Worldwide Studies Show High-Dose B Vitamins Reduce Schizophrenia Symptoms

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In a damaging blow to the pharmaceutical industry’s poisonous stranglehold on the treatment of mental health disorders, a scientific review of worldwide studies has shown that add-on therapy with high-dose B vitamins can significantly reduce symptoms of schizophrenia more than standard antipsychotic drug treatments used alone. Published in Psychological Medicine, one of the world’s leading psychology journals, B-vitamin interventions utilizing higher dosages or combining several vitamins were consistently found to be effective in reducing psychiatric symptoms. Lower doses, in contrast, were ineffective.

Analyzing 18 randomized controlled trials involving a combined total of 832 schizophrenia patients, the researchers propose that the micronutrients may be effective by restoring nutritional deficits, reducing oxidative stress, or modulating neurological pathways.

Parallels with the Cellular Medicine approach

Commenting on the review, co-author Jerome Sarris, Professor of Integrative Mental Health at Western Sydney University, stated that the team’s findings “fit with our latest research examining how multi-nutrient treatments can reduce depression and other disorders.” As such, in moving away from single nutrient therapies towards multi-nutrient based ones instead, the direction of this research mirrors the nutrient synergy approach pioneered by scientists at the Dr. Rath Research Institute.

If the brain’s nutritional needs are not met it will not function optimally

What is also interesting is the researchers’ proposal that one way in which the micronutrients may be effective is through restoring nutritional deficits. This clearly draws a further parallel with Dr. Rath’s Cellular Medicine approach, which is based on the scientific concept that micronutrient deficiencies are the primary cause of today’s most common chronic diseases.

Currently, of course, orthodox psychiatry essentially ignores the possibility that mental health disorders may have nutritional causes. The fact is however that the brain is a physical organ and needs to be nourished, just like all other organs of the body. As with physical health problems, it therefore logically follows that if the brain’s nutritional needs are not met it will not function optimally.

Vitamin therapies for mental illness threaten the pharma industry

By 1968 two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling was convinced that mental illness could be treated with nutrients such as niacin (vitamin B3)

The idea that nutritional approaches are effective in treating mental health disorders is hardly a new one. Already by 1968, for example, two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling was convinced that mental illness could be treated with nutrients such as niacin (vitamin B3), an approach developed by Canadian biochemist, physician and psychiatrist Abram Hoffer and others. Similarly, a study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry in 1963 found that chronic psychiatric patients had a clinical state of sub-scurvy and an unusually high demand for vitamin C. Achieving saturation with vitamin C in such patients was found to significantly improve depressive, manic and paranoid complexes, as well as improve overall personality functioning. But with over half a century having since passed, the fact that such treatments have not yet become mainstream is no accident.

In a vivid illustration of what is at stake if vitamin therapies were to become the clinical standard for treating mental health disorders, in 2015 the sale of patented chemical drugs for such conditions earned the pharmaceutical industry over 34 billion dollars globally. This made them the eighth-highest earning category of drugs that year. Just as they do in the case of chronic diseases involving physical ailments, pharmaceutical companies therefore see non-patentable natural approaches to controlling mental illness as a direct threat to their revenues. But with scientific evidence now mounting that micronutrient-based approaches are effective in treating even serious mental health problems such as schizophrenia and major depression, the profits the drug industry makes from these distressing disorders will increasingly be at threat. Towards contributing to our Foundation’s ultimate goal of Health for All, this will undoubtedly be yet another promising step in the right direction.

Story source: The University of Manchester

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Executive Director of the Dr. Rath Health Foundation and one of the coauthors of our explosive book, “The Nazi Roots of the ‘Brussels EU'”, Paul is also our expert on the Codex Alimentarius Commission and has had eye-witness experience, as an official observer delegate, at its meetings.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Paul's background was in the music industry, where he worked as a keyboard player and programmer with artists including Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry, Bill Withers, the Verve, Texas, and Primal Scream.

He first became interested in natural health after falling ill with a chronic fatigue syndrome-related disorder in 1991 and subsequently making a full recovery through the use of natural health therapies. After meeting Dr. Rath and Dr. Niedzwiecki at an anti-Codex rally in Berlin in 2002, Paul was inspired to make a life-changing decision to leave the music industry to work for the Foundation and help defend the right of patients worldwide to have free access to natural health approaches.

You can find Paul on Twitter at @paulanthtaylor

Der Executive Director der Dr. Rath Health Foundation ist einer der Koautoren des explosiven Buchs „Die Nazi-Wurzeln der Brüsseler EU“. Paul ist auch unser Experte zum Thema „Codex Alimentarius-Kommission“ und hat Augenzeugenerfahrung als offizieller beobachtender Teilnehmer bei diesen Treffen.

Bevor er seine Arbeit bei der Stiftung antrat war Paul in der Musikindustrie aktiv. Er arbeitete als Keyboard-Spieler und Programmierer mit Künstlern wie Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry, Bill Withers, the Verve, Texas und Primal Scream.

Sein Interesse an natürlicher Gesundheit wuchs, als er 1991 an Störungen erkrankte, die aus einem chronischen Erschöpfungssyndrom resultierten. Durch natürliche Gesundheitstherapien wurde er schließlich vollständig geheilt. Ein Treffen 2002 mit Dr. Rath und Dr. Niedzwiecki bei einer Anti-Codex-Demonstration in Berlin inspirierte ihn zu einer lebensverändernden Entscheidung und er verließ die Musikindustrie um für die Stiftung zu arbeiten und das Recht der Patienten zu verteidigen, weltweit freien Zugang zu natürlichen Gesundheitsverfahren zu haben.

Auf Twitter ist Paul unter @paulanthtaylor zu finden.

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