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Orthomolecular is a term that comes from ortho, which is Greek for "correct" or "right," and "molecule," which is the simplest structure that displays the characteristics of a compound. So it literally means the "right molecule."
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Trauma and wound healing
Trauma is a stressful event caused by either a mechanical or a chemical injury. Depending on its level, trauma can have serious short-term and long-term consequences. The role of healthy nutrition, both in promoting healing and in avoiding complicati...
A Guide to Alternative Therapy Practitioners - Alternative Health Center
A Guide to Alternative Therapy Practitioners - Alternative treatments may be suggested by your family doctor or psychiatrist, or by a specialist in a particular type of treatment.... Read more ...
What is Orthomolecular Oncology?
Orthomolecular medicine involves the treatment of disease with natural substances, endemic to the body, vitamins, minerals, herbs and other biological response modifiers. These are often used in enormous doses, to a drug-like intensity. But as they a...
The Orthomolecular Link Between Vitamin E and the Heart
The correlation between a diet rich in Vitamin E and the heart has been analyzed and overanalyzed for decades now, and in one of the earliest incidences of using orthomolecular medicine in the treatment of a disease, the Shute brothers pioneered the ...
Orthomolecular Solutions to Heart Disease
ABSTRACT: Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) opens the door to eliminating the 20th century's epidemic of heart attacks, cardiac arrests and strokes. Although shunned by the researchers who receive the bulk of heart disease research funding, it is creating exci...
The Orthomolecular Approach to Treat/Cure Alcoholism
The Orthomolecular Approach to Treat/Cure AlcoholismLearn how Targeted Nutritional Therapy corrects biochemical imbalances in the brain that leads to alcohol and other addictions Address the root cause of alcohol addiction If you are on anti-depressa...
Could you be as sane (or crazy!) as what you eat?
Could you be as sane (or crazy!) as what you eat? This new (and fiercely controversial) arm of psychiatry contends that even the ultimate mind bending horror of schizophrenia is nothing more than a problem of vitamins and minerals. Our Cosmo investig...
Tips On How To Have A Healthy Heart
If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what would it take to avoid a heart surgeon? How about a multivitamin with mineral pill and some omega-3 oil (canola-rapeseed, flax, fish)? Add a diet low in processed food and a good 'lifestyle' (don't smok...
Natural Healing
The patient's immune system and the immune system alone is responsible for healing and recovery from ill health. The use of drugs and vaccines represents an assault on the immune system. In some cases, the use of a particular drug might be a wise cho...
Large study links poor vitamin D status with greater risk of dying over 8 year period
Readers of Life Extension Update will recall the June 24, 2008 issue which reported the finding of Austrian and German researchers that men and women with higher serum levels of vitamin D had a reduced risk of dying from all causes over a seven year ...
THE VITAMIN C FANATICS WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG
By Bill SardiLabeled as health fanatics and vitamin whackos, the users of mega-dose vitamin C pills are about to be vindicated. No more hiding their vitamin C pills from their doctors. No more condescending glances from their friends when the...
Orthomolecular Medicine - For Health and Mental Illness
Orthomolecular medicine describes the practice of preventing and treating disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of substances which are natural to the body. The term "orthomolecular" was first used by Linus Pauling in a paper he wrote in...
Orthomolecular Treatment of Cancer
Between 1978 and March, 1999 I have seen over 1040 patients suffering from cancer who came to me for nutritional and psychiatric counseling. This is no longer a surprising combination as it was when I first started to practice psychiatry in 1952. I a...
Linus Pauling
When Linus Pauling died on Aug. 19, 1994, the world lost one of its greatest scientists and humanitarians and a much respected and beloved defender of civil liberties and health issues.Because of his dynamic personality and his many accomplishments i...
Dr Abram Hoffer
Dr Hoffer talks about addiction, niacin, AA, Bill W. and more....
Why stress is aging?
Readers of Life Extension Update may recall the November 29, 2004 issue which described an association between emotional stress and shortened telomeres, a marker of cellular aging. Now, in research published in the May, 2008 issue of Brain, Behavior ...
Reduced serum vitamin E predicts physical decline in older individuals
The January 23, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association published the finding of Benedetta Bartali, RD, PhD, of Yale University School of Medicine and colleagues that having reduced serum levels of vitamin E, an indicator of poo...
Clinical trial to test vitamin C against non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and the Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, are initiating a trial to test the effects of high dose vitamin C in patients with non-Hodgkin'...
Nutrition and Your Mental Health
Nutrition and Your Mental HealthWhat does nutrition have to do with mental health? You might be surprised to find out the truth behind what happens when a person has a nutritional deficiency.Nutritional deficiencies can cause all sorts of psychiatric...
Time to take on time
To significantly reduce disease, we must slow the aging process, according to a team of experts who published their conclusion online in the British Medical Journal on July 8. In an article entitled, “New model of health promotion and disease preve...
Some genetic defects treatable with supplements
An article published early online on June 3, 2008 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports the prediction of Jasper Rine and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley that soon-to-be-available personalized genome sequ...
Linus Pauling orthomolecular medicine until end of millenium
Linus Pauling about orthomolecular medicine until the end of the millenium (1993)....
