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Abram Hoffer Quotes:

Abram Hoffer quotes

Ocupation: Physician

Life: November 11, 1917 - May 27, 2009

Birthday: November 11

Death: May 27

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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.

Topics: Annoyed, Drug, Cost, Cholesterol, Pharmaceutical

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.

Topics: Believe, Taken, School, Medical School, Susceptible

If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.

Topics: Healing, Physicians, Answers

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.

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

Topics: Independent, Majority, Patient

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.

Topics: Years, Medicine, Physicians

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?

Topics: Cancer, Hands, Support, Cancer Survival

For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%.

Topics: Recovery, Drug, Schizophrenia

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