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[sSRI-Research] VITAMIN CURE FOR PSYCHOSIS

 

" The standard is not perfection; the standard is the alternative. "

(California law enforcement official)

 

The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol. 3, No 12) May 5,

2003

 

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Written and copyright 2003 by Andrew Saul, PhD. of

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natural healing articles with nearly 4,000 scientific references.

 

VITAMIN CURE FOR PSYCHOSIS

 

Simply put, it is niacin, and plenty of it.

 

In the film " Masks of Madness; Science of Healing, " psychiatrist

Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD says:

 

" Mental illness is usually biochemical illness. Mental illness is a

disorder of brain dysfunction. Schizophrenia is vitamin B-3 (niacin)

dependency. If schizophrenia strikes someone at age 25, he's

finished. That is, if he's only given drugs. Patients are given drugs

and released. The new mental hospital today is the streets. "

 

I viewed this film Friday night, April 10, at the 32nd Nutritional

Medicine Today conference recently held in Toronto. During

subsequent sessions, I paid special attention when Dr. Hoffer

spoke to set the record straight on the alleged " dangers " of niacin

therapy:

 

" Niacin is probably not quite as safe as water, but pretty close to it.

Patients ask me, 'How dangerous is niacin therapy?' I answer

them, 'You are going to live a lot longer. Is that a problem for you?'

 

" There have been no deaths ever from niacin. The LD 50 (the

dosage that would kill half of those taking it) for dogs is 6,000

milligrams per kilogram body weight. That is equivalent to half a

pound of niacin per day for a human. No human takes 225,000

milligrams of niacin a day. They would be nauseous long before

reaching a harmful dose.

 

" The top niacin dose ever was a 16-year-old schizophrenic girl

who took 120 tablets (500 mg each) in one day. That is 60,000 mg

of niacin. The 'voices' she had been hearing were gone

immediately. She then took 3,000 mg a day to maintain wellness.

 

" Niacin is not liver toxic. Niacin therapy increases liver function

tests. But this elevation means that the liver is active. It does not

indicate an underlying liver pathology. "

 

Early Saturday morning, I sat in as Dr. Hoffer did a video

production about his work. He did the entire 43-minute video in

one take.

 

" If patients look up 'schizophrenia' in the old textbooks, they'll die

of frustration and fear. That is why I wrote my first book, " How to

Live with Schizophrenia. " Linus Pauling was 65 and planning to

retire. He chanced to see this book on a friend's coffee table.

Pauling did not go to bed the first night he read this book. He

decided not to retire because of it. Not long after that he wrote his

seminal paper " Orthomolecular Psychiatry, " published in Science

in 1968 (160:265-271. Read the entire paper for free at

http://www.orthomed.org/pauling2.htm ).

 

" I have treated 5,000 schizophrenic patients with niacin. The first

was a 12-year-old boy in 1960. To get the boy to take it, his father

crushed the niacin tablet and spread it into a jam sandwich. That

boy is now a research psychiatrist.

 

" The treatment that worked in 1960 is still working today. That

treatment is called orthomolecular medicine. Orthomolecular

medicine restores natural metabolism with nutrients, such as

vitamins and minerals, in optimum quantities. "

 

" Niacin and niacinamide are equally effective for schizophrenia,

but higher doses of niacin can be tolerated without nausea.

Inositol hexanicotinate (a no-flush form of niacin) works, too. "

 

Dr. Hoffer closed the conference on Sunday, April 13 by giving the

Carl Pfeiffer Memorial Lecture. One of his statements was this:

 

" For schizophrenics, the natural recovery rate is 50%. With

orthomolecular medicine, the recovery rate is 90%. With drugs, it

is 10%. If you use just drugs, you won't get well. "