Megavitamin therapy proven fighter against many chronic conditions

Many "health cures" come and go over the years, but one has remained for almost a century, making it the leading crusader for therapeutic and preventive health. It's called orthomolecular medicine, which translates to the use of megavitamin therapy to fight off chronic diseases.

High doses of vitamins have been known to cure serious illnesses for nearly 80 years. Looking for proven cures? The list is powerful and definitive. Klaus Jungeblut, M.D., prevented and treated polio in the mid-1930s with a vitamin. Chest specialist Frederick Klenner, M.D., was curing multiple sclerosis and polio back in the 1940s, also using vitamins. William Kaufman, M.D., cured arthritis, also in the 1940s. In the 1950s, Drs. Wilfrid and Evan Shute were curing various forms of cardiovascular disease with a vitamin. At the same time, psychiatrist Abram Hoffer was using niacin to cure schizophrenia, psychosis, and depression.

In the 1960s, Robert Cathcart, M.D., cured influenza, pneumonia, and hepatitis. In the 1970s, Hugh D. Riordan, M.D., was obtaining cures for cancer with intravenous vitamin C. Dr. Harold Foster and colleagues arrested and reversed full-blown AIDS with nutrient therapy, and in just the last few years, Atsuo Yanagasawa, M.D., Ph.D., has shown that vitamin therapy can prevent and reverse sickness caused by exposure to nuclear radiation.

Since 1968, much of this research has been published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. This book brings forward important material selected from more than 45 years of JOM directly to the reader.

If readers want to know which illnesses best respond to nutrition therapy, and how and why that therapy works, they will find it in the must-read new book, The ORTHOMOLECULAR TREATMENT OF CHRONIC DISEASE: 65 Experts on Therapeutic & Preventive Nutrition. Part One presents the principles of orthomolecular medicine and the science behind them. Part Two is devoted to orthomolecular pioneers, presenting an introduction to maverick doctors and nutrition scientists in a way that brings the subject to life. Part Three brings together extraordinary clinical and experimental evidence from expert researchers and clinicians.

If the word "cure" is intriguing, this book will be even more so. It shows exactly how innovative physicians have gotten outstanding results with high-dose nutrition therapy. The author, Andrew W. Saul, M.S., Ph.D., is editor-in-chief of the Orthomolecular Medicine NewsService and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed articles and has written or co-authored 12 books. He is also featured in the documentary movie Food Matters and, in 2013, was inducted into the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame.

To read more about this definitive book on therapeutic and preventative medicine, check out www.basichealthpub.com or www.amazon.com