Orthomolecular medicine Orthomolecular medicine Abram Hoffer (b. 1917) is a Canadian psychiatrist known for his use of nutritional and vitamin therapies in the treatment of schizophrenia and other diseases. This approach is known as orthomolecular medicine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abram Hoffer"
The British Society for Ecological Medicine (BSEM) is the major professional group dealing with ecological medicine in the United Kingdom. Its origins began with the British Society for Allergy and Environmental Medicine (BSAEM), which was founded in 1983 as a doctors group for discussion of the role of allergy and environment in chronic illness. The following year, the British Society for Nutritional Medicine (BSNM) started with the aim of promoting applications of nutrition in clinical medicine. ...more on Wikipedia about "British Society for Ecological Medicine"
Frederick Robert Klenner, ( 1907 – 1984) was a medical researcher and doctor in general practise who pioneered the use of large doses of ascorbic acid ( vitamin C) to treat a wide range of illnesses, but most notably in the treatment of Polio. He published 28 papers during his life. He was a pioneer in orthomolecular medicine but his work remains largely unrecognised by established science. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fred R. Klenner"
Dr. Irwin Stone (1907-1984) a biochemist and chemical engineer and author. In 1934 Stone worked on the antioxidant properties of ascorbate which had been described by Albert Szent-Györgyi only two years earlier. He used ascorbate to keep foodstuffs for longer limiting the effects of exposure to air and oxidation. Stone obtained the first patents on an industrial application of ascorbic acid with three patent applications filed in 1935 and granted in 1939 and 1940. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irwin Stone"
Orthomolecular medicine or optimum nutrition, emphasizes the use of natural substances found in a healthy diet such as vitamins, dietary minerals, enzymes, amino acids, glyconutrients, and essential fatty acids in the prevention and treatment of diseases. Orthomolecular medicine focuses on the role of proper nutrition in relation to health. Nutrition comes first in medical diagnoses and treatment and drug treatment is used only for specific indications. ...more on Wikipedia about "Orthomolecular medicine"
Orthomolecular psychiatric techniques include individual biochemical workup, dietary measures, juice fasting, supplementation of essential nutrients especially vitamins C and B-3, minerals and identifying allergies. It has used such techniques, including megadoses of vitamins, in the treatment of alcoholism, drug addiction, anxiety, autism, depression, hyperactivity, ADHD, Alzheimer's Disease, retardation, senility, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Pioneered in the 1950s by psychiatric physician-biochemists, Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond in Canada, the embryonic field of orthomolecular psychiatry was further advanced by the efforts and support of Carl Pfieffer and Linus Pauling. ...more on Wikipedia about "Orthomolecular psychiatry"
Redox therapy is an unproven treatment of cancer with reduction and oxidation agents, usually nutritionally. This form of treatment involves the use of high doses of antioxidant chemicals, especially vitamin C (as nutritional ascorbic acid or more usually intravenous sodium ascorbate but also alpha-lipoic acid, Vitamin K3 and CoEnzyme Q10, to kill cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alive. Much of the research in this area follows from the pioneering work by double Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. Proponents of this therapy claim that these treatments can be effective against cancer in multiple ways. Ki Won Lee and colleagues from the University of Seoul has described how vitamin C can enable cancer cells to receive the body's signals to stop growing - signals that normally healthy cells can receive, but cancer cells usually can't. However, the main way in which it is suggested vitamin C (and other antioxidants) kills cancer cells is, paradoxically, by acting as an oxidant. In the redox cycle in cancer cells, vitamin C cycles between ascorbate and dehydroascorbate. In this process, hydrogen peroxide is produced within the cell. Cancer cells, unlike other cells, have low amounts of antioxidant enzymes, notably catalase. In a healthy cell, catalase would convert peroxide to oxygen and water. However, in a cancer cell, the peroxide quickly builds up to toxic levels and kills the cell. Cancer cells have a much higher uptake of vitamin C than other cells. Vitamin C is structurally similar to glucose and can be transported by glucose pumps in cells, and cancer cells have a higher glucose uptake than other cells. As cancer cells rely on an oxidating environment to assist their growth and division, the ascorbate is converted into dehydroascorbate and thence to peroxide much more readily than in healthy cells. While levels of vitamin C in the blood high enough to kill some cancers can be acheived orally, most cancers require, according to proponents of the therapy, intravenous injections of up to 100g of sodium ascorbate per day, at spaced intervals. Dr Robert Cathcart, one of the most prominent proponents of vitamin C treatment, reports that he has never cured cancer with oral (as opposed to intravenous) doses but may have prolonged life. A simple, self-admininstered program of near maximum oral intake of vitamin C would be guided by bowel tolerance and inexpensive urinary spill measurements of ascorbate with normal precautions for stone formers. ==Objections to the treatment== Mayo-Moertel studies ...more on Wikipedia about "Redox therapy"
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Dr Robert F. Cathcart III is a leading orthomolecular physician based in Los Altos, California. He has pioneered the use of high dose vitamin C in the treatment of disease. He also provided the basis of a theory to explain its claimed action in viral and other diseases. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert Cathcart"
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