A Physician's Handbook on Orthomolecular Medicine

Preface

Introduction


1 Orthomolecular Medicine: "We Command Nature Only by Obeying Her"


2 A Renaissance of Nutritional Science is Imminent

Section I (Supernutrition: You Are What You Eat!)


3 Supernutrition as a Strategy for the Control of Disease


4 Supernutrition


5 On Sugar and White Flour: The Dangerous Twin!


6 The Nutritional Teamwork Approach: Prevention and Regression of Cataracts in Rats


7 Micronutrient Deficiencies in Major Sources of Calories

Section II (Orthomolecular Medicine)


8 The Name of the Game is the Name


9 Linus Pauling Before Congress


10 Significance of High Daily Intake of Ascorbic Acid in Preventive Medicine


11 A Review of B6


12 What About Vitamin E


13 Tailoring the Dose


14 A New Brand of Nutritional Science

Section III (Orthomolecular Psychiatry)


15 On the Orthomolecular Environment of the Mind: Orthomolecular Theory


16 Treatment of Schizophrenia


17 Treatment of Learning Disabilities


18 The Use of B12 in Psychiatric Practice


19 Pangamic Acid: B15


20 Copper, Zinc, Manganese, Niacin and Pyridoxine in the Schizophrenias

Section IV (Human Ecology)


21 Ecologic Orientation in Medicine: Comprehensive Environmental Control in Diagnosis and Therapy


22 Cerebral Reactions in Allergic Patients


23 Maladaptive Reactions to Frequently Used Foods and Commonly Met Chemicals as Precipitating Factors in Many Chronic Physical and Chronic Emotional Illnesses


24 Immunological Deficiency in Schizophrenia


25 Hypoglycemia: The End of Your Sweet Life


26 Domiciliary Chemical Air Pollution in the Etiology of Ecologic Mental Illness


27 The Eyes' Dual Function: Part I & II

Section V (Orthomolecular Medicine and the Courts)


28 A Legal Triumph for Orthomolecular Medicine

Section VI (Orthomolecular Medicine and the Pres!)


29 Orthomolecular Therapy: Review of the Literature

Index

Appendix


30 Proteolytic Enzyme and Amino Acid Therapy in Degenerative Disease