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	Schizophrenia and Orthomolecular Medicine
		Orthomolecular treatment is reported to be effective in 80% or more of the cases and is the best treatment developed so far.
		Orthomolecular treatment is defined as providing the brain and the body with the best possible biochemical environment, especially with those substances normally found in the body such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other essential molecules.
		The orthomolecular treatment can be used for a wide variety of disorders such as schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, behaviour and learning disorders in children, problems of aging, alcoholism and addiction, arthritis, heart and circulatory problems and many other diseases.
	www.lightparty.com /Health/SchizoOrthoMedicine.html (835 words)

	SuperNutrition - What is Orthomolecular (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		As the orthomolecular movement grew, orthomolecular doctors broadened their view of rebalancing cellular chemistry with just vitamins and minerals and other nutrients to protecting cellular chemistry from becoming imbalanced by vectors ("things" or conditions) that stress the cell and thus interfere with well-balanced cellular chemistry.
		Their treatment, as orthomolecular doctors, was simple: Before using any of the standard medical approaches (drugs, surgery, radiation, etc.), they worked with various vitamins, minerals and cellular nutrients (as well as beneficial lifestyle modifications) to rebalance the patient's cellular chemistry to as close to optimal as possible.
		Orthomolecular doctors found that many of these Inborn Errors of Metabolism can be corrected (or partly-corrected) by adding higher potencies of specific vitamins (as well as minerals and other nutrients) to increase the body's concentration of the necessary enzyme and thus "grease the rails" to bring the specific cellular chemical reaction closer to optimal.
	www.supernutritionusa.com /orthomolecular.html (1449 words)

	Orthomolecular medicine Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Orthomolecular medicine is the prevention and treatment of disease by administering nutritional supplements.
		The basic concept of orthomolecular medicine is that according to their genetic makeup, and other factors such as environment, stress levels, and levels of nutrition, individuals will have nutritional needs that are peculiar to themselves alone; no two people will be alike in this respect.
		Orthomolecular practitioners, therefore, recommend that laboratory tests should be conducted to assess nutritional status so that possible areas of insufficiency may be addressed with the use of supplements.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2603/is_0000/ai_2603000096 (771 words)

	Therapies: Orthomolecular Medicine
		When all is said and done, however, the main objective of orthomolecular medicine is to help the patient reach an optimal level of health; his or her self-esteem will probably improve in the process.
		Although orthomolecular medicine did not fully develop into a therapy until the late 1960's when Pauling coined the term "orthomolecular," the premise behind this practice originated in the 1920's, when vitamins and minerals were first used to treat illnesses unrelated to nutrient deficiency.
		Orthomolecular medicine is sometimes referred to as megavitamin therapy because so many vitamins are prescribed by orthomolecular nutritionists to their patients.
	library.advanced.org /24206/orthomolecular-medicine.html (1993 words)

	Orthomolecular medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Orthomolecular treatments are also utilized in complementary and alternative medicine fields, increasingly being integrated into OTC retail products, naturopathic medical textbooks and mainstream pharmaceuticals.
		In this way, criticism of orthomolecular medicine has, to a large extent, been confused with much older medical traditions of high-dose vitamin therapies, such as earlier "megadose" usages of retinol and ergocalciferol or synthetic pharmaceutical analogues, such as menadione.
		Orthomolecular medicine holds that natural equivalent molecules, as non-toxic nutritional therapies, are often useful in the interim, before extremely expensive, time-consuming authoritative tests are available.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orthomolecular_medicine (5133 words)

	Health Medicine
		Orthomolecular medicine is defined as the provision of the optimum molecular constitution, especially the optimum concentration of substances that are normally present in the body, for the purposes of treating disease and preserving health.
		In orthomolecular medicine, diseases are assumed to originate from multiple nonspecific causes, congenital and acquired.
		Orthomolecular medicine rests on the broad research base of the world’s scientific literature in nutrition, metabolism, endocrinology, biochemical genetics, and cell biology.
	www.huemer.com /medi1.htm (646 words)

	Orthomolecular medicine – the art of healthcare of the 21st century
		Orthomolecular medicine is aiming to recreate an ecological environment – on a cellular level – that ensures optimal functioning of the cell securing production of energy and the combatting of disease.
		Orthomolecular medicine is ecological medicine; primarily natural substances are used for the treatment and prevention of disease.
		Orthomolecular medicine should be developed so that we will gradually learn to press the right buttons.
	www.laleva.cc /choice/orthomolecular_medicine.html (647 words)

	Numark \| Orthomolecular Medicine
		Orthomolecular medicine focuses on the role of proper nutrition in relation to health.
		The healthy diet prescribed by orthomolecular medicine, which eliminates junk foods, refined sugar, and food additives, is often supplemented with relatively large doses of vitamins.
		Megavitamin therapy, as orthomolecular medicine is sometimes called, has been used to treat a variety of conditions, including severe psychiatric diseases.
	www.numarkpharmacists.com /hn/Therapy/Orthomolecular_Medicine.htm (237 words)

	Orthomolecular Nutrition and Megavitamins
		The current reductionist belief that herbal medicines should be purified or "standardised" is also associated with the belief that nutrition is unimportant and preference should be given to the use of isolated or "active" constituents such as are used in toxic symptom suppressing drugs.
		In the days of heroic medicine, as is still the case today, doctors generally seek to justify medicine on the basis of "science" and refuse to acknowledge the hazardous nature of medical treatments.
		While the opposition of medicine to new ideas and its anti-nutrition bias are well known (see Nutrition is for the Birds, Medical Bias), the lengths to which establishment medicine has gone in an attempt to suppress orthomolecular medicine are cause for major concern.
	www.holistichealthtopics.com /HMG/nutrition.html (13648 words)

	On the Orthomolecular Environment of the Mind: Orthomolecular Theory
		The author defines orthomolecular psychiatry as the achievement and preservation of good mental health by the provision of the optimum molecular environment for the mind, especially the optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human body, such as the vitamins.
		By the use of orthomolecular methods in addition to the conventional treatment of schizophrenia, the fraction of patients hospitalized for the first time in whom the disease is controlled may be increased from about 40 percent to about 80 percent.
		Orthomolecular psychiatry is the achievement and preservation of good mental health by the provision of the optimum molecular environment for the mind, especially the optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human body, such as the vitamins.
	www.iahf.com /orthomolecular/orthomolecular.html (5451 words)

	Orthodox Medicine, interventionism and symptom suppression
		Because of the interventionist nature of orthodox medicine, whereby doctors like to feel that they can actually do something to the patient in order to fix his or her problems, doctors not only do not support nature, they are frequently in competition with it (5, 7, 9).
		Although both orthodox medicine and holistic medicine regard symptoms as indications of the presence of an abnormality or disease condition, the interpretation of symptoms is vitally different in a reductionist interventionist setting, as opposed to a holistic setting.
		The fact that alternative medicine strives for much higher goals, namely the elimination of causes and the attainment of optimum health, than does orthodox medicine, has probably resulted in the low level of expectation of medical treatments, doctors often warning that any suggestion of the possibility of curative treatments could only be quackery (12).
	www.holistichealthtopics.com /HMG/orthodox.html (9647 words)

	Orthomolecular Medicine
		Whereas the patient is given dietary instruction based on the results of allergy tests (which are open to doubt), the main theme of orthomolecular medicine seems to be the prescription of large quantities of artificial vitamins and minerals which blood tests have indicated to be supposedly deficient.
		Orthomolecular medicine, using vitamins and minerals therapeutically instead of drugs, is a good attempt by medically trained people to help the body help itself.
		Orthomolecular medicine although imperfect, has achieved very good results, and for people incapable of maintaining a correct diet, it will be a big help.
	www.purlife.com /orthomole.htm (277 words)

	All about orthomolecular therapy and uses in alternative treatments
		Orthomolecular medicine can be used therapeutically to treat diseases such as cancer and AIDS, or preventatively to impede the progress of degenerative disease and aging.
		Orthomolecular medicine did not become a full pledged discipline until the late 1960's when Pauling coined the term "orthomolecular".
		However, defenders of orthomolecular levels of supplements point to a major study that shows that over and eight-year period, from 1983 to 1990 the number of pharmaceutical fatalities because of over does was 2556.
	alternative-medicine-and-health.com /therapy/orthomolecular-therapy.htm (1373 words)

	DoctorYourself.com - Megavitamin (Orthomolecular) Medicine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		In 1986 the name was changed to the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, to reflect the growing interest by physicians in this approach, and the fact that psychiatrists remained singularly disinterested in anything having to do with nutrition and psychiatric disease.
		R.Glen Green was one of the early general practitioners to embrace orthomolecular medicine, and for that he lost his licence to practice in Saskatchewan.
		Ross is one of the early pioneer psychiatrists of orthomolecular psychiatry.
	www.doctoryourself.com /hoffer_JOM.html (1738 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Orthomolecular medicine
		Orthomolecular medicine emphasises the use of natural substances found in a healthy diet such as vitamins, dietary minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty acids in the prevention and treatment of diseases.
		A survey released in May 2004 by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine focused on who used complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), what was used, and why it was used in the United States by adults age 18 years and over during 2002.
		However most conventional doctors have little knowledge of the concepts of orthomolecular medicine and tell patients that a balanced diet will provide all the nutrition a person needs to be healthy.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Orthomolecular_medicine (634 words)

	orthomolecular psychiatry
		Orthomolecular Psychiatry and Medicine treats mental disorders such as depressions, schizophrenias, attention deficit disorders, autism and more, from the perspective that the origin of the disorder is biological in nature--not caused by distorted thinking or personality dysfunctions of individuals.
		Below click at "site map", under Orthomolecular Medicine heading, and then click on "journal archives" to read for yourself, case studies and other research being done today, that is helping help persons with mental disorders regain their health and a normal lifestyle.
		As their thinking about orthomolecular psychiatry evolved, Dr. Hoffer and others changed the name of the journal over the years from The Journal of Schizophrenia to The Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry to the present name, The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/d/l/dlh174 (2323 words)

	Orthomolecular Medicine at Holistic Junction
		Orthomolecular medicine includes the prevention and treatment of disease through substances natural to the human body.
		Orthomolecular medicine utilizes adequate amounts of amino and fatty acids, trace elements and vitamins to rebalance biochemical abnormalities in disease prevention.
		Identified with Scientist Linus Pauling, orthomolecular medicine is based on the scientific foundation of biochemistry, clinical nutrition and nutrition altogether.
	www.holisticjunction.com /categories/HPD/orthomolecular-medicine.html (211 words)

	What is Orthomolecular Medicine?, Linus Pauling Institute
		As you can see from the examples of orthomolecular medicine discussed above, sometimes decreasing the amount of a substance in the body is beneficial (see also the article on homocysteine in this newsletter).
		Orthomolecular medicine is not "alternative"; rather, it should be considered as an adjunct to appropriate conventional medicine.
		Pauling became especially fascinated with vitamin C in the mid-1960s and quickly recognized that the intake of this vitamin and, consequently, its concentration in the body, significantly influences health and disease.
	lpi.oregonstate.edu /f-w99/orthomolecular.html (561 words)

	Orthomolecular Medicine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Doctors who practice orthomolecular medicine are in agreement with Dr. Pauling.
		They recommend only medicines which are found in nature, or are manufactured in the body.
		"Orthomolecular medicine" is almost another term for nutritional medicine.
	www.medical-library.net /specialtiesd/_orthomolecular_medicine.html (257 words)

	Why I Practice Orthomolecular Medicine
		Medicine wasn't satisfying, as I knew it wouldn't be.
		Abram Hoffer, M.D., a pioneer in orthomolecular psychiatry, once expressed the view that someday we wouldn't need a word like "orthomolecular," because all of medicine would embody the orthomolecular principle.
		Orthomolecular medicine is the medicine of the future.
	www.huemer.com /thoughts_from.html (591 words)

	Hoffer's Home Page
		The use of large doses of nutrients for the treatment of cancer has not yet entered the mainstream of medicine, not in the Universities, nor in the medical journals, or in the wards, halls and corridors of hospitals.
		Orthomolecular therapy provides a step forward in the battle against cancer and must be fully explored.
		There must be a major expansion into the use of orthomolecular therapy to sort out the variables and to determine how to improve the therapeutic outcome of treatment.
	www.islandnet.com /~hoffer (6871 words)

	Nutrition Corner - Orthomolecular Medicine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Co-sponsored by the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, it featured presentations by many distinguished psychiatrists, medical doctors, naturopaths and other health professionals from around the world, many of whom are members of the International Society of Orthomolecular Medicine.
		The latest addition of another orthomolecular treatment (yet not widely prescribed) is the use of folic acid, B6 and B12 to reduce cholesterol in those with high homocysteine levels found in their blood.
		Orthomolecular doctors were trained in the same medical schools as traditional doctors, yet either through personal experiences or research, they found their way to orthomolecular treatments.
	www.healthinharmony.com /orthomolecular.html (1089 words)

	Orthomolecular Therapy and Down Syndrome: Rationale and Clinical Results
		Although the use of orthomolecular medicine is not considered as standard therapy by most in the medical community, this may be because practitioners have not sufficiently reviewed the literature which supports the orthomolecular approach.
		Most orthomolecular interventions for it contain iodine which has been shown to be helpful for some thyroid problems [69] as well as the amino acid tyrosine (the primary thyroid hormone is composed of iodine and tyrosine [70]) and the minerals zinc and selenium.
		Orthomolecular medicine is a logical therapy to consider when Down syndrome is present.
	www.he.net /~altonweb/cs/downsyndrome/orthods.html (4300 words)

	List Of Orthomolecular Doctors
		Orthomolecular medicine is mainly the use of herbs and vitamins/ minerals using natural substances that are non-toxic and safe in wide doses.
		Orthomolecular doctors are vital in diseases that depress immunity such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.
		Orthomolecular medicine can be an essential adjunct to conventional treatment to help keep immunity high and the body maintaining optimal levels for the detox system.
	www.restoreunity.org /list_of_ortho_doctors.htm (624 words)

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