Nutrition and Orthomolecular
The People (4)
Physicians and scientists who treated food and nutrients at therapeutic doses as medicine — each page sets out their work, protocols and claims as they stated them.
Max Gerson
German-American physician (1881–1959) behind the Gerson Therapy: thirteen glasses of fresh organic juice a day, a saltless plant-based diet, potassium and coffee enemas.
Read the deep dive →Weston A. Price
Canadian-born dentist whose 1930s field studies of traditional peoples, gathered in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (1939), tied their native diets to sound teeth and proposed “Activator X”.
Read the deep dive →Abram Hoffer
Canadian psychiatrist (1917–2009) who co-founded orthomolecular medicine and treated schizophrenia with high-dose niacin — vitamin B3 — and vitamin C.
Read the deep dive →Linus Pauling
The only person with two unshared Nobel Prizes, who championed high-dose vitamin C and named orthomolecular medicine in his 1968 Science paper.
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