Abram Hoffer Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Pharmaceutical companies are very annoyed with niacin because their products have to compete with it. Some of their cholesterol-lowering drugs cost up to $150 a month while niacin costs about $10.”
-- Abram Hoffer

#Annoyed Quotes #Drug Quotes #Cost Quotes
“Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.”
-- Abram Hoffer

#Believe Quotes #Taken Quotes #School Quotes
“If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.”
-- Abram Hoffer

#Healing Quotes #Physicians Quotes #Answers Quotes
“I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.”
-- Abram Hoffer

Source : Abram Hoffer, CREATESPACE (2009). “Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

#Independent Quotes #Majority Quotes #Patient Quotes
“It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurition as an essential tool in treating disease.”
-- Abram Hoffer

#Years Quotes #Medicine Quotes #Physicians Quotes
“I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand, it's not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them?”
-- Abram Hoffer

#Cancer Quotes #Hands Quotes #Support Quotes
“For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%.”
-- Abram Hoffer

#Recovery Quotes #Drug Quotes #Schizophrenia Quotes

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