Orthomolecular Treatment of Chronic Disease: 65 Experts on Therapeutic and Preventive Nutrition

1374 Pages·2014·8.34 MB·English

by  Andrew W. Saul

THE
ORTHOMOLECULAR
TREATMENT OF
CHRONIC DISEASE
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65 Experts on Therapeutic
and Preventive Nutrition
Edited by
Andrew W. Saul, PhD
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Saul, Andrew W.
The orthomolecular treatment of chronic disease: 65 experts on therapeutic and preventive nutrition /
edited by Andrew W. Saul, PhD.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59120-714-6
1. Chronic diseases—Treatment. 2. Orthomolecular therapy. 3. Chronic diseases—Nutritional aspects. I.
Saul, Andrew W.
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To Abram Hoffer and Linus Pauling, the innovative founders and great teachers
of orthomolecular medicine
CONTENTS
Foreword by Atsuo Yanagisawa, MD, PhD
Acknowledgments
Preface by Jonathan E. Prousky, ND
Abram Hoffer: An Appreciation
Introduction by Andrew W. Saul, PhD

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF
ORTHOMOLECULAR THERAPY
When Evidence Is a Choice by Andrew W. Saul, PhD
Linus Pauling and the Advent of Orthomolecular Medicine by
Stephen Lawson
Pandeficiency Disease by Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD
Reflections on Two Modern Medical Research Ideas: Double-Blind
Trials and Peer Reviews by Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD
Megavitamins by Harvey M. Ross, MD
Vitamin Dependency by Andrew W. Saul, PhD
“Safe Upper Levels” for Nutritional Supplements: One Giant Step
Backward by Alan R. Gaby, MD
Death by Medicine by Gary Null, PhD, Carolyn Dean, MD, ND,
Martin Feldman, MD, and Debora Rasio, MD
“Supernutrition” as a Strategy for the Control of Disease by Roger J.
Williams, PhD
Orthomolecular Psychiatry by Linus Pauling, PhD
Observations on the Dose and Administration of Ascorbic Acid When
Employed Beyond the Range of a Vitamin in Human Pathology by
Frederick Klenner, MD
Evidence-Based Medicine: Neither Good Evidence nor Good
Medicine by Steve Hickey, PhD, and Hilary Roberts, PhD
Early Evidence About Vitamin C and the Common Cold by Linus
Pauling, PhD
Dynamic Flow: A New Model for Ascorbate by Steve Hickey, PhD,
Hilary Roberts, PhD, and Robert F. Cathcart, MD
The Three Faces of Vitamin C by Robert F. Cathcart, MD
The Method of Determining Proper Doses of Vitamin C for the
Treatment of Disease by Titrating to Bowel Tolerance by Robert F.
Cathcart, MD
The Origin of the 42-Year Stonewall of Vitamin C by Robert
Landwehr
Children, Vitamin C, and Medical Progress by Lendon H. Smith, MD
Clinical Procedures in Treating Terminally Ill Cancer Patients with
Vitamin C by Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD

PART TWO: PIONEERS OF
ORTHOMOLECULAR MEDICINE
Hall of Fame Pioneers
Ilya Metchnikov, PhD
Joseph Goldberger, MD
William McCormick, MD
Max Gerson, MD
Casimir Funk, PhD
Cornelius Moerman, MD
Albert Szent-Györgyi, MD, PhD
Roger J. Williams, PhD
William Griffin Wilson
Ruth Flinn Harrell, PhD
Linus Pauling, PhD
Henry Turkel, MD
Adelle Davis, MSc
Thomas L. Cleave, MD
Carl C. Pfeiffer, MD, PhD
Irwin Stone, PhD
Josef Issels, MD
Frederick Klenner, MD
Wilfrid Shute, MD, and Evan Shute, MD
Allan Cott, MD
Carlton Fredericks, PhD
William Kaufman, MD, PhD
Hugh MacDonald Sinclair, MD
Arthur M. Sackler, MD
Max J. Vogel, MD
Emanuel Cheraskin, MD, DMD
Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD
Humphry Osmond, MD
Lendon H. Smith, MD
Ewan Cameron, MD
Fannie H. Kahan
R. Glen Green, MD
Archie Kalokerinos, MD
David R. Hawkins, MD, PhD
Bernard Rimland, PhD
Bruce Ames, PhD
Robert F. Cathcart III, MD
Richard Kunin, MD
Hugh Desaix Riordan, MD
Masatoshi Kaneko, PhD
Hiroyuki Abe, MD, PhD
Chris Reading, MD
David Horrobin, MD, PhD
Michael Lesser, MD
Erik T. Paterson, MD
Sister Theresa Feist
Harold D. Foster, PhD
Jonathan V. Wright, MD
Jeffrey Bland, PhD
Tsuyohi (Ken) Kitahara
Alan R. Gaby, MD
Ronald E. Hunninghake, MD
Atsuo Yanagisawa, MD, PhD
Gert Schuitemaker, PhD
Steven Carter
Andrew W. Saul, PhD
Other Nutrient Pioneers
James Caleb Jackson, MD
Bernard Adolphus Macfadden
Elmer McCollum, PhD
Claus Washington Jungeblut, MD
Conrad Elvehjem, PhD, and Tom Spies, MD
Ed Desaulniers, MD

PART THREE: ORTHOMOLECULAR
TREATMENT