Orthomolecular Nutrition
Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize winner and chemist, was the one to coin the phrase “orthomolecular” in 1960 to explain the concept of the correct molecules in the correct amounts. Canadian psychiatrist Abram Hoffer, his contemporary, suggested and displayed that optimal molecular concentrations of substances occurring naturally within the human body were vital to sustaining optimal mental health within humans. Simply said, our underlying belief and observation is that healthy foods equal healthy minds.
In Western culture today, the food industry has persuaded us to consume foods that have been changed from their raw, original state into a nutritionally dead and highly refined state, so even when we eat until we are full, it leaves us undernourished. The manufacturers of processed food artificially color, sweeten and chemically alter these products that are nutritionally dead, which would be horrible tasting and unpalatable without artificial modifications, to fool us into actually eating these foods. However, since our brain uses the most blood oxygen and the most nutrients out of any of the body’s organs, our brains, as well as our entire central nervous systems, begin feeling the effects from a biochemical deficiency in nutrients long before any apparent physical effects emerge.
As Abram Hoffer once said, “as long as the processing of food continues to take out essential nutrients, there won’t be any letup in the formation of chronically ill health.”
In order to start alleviating this ubiquitous challenge, we provide residents with diets of whole and naturally organic foods, and simultaneously eliminate white flour, white rice, caffeine, and sugar from their dietary regimens.
Since modern food processing takes out most of all the nutrients in our food, an individual who consumes these foods with regularity becomes deficient in vitamins and nutrients. Psychosis is one of the common symptoms in those who lack basic supplementation.
As Abram Hoffer once said, “as long as the processing of food continues to take out essential nutrients, there won’t be any letup in the formation of chronically ill health.”
In order to start alleviating this ubiquitous challenge, we provide residents with diets of whole and naturally organic foods, and simultaneously eliminate white flour, white rice, caffeine, and sugar from their dietary regimens.
Since modern food processing takes out most of all the nutrients in our food, an individual who consumes these foods with regularity becomes deficient in vitamins and nutrients. Psychosis is one of the common symptoms in those who lack basic supplementation.
