Abram Hoffer

Pharmaceutical companies are very annoyed with niacin because their products have to compete with it. Some of their cholesterol-lowering drugs cost up…

— Abram Hoffer

Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they…

— Abram Hoffer

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

— Abram Hoffer

It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within…

— Abram Hoffer

I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On…

— Abram Hoffer

I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more…

— Abram Hoffer

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

— Abram Hoffer