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Megavitamin Therapy



Megavitamin therapy, also called orthomolecular medicine, is the use of large doses of vitamins, often more than the recommended daily amount, to prevent or treat disease.

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Natural Mental Health Cures - Orthomolecular Psychiatry

Natural Mental Health Cures Orthomolecular Psychiatry is nutrition and natural substances used to help balance any chemical imbalances in the body and treat mental disorders, mental illness or psychiatric symptoms.

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2007
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How to Live Longer and Feel Better

A thirtieth anniversary edition of Pauling's seminal work on the role of vitamins and minerals in preventing disease and achieving optimal health.

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Linus Pauling
2006
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Vitamin Cure

Can common nutrients curb violent tendencies and dispel clinical depression?

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Susan Freinkel
2005
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Nutrition and Mental Illness: An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry

Believing that drugs and psychoanalysis were not always the best course of treatment for a variety of mental illnesses, Dr. Carl Pfeiffer began an extensive program of research into the causes and treatment of mental illness, and in 1973 opened the Brain Bio Center in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Carl C. Pfeiffer
1988
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High-Dose Vitamin C: Can It Kill Cancer Cells?

Interest in using very high doses of vitamin C as a cancer treatment began as long ago as the 1970s when it was discovered that some properties of the vitamin may make it toxic to cancer cells.

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Karthik Giridhar
2020
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Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians

Recently, interest in nutritional medicine, and how to use it properly, has increased enormously, and many people are already taking supplemental vitamins in larger than standard dietary doses. Orthomolecular medicine believes that the basis for health is good nutrition.

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Abram Hoffer, Andrew W. Saul
2008
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More Matters: Treating Illness with Megadose Vitamin C

One of the most famous examples of the healing power of vitamin C is that of former U.S. diplomat and author, Norman Cousins, who in 1964 was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, an extremely painful degenerative condition of the connective tissue of the spine.

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Dr. Habib Sadeghi and Dr. Shahrzad (Sherry) Sami
2020
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How to Treat Depression with Therapeutic Doses of Vitamins

The most common forms of depressive disorders are major depressive disorder and dysthymia, notes the National Institute of Mental Health. Symptoms can include feeling hopeless, irritability and fatigue.

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Aubri John
2020
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Megavitamins May Be Useful Treatment for Many Genetic Diseases, or Just Good Insurance to Tune Up Body’s Metabolism

Linus Pauling’s claim that megadoses of vitamin C can prevent colds remains unproven, yet high doses of some vitamins could play a big role in the treatment of disease and perhaps slow the effects of aging, according to a University of California, Berkeley, biochemist.

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Robert Sanders
2002
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Dr Abram Hoffer

Dr Hoffer talks about addiction, niacin, AA, Bill W. and more.

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Abram Hoffer
2008
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