Posted by Christ_empowered on August 2, 2016, at 17:04:11
In reply to Re: different ideas about healthcare » Christ_empowered, posted by SLS on August 2, 2016, at 15:20:54
OK...Mercola is big on something called EFT, which I don't know much about and also...EFT doesn't much interest me. I don't wanna knock it off hand, but it strikes me as on the more pseudo-scientific end of things.
With Orthomolecular...what bothers me is that there have been studies, which obviously cost $$$, that simply did not follow Hoffer's protocol. At all. Which raises the question...why bother?
The deal with OM is you're flooding your body with massive doses of C, B-complex, B-3 of some sort...usually b-6, high dose vitamin E of some sort...its not necessarily that one component is the It Vitamin, its that the massive doses for a long time (often indefinitely) mixed with carefully selected, skillfully dosed psych medication(s), sometimes also using shock treatments...will produce very good outcomes for a lot of people on the more severe end of the mental illness spectrum.
The OM psychiatry literature is really interesting...they're big on careful dosing with neuroleptics because of what they term the "tranquilizer psychosis," which I imagine was more of an issue with heavy-handed use of the older neuroleptics. In addition...they used niacin in most male patients from the early days because of its protective cardio effects. I just think its interesting...now, there's research on individual components of the old school Hoffer cocktails, but nobody (as far as I know...) has put the whole combo together with an appropriately dosed atypical and studied it long term. Shame, shame, shame.
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