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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 23, 2012
The War Against Nutritional Medicine
Why We Love Our Critics
by Andrew W. Saul, OMNS
Editor
(OMNS, Jan 23, 2012) When physicians
criticized Linus Pauling for advocating vitamin C, Dr. Pauling wrote
a book that became an all-time nutrition bestseller: Vitamin C
and the Common Cold. (1) It won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in
Science. Then, after he and colleagues demonstrated that vitamin C
fights cancer, he was attacked again. When medical orthodoxy
prevented him from publishing timely rebuttals in their pharma-funded
journals, Pauling wrote more books. (2,3) When critics go after the
Gerson nutritional therapy, Charlotte Gerson writes another book.
(4) She will turn 90 on March 24. The more efforts to silence, the
more education gets out.
When psychiatric journals refused to
publish Abram Hoffer's controlled studies showing that niacin cured
many forms of mental illness, Dr. Hoffer started his own Journal
of Orthomolecular Medicine. (5) When scientific journals
refused to publish studies questioning water fluoridation, the
journal Fluoride was started to get the research in print.
(6) Someday, you might actually be able to find these journals at
the US National Library of Medicine/Medline. But don't hold your
breath. NLM, your taxpayer-supported "largest medical library on
earth," censors your access to journals it does not like. (7)
Worldwide, as well as in the United States of America, most people
feel that such behavior from a public library is reprehensible. If
you are among these who do, you can write to NLM's Medline boss and
tell him so. (8) They will not let you write to committee members,
who make their decisions in closed meetings. (9)
Every time pharmaphilic opponents of
nutritional medicine try to monopolize the news media, the
Orthomolecular Medicine News service publishes another press release
or two, directly to the public. OMNS articles are all over the
internet, and there have been 120 different releases, all free of
charge and without advertising.
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/ Thank you for your
continued interest and support.
Not everyone likes this newsfeed.
Most of the media ignore it. Not surprising. Perhaps they think that
no one is searching the internet for a second opinion, and that
people only read and believe what they, the major magazines and
newspapers, select as fit to print. Maybe the TV networks have
forgotten about YouTube, and websites where there is a growing
presence of free-access orthomolecular video. (10)
And as for Wikipedia, if you want to
read what cliques of amateurs have need to say about subjects that
do or do not fit their belief systems, be our guest. I taught for
the State University of New York for nine years, and I never met a
single faculty member that would pay the slightest heed to a
Wikipedia reference. They know better. You know better. That is why
OMNS goes directly to academics, researchers, and physicians for
information and commentary. Many years ago, my father taught me that
when you want to know, "Go to the organ grinder, not the monkey."
As you read this, the medical
monopoly is melting like an iceberg in the Panama Canal. Nutritional
medicine is catching on worldwide. Original case reports and
research papers of Dr. Max Gerson are, this minute, being translated
from German into English for the first time ever. They will be
published for free access online this year. No longer will cancer
organizations get away with rhetoric such as, "If the Gerson
approach worked, there would be evidence that demonstrates it."
Well, it does, and there are. If your doctor does not know this,
teach him or her to click a mouse button.
We love piquing the medical
industry. We are grateful for our critics. We love it when they
respond, because we just go ahead and issue yet another OMNS release
showing how nutritional therapy is proven safe and effective. When
they don't respond, we will keep provoking them until they do. For
example, let them explain these:
- A Harvard study showed a
27% decrease in deaths among AIDS patients taking vitamin
supplements. (11)
- There has never been a single
death from a vitamin. That's right: zero. (12)
- Women who take two aspirin
tablets per day have an 86 percent greater risk of pancreatic
cancer. (13)
- Milligram for milligram,
vitamin supplementation is cheaper than trying to get vitamins
from food. (14)
Here is the latest thorn in Big
Pharma's paw. Starting Feb 1, the Orthomolecular Medicine News
Service will be available in Japanese, thanks to the Japanese
College of Intravenous Therapy, the Japanese Society of
Orthomolecular Medicine, and other progressive medical
organizations.
We are not going to rest with that.
If you are multilingual and interested in volunteering to translate
OMNS releases into other languages, please write in and let us know.
You can pick the release
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/ and you can pick the
language.
Vitamin and nutrient therapy is
safer and more effective than drug therapy. Let's get this message
out to every person, everywhere, in every language.
References:
1. Pauling L. (1970) Vitamin C, the
Common Cold, and the Flu. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. Revised
edition, 1976.
2. Cameron E, Pauling L. (1979)
Cancer and Vitamin C. Linus Pauling Institute of Science and
Medicine, Menlo Park, CA. Warner Books, New York 1981; Revised
edition, 1993, Philadelphia: Camino Books.
3. Pauling L. (1986) How to Live
Longer and Feel Better. New York: W. H. Freeman. Revised and updated
edition, 2006, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press.
Reviewed at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/livelonger.html
4. Gerson C. (2011) Defeating
Arthritis, Bone and Joint Diseases. Carmel, CA: Gerson Health Media.
Also: (2010) Defeating Obesity, Diabetes and High Blood Pressure:
The Metabolic Syndrome. Carmel, CA: Gerson Health Media. And: (2007)
Healing the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases.
Totality Books. Reviewed at
http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/2007/pdf/2007-v22n04-p217.pdf
Also: (2001) Gerson C, Walker, M. The Gerson Therapy. NY: Kensington
Publishing.
5. Free access to archive at
http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/
6. Free access to archive at
http://www.fluoride-journal.com/ or
http://www.fluorideresearch.org/
7.
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n03.shtml and
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n07.shtml
8. Sheldon Kotzin, Executive Editor,
MEDLINE, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland
kotzins@mail.nlm.nih.gov
This email was verified Jan 19. 2012.
9.
http://www.doctoryourself.com/medline.html , scroll about
halfway down the page.
10. Intravenous vitamin C
instructional videos for doctors:
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n03.shtml
11. Fawzi WW, Msamanga GI,
Spiegelman D, Wei R, Kapiga S, Villamor E, Mwakagile D, Mugusi F,
Hertzmark E, Essex M, Hunter DJ. A randomized trial of multivitamin
supplements and HIV disease progression and mortality. N Engl J Med.
2004 Jul 1;351(1):23-32. Free full text article at
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa040541
12. Most recent year:
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n16.shtml Previous
27 years:
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n05.shtml
13.
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n12.shtml
14. A single large orange costs at
least 50 cents and may easily cost one dollar. It provides less than
100 milligrams (mg) of vitamin C. A bottle of 100 tablets of
ascorbic acid vitamin C, 500 mg each, costs about five dollars. The
supplement gives you 10,000 mg per dollar. In terms of vitamin C,
the supplement is 50 to 100 times cheaper, costing about one or two
cents for the amount of vitamin C in an orange.
Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine
Orthomolecular medicine uses safe,
effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more
information:
http://www.orthomolecular.org
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Ian Brighthope, M.D. (Australia)
Ralph K. Campbell, M.D. (USA)
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Damien Downing, M.D. (United Kingdom)
Michael Ellis, M.D. (Australia)
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