Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. , Abram
Nutritional & Orthomolecular medicine for Mental
Illness
Mental Illness
See: Nutritional Medicine
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Quotes
"I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce
the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better
behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of
schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent."---Abram
Hoffer,
M.D.
"Orthomolecular treatment does not lend itself to rapid drug-like control of symptoms, but….patients get well to a degree not seen by tranquilizer therapists who believe orthomolecular therapists are prone to exageration. Those who’ve see the results are astonished."---Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.
"Omega 3 deficiency symptoms: growth retardation, vision & learning problems, motor inco-ordination, weakness, tingling in arms & legs, behavioural changes. All except the first are symptoms used to diagnose MS."—Udo Erasmus, author Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill. (lecture).
"We were using niacin and niacinamide before the new
psychiatric drugs entered the North American market. Our results were better and
safer but we had no one to support us. While drug
results were more often more dramatic, they were
also much more dangerous. Eventually, it turned out that drugs,
while helping in the short run and used in small doses, in the long run
stopped the process of recovery long before the patients became well, and
froze them into a chronic semi-invalid state
from which they can not recover as long as they remain
on the medication.
"Today, 47 years later,
orthomolecular vitamin treatment is still relatively unknown. The use of drugs
is world wide and sanctioned by powerful drug
interests, the professional associations and governments. It seems not to matter
that huge numbers of patients are being denied their chance for full recovery......
niacin has not been fenced in and the treatment has indeed been trampled on for
the past 40 years by the galloping hordes of professional establishments, the
American Psychiatric Association, governments, the FDA , the National Institutes
of Mental Health, and by nearly every health-professional organization. It is a
wonder that there are any orthomolecular doctors at all. ---Abram
Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.
External links
Dr Hoffer, M.D
OrthoNet & Journal of Orthomolecular medicine