Central Nervous System Supplement / Vit. B-3

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Lynn,

 

While this is not possibly specific to the psyche meds you're looking for,

the B vitamins and Omega-3's are specific to brain chemistry problems, and

an orthomolecular approach is probably safer than a pharmaceutical approach.

For what it's worth..... something to look into.

http://www.industryinet.com/~ruby/brain_functions.html has a lot of brain

information, especially the book report on the book Brain Longevity.

 

Jennifer Ruby

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" elijahnyc " <lmichaels02

Central Nervous System Supplement

 

 

| Has anyone here tried the supplement called " Equilib " ? It is supposed

| to be a replacement for psyche meds... I'm giving it a try and would

| love to know of others who have had success - or not - with this.

|

| Many thanks,

| Lynn

 

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Vitamin B-3 and Schizophrenia: Discovery, Recovery, Controversy

http://www.doctoryourself.com/review_hoffer_B3.html

by Abram Hoffer, MD

Quarry Press, Kingston, Ontario Canada (1998) ISBN 1-55082-079-6

Softcover, 150 pages plus bibliography and two appendices.

Review by Andrew Saul, PhD

 

The United States Patent Office delayed issuing a patent on the Wright

brothers' airplane for five years because it broke accepted scientific

principles. This is actually true. And so is this: Vitamin B-3, niacin, is

scientifically proven to be effective against psychosis, and yet the medical

profession has delayed endorsing it. Not for five years, but for fifty.

 

In 1952, Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, had just completed his psychiatry residency.

What's more, he had proven, with the very first double-blind,

placebo-controlled studies in the history of psychiatry, that vitamin B-3

could cure schizophrenia. You would think that psychiatrists everywhere

would have beaten down a path to Saskatchewan to replicate the findings of

this young Director of Psychiatric Research and his colleague, Humphrey

Osmond, MD.

 

You'd think so.

 

In modern psychiatry, niacin and schizophrenia are both terms that have been

closeted away out of sight. And patients, tranquilized into submission or

Prozac-ed into La-La Land, are often idly at home or wandering the streets,

where either way it is highly doubtful that they will get much in the way of

a daily vitamin intake. Those in institutions fare little better

nutritionally. For everyone " knows " that vitamins do not cure " real "

diseases.

 

But Dr Hoffer dissents. For half a century Dr Hoffer has dissented. His

central point has been this: Illness, including mental illness, is not

caused by drug deficiency. But much illness, especially mental illness, may

be seen to be caused by a vitamin deficiency. This makes sense, and has

stood up to clinical trial again and again. If you do not believe this,

Vitamin B-3 and Schizophrenia will provide you with the references to prove

it. And remember that it was Dr. Hoffer who started off those clinical

studies in the first place. In 1952.

 

I personally should have first became aware of a food-brain connection

during those all-night, cookie-fired mah-jongg marathons I all-too-regularly

indulged in while attending Australian National University. Though arguably

somewhat less than psychotic, my mind was nevertheless pretty whacked out on

sugar, junk food and adrenalin by 3 am. My mood was destroyed; my mind

agitated; unable to sleep, sit still, or smile. Of course, I never

entertained even the thought of a nutrition connection. For we've all been

carefully taught that drugs cure illness, not diet.

 

And certainly not vitamin supplements!

 

But the truth will out eventually. Three years later, I first saw niacin

work on somebody else. He was a bona-fide, properly-diagnosed,

utterly-incurable, State-hospitalized schizophrenic patient. I did not see

niacin work in the hospital, of course; the only vitamins given there are

what you can filter out of your Jell-O and your Tang. No, the patient was a

fellow whose parents were desperate enough try anything, even nutrition.

Perhaps this was because their son was so unmanageably violent that he was

kicked out of the asylum and sent to live with them. On a good day, his Mom

and Dad somehow got him to take 3,000 milligrams of niacin and 10,000 mg of

vitamin C. Formally a hyperactive insomniac, he responded by sleeping for 18

hours the first night and becoming surprisingly normal within days. I'd seen

him before, and I saw him after. I'd talked to his parents during the whole

process. It was an astounding improvement.

 

Sometime afterward, I tried niacin to see if it would help my own touch of

sleeplessness. I found it worked nicely, and it only took a little to do so,

perhaps 100 milligrams at most. Any more and I would experience a warm

" flush. " But then I found that when I ate junk food or sugar in quantity, I

could hold 500 mg or more without flushing a bit. And when I took all that

niacin, instead of flipping out, I was calm. In Vitamin B-3 and

Schizophrenia, Dr. Hoffer explains why this is so:

 

1) As a rule, the more ill you are, the more niacin you can hold without

flushing. In other words, if you need it, you physiologically soak up a lot

of niacin. Where does it all go? Well, a good bit of it goes into making

nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NAD. NAD is just about the most

important coenzyme in your body. It is made from niacin, as its name

implies.

 

2) Niacin is also works in your body as an antihistamine. Many persons

showing psychotic behavior suffer from cerebral allergies. They need more

niacin in order to cope with eating inappropriate foods. They also need to

stop eating those inappropriate foods, chief among which are the ones they

may crave the most: junk food and sugar.

 

3) There is a chemical found in quantity in the bodies of schizophrenic

persons. It is an indole called adrenochrome. Adrenochrome (which is

oxidized adrenalin) has an almost LSD-like effect on the body. That might

well explain their behavior. Niacin serves to reduce the body's production

of this toxic material.

 

That Dr. Hoffer can compress a lifetime of research experience into one

readable and surprisingly short book is a tribute to how clearly he teaches

both layman and physician the essentials of niacin treatment. I have taught

nutritional biochemistry to high school, undergraduate, and chiropractic

students. To most, it is not an especially gripping subject. But when even a

basic working knowledge of niacin chemistry can profoundly change psychotic

patients for the better, it becomes very interesting very quickly.

 

Dr. Hoffer has treated thousands and thousands of such patients for nearly

half a century. At 83, he still is in actively practicing orthomolecular

(megavitamin) psychiatry. He has seen medical fads come and go. What he sees

now is what he's always seen: that very sick people get well on vitamin B-3.

 

Review copyright c 2000 by Andrew Saul, 23 Greenridge Crescent, Hamlin, NY

14464 USA.

 

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SCHIZOPHRENIA INTRODUCTION

http://www.4optimallife.com/Alternative-Medicines-Cures-For-Schizophrenia-Mental\

-Illness.html

 

 

In 1975 while studying for my diploma in Behavioral Science, I read a book

by Dr. Abram Hoffer telling me that schizophrenia could be cured by large

amounts of niacin and vitamin C. Having been well indoctrinated by

allopathic medicine in my training as a registered nurse, I really didn't

believe it. However, I gave the book to my girlfriend whose son was

diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young teenager. She also didn't believe

it. Now, some 26 years later, with a son of mine diagnosed six years ago

with the label of paranoid schizophrenia, through grace, I have come to know

that schizophrenia, and other so-called mental illnesses are really

biochemical imbalances which can be balanced with dietary changes and

supplements. I now know, on looking back on my son's life, that he was

biochemically imbalanced almost from his birth. In the past I felt sad and

angry that I trusted allopathic medicine totally, without question. Now I

just want the joy of telling everyone I can that THERE IS HOPE AND

SCHIZOPHRENIA CAN BE CURED. IT IS A BIOCHEMICAL IMBALANCE.

 

I am forever grateful to John Hammel, President of International Advocates

of Health Freedom, located in Virginia, www.iahf.com for sharing his

experience with an internet group I belong to. John cured himself of

schizophrenia with Dr. Hoffer's method after four years in a mental

hospital. It was through his inspiration, I was moved to research the

subject. In my research I came across the website of Ronald Dishinger.

Ronald offers a wonderful book, " Bad Behavior and Illness are Caused by

Biochemical Imbalances " free for downloading from his website. Unwilling to

download, I contacted him for a hard copy of the book which he generously

shipped to me free of charge. He has also been able to see his son, labelled

as a schizophrenic, returned to balance and a productive life. He has made

it a mission to share this information.

 

During my research, I obtained a video cassette, " Masks of Madness, Science

of Healing " with Margot Kidder, who was also " cured " by " orthomolecular

medicine " from 20 years of mental illness treated by allopathic,

conventional psychiatry. Dr. Hoffer and several orthomolecular physicians

share their experience along with people who have recovered from

schizophrenia and chronic depression in this video. I want as many people as

I can, know that there is recovery from so-called mental illness, behavioral

disorders, and illness using orthomolecular medicine. Please read my

" Orthomolecular Medicine for Treatment of Schizophrenia and Alcoholism

Resources " page. Surprisingly, alcoholism is also a biochemical imbalance.

You will find many sources you can research to know for yourself.

 

Would you please share the information, on schizophrenia and orthomolecular

medicine, with anyone you know who is suffering needlessly.

 

In closing, the governments of the world are banding together to regulate

our supply of vitamins and supplements, these regulations are termed the

" CODEX " . The pharmaceutical cartels are lobbying governments for the CODEX

with their huge profits. This bodes ill for all of us so please get

involved. We have the right to put what we want into our bodies given our

own due diligence and research. If any of you depend on larger amounts of

vitamins and supplements, I suggest you investigate this matter before they

are so heavily regulated that you will have to pay a physician for a

prescription, a pharmacist to fill the prescription, and pay highly inflated

prices for the product. I urge everyone to go to John Hammel's website and

learn about the CODEX. If you are not willing to do that, would you at least

consider signing the petitions at Gary Null's Website and at Laleva Petition

 

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ORTHOMOLECULAR MEDICINE FOR TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS and ALCOHOLISM

RESOURCES LIST

 

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1.. Dr. Abram Hoffer's web page on schizophrenia.

Dr. Hoffer's telephone in Victoria, British Columbia - 250-386-8756

Address: A. Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.

#3A - 2727 Quadra Street

Victoria, B.C. V8T 4E5

 

2.. Some of Dr. Hoffer's books.

a.. Hoffer's Laws of Natural Nutrition - A Guide to Eating Well for Pure

Health. Published by Quarry Press, P.O. Box 1061, 240 King Street, Kingston,

Ontario K7L 4Y5

Request Catalogue or Information

 

b.. Orthomolecular Medicine for Physicians, ISBN 00879833904, Published by

Keats Publishing Inc.

 

c.. Orthomolecular Treatment for Schizophrenia, Megavitamin supplements and

nutritional strategies for healing and recovery. ISBN 0-87983-910-4. $5.50

in Canada, $3.95 in US.

This is a good book for someone who wants to help themselves or someone else

with no physician on board yet. It is a Keats Good Health Guide booklet.

 

d.. Vitamin B-3 and Schizophrenia, Discovery, Recovery, Controversy

publisher Qarry Health Books ISBN 1-55082-079-6

 

3.. Articles by Dr. Hoffer.

a.. For good information regarding orthomolecular medicine and Dr. Hoffer's

work

 

b.. Editorial: The Future of Psychiatry by Dr. Hoffer.

 

c.. Article: Psychiatry.

 

d.. Megavitamin Therapy for psychosis.

 

e.. Important anecdote of schizophrenia cure with supplements

 

f.. The following excerpted from Niacin Therapy as Used by Abram Hoffer, MD

 

" Category 2. Everyone under physiological stress, such as pregnancy and

lactation, suffering from acute illness such as the common cold or flu, or

other diseases that do not threaten death. All the psychiatric syndromes are

included in this group including the schizophrenias and the senile states.

It also includes the very large group of people with high blood cholesterol

levels or low HDL when it is desired to restore these blood values to

normal. The dose range is 1 gram to 10 grams daily. For niacinamide the

range is 1 1/2g to 6g. Niacinamide does not affect cholesterol levels, and

Niacin is needed by everyone. . "

 

g.. A vitamin related bibliography of Dr. A Hoffer's publications.

 

4.. The Standard Recommended " Schizophrenia " Nutritional and Dietary

Regimen: A remarkable 90% recovery rate

 

Based on the works of Abram Hoffer, M.D., pioneer of nutritional psychiatry,

as reported in Nutritional Influences on Mental Illness by Melvyn Werbach,

M.D.

 

Our grateful acknowledgement to Dr. Hoffer for permission to use his work.

 

The following dietary and nutritional regimen is reported to have over a 90%

success rate with patients who are ill for the first time or who are

suffering their second or third episode with healthy periods in between. It

is reported that after two years over 90% will be well, none will be worse,

and none will have tardive dyskinesia (drug-induced involuntary muscular

movements). They will have to remain on the regimen many years, perhaps

their entire lives.

 

For chronic patients - those who have failed to improve from previous

treatment, including those mentally disturbed for years (although not the

chronic patients seen in the back wards of mental hospitals)- about 50% will

improve after 10 years. However, not all will be working.

 

These results are based on:

 

Six prospective double-blind studies. 1

Personal observations of over 4000 patients.

Studies conducted by colleagues.

Letters received from patients who were never personally seen but tried the

treatment program.

 

 

DIET:

Elimination of all processed or prepared foods containing added refined

sugars and probably 90% of other additives, as foods that contain added

sugars usually contain other additives.

 

Elimination diets to remove all foods to which the patient is allergic or

sensitive.

 

SUPPLEMENTS:

 

Vitamin B3 (niacin or niacinamide) 0.5 - 2 grams 3 times daily.

Vitamin B6 (for many) 250-500 mg daily.

A general B vitamin formula.

Vitamin C, 3 or more grams daily.

Zinc (gluconate or citrate) 50 mg daily.

Manganese 15-30 mg daily (if there is danger of tardive dyskinesia).

I also use omega three essential fatty acids rich in EPA and less rich in

DHA. The best preparation contains three times as much EPA as it does DHA. I

use four large capsules twice daily This product I use is Kirunal.

 

Footnotes:

 

1. Prospective applied to double blind studies means that the study was

planned in detail, that it was laid out in advance and that it was analyzed

after the study was completed. This is in contrast to studies where the

comparison was made only after the study been completed and the results were

known. I don't particularly like the term but use it since it is recognized

by double blind theorists. Under my direction between 1952 and 1960 we

completed six of these experiments, the first in psychiatric history.

Probably in the whole field of medicine I know of only two studies done by

doctors for condition like arthritis before we completed ours. What is

ironic is that our critics have continued to misreport our work and claimed

that we had not done any controlled studies. Read my recent book " Vitamin

B-3 and Schizophrenia. " - Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D.

 

5.. Canadian Schizophrenia Foundation, Located in Toronto Canada, web site.

a.. Sells the video, " Mask of Madness, Science of Healing " with Margot

Kidder and Dr. Hoffer and has an enormous list of resources. They support

orthomolecular medicine.

 

b.. The " Mask of Madness, Science of Healing " video has people with

schizophrenia, bi-polar illness and chronic depression who have healed

themselves with diet and orthomolecular medicine.

 

c.. International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine

Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine

Canadian Schizophrenia Foundation

16 Florence Avenue, Toronto

Ontario, Canada, M2N 1E9

Phone: (416) 733-2117 Fax:(416) 733-2352

 

d.. Review of Mask of Madness, Science of Healing video

 

e.. Margot Kidder web site.

 

6.. The Huxley Institute for Biosocial Research - Westchester County Chapter

of the American Schizophrenia Association - lots of good information.

 

7.. Video: Message of Hope, An award winning video about natural healing of

schizophrenia and alzheimers disease.

 

8.. Good Books & Resource Links

Natural Healing for Schizophrenia and other common mental disorders

By Eva Edelman, isbn 0-9650976-6-8,

Publisher: Borage Books, 3762 West 11th. Street, Suite 188, Eugene, Oregon

97402,

Tel: 541-683-8720

Email info

View excerpts from this book

 

9.. The Healing Nutrients Within, Braverman, Eric R., ISBN 0879837063, Keats

Publishing, Inc., 27 Pine Street, Box 876 New Canaan, CT 06840-0876. Get the

1997 revised edition

 

10.. Some books by Carl Pfeiffer MD.

a.. Mental and Elemental Nutrients, 1975, ISBN 0879831146, Keats Publishing

Inc.

 

b.. Nutrients and Mental Illness, 1985, ISBN 0892812265, Healing Arts Press,

One Park St., Rochester, Vermont 05767

 

11.. Is This Your Child, Rapp, Doris, 1991, ISBN 0688119077, Wm. Morrow and

Co.., 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10019

 

12.. Article linking Milk to autism & schizophrenia

 

13.. Free book, 'Bad Behavior and Illness are caused by Biochemical

Imbalances " by Ronald Dishinger

 

This web site has good links. Download approx. 124 pages from internet free

of charge. This is an important book in my opinion. It can help you

understand the biochemical imbalance and get started on rebalancing your

system while you are locating an orthomolecular physician or psychiatrist.

 

14.. John Hammel has cured himself of schizophrenia after four years in

mental hospitals with orthomolecular medicine. He is fighting the CODEX

issue. Please sign the petitions at http://www.garynull.com and at

http://www.laleva.cc/petizione/english/intro_eng.html

 

Your quality of life depends on it.

 

Note from John Hammel:

Vital Information Suppressed from www.iahf.com click orthomolecular medicine

Every week I get calls from people interested in learning more about how I

recovered from schizophrenia via orthomolecular medicine. I refer everyone

to Well Mind Assoc. of Greater Washington for more info at 301-949-8282.

There are many good links from that site including one to Dr.Hoffer's

homepage.

It saddens me greatly that this information is being suppressed. Please

forward it widely. Far too much needless suffering is going on. Twenty years

after I recovered people are still being denied access to orthomolecular

treatment, which was first, made available way back in 1952. Due to the

suppression of this information, I was forced to spend 4 years in mainstream

mental hospitals where they almost killed me with drugs and really came

close a few times. I almost choked to death on my own saliva once because

phenothiazine medication causes you to lose your gag reflex and choke. I had

numerous bloody fights with the goons. The evil of the pharma cartel is

incalculable. The people who are suppressing this information are the same

people who are using Codex to try to destroy our access to the supplements

we need.

 

John C. Hammel, Legislative Advocate, Founder

International Advocates for Health Freedom

PO Box 625

Floyd, Virginia 24091, USA

800-333-2553 - (North America)

overseas: 540-745-6534

540-745-6535 fax

jham

http://www.iahf.com

 

15.. A highly recommended laboratory in USA.

Great Plains Laboratory

 

16.. Alcoholism articles

a.. Natural Cures One ,Two

 

b.. Book: Seven Weeks To Sobriety, Joan Matthews-Larson, 1997, Fawcett

Books, ISBN 0449002594. This book is invaluable for anyone wanting to stop

abusing alcohol, drugs or who just wants to have good health

 

17.. Dr. Andrew Saul's web site search " schizophrenia "

 

18.. Highly recommended web-site: http://doctoryourself.com/index.html

" If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This

especially includes your health care. "

 

19.. True Hope has an innovative product called EMPOWER+. Visit their site

to research the product and some of their excellent results with

schizophrenia, bi-polar affective disorder, depression, anxiety-panic

disorder, and tourettes syndrome.

 

20.. Article: Sugar and Mental Health

 

21.. Psychiatric Force

A valuable discourse on the problems with psychiatry and many resources for

alternative methods of healing mental illness.

" 'Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom...'. It is

the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. "

- William Pitt (1783)

 

22.. Say No to Psychiatry

An Article by Gary Null

 

23.. Your Guide to the World of Alternative Mental Health

A collection of alternative mental heath articles. This is a very

informative and valuable website and a " MUST VISIT " site.

 

24.. A must see page for biochemical imbalance, alcohol treatment, insomnia,

hypoglycemia, depression and many other health problems.

 

25.. Rapid Recovery From Severe, Stress-Induced Depression Using Magnesium

and much more information. This is a very important link for other health

supporting issues as well-osteoporosis, heart disease, insomnia,

fibromyalgia and more.

 

26.. Finding Care for Depression, Mental Episodes & Brain Disorders

by Robert Sealey, BSc, CA www.searpubl.ca

 

This 280 page layman's guide has tips, teaching tales, tools, forms and 250

references for restoring mental health with a chapter by contributing

author, Dr. Abram Hoffer.

 

" How Orthomolecular Medicine Can Help " by Robert Sealey

 

Robert Sealey shares his story on the video " The Masks of Madness, Science

of Healing " with Margot Kidder and Dr. Abram Hoffer.

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Health, Hope, Joy & Healing :

May you Prosper, even as your Soul Prospers 3John 2

 

Jennifer Ruby

 

Email advice is not a substitute for medical treatment.

 

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Central Nervous System Supplement

 

 

| Has anyone here tried the supplement called " Equilib " ? It is supposed

| to be a replacement for psyche meds... I'm giving it a try and would

| love to know of others who have had success - or not - with this.

|

| Many thanks,

| Lynn