31 Orthomolecular Medicine Meeting Highlights Toronto 2007 by Jeffrey Dach MD
Honoring Abram Hoffer, MD
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I just returned from attending the Orthomolecular Medicine Meeting in Toronto April 2007, and I wanted to share with you a few highlights from this historic meeting. (1) In addition to the scientific meeting, we attended the black-tie tribute dinner honoring the 90 year old Abram Hoffer, MD, the original founder of the orthomolecular medical society and a prolific writer and researcher.(2)(3) My wife and I were lucky to be seated at a family table with Garry Vickar, M.D. Hoffer’s nephew. Garry Vickar is an orthomolecular psychiatrist from St. Louis, and proudly informed us the family had endowed the Hoffer-Vickar chair of orthomolecular psychiatry at Ben Gurion University.(4)
You probably never heard of this word, “orthomolecular”. It was coined by Linus Pauling 50 years ago and means substances in the human body like vitamins, minerals, and hormones used to treat disease.(5)(5A) It sounds a lot like natural medicine, holistic medicine, and integrative, complementary medicine, doesn’t it? In actuality, all of these definitions are blurred together, and we are really talking about the use of non-toxic natural substances, instead of patented drugs which can be toxic and produce adverse side effects. Abram Hoffer, Linus Pauling and Humphrey Osmond founded the orthomolecular medical society in the 1950’s, and Hoffer is still active as editor-in-chief of its journal.(6)
The
April 2007 award dinner in Toronto was a touching and moving tribute to
a great pioneer and scientist. Dr. Hoffer graciously allowed us to
introduce ourselves and speak with him briefly, and I can report to you
that he is charming, pleasant, and has the intellect of much younger
person. He was the final speaker at the podium, and spoke for about 10
minutes recapping the highlights of his career and thanking everyone
involved in the dinner. The actress Margot Kidder was the master of ceremonies at the dinner. Remember, she played Lois Lane in the superman movies. Kidder was successfully treated by Hoffer after having her own personal problems in 1996. She is now a grateful recovered Abram Hoffer patient, and also a political activist for orthomolecular medicine as the first line of treatment of mental illness. (7)
Above Left Image: Actress Margot Kidder at the 2005 Canadian National Expo. Courtesy of Wikipedia
Abram Hoffer is well known for his research investigating the use of high dose niacin, vitamin B3, as a treatment for schizophrenia. Hoffer noticed the association of pellagra, niacin deficiency, with dementia, and speculated some people needed higher niacin (B3) intakes to avoid mental illness. Hoffer found niacin (B3) to be quite effective and treated 4,000 schizophrenics with three grams of B3 per day with a 90% success rate. His original paper was published in Lancet in 1962, Massive Niacin Treatment in Schizophrenia. Review of a nine-year study.(8)
A new study of niacin (B3) for schizophrenia is underway at Ben Gurion University, entitled, Treatment of Acute Schizophrenia With Niacin Vitamin Therapy. This study is currently recruiting patients at Beersheva Mental Health Center. The director is RH Belmaker, MD, who is also the Hoffer-Vickar chair in orthomolecular psychiatry.(9)
Over his long career, Abram Hoffer has touched the lives of many Canadians, and many of the people at the meeting were there because Hoffer had treated family members with dramatic improvements. Dr. Hoffer's autobiography, "Adventures in Psychiatry: The Scientific Memoirs of Dr. Abram Hoffer", is a must read. We were all given gift copies of the book, personally autographed by Dr. Hoffer.(10)(11)(12)(12A)(13)
The scientific meeting started the next day bright and early. And the
first day was devoted to Vitamin C as a treatment for cancer, and all
the big names were there. Steve Lawson from the Linus Pauling Institute appeared first.(14)
He gave a short history of the original Cameron-Pauling Clinical Trials
of Vitamin C treatment for cancer, which showed that cancer patients
who received vitamin C lived 4 times longer than those who didn’t. One
hundred terminal cancer patients were given 10 grams of vitamin C daily
(2.5 grams four times per day) and followed clinically until they
succumbed to their underlying cancer. The Vitamin C group lived 4.2
times longer (210 days), compared to 1,000 "matched controls" who
averaged only 50 days till death from cancer. (15)(16)(17) Above Left image is chemical sctructure of Vitamin C Courtesy of Wikipedia.
In spite of these encouraging results by Linus Pauling, Vitamin C research was halted early on because of subsequent negative studies at the Mayo Clinic. Some say the Mayo Clinic studies were intentionally designed to fail and discredit vitamin C. The Mayo Clinic docs changed the Pauling protocol and failed to demonstrate the beneficial findings. (18)
Jeanne Drisko
However, after all these years, interest in vitamin C as an adjunctive
cancer treatment appears to be reviving. One of those responsible for
this renewed interest in Vitamin C as a treatment for cancer is Jeane Drisko, MD,
Professor of Orthomolecular Medicine at University of Kansas who
discussed her ongoing clinical trial investigating intravenous vitamin C
as a treatment for ovarian, uterine and cervical cancer at the
University of Kansas.(19)(20)Left Image: Courtesy of Jeanne Drisko MD and U of Kansas.(20)
John Hoffer, MD (Abram Hoffer’s son) from the Jewish General Hospital of Montreal reported three well-documented cases of advanced cancers, confirmed by pathology biopsy. All three patients had unexpectedly long survival times after treatment with intravenous vitamin C.(21)
Mark Levine
Mark Levine, MD, (22) Section Chief for Vitamin C Research at the NIH, presented his work showing intravenous Vitamin C kills cancer cells and infectious agents by producing Hydrogen Peroxide in the extracellular space. (23)(24)(25)(26)(27) Dr Levine also studied vitamin C in volunteers and then recommended increasing the current RDA of 60 mg daily to 200 mg daily(27). Steve Hickey, PhD. author of Ascorbate, the Science of Vitamin C also spoke at the meeting.(28).
Phyllis Bronson
The second day of the meeting was devoted to Women’s Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement, Phyllis Bronson, PHD (29) discussed the biochemistry of estradiol and progesterone and their effects on mood, depression and brain function. She explained how hormonal imbalance causes PMS which can be treated with supplemental progesterone rather than SSRI anti-depressants.
Dr. Bronson discussed I3C and DIM for the beneficial effect on estrogen metabolism, and as nutritional supplements for breast cancer prevention. Indole 3 Carbinol (I-3-C) and Di-Indole Methane (DIM) and Iodine are the basic breast cancer prevention program that we use in our office.(30) We have discussed the role of Iodine as a cancer preventive agent in a previous article, Breast Cancer Prevention and Iodine Supplementation by Jeffrey Dach MD.(31)
Kenton Bruice
Dr. Bronson was followed by Kenton Bruice MD,(32) a practicing OB/Gyne doc who routinely prescribes bio-identical hormones. He summarized the medical literature showing safety of bio-identical hormone replacement. Dr. Kenton Bruice cited the French Cohort study which showed no increased risk of breast cancer from bio-identical hormones. (The RR = 1.005, which is identical to the control group.) (33) He also discussed the medical literature on heart disease risk, and showed that women using bio-identical hormones (estradiol and progesterone) have atually less heart disease risk.(34)
Mark Starr
Mark Starr, M.D. presented his talk on Type Two Hypothyroidism, and announced the new edition of his book.(35) His information on hypothyroidism was covered in my previous articvle, Hypothyroidism Type Two and Thyroflex.(36) I had previously heard his talk and met him at an ICIM (Integratice Medicine) meeting in Grand Rapids, MI, so it was a pleasure meeting him again, and I was glad he remembered me from the last meeting. One change he mentioned in his office protocol: He is now giving iodine supplementation along with natural thyroid and having better results.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
James Greenblatt
James Greenblatt MD (37) from Waldon Behavioral Care (38) gave
a very good talk discussing orthomolecular treatment of Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder (OCD). What is OCD? This is a fairly common mental
disorder which affects kids and adults who have obsessive thoughts such
as phobias, or fears (such as fear of contamination), and in order to
deal with these thoughts they have repeating behaviors called
compulsions such as handwashing, counting, hoarding, etc. Left Image Compulsive Handwashing in OCD, Courtesy of Wikipedia.
Kids who are interrupted from their compulsive activities can become violent. The standard treatment is SSRI antidepressants, which may work initially, however, they come with a price of well known side effects. Dr. Greenblatt has had dramatic success in OCD patients using non-toxic supplements such as 5-HTP, and Inositol (18 grams per day). (39)(40). 5-HTP is an amino acid precursor to serotonin, and Inositol is a non-toxic sugar like molecule.
William Shaw Great Plains Lab
Dr. Greenblatt discussed the use of lab testing for the opiate peptides, Gliadorphin and Casomorphin, which can be done on urine samples sent to the Great Plains Laboratory (41) run by William Shaw.(42)(43) Apparently the cause for OCD, depression, bulimia, panic disorders etc. has been found to be these Gliadorphin and Casomorphin peptides which mimic neurotransmitters in the brain. Fortunately, these unwanted peptides can be degraded by digestive enzymes, and Greenblatt uses a digenstive enzyme product called Serenaid with much success.
Dr. Greenblatt presented cases showing dramatic clinical improvement in kids with OCD with the use of othomolecular medicine, 5HTP, Inositol, digestive enzymes and probiotics. These children recovered dramatically from their OCD symptoms of hoarding, repeating activities, handwashing, phobias and social withdrawal etc. This is orthomolecular medicine at its best.
Latest Update to This Article:
Sadly, Abram Hoffer died in Victoria on May 27, 2009 after a brief illness. He was a giant in his field, and an inspiration to all of us, and will be greatly missed. Obituary can be found Here.
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Medicine is the practice of preventing and treating disease by
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to the body. The key idea in orthomolecular medicine is that genetic
factors affect not only the physical characteristics of individuals, but
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daily should be increased to 200 mg daily, which can be obtained from
fruits and vegetables. Safe doses of vitamin C are less than 1000 mg
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biochemistry. I run a clinical practice in Aspen, Colorado, and am a
research associate at The University of Denver, Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry. I conduct my chemical research in the physical
chemistry laboratory of Dwight Smith, Ph.D., who also serves as a
scientific advisor in much of my research. I am also on the faculty of
both The American Academy of Environmental Medicine and The
International Society of Orthomolecular Medicine.
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Greenblatt is a dually board certified in child and adult psychiatry.
He received his medical degree and completed his adult psychiatry
residency at George Washington University in Washington D.C. He
completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Johns
Hopkins Medical School. Dr. Greenblatt is founder and Medical Director
of Comprehensive Psychiatric Resources, Inc. and a clinical faculty
member at Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry.
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William Shaw received a Ph.D. in biochemistry and human physiology from
the Medical University of South Carolina. He is board certified in the
fields of clinical chemistry and toxicology by the American Board of
Clinical Chemistry. He has supervised large endocrinology, nutritional
biochemistry, and toxicology and immunology departments in positions at
the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Smith Kline Laboratories in
Atlanta. He was Director of Clinical Chemistry, Endocrinology and
Toxicology at Children’s Mercy Hospital, the teaching hospital of the
University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine. Dr. Shaw is
now the Director of The Great Plains Laboratory for Health, Nutrition
and Metabolism in Lenexa, Kansas specializing in urine metabolic testing
for autism spectrum disorders. He is author of “Biological Treatments
for Autism and PDD” and is a frequent speaker at autism conferences
worldwide. He is the stepfather of a child with autism and has helped
thousands of parents and physicians successfully contribute to improving
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