Niacin: The Real Story (2nd Edition)
Discover the newest cutting-edge research about the wonderful healing properties of niacin!
Vitamin B3—or niacin—is a small molecule made of only fourteen atoms, smaller even than the simplest sugar. But this one molecule has profound effects on health: it plays a role in more than five hundred reactions in the body. Many illnesses are caused by too little niacin, and many illnesses can be cured with high doses of niacin.
The updated and expanded second edition features:
- Updates on how to take niacin, with detailed recommendations on forms and therapeutic doses
- New information on niacin side effects and safety
- The most effective and up-to-date ways to use niacin for arthritis, learning and behavioral disorders, mental illness, cardiovascular disease, and other conditions
Niacin: The Real Story takes an orthomolecular (nutrition-based) approach to medicine, supporting wellness with substances that naturally occur in the human body. Here the most prominent minds in orthomolecular medicine discuss the widespread use of niacin for the prevention and treatment of health problems. With newly-updated recommendations and on forms and therapeutic doses, we find all of the best ways to take niacin for conditions like arthritis, children’s learning and behavioral disorders, mental illness, cardiovascular disease, and much more.
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Book details
- Author
- Andrew W. Saul, Abram Hoffer, Harold D. Foster
- Imprint
- Basic Health Publications, Inc., an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 507
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- Health & Fitness › Diet & Nutrition › Nutrition
Health & Fitness › Diet & Nutrition › Vitamins & Supplements
Health & Fitness › Naturopathy - Topics
- vitamin B3 · vitamins and supplements · orthomolecular medicine · naturopathy · arthritis · nutrition and health
- ISBN-13
- 9781684429035 (Hardcover)9781684429028 (Paperback)
About the author
ABRAM HOFFER holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota and a medical degree from the University of Toronto and is the author of no additional titles named in the available record beyond his decades of practice in orthomolecular medicine.
Hoffer practiced psychiatry following his medical training and became a leading advocate for the role of nutrition and nutrients in medicine.
When not writing, Hoffer devoted his career to advancing orthomolecular medicine against sustained institutional opposition from the APA and NIMH, arguing that their resistance denied health and recovery to innumerable patients. This conviction that medicine must return to a focus on nutrition and nutrients runs through all of his work.
Abram was born in southern Saskatchewan in 1917 and raised on a farm there.