A Critique of Nutritional Recommendations
Harri O. Hemila, M.Sc. Source: JOURNAL OF ORTHOMOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY, VOLUME 14, NUMBER 2 – 1985 The Orthomolecular approach to medicine has been under constant criticism ever since its origin. One cause for this may be the somewhat conflicting experimental results, but I suggest that an even more important reason for the lack of acceptance results from […]
Nutrient Interrelationships Minerals — Vitamins — Endocrines
David L. Watts, D.C., Ph.D., F.A.C.E.P.1 Source: Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine Vol. 5, No. 1, 1990 Nutritional therapeutics has largely been directed toward the recognition and correction of nutritional deficiencies. It is now becoming evident that a loss of homeostatic equilibrium between the nutrients can also have an adverse effect upon health. A loss of […]
Comparison of Traditional Indigenous Diet and Modern Industrial Diets and Their Link to Ascorbate Requirement and Status
Authors: Alexander J Audette; Francesco Anello; Richard Russell Johnson Date of Publication: 20 December 2020 Source: ISOM, Volume 36, Number 1, 2021 Abstract Traditional indigenous diets contained liberal amounts of parts of animals such as internal organs, glands and other tissues in addition to edible insects and foraged wild vegetables. As a consequence, carbohydrate loads in […]
Adverse Effects of Zinc Deficiency: A Review from the Literature
Tuula E. Tuormaa1 Source: Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine Vol. 10, No. 3 & 4, 1995 Zinc (Zn) has been known to be an essential element for more than a hundred years, ever since it was discovered by Raulin in 1869 to be required for the growth of Aspergillus niger.1 However, it has not been until relatively modern […]
The Gift of Vitamin C
Laraine C. Abbey R.N., C.N.S.1 Source: Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine Vol. 18, Nos. 3 & 4, 2003 Introduction The British government sponsored Foods Standards Agency warns that vitamin and mineral supplement users should confine vitamin C intake to no more than 1,000 mg daily in order to assure a “safe upper level” and to avoid […]
Eight Decades of Scurvy. The Case History of a Misleading Dietary Hypothesis.
Irwin Stone Source: ORTHOMOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY, VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2, 1979, Pp. 58-62 This paper will discuss the history of scurvy in this country over the past eight decades and try to explain how a potentially-fatal and insidious genetic disease of such wide incidence in our population could become an unrecognized, phantom disease, to which most […]
Winds of Change
A. Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. Source: Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine Vol. 2, No. 4, 1987 Nutritional dogma has blocked the use of nutrients as supplements for nearly forty years. The main tenets of this dogma are simple. They are based on what was known about nutrition and nutrient supplements before foods were so devitalized that it did […]