Orthomolecular Medicine and Megavitamin Therapy: Future and Philosophy

Megavitamin and orthomolecular therapy in psychiatry.

The Controversy Over Orthomolecular Therapy

Introduction Seventeen years ago, experimental results were published which showed that vitamin B3, used in combination with electroconvulsive therapy, was strikingly effective in the treatment of acute schizophrenia. Over the following few years a specific treatment method evolved which included vitamins B3 and C in amounts much greater than are usually used to treat vitamin deficiencies. This...

Orthomolecular Therapy

Orthomolecular therapy dates back to the early 1950s when a few psychiatrists began adding massive doses of nutrients to their treatment of severe mental problems. The original substance was vitamin B3 (nicotinic acid or nicotinamide), and the therapy was termed "megavitamin therapy." Later the treatment regimen was expanded to include other vitamins, minerals, hormones, and diets, any of which...

Duced Exactly as Received from the Person or Organization Origin Ating It Points of View or Opinions Stated Do Not Necessarily Repre

This paper is a discussion of The Churchill School, founded in 1972 as an alternative approach to serving the educatiOnal needs of children diagnosed as hyperactive, hyperkinetic, brain damaged, neurologically impaired, or suffering from minimal brain dysfunction. The school has a student body of 65, ranging between 6 and 13 years of age. The educational program attempts to be holistic in natur...

The Vitamin D-Problem An Important Lesson in Orthomolecular Medicine

Orthomolecular Medicine Defined The prefix "ortho," from the Greek "orthos," meaning straight or correct, in the term "Orthomolecular therapy" indicates that the therapy is of substances which are the same as those that are naturally present in the human body. The original definition of this term, in which inference to the correction of deficiency is made, is contained in the following statemen...