For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%. — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
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… — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
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… — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed… — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%. — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next… — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
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… — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They… — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer. — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
