Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone
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 years 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 possibly be effective, health awaits you.
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Book details
- Author
- Abram Hoffer
- Imprint
- Basic Health Publications, Inc., an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Health & Fitness › Alternative Therapies
Health & Fitness › Diet & Nutrition › Vitamins & Supplements - Topics
- vitamin therapy · nutritional supplements · alternative medicine · minerals · natural remedies · healthy diet
- ISBN-13
- 9781591202264 (Paperback)9781681627625 (Hardcover)
About the author
ABRAM HOFFER was a Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist who authored more than 30 books and over 600 articles on orthomolecular medicine.
Hoffer held a B.S. and M.S. in Agricultural Biochemistry from the University of Saskatchewan, a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Minnesota, and an M.D. from the University of Toronto. He served as Director of Psychiatric Research for the Saskatchewan Department of Public Health and as Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan. A co-founder of orthomolecular medicine, he founded and edited the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.
Hoffer was born on November 11, 1917, in Sonnenfeld, Saskatchewan, and died on May 27, 2009, in Victoria, British Columbia, at the age of 91.