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OMNS – How to Bash Vitamins with a Meta-Analysis
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service Reference: Confidential Memorandum from the World Headquarters of Pharmaceutical Politicians, Educators and Reporters (WHOPPER) Satire by Andrew W. Saul, Editor TOP SECRET: Do Not Let This Get on the Internet! No Leaks! Distinguished members, our decades of disparaging nutritional therapy have paid off at last. The public, and their healthcare providers, are […]
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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (OMNS) – Media Medicine: Have You No Sense of Decency?
They picked the wrong day to announce that a “Study finds 275,000 calls to poison control centers for dietary supplement exposures.” I am just in the mood to take this on. Why? Because the same poison control centers report zero deaths from any dietary supplement. See for yourself at http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v13n02.shtml Now take a look at the supplement-bashing […]
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Salad May Cause Autism? If Johns Hopkins Says So, It MUST be True
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, May 18, 2016 If you believe the media (and golly, doesn’t everybody?), pregnant women should not eat leafy green vegetables. Well, that is the gist of Johns Hopkins’ May 11 report that “Too Much Folate in Pregnant Women Increases Risk for Autism” (http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2016/too-much-folate-in-pregnant-women-increases-risk-for-autism-study-suggests.html ). Okay, the study actually targets supplements, but let’s […]
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How Doctors Use Vitamin C Against Lead Poisoning
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 26, 2016. We hear about the hazards of lead. We know that lead poisoning can cause severe mental retardation. Lead has been clearly linked with Alzheimer’s disease. We have been told to avoid lead in our homes and in our water, and to clean up lead pollution of our environment. […]
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Nutritional Supplement Safety Profile Proven To Be 100 Percent Safe
Editor’s Note: Don’t you get sick and tired of so-called “news” items that deliver alarmist type bytes concerning the safety profile of vitamins, minerals and supplements. It is an endless litany of irrelevant detail promoted by drug manufacturers because they know that if a lie is repeated often enough it becomes the truth. Joseph Goebbels, […]
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Vitamins and Surgery: The Real Story A Report from the Front. Well, Maybe a Bit Lower.
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, August 24, 2015 Over 100 million Americans will undergo surgery this year, and I was one of them. Not a big deal: a routine outpatient hernia repair, caused by sure-I-can-lift-that-extremely-heavy-box syndrome, the tendency towards which is almost certainly carried on the Y chromosome. In their personalized how-to-prepare-for-surgery instructions, both the surgeon […]
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Ebola, Enterovirus, Dirty Dishes and Plague (OHMS News)
If Abraham Lincoln were to describe the germ theory, I think he might have put it something like this: “You can infect some of the people all of the time, and infect all of the people some of the time; but you cannot infect all of the people all of the time.” The question, of […]