How to Live With Schizophrenia

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Summary: Vitamins Don't Cure Schizophrenia - Disproven Book
Review: If vitamins cured schizophrenia do you honestly think that we'd have 50 million people suffering from this horrible disease in the world today?? If something is too good to be true - it probably is - and this is true for this theory too.

This book covers an approach which Dr. Abram Hoffer and others developed in the 1950s, but which by the 1970s was proven to be fruitless. The work of Dr. Hoffer and others is discussed in detail in the American Psychiatric Association Task Force Report, July 1973, which points out methodological flaws in the early work and reviews later studies which failed to show any benefit for such treatments.

In recent years, new medicines, with improved side-effect profiles and techniques to overcome problems with social and occupational functioning, have been well proven advances for the treatment of schizophrenia. Early intervention programs should prevent some of the serious dysfunction of the disease.

Serious illnesses like schizophrenia require proven treatments. Vitamin treatments as "alternative" therapy for schizophrenia should not be recommended.

Rating:
Summary: Vitamins Don't Cure Schizophrenia - Disproven Book
Review: If vitamins cured schizophrenia do you honestly think that we'd have 50 million people suffering from this horrible disease in the world today?? If something is too good to be true - it probably is - and this is true for this theory too.

This book covers an approach which Dr. Abram Hoffer and others developed in the 1950s, but which by the 1970s was proven to be fruitless. The work of Dr. Hoffer and others is discussed in detail in the American Psychiatric Association Task Force Report, July 1973, which points out methodological flaws in the early work and reviews later studies which failed to show any benefit for such treatments.

In recent years, new medicines, with improved side-effect profiles and techniques to overcome problems with social and occupational functioning, have been well proven advances for the treatment of schizophrenia. Early intervention programs should prevent some of the serious dysfunction of the disease.

Serious illnesses like schizophrenia require proven treatments. Vitamin treatments as "alternative" therapy for schizophrenia should not be recommended.

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Summary: Clinically Proven Treatment: Hoffer is Right
Review: The United States Patent Office delayed issuing a patent on the Wright brothers' airplane for five years because it broke accepted scientific principles. This is actually true. And so is this: Vitamin B-3, niacin, is scientifically proven to be effective against psychosis, and yet the medical profession has delayed endorsing it. Not for five years, but for fifty.

In 1952, Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, had just completed his psychiatry residency. What's more, he had proven, with the very first double-blind, placebo-controlled studies in the history of psychiatry, that vitamin B-3 could cure schizophrenia. You would think that psychiatrists everywhere would have beaten down a path to Saskatchewan to replicate the findings of this young Director of Psychiatric Research and his colleague, Humphrey Osmond, MD.

You'd think so.

In modern psychiatry, niacin and schizophrenia are both terms that have been closeted away out of sight. And patients, tranquilized into submission or Prozac-ed into La-La Land, are often idly at home or wandering the streets, where either way it is highly doubtful that they will get much in the way of a daily vitamin intake. Those in institutions fare little better nutritionally. For everyone "knows" that vitamins do not cure "real" diseases. (http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_paradigm.html)

But Dr Hoffer dissents. For half a century Dr Hoffer has dissented. His central point has been this: Illness, including mental illness, is not caused by drug deficiency. But much illness, especially mental illness, may be seen to be caused by a vitamin deficiency. This makes sense, and has stood up to clinical trial again and again. If you do not believe this, this book will provide you with the references to prove it. And remember that it was Dr. Hoffer who started off those clinical studies in the first place. In 1952.

Dr. Hoffer explains the mechanics of how niacin works against schizophrenia. There is a chemical found in quantity in the bodies of schizophrenic persons. It is an indole called adrenochrome. Adrenochrome (which is oxidized adrenalin) has an almost LSD-like effect on the body. That might well explain their behavior. Niacin serves to reduce the body's production of this toxic material. (http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_psychosis.html)

That Dr. Hoffer can compress a lifetime of research experience into one readable and surprisingly short book is a tribute to how clearly he teaches both layman and physician the essentials of niacin treatment. I have taught nutritional biochemistry to high school, undergraduate, and chiropractic students. To most, it is not an especially gripping subject. But when even a basic working knowledge of niacin chemistry can profoundly change psychotic patients for the better, it becomes very interesting very quickly.

Dr. Hoffer has treated thousands and thousands of such patients for nearly half a century. At 87, he still is actively practicing orthomolecular (megavitamin) psychiatry. He has seen medical fads come and go. What he sees now is what he's always seen: that very sick people get well on vitamin B-3.

(Additional books by Dr. Hoffer are posted at http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_hoffer.html)

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Summary: how to live with schizophrenia
Review: this book is a masterwork from a real master that dedicated most of his life as a therapist(m.d. ph.d)to investigate,research,exploring,teaching,but most of all:treating that disease.he is exploring all the thesis of schizophrenia, including one thesis that he founded by himself.he is also explains case histories of cases from a mental-hospital cases,as well as cases from outside the hospital, and this book will also give you an understanding of both therapies ,conventional and alternative,and when and how to combine them when it nececary.you also get a better understanding of the all other mental and social implications of schizophrenia,but the real message of this book is how to help these patients in the best comprehansive way.i also treat schizophrenic patients, and you can take it from me, that book is worth a billion mines of gold.this author is the most expirienced therapist in that field.

Rating:
Summary: how to live with schizophrenia
Review: this book is a masterwork from a real master that dedicated most of his life as a therapist(m.d. ph.d)to investigate,research,exploring,teaching,but most of all:treating that disease.he is exploring all the thesis of schizophrenia, including one thesis that he founded by himself.he is also explains case histories of cases from a mental-hospital cases,as well as cases from outside the hospital, and this book will also give you an understanding of both therapies ,conventional and alternative,and when and how to combine them when it nececary.you also get a better understanding of the all other mental and social implications of schizophrenia,but the real message of this book is how to help these patients in the best comprehansive way.i also treat schizophrenic patients, and you can take it from me, that book is worth a billion mines of gold.this author is the most expirienced therapist in that field.