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 […]

NIH – Niacin Fact Sheet for Consumers

Source: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Niacin-Consumer/ This is a reader-friendly overview of Niacin. For more details, see our health professional fact sheet on Niacin. What is niacin and what does it do? Niacin (also called vitamin B3) helps turn the food you eat into the energy you need. Niacin is important for the development and function of the cells in your body. How much […]

NIH – Niacin Fact Sheet for Health Professionals

Source: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Niacin-HealthProfessional/ This is a fact sheet intended for health professionals. For a reader-friendly overview of Niacin, see our consumer fact sheet on Niacin. Introduction Niacin (also known as vitamin B3) is one of the water-soluble B vitamins. Niacin is the generic name for nicotinic acid (pyridine-3-carboxylic acid), nicotinamide (niacinamide or pyridine-3-carboxamide), and related derivatives, […]

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 […]