Reversing Schizophrenia with Orthomolecular Medicine
August 23, 2011 by Yafa Sakkejha
Filed under Anti Aging Articles, Featured
Abram Hoffer's book, Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone
The late Canadian Doctor Abram Hoffer MD PhD helped almost 10,000 schizophrenics heal, improve and even be cured, yes cured, with something called Orthomolecular Therapy. That’s the practice of administering mega doses of vitamins to reverse disease.
His success rate was 85%.
Hoffer used niacin (b3). For example, someone would take 3g of B3, 3g of Vitamin C and eliminate food allergens (gluten, dairy, corn, etc).
Food Allergies & Reversing Schizophrenia
I recently met Dr Eric Paterson MD from Creston, BC who has been healing people of schizophrenia since 1973.
One of his first cases: a 14 year old boy had developed schizophrenic symptoms.
He wanted to see if he had allergies so he first put him on a water fast for 5 days and then slowly added food back into his diet to see if he had any reactions.
After the 6th day, the boy’s symptoms were inflamed and he found out that he had eaten a single red Smartie from his brother.
His parents said that before he developed symptoms, he ate many red freezies.
Dr Paterson found that he was allergic to red dye #A2.
He gave him 3g B3, 3g Vitamin C, a strict no sugar or refined carb diet, and told him to stay away from any artificially red food.
The student recovered, became captain of his rugby team and now is a lawyer with kids in BC.
This field is exceptionally exciting in terms of what can be done on top of a raw food diet – adding mega-doses of natural supplements can literally reverse disease.
This is the tip of the iceberg as far as Orthomolecular Therapy goes – find out more by visiting http://www.orthomed.org/
How a raw vegan corrected her vision naturally
November 16, 2010 by Kristen Mehendale
Filed under Featured, Health Articles
Jen Laur - After (corrected eyesight)
Jen Laur, owner of Raw Love, Life Food, a Toronto-based catering company she owns with her husband Mike, recently lead a raw food retreat with the House of Verona. On that retreat, she shared her story of how she corrected her eyesight after going raw.
Like so many, Jen suffered from poor eyesight. Once believing eyeglasses were a permanent sentence, her perspective shifted after attending a vision-correcting seminar. She was surprised to learn that a traumatic event is often a trigger to bad vision and immediately thought back to a stressful event, which seemed to affect her vision overnight.
Jen and Mike Laur - before going raw (poor eyesight)
She began looking into alternative therapy for eyesight, including the Bates method, which takes a proactive, holistic approach to correcting eyesight that includes exercise and nutrition.
Jen took full responsibility for her eye health and realized that in addition to exercises, her diet was a crucial component of her healing.
Jen’s raw vegan diet was full of nutrients her eyes needed to repair themselves. She noted that the most important nutrients for her eyesight included:
- Vitamin B12
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin C
- Omega 3 Fatty Acids (sprouted chia seeds are the highest food source)
- Zinc
Eating foods whole and raw ensures that the maximum amount of nutrients remain intact.
According to Dr. Mercola, lutein is also an essential nutrient for proper eye health. Lutein is found in dark leafy green vegetables and produce with a strong yellow colour, such as papayas, oranges, squash, and carrots.
Just like an athlete needs to support strength training with proper nutrition, Jen continues to fuel herself with eye-supporting foods (the eye is, after all, part muscle!) Now, Jen enjoys vision that is better than when she wore glasses.
Jen’s top foods and supplements for eyesight:
- Gogi berries (high in beta-carotene and antioxidants)
- Chia seeds (excellent source of Essential Fatty Acids)
- Marine Phytoplankton (incredible rich source of nutrients, supports cellular health)
To contact Jen Laur, or put in an order for organic raw food to be catered to you in Toronto, email rawlovelivefood@gmail.com or call +1-416-551-8820.
To book a spot on a raw food retreat at the House of Verona, call 1-800-252-2826 or email bookings@houseofverona.com.
Guest Author Kristen Mehendale is a Holistic Nutritionist in Toronto, Ontario. View her website athttp://www.kristenmehendale.com and follow her on Twitter @HappyCellsKM.
This nutrient rebuilds collagen
July 9, 2009 by Yafa Sakkejha
Filed under Anti Aging Articles, Featured, Uncategorized
If you’re like me, you’re spending every spare moment outside soaking up the rare Canadian sunshine.
The dilemma is that I want gorgeous, tanned skin, but I have to grapple with the fact that the sun contributes to premature wrinkles and breaks down collagen in our skin’s cellular matrix.
Although this happens, our bodies do regenerate new collagen. Lifestyle choices dictate how much collagen is made and how much is destroyed.
Vitamin C is vital to the production of new collagen. You can help your body rebuild what was destroyed over the weekend by consuming the vitamin in the form of whole, raw foods.
How vitamin C helps produce collagen
When the body produces collagen, a complex series of events takes place both inside and outside of cells.
Dr Jerry Gordon, a national dean’s list scholar in undergraduate biology at Rutgers, explains that Vitamin C is active inside of cells, where it hydroxylates, or adds hydrogen and oxygen to lysine and proline, which are amino acids.
“This helps form procollagen, a precursor molecule, which is then made into collagen outside of the cell. Without vitamin C, collagen formation is disrupted.”
Dr Gordon also cautions that “vitamin C is easily damaged during the food preparation stage, such as during chopping, exposure to air, cooking, boiling, and being submerged in water.”
To maximize your intake of vitamin C, always try to eat whole, raw foods as much as possible.
You can’t eat too much vitamin C – if it’s from whole foods
The recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of vitamin C is 60 to 90 milligrams per day, depending on age and gender. The average person consumes 72 mg (about 1 orange), but there’s nothing wrong with getting more.
It’s only possible to get vitamin C toxicity from consuming too much of the vitamin through supplements or fortified foods. Through whole food sources, it’s not possible to obtain toxicity because our bodies are able to cope by storing unused vitamins.
Disclaimer
This is not a license to go outside and bake, unprotected. Getting vitamin D is healthy, but either go inside or cover up when you feel yourself starting to burn.
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