Ph.D., founded the Integrative Medical Center of New Mexico in Las Cruces in 1996 and practiced integrative medicine there for the remainder of his life. His books include User’s Guide to the B-Complex Vitamins, Syndrome X and The Alpha-Lipoic Acid Breakthrough.
In 2019, Berkson was inducted into the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame. He held adjunct professorships at Oklahoma State University College of Medicine, New Mexico State University, and Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, and served as the CDC expert consultant on intravenous alpha-lipoic acid and hepatotoxic poisoning and as a former FDA principal investigator of lipoic acid.
Berkson earned a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in the biological sciences from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and completed his M.D. training through Case Western Reserve Affiliated Hospitals. He had previously worked at the Max Planck Institute and Rutgers University.