Niacin : The Real Story: Learn About the Wonderful Healing Properties of Niacin - Softcover

Abram Hoffer; Andrew W. Saul; Harold D. Foster

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591202752 ISBN 13: 9781591202752

Publisher: Basic Health Publications, 2012

Synopsis

Niacin (vitamin B3) is a small molecule made of only 14 atoms smaller even than the simplest sugar. But this one molecule has profound effects on health: it plays a role in over 500 reactions in the body. Many illnesses are caused by too little niacin and many illnesses can be cured with mega doses of niacin. The authors are advocates of orthomolecular (nutrition-based) medicine, supporting an approach to wellness that involves substances that naturally occur in the human body, such as niacin. This book makes the case for the widespread use of niacin for the prevention and treatment of health problems. · How to take niacin, with detailed recommendations on forms and therapeutic doses · Accurate information on niacin side effects and safety · Using niacin for arthritis, children's learning and behaviour disorders, mental illness, cardiovascular disease and other conditions

About this title

About the Author:

I have lived a full, interesting and creative life supported by my family and many friends and irritated and spurred on by the hostile criticisms of a group of psychiatrists representing APA and NIMH. I was born on a farm in Southern Saskatchewan in 1917, completed High School in a rural school, my PhD at University of Minnesota and Medical degree at University of Toronto. By the time I got my first job I was 33 years old, had three children and was totally fed up with being a student. The last thing in the world I wanted to do was to become a psychiatrist, then the lowest branch of medicine. My wife Rose put up with these long student years while she brought up our three children. Bill became one of the world’s best antiquarian book experts. He died 6 years ago from lung cancer. John is a Professor of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal a great clinician and researcher into nutrition, and Miriam is dietitian at Women College hospital in Toronto and recently published her very good book Fueling Body, Mind and Spirit. Rose died in August 2001 and since then I am alone but absorbed with my family and my work. I have the support of remarkable friends and scientists and all of us working together will eventually overhaul medicine back to its interest in nutrition and in nutrients. Since they did not know me personally I never took it personally although I must admit I would have preferred had they been supportive. I give my critics full credit for having delayed the full introduction of orthomolecular medicine into the medical world and for having denied life, health and happiness for innumerable patients. Supporters of old paradigms never realize how much damage they do by their remarkable rigidity and adherence to old theories.

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. Has published more than 180 peer-reviewed articles and has written or coauthored 12 books.

Geomorphologis, professor of medical geography and consultant to the U.N. in disaster planning. He authored or edited over 300 publications. He died in 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Health Publications
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1591202752
• ISBN 13: 9781591202752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224