Orthomolecular nutrition for everyone : megavitamins and your best health ever

"Orthomolecular nutrition prevents and cures disease. This fact has been ignored by our current health care system, the media, and the medical literature. Why doesn’t your doctor use nutritional therapy? Is it for lack of safety? Because it’s not effective? Because it’s expensive? It happens to be none of these. Despite what you have been told, nutritional medicine is safe and effective. It is remarkably inexpensive especially when compared to the incredibly high cost of modern medicine. The evidence from nearly 80 years of research by orthomolecular physicians proves it: nutritional therapy works. Most vitamin research you hear about focuses on low, and therefore, inadequate doses of vitamins. Low doses do not get clinical results. High-dose vitamin therapy does; it has for decades. But which vitamins should we take? How much? Is taking all those vitamins safe? This book addresses common questions about supplementation including dosing, safety, and just what all those extra vitamins do for you. It also covers what to eat and why, the real story about exercise and good heath, why we shouldn’t fear germs, and how each and every vitamin can get you better now and keep you well in the future."--Publisher's description Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Preface Part One What Is Orthomolecular Medicine (and Why Should We Care?) Can Supplements Take the Place of a Bad Diet? Steps to Better Health: Are You Sick of Sickness? Chapter 1 Confessions of an Orthomolecular Lifer Ebola, Enterovirus, Dirty Dishes, and Plague Chapter 2 Oh, What to Eat? Pass the Mustard, or Just Pass on the Hot Dog? Toxic Sugar Chapter 3 That Diet Word Another Reader’s Digest Absurdity: Red Meat Is Bad—No, Wait—Good for You! The Traditional Mediterranean Diet: Lessons Learned Food Allergy, Gluten Sensitivity, and Celiac Disease Chapter 4 Weight and Weight Loss Chapter 5 Vitamin Questions and Answers What’s the Difference Between Natural and Synthetic Vitamins? Tips from a Megavitamin Mom: Getting Kids to Take Vitamins and Lots of Them Part Two Vitamins: The Real Story Doctors Say Vitamins Are Safe and Effective (from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service) Supplements: The Real Story (from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service) A Timeline of Vitamin Medicine No Deaths from Vitamins, Supplements, Minerals, Amino Acids, or Herbs. Absolutely None. “Safe Upper Levels” for Nutritional Supplements: One Giant Step Backward Chapter 6 Vitamin C Introduction to Vitamin C The Third Face of Vitamin C The Method of Determining Proper Doses of Vitamin C for the Treatment of Disease Hidden in Plain Sight: The Pioneering Work of Frederick Robert Klenner, MD Observations on the Dose and Administration of Ascorbic Acid when Employed Beyond the Range of a Vitamin in Human Pathology Ascorbic Acid Vitamin C: What’s the Real Story? About “Objections” to Vitamin C Therapy (from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service) Vitamin C Does NOT Cause Kidney Stones Don’t Vaccinate Without Vitamin C Vaccinations, Vitamin C, and “Choice” Chapter 7 Vitamin A Vitamin A and Beta-Carotene Lycopene: Its Role in Health and Disease Which Kills Smokers: “Camels” or Carrots? Are Smokers Getting Lung Cancer from Beta-Carotene? Vitamin A: Cancer Cure or Cancer Cause? Media Tells a One-Sided Story Chapter 8 Vitamin E Vitamin E: A Cure in Search of Recognition Vitamin E Attacked Again. Of Course. Because It Works. Chapter 9 Vitamin D Why You Need More Vitamin D. A Lot More. Latest Research on Vitamin D Shows Remarkable Range of Health Benefits Top Vitamin D Research of 2014 Chapter 10 B Vitamins The Pioneering Work of Ruth Flinn Harrell: Champion of Children Negative and Positive Side Effects of Vitamin B3 Vitamins Fight Multiple Sclerosis (from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service) Why Niacin Will Always Be the Good One “Safe Upper Levels” of Folic Acid, B6, and B12 Chapter 11 Other Nutrients, Including Vitamin K and Minerals Chapter 12 Nutrient News You Haven’t Heard Niacin and Schizophrenia Vitamin C Prevents Vaccination Side Effects, Increases Effectiveness Shingles Treatment That Works (from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service) Vitamins D and C and Treating TB What Really Causes Kidney Stones (and Why Vitamin C Does Not) (from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service) How Doctors Use Vitamin C Against Lead Poisoning Vitamin C Saves Lives (from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service) Orthomolecular Treatment for Adverse Effects of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine Flu Vaccine: No Good Evidence Which Supplements Should You Take to Protect Yourself Against Colds and Flus? Ascorbate Supplementation Reduces Heart Failure Negative News Media Reports on Vitamin Supplements Chapter 13 A Pharmaceutical Plot Is Afoot? Of Course Not How to Make People Believe Any Antivitamin Scare Confessions of a Frustrated Pharmacist Big Names, Big Mistakes: Consumers Misled Pharmaceutical Drug Marketing to Our Children: Bordering on Criminal Antivitamin Publications: Misinformation Presented as Truth Trashing Vitamins with Garbage Articles FDA Claims “Food Supplement” Deaths; Hides Details from the Public (from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service) Truth in Pharmaceutical Advertising: Now There Is an Oxymoron for You A Constant Stream of Expensive Drugs Are There No Hospitals? Are There No Nursing Homes? Chapter 14 Do I Need All Those Vitamins? Appendix 1 Orthomolecular Medicine: The Best Cost-Effective, Rational, and Scientific Choice for Disease Treatment Appendix 2 Probiotics—Good Bacteria—Help Maintain Our Health in Many Ways Appendix 3 Nutritional Therapy at the Crossroads Additional Reading About the Author Index