Editorial: Vitamin Dependency

Andrew W. Saul Source: Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine Vol. 19, No. 2, 2004 “Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don’t feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.” –Emanuel Cheraskin, M.D., D.M.D. Dependency is a fact of life. The human body is dependent on food, water, sleep, and […]

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 […]

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 […]