Honoring the Honorable

Those true healers… those who truly align themselves with the sources of healing energy, respect the laws of nature and the physician within, and in heart and soul love humanity and all living creatures (including earth!) to the extent that they spend their lives helping others through reporting from the consciousness of love and compassion, with fierce passion and dedication to practice and speak the truth, sometimes even in the face of outright attacks from conventional medicine practitioners, all they know about healing the mind and body.  Let's honor those that dedicate their precious lives in developing the hard earned gifts that awaken them as healers. Who then share, practice, and facilitate their gifts to help the afflicted come to resonate once again with the healing streams of energy found when our existence is harmoniouisly integrated with the universe and the enchanted frequencies of life flow through us replacing dis-ease with vibrant health.  Let's honor them with mention so that others looking for some of what they provide can find the help they need!

This is a space for both People doctors and Earth doctors! (environmentalists :-))

Re: Honoring the Honorable - Dr. Abram Hoffer M.D., Ph.D.

Okay, I started this thread so I'm going to be the first to honor a physician that has crossed all the professional lines to practice orthomolecular medicine and in doing so has spent over 55 years helping cure schizophrenia and cancer using the principles and techniques of orthomolecular medicine. 

He has also successfully treated alcoholism and actually inspired Bill Wilson, the co-founder of AA to pursue orthomolecular treatment for himself and his fellow members of AA.    Here is a quote from Dr. Hoffer regarding this subject: “I have been using niacin for alcoholics for the past 30 years. This treatment was first widely publicized by my good and close friend Bill W. Co founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. He circulated a treatis called The Vitamin B-3 Therapy to physician members of AA. I had advised Bill to take niacin 3 grams daily to control his severe tension, fatigue and insomnia. Within two weeks he was well.”  Reducing Bill's symptoms also reduced his desire for alcohol.  This experience launched Bill W. into a passionate mission to try and get this treatment into the AA experience and to continue research.  However, the physicians of AA ridiculed him and refused to acknowledge the promising results of orthomolecular medicine.  Despite the success of the treatments, the physcians of AA dismissed the promising results of B3 therapy and essentially told Bill that he, as a layperson, had no business promoting therapies for those addicted to alcohol and the symptoms they suffer… mind you, these were the very same physicians that Bill appointed to the AA General Services Council!


Here is the cancer page with some info and an interview with this brillaint doctor who, if he had saved so many lives with a new therapy in conventional medicine would have probably won a Nobel Peace  prize:  http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2003/08/08/orthomolecular_treatment_of_cancer_depression.htmand here is the one regarding the holistic curing of schizophrenia http://www.islandnet.com/~hoffer/hofferhp.htm.  Dr. Abram Hoffer has worked with some of the greatest names in bio medicine such as double Noble Peace Prize winner Linus Pauling who coined the phrase “orthomolecular medicine”, and has a solid record of achievement represented in the lives he has saved from cancer and schizophrenia.  He has been known to challenge conventional doctors making empty claims of the validity of psychotropic drugs in mental health treatment by asking “And just how many of your patients are well?”  I love this man.  He speaks with my tongue :-).

Dr. Hoffer has everything I admire in a doctor/healer: he speaks the truth, treats with heart and compassion; vision, strength and truly cares about his patients- he is full of spirit and i'm sure a lot of it is somehow received by his patients.   Regarding speaking the truth, here is a quote from his biography that sums of the murderous crimminality of those in government, conventional medicine, and pharmaceutical sales in the name of ego and profit that disregard nature's cures and actively prevent people from benefitting from them:

“I give my critics full credit for having delayed the full introduction of orthomolecular medicine into the medical world and for having denied life, health, and happiness for innumerable patients. Supporters of old paradigms never realize how much damage they do by their remarkable rigidity and adherence to old theories.”  I can not find better words to express my exact sentiments for those that have dismissed the success of orthomolecular treatment and purposely prevented integrating orthomolecular medicine into mainstream society for the treatment of addictive biochemistry! 

Name: Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)
Academic Degrees/Certifications: MD, Ph.D.
Clinic:
Address: 2727 Quadra, Suite 3
City: Victoria
State: British Columbia
Zip:
Country: Canada
Phone: 250-386-8756
WebSite: http://www.orthomolecularvitamincentre.com/index.php
Summary: Orthomolecular Medicine.