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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

Worried about Strep A – or flu – or yet another bout of COVID?

03/01/2023 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

If so, Dr Damien Downing in the latest post from Orthomolecular.org thinks you should be feeding yourself, and/or your children, Vitamin C. Plenty of it. And ideally combined with Vitamin D3, magnesium and zinc. This is because orthomolecular medicine believes that if you feed …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, NutritionTag: Dr Linus Pauling, Dr. Damien Downing, orthomolecular medicine, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Vitamin C and COVID, Vitamin C and flu, Vitamin C and Strep A

Vitamin C for Coronavirus

04/03/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

As many of you may be aware, Orthomolecular Medicine was defined by the great biologist, Linus Pauling, as 'the practice of preventing and treating disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of substances which are natural to the body' - in other words, large, often …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Food/Health Policy, NutritionTag: Dr Atsuo Yanagisawa, Intravenous Mega dose vitamin C to treat COVID-a9, orthomolecular medicine, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Richard Z. Cheng, Vitamin C for viral infections

More steam on the vitamin front…

29/12/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

The Orthomolecular Medicine News Service keeps up a constant flow of articles to their subscribers lauding, reasonably enough given who they are, the virtues of vitamins. Some find their way onto the FreeFrom Supplements site, some get read but not reproduced and some find their …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Conventional MedicineTag: 4.4 to 1 ratio of calcium to magnesium, AREDS1 study, artificial food colours, Catalytic Longevity, Centrum Silver Adults 50+, Centrum Silver Adults 50+ reduces cancer by 8%, FreeFrom Supplements, Landgoed Hoenderdaell, magnesium in oxide format, metallothionein, orthomolecular medicine, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, synthetic dl-alpha-tocopheryl acetate

Confessions of a frustrated pharmacist

05/04/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

I regularly get news releases and articles from the Orthomolecular News Service, the news wing of Orthomolecular.org, proponents of 'Therapeutic nutrition based on biochemical individuality'. To quote themselves: Orthomolecular is a term that comes from ortho, which is Greek …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Conventional Medicine, NutritionTag: bias in scientific reporting, Dr Linus Pauling, drug treatments, failure of drug treatments to cure, natural vitamin E, negative reporting on vitamins, orthomolecular medicine, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Orthomolecular.org, PPIs, Proton pump inhibitors, successful treatment outcomes, syn thetic vitamin E, Vitamin E mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome

Evidence-Based Medicine: the Orthomolecular view

10/07/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

This article originated with the excellent Orthomolecular News Service (subscribe here) and has been hanging around in my in-box for months as I thought it was so well worth reading but could not really find a home for it on the FoodsMatter sites. So, why not …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Conventional Medicine, Nutrition, PoliticsTag: 'highly significant' statistics, EBM, EBM not good science, Ecological fallacy, Evidence based medicine, first law of cybernetics, group statistics cannot predict an individual's response to treatment, large scale studies, medical trials, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Orthomolecular.org, pilot studies, Roger Conant and Ross Ashby, scientific replication, selective evidence, Solomonoff Induction, What use are population statistics?

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