Posted by Christ_empowered on August 12, 2015, at 11:34:06
In reply to dont have problem with OM approach, posted by stan_the_man70 on August 12, 2015, at 1:29:03
Ummm...well, yeah, the cost of supplements can be an issue. Not everybody really needs full on Orthomolecular. I probably overdo it myself. I think if a lot of people would just take a couple grams time release c and a high potency b complex per day, that alone would help with a lot of problems.I can't think of any food-based way to do OM. OM is based on the idea that you mega dose vitamins to get drug like effects. For instance, I take 3 grams niacinamide per day. According to the label on my bottle, that's 15,000% of the RDA, or 150 times the RDA. Assuming that most people meet the RDA, in 3 days I consume more niacinamide than many (most?) people do in 1 year. There's no way to do that with food.
OM can be adjusted for anybody, basically. Hoffer's basic program--3 grams C, b-50 2x dailly, niacin or niacinamide--isn't all that expensive. I just mega dosed everything and added in other things because I was State Mental Hopsital material until recently, so...I figured...extra crazy=extra suppelements.
Not everybody likes OM. The mega doses, like I wrote above, turn the vitamins more into drugs than just vitamins, and I think a lot of people don't care for that approach. OM docs just think that using vitamins as drugs is safer and cheaper than using drugs for all our problems.
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