Dr. William Kaufman, B-3 and Arthritis

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Dr. William Kaufman, B-3 and Arthritis

 

Arthritis Notes

 

The world was still deep in the Great Depression when

William Kaufman, MD, PhD had already begun treating

osteoarthritis with two to four grams of niacinamide

daily. Now, over 60 years later, his pioneering work

in orthomolecular medicine is receiving the

recognition it so well deserves.

 

In a 1978 radio interview with Carlton Fredericks, Dr

Kaufman told of how " I had one patient who was so

severely arthritic that I could not bend his elbows

enough to measure his blood pressure. He was one of

my first patients. I gave him niacinamide for a week

in divided doses, and then he could bend his arm. I

took him off it and gave him a look-alike medicine

(placebo). In a week he was back where he was before:

his joints were stiff again.

 

" I arrived at my (megavitamin B-3 dosage) schedule by

actually seeing the response of patients with varying

degrees of arthritis. One cannot give a single large

dose and get any really favorable results in

arthritis... It is necessary to divide the doses so

that the blood levels of niacinamide would be fairly

uniform throughout the waking day. "

 

Kaufman's findings were both plain and elegant. The

greater the stiffness, the more frequent the doses.

Severely crippled arthritic patients needed up to a

total of 4,000 mg/day. Divided into 10 doses per day,

in one to three months, patients could now get out of

their chair, or bed. " If continued, they would be

able comb their hair and be able to walk upstairs, so

they

would no longer be prisoners of the house. By the end

of about three years treatment, they would be fully

ambulatory, and this was even in the older age

groups. "

 

Common Forms of Niacinamide Deficiency Disease:

Aniacinamidosis. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Also: The Common Form of Niacin Amide Deficiency

Disease, Aniacinamidosis. By author, Bridgeport, CT.,

1943

 

Niacinamide therapy for joint mobility. Conn. State

Med. J. 17:584-589, 1953

 

Niacinamide, a most neglected vitamin. 1978 Tom Spies

Memorial Lecture. J. Int. Acad. of Preventive Med.

8:5-25,1983

 

Niacinamide improves mobility in degenerative joint

disease. Abstract published in Program of the American

Association for the Advancement of Science for its

meeting in Philadelphia, May 24-30, 1986

 

Dr. Kaufman's complete bibliography is posted at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_kaufman.html

 

Reprinted from The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine,

Vol 16, Number 3, Third Quarter, 2001 (p 189).