Vitamins Fight Multiple Sclerosis

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Vitamins Fight Multiple Sclerosis

 

 

 

 

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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 4, 2006

 

VITAMINS FIGHT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

 

(OMNS) New research confirms that niacinamide, also known as vitamin

B-3, is a key to the successful treatment of multiple sclerosis and

other nerve diseases. [1] Niacinamide, say researchers at Harvard

Medical School, " profoundly prevents the degeneration of demyelinated

axons and improves the behavioral deficits. "

 

This is very good news, but it is not at all new news. Over 60 years

ago, Canadian physician H.T. Mount began treating multiple sclerosis

patients with intravenous B-1 (thiamine) plus intramuscular liver

extract, which provides other B-vitamins. He followed the progress of

these patients for up to 27 years. The results were excellent and were

described in a paper published in the Canadian Medical Association

Journal in 1973. [2]

 

Mount was not alone. Forty years ago, Frederick Robert Klenner, M.D.,

of North Carolina, was using vitamins B-3 and B-1, along with the rest

of the B-complex vitamins, vitamins C and E, and other nutrients

including magnesium, calcium and zinc to arrest and reverse multiple

sclerosis. [3,4] Klenner's complete treatment program was originally

published as " Treating Multiple Sclerosis Nutritionally, " Cancer

Control Journal 2:3, p 16-20. His detailed megavitamin protocol is now

posted for all interested persons to read at

http://www.tldp.com/issue/11_00/klenner.htm

 

Drs. Mount and Klenner were persuaded by their clinical observations

that multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, and many other

neurological disorders were primarily due to nerve cells being starved

of nutrients.

Each physician tested this theory by giving his patients large,

orthomolecular quantities of nutrients. Mount's and Klenner's

successful cures over decades of medical practice proved their theory

was correct.

B-complex vitamins, including thiamine as well as niacinamide, are

absolutely vital for nerve cell health. Where pathology already

exists, unusually large quantities of vitamins are needed to repair

damaged nerve cells.

 

Nutritional therapy is inexpensive, effective and, most important,

safe. There is not even one death per year from vitamins. [5]

 

Vitamin supplementation is not the problem. It is under-nutrition that

is the problem. Vitamins are the solution.

 

Restoring health must be done nutritionally, not pharmacologically.

All cells in all persons are made exclusively from what we drink and eat.

Not one cell is made out of drugs.

 

References:

 

[1] Kaneko S, Wang J, Kaneko M, Yiu G, Hurrell JM, Chitnis T, Khoury

SJ, He Z. Protecting axonal degeneration by increasing nicotinamide

adenine dinucleotide levels in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

models. J Neurosci. 2006 Sep 20;26(38):9794-804.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search & DB=pubmed

 

[2] Mount HT. Multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases. Can

Med Assoc J. 1973 Jun 2;108(11):1356-1358.

 

[3] Frederick R. Klenner. " Response of Peripheral and Central Nerve

Pathology to Mega-Doses of the Vitamin B-Complex and Other Metabolites " ,

Journal of Applied Nutrition, 1973,

http://www.tldp.com/issue/11_00/klenner.htm

 

[4] Dr. Klenner's " Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C " (which

discusses orthomolecular therapy with all vitamins, not just vitamin

C) is

now posted in its entirety at

http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/198x/smith-lh-clinical_guide_1988.htm

 

It includes a multiple sclerosis protocol, which takes up about five

pages. See also: http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html

 

[5] Watson WA et al. 2003 annual report of the American Association of

Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System. Am J Emerg

Med. 2004 Sep;22(5):335-404.

http://www.aapcc.org/Annual%20Reports/03report/Annual%20Report%202003.pdf

 

 

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Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.

Harold D. Foster, Ph.D.

Bradford Weeks, M.D.

Carolyn Dean, M.D. N.D.

Erik Paterson, M.D.

Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D.

Steve Hickey, Ph.D.

 

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