GETTING WELL: THE TOTAL APPROACH, VITAMINS AND SUPPLEMENTS

The Total Approach

Since the basic goal of Biological Medicine is to help and support the body's own healing activity, we advocate the total approach when the therapeutic program is considered. Not just this or that specific vitamin, herb or treatment, but a total combined attack on all fronts, from all directions, at the same time. After the thorough study of patient's background and his living and eating habits is made, and possible underlying causes of his health condition are determined, the patient's own healing and health-restoring mechanism should be assisted with all the available effective and harmless means, simultaneously: optimum diet, specific herbs and nutritive supplements, juices, vitamins, minerals, etc., which are known to be effective for his specific condition. In my experience, such total approach brings about the fastest recovery.

Vitamins and Supplements

The suggested vitamins and food supplements are listed in order of importance, beginning with the most important for each condition -although in many (perhaps most) cases this may be considered superfluous as several vitamins or supplements can be of equal importance.

In most cases, the usual therapeutic dosage is given for each supplement. (The dosage specified is for adults and children over 12 years of age. Younger children should receive less at the doctor's discretion.) It should be kept in mind, however, that this is only a usual dosage, based on records of what most nutritionally-oriented doctors or nutritionists prescribe to their patients. Practitioners should never forget that there is a great difference in every patient's response to vitamins and other nutrients, depending on his condition, age, nutritional stature, his special personal needs, his ability to assimilate nutrients, the mineral content of the water he drinks, the degree of toxicity in his environment, his emotional health, etc. The doctor, upon careful examination and nutritional and metabolic evaluation of the patients’ condition, must determine the exact dosage and the duration of vitamin therapy.

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