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MEGAVITAMIN CURE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS

Healing Schizophrenia: Complementary Vitamin and Drug Treatments

by Abram Hoffer, M.D., PhD.

I squirmed in my seat as I watched "A Beautiful Mind," a popular film about

the brilliant and schizophrenic Nobel laureate John Nash. I was able, just

barely, to refrain from shouting aloud, "Give than man some niacin!" It is

probably just as well I kept quiet, and was therefore able to see the entire

movie without incurring the combined wrath of ushers and audience. But after

reading the work of Canadian psychiatrist Abram Hoffer, M.D., it is not easy

to maintain silence about schizophrenia, a disease that affects at least one

percent of the population, often with dire and costly consequences.

Interestingly, when Dr Hoffer meets with newly diagnosed patient, he

actually says: "Good news: you have schizophrenia." Patients' reactions

surely vary, but Dr Hoffer does not. He immediately reassures them that they

are neither mentally nor morally deficient, but rather that they are

nutritionally dependent people, due to a gene-driven biochemical imbalance.

He instructs most patients to immediately start taking 3,000 or more

milligrams of niacin a day, plus extra vitamins including large amounts of

vitamin C, in divided doses. He also requires patients to all but swear off

junk food. These steps, along with minimal doses of medication, have

resulted in thousands of biochemical cures of this supposedly biochemically

incurable illness. In addition to being so responsive to nutritional

treatment, schizophrenia is also "good news," Hoffer says, because

schizophrenics tend to be especially creative people who are unlikely to

ever develop cancer.

 

 

Predictably, such an "easy" approach to such a "difficult" disease can only

add up to medical heresy. For an heretic, Dr. Hoffer is remarkably well

credentialed: With a Ph.D. in nutrition in addition to his M.D., he was

formerly a director of psychiatric research, conducting the first

placebo-controlled, double-blind experiments in the history of psychiatry.

Perhaps more heretics should have his other expert qualifications: medical

journal editor-in-chief for nearly forty years, private practice for fifty

years, and some twenty-five books and well over 500 scientific publications.

 

 

For those who do not like "schizophrenic" as a label, let it be said that

Dr. Hoffer doesn't particularly care for it himself. "The word

'schizophrenia,'" he writes, "serves no useful purpose either in referring

accurately to a symptom or a disease, and will some day be replaced by more

suitable diagnostic terms." But as a rose by any other name still requires

proper soil biochemistry, so do people called schizophrenics need niacin,

and plenty of it.

 

 

Written in a confident yet unassuming style, Healing Schizophrenia:

Complementary Vitamin and Drug Treatments covers schizophrenia from inside

out, with chapters on cause and symptoms, how it is treated, and how it may

be prevented. Hoffer's directions on the fine points of niacin

administration and vitamin safety are so enormously valuable that those

sections alone make the book a must-read. A significant bonus is the

inclusion of a questionnaire from the Hoffer-Osmond Diagnostic Test for

Schizophrenia in the final chapter. A recommended reading list is provided,

although an index is not.

 

 

Long-time readers of Hoffer's work will recognize much in the present book

coming forward from his earlier works, How to Live with Schizophrenia

(1966), Common Questions on Schizophrenia and their Answers (1987), and also

Vitamin B-3 and Schizophrenia. Discovery, Recovery, Controversy (1999).

Editing and updating are both extensive and seamless. Hoffer's remarkable

writing style is at the same time both scholarly and, with his many

anecdotes, positively entertaining.

 

 

For those who may not like the idea of megadose niacin, but like the idea of

schizophrenia even less, Dr. Hoffer is the author of choice. Moreover, now

that he has retired from active practice, Healing Schizophrenia is more than

just a timely publication: it is an essential one. To read Hoffer is the

very next best thing to sitting down with him.

(Reprinted with permission from Saul AW. Review of Healing schizophrenia:

Complementary vitamin and drug treatments, by Abram Hoffer. J Orthomolecular

Med, 2006. Vol 21, No 1, p 59-60.)

 

 

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public".

Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

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