Latest Orthomolecular medicine Stories
Take millions of apprehensive Americans who couldn't get a flu shot this year due to a national shortage of the vaccine. Expose them to a "health formula" that gets a shout-out from Oprah Winfrey on her popular daytime talk show. The result: a run on Airborne that has cleaned it off many local drugstore shelves. Invented by a former teacher who was sick of getting sick in her germ-infested classroom every winter, Airborne contains vitamins and seven herbs. It's an effervescent tablet...
ABSTRACT Background: Inuit traditional food provides ample amounts of preformed vitamin A. However, the dietary transition away from traditional food raises concerns regarding dietary adequacy. Vitamin A is an essential nutrient with inadequate and excessive exposures having adverse effects. Objective: To evaluate total dietary vitamin A intake for Canadian lnuit from market food and traditional food sources and to evaluate retinol concentrations in liver and blubber. Methods: Dietary...
Take millions of apprehensive Americans who couldn't get a flu shot this year due to a national shortage of the vaccine. Expose them to a "health formula" that gets a shout-out from Oprah Winfrey on her popular daytime talk show. The result: a run on Airborne that has cleaned it off many local drugstore shelves. Invented by a former teacher who was sick of getting sick in her germ-infested classroom every winter, Airborne contains vitamins and seven herbs. It's an effervescent tablet...
EXPANDED ABSTRACT KEY WORDS: * antioxidants * radiation therapy * chemotherapy * cancer Most oncologists do not recommend aiitioxidants to their patients during standard therapy, but some may recommend them at low doses after completion of therapy. However, about 60% of patients take antioxidants during standard therapy without the knowledge of their oncologists. Therefore, a rational strategy for the use of antioxidants and their derivatives in combination with standard therapy may be...
Nov. 26--One winter about 20 years ago, as Barbara Dively prepared to pay for an armful of pills, lozenges, and other flu provisions at her Plymouth Meeting drugstore, the pharmacist brushed it all aside. "You only need one thing," he told her. It was something Dively had never heard of, but which has been the sole flu remedy in her family medicine chest ever since: Oscillococcinum, Oscillo for short, a best-seller in France and an increasingly popular brand here. It's made from the...
