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Yes, yes; me, yet again.
OK. The core of old school Orthomolecular (it -was- called "Mega-Vitamin therapy for the Schizophrenias," before that clever Linus Pauling came along and coined the term 'Orthomolecular') is really B3. I mean, one is to take other stuff, too, but its (supposedly...) the B3--niacin, niacinamide, or "no-flush" niacin--that's doing the heavy anti-crazy lifting.
The old school Orthomolecular protocols call for B3, plus at least an equal amount of vitamin C. So, if you're taking 6 grams B3, like me, you should take at least 6 grams C. Easy enough...
I started Orthomolecular w/ 6 grams C, then 12, then 15, now 20. The Orthomolecular die hards say to get C powder (one can buy it for cheap at health food stores or online) and dissolve it in water and drink it over the course of the day. Me? I'm kinda...lazy...so I take 10 grams time release AM, again PM.
I ramped up the C because...1st of all, the more modern Orthomolecular protocols are big on C, for...everything. Seriously. Secondly, I skimmed over some Linus Pauling, and I thought about for a minute, and....what if he's correct? I mean, dude maxed out at 18grams C/day, lived into his 90s. True story.
Anyway, I do feel...better. A lot of that is clearly some sort of direct, Divine Intervention. I was -sick-, when I was who I was, then I got saved, now...5 years later...boom. Transformed, inside and out. I'm increasingly thankful.
But..the C...seems to help. A week or two ago, both my parents came down with some kind of bug. The little house dog did, too. Me? I had some AM nausea, went to bed, slept 5 hours, woke up groggy and -not- sick. At all.
The newer Orthomolecular mental health people say that big doses of C help if you take tranquilizers/antipsychotics. Apparently, it reduces the toxicity of the psych drugs (-all- psych drugs are bad for you, but they're sometimes necessary), and it does something to help the tranquilizer work more effectively, at lower doses...or so they say. I kind of agree, based on my experience...I take a moderate dose 'atypical' tranquilizer, and I get what I need from "treatment" w/o the typical ill effects of tranquilizers (depression, apathy, tremor, twitches, nervousness, inability to concentrate, etc.). It helps that I'm on a relatively non-sedating tranquilizer and not loaded up on a cocktail (true story: polypharmacy, the use of multiple psych drugs, is now the rule, rather than the exception), but...yeah.
Just thought I"d mention this, since it seems that a big problem is that even when people take C, they're not told how to take sufficient C (if you go by Linus Pauling) to make a real difference. With oral vitamin C, it seems to be more about maintenance and prevention (maybe...) of some health problems, not so much "curing" anything. There are, now, some clinics doing vitamin C injections+infusions, to boost chemotherapy, for instance. I don't know much about that...some people swear by it, some people say its quackery, some people (predictably) say "more research is needed," etc.
But...yeah. Vitamin C. Who knew it would turn out be so awesome? I use time-release, just plain ole ascorbic acid tablets. Some people use buffered versions, where the ascorbic acid is blended w/ minerals. I don't know much about Ester-C...what little I've read on it makes me think its over-priced, for what you get.
OK. Finished, now.
OK. The core of old school Orthomolecular (it -was- called "Mega-Vitamin therapy for the Schizophrenias," before that clever Linus Pauling came along and coined the term 'Orthomolecular') is really B3. I mean, one is to take other stuff, too, but its (supposedly...) the B3--niacin, niacinamide, or "no-flush" niacin--that's doing the heavy anti-crazy lifting.
The old school Orthomolecular protocols call for B3, plus at least an equal amount of vitamin C. So, if you're taking 6 grams B3, like me, you should take at least 6 grams C. Easy enough...
I started Orthomolecular w/ 6 grams C, then 12, then 15, now 20. The Orthomolecular die hards say to get C powder (one can buy it for cheap at health food stores or online) and dissolve it in water and drink it over the course of the day. Me? I'm kinda...lazy...so I take 10 grams time release AM, again PM.
I ramped up the C because...1st of all, the more modern Orthomolecular protocols are big on C, for...everything. Seriously. Secondly, I skimmed over some Linus Pauling, and I thought about for a minute, and....what if he's correct? I mean, dude maxed out at 18grams C/day, lived into his 90s. True story.
Anyway, I do feel...better. A lot of that is clearly some sort of direct, Divine Intervention. I was -sick-, when I was who I was, then I got saved, now...5 years later...boom. Transformed, inside and out. I'm increasingly thankful.
But..the C...seems to help. A week or two ago, both my parents came down with some kind of bug. The little house dog did, too. Me? I had some AM nausea, went to bed, slept 5 hours, woke up groggy and -not- sick. At all.
The newer Orthomolecular mental health people say that big doses of C help if you take tranquilizers/antipsychotics. Apparently, it reduces the toxicity of the psych drugs (-all- psych drugs are bad for you, but they're sometimes necessary), and it does something to help the tranquilizer work more effectively, at lower doses...or so they say. I kind of agree, based on my experience...I take a moderate dose 'atypical' tranquilizer, and I get what I need from "treatment" w/o the typical ill effects of tranquilizers (depression, apathy, tremor, twitches, nervousness, inability to concentrate, etc.). It helps that I'm on a relatively non-sedating tranquilizer and not loaded up on a cocktail (true story: polypharmacy, the use of multiple psych drugs, is now the rule, rather than the exception), but...yeah.
Just thought I"d mention this, since it seems that a big problem is that even when people take C, they're not told how to take sufficient C (if you go by Linus Pauling) to make a real difference. With oral vitamin C, it seems to be more about maintenance and prevention (maybe...) of some health problems, not so much "curing" anything. There are, now, some clinics doing vitamin C injections+infusions, to boost chemotherapy, for instance. I don't know much about that...some people swear by it, some people say its quackery, some people (predictably) say "more research is needed," etc.
But...yeah. Vitamin C. Who knew it would turn out be so awesome? I use time-release, just plain ole ascorbic acid tablets. Some people use buffered versions, where the ascorbic acid is blended w/ minerals. I don't know much about Ester-C...what little I've read on it makes me think its over-priced, for what you get.
OK. Finished, now.