The War Against Vitamin Therapy
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Abram Hoffer, M.D.



First published June 1996 in The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients.
Reprinted with permission.




"Dr. Klenner reported that patients given vitamin C would suffer no
residual defects from their polio. A controlled study in England on 70
children, half given vitamin C and half given placebo showed that none of
the treated cases developed any paralysis."





The Vitamin Paradigm Wars
Abram Hoffer, M.D, Ph.D.



I have been involved in megavitamin controversies from 1955 when with
two colleagues we [1] published our paper showing that niacin lowered total
cholesterol levels. This was quickly confirmed because Dr. W. B. Parsons,
Jr[2] . It was easy to measure cholesterol levels. Dr Parsons is one of the
most knowledgeable and experienced internists in the use of niacin to lower
cholesterol levels. But after we[3] published a much more comprehensive
paper where we concluded: (1) that the addition of niacin or niacinamide in
large doses was therapeutic for acute and non deteriorated schizophrenics;
(2) was not therapeutic for chronic patients, our involvement in
controversy became massive, until today even though every study using the
same type of patients, the same methods and the same regimen, has
corroborated our findings.

The conclusions reached by Dr. E. Cameron and Linus Pauling[4] on the
beneficial effect of ascorbic acid on the outcome of terminal cancer was
just as forcefully rejected by the cancer establishment. The main reason
for the non acceptance of the Vale of Leven's conclusions and for the non
acceptance of our psychiatric findings is very simple. We are just now
beginning to emerge from the vitamins-as-prevention paradigm into the
vitamins-as-treatment paradigm. Psychiatry is simply ten or more years
behind the rest of the medical sciences.

The Five Stages of Vitamin Discovery and Use
Machlin[5] divided the history of the vitamins into five periods. The
first phase was present from 1500 B.C. to about 1900 A.D. when it was
empirically observed that certain foods prevented some diseases. Egyptians
used liver to prevent night blindness. Central American Indians used
specially treated and cooked corn to prevent pellagra for several thousand
years.

The second period started about 1890 and continued until about 1910.
During this period the relationship between the lack of certain foods and
disease became established. Thus polished rice was proven to cause beri
beri. Of course, if brown rice had remained the staple food of the Japanese
Navy there would have been no problem and no discovery of thiamin as a
vitamin. During the first period it became recognized that altering the
natural food supply would produce disease. This lesson is still imperfectly
understood by most modern societies.

The third phase from 1900 to 1948 was the golden age of vitamin
discovery, isolation and synthesis of vitamins. The fourth phase from 1933
began with the first commercial synthesis of vitamin C and continues today.
These four phases comprise the vitamin-as-prevention paradigm. This
paradigm became so firmly established that only now is it beginning to
weaken by the onslaught of new information.

The fifth phase is the recognition of health effects beyond
prevention and new biochemical functions. It is the vitamin-as-treatment
paradigm. It is beginning to enter the medical profession, has not yet been
accepted by the medical schools which remain many years behind in the
teaching of nutrition and is still tightly held by dietitians and many
nutritionists, especially those working for institutions.

The introduction of this last phase is credited by Machlin to our
paper in 1955 which showed that megadoses of nicotinic acid decreased total
cholesterol, the decrease being relatively greater the higher the initial
blood level. He wrote, "I somewhat arbitrarily started the fifth period
with the report in 1955 of the cholesterol-lowering effect of niacin, which
is a well-accepted response of the vitamin that has nothing to do with its
coenzyme role and is a clear health effect beyond preventing the deficiency
disease pellagra". I had concluded many years ago that this early report
would be one of the most important findings which would take us into the
modern paradigm. It is the first vitamin to be approved for megadose use by
FDA, for lowering cholesterol, but it could also be used for any other
indication including the schizophrenias.

The Vitamin-as-Prevention Paradigm
This paradigm is described by the following rules or beliefs:

1) That vitamins are catalysts and therefore are needed in very small
doses since they can be recycled almost indefinitely.

2)That they are needed only to prevent deficiency disease i.e.
diseases caused by a deficiency of these vitamins. Thiamin is needed to
prevent beri beri, nicotinic acid is needed to prevent pellagra and vitamin
C is needed to prevent scurvy.

It therefore follows that any use of vitamins which disobeys these
rules is not indicated and has by many medical societies been considered
unethical practice or malpractice. If they are needed only in small doses
the use of large doses must be forbidden. If they are used only to prevent
disease, any use to treat other disease must be forbidden.

For these reasons regulatory daily requirement were developed as a
guide to society and to the professions. They are invariably small doses
based upon this paradigm and upon very little real hard evidence of their
practicality and usefulness. The prevention paradigm adherents presented a
hard and secure front against those who would break its rules by enforcing
the view that large doses were never needed, that they were potentially
dangerous (these dangers were never clearly defined and related to dose
level, and the height of sarcasm thrown against vitamins-as-treatment
physicians was that the only thing vitamins would do is to enrich the urine
and the waters into which that urine ran. Just a few months ago a physician
attacked some of my views in a popular medical journal by claiming that the
waters around Victoria must be rich in vitamin C. If I had retorted I would
have added that this is better than enriching them with antibiotics,
tranquilizers, antidepressants and the thousands of drugs which now enrich
the waters. A physician friend and colleague lost his medical license in
Saskatchewan. One of the charges against him was that he gave a patient
intravenous ascorbic acid. Another was that he diagnosed a patient
schizophrenic with the help of a test developed by Humphry Osmond and I
called the HOD[6] test. This is a very helpful perceptual test which yields
probability levels for the presence of schizophrenia.

Vitamin-as-Treatment Paradigm
This paradigm contains the following new rules, based upon a good
deal of evidence:

) That optimum doses should be used in both prevention and treatment
and that these doses vary from very small to very large, i.e. into the
megavitamin range. For example to prevent pellagra one needs about 10
milligrams of nicotinic acid daily, but to prevent the symptoms of chronic
pellagra from recurring one will need close to 1000 mg daily. There is no
optimum doses for the whole population. It depends upon age, sex, type of
illness, type of stress, i.e. upon the individual. We will have to
determine the optimum levels for schizophrenics, for depressions, for the
arthritides, for lupus, for cancer and so on. This is well described by
Roger Williams[7] in his classic works on biochemical individuality.
) That vitamins may have activity which appears to be unrelated to
their properties as vitamins. This was a very difficult concept to accept
but the introduction of the word antioxidants struck a responsive chord and
many physicians who were terribly fearful of using vitamins had no
compunction against using the same vitamins an antioxidants. This fits in
with the increasingly popular view that hyper oxidation, the formation of
free radicals, is basic in the pathology of a large number of conditions
including cancer, senility and so on.

The Assault on the Vitamin-as-Prevention Paradigm
This began about 55 years ago with the report by the American
pellagrologists that chronic pellagra could not be treated except by very
large doses of nicotinic acid; they used 600 mg daily. It was also shown
that dogs kept on the pellagra- producing diet for a long time no longer
responded to small doses of this vitamin. They had become dependent and
needed much larger doses.

The next assault on this paradigm arose from the classic studies of
William Kaufman[8] who reported in two books before 1950 the marked
therapeutic benefit to arthritics by giving them multigram doses of vitamin
B-3 daily. But this important work was ignored and hardly any physicians
are aware it was ever done.

The next attack came from a different direction, from the work of
Drs. Wilfred and Evan Shute[9] of Ontario who showed that large doses of
vitamin E given for adequate periods of time were very helpful in treating
coronary disease, burns, and were useful in prevention. They were not
ignored. They were almost destroyed by a medical profession which was
completely unaware of the importance of their work, did not believe vitamin
E was a vitamin and knew with absolute certainty that their work was
useless. The Shute Clinic, still in existence, treated over 30,000 patients
from all over North America. The agenda of the few attempts to repeat their
work was to show how useless vitamin E was. Today the major studies[10]
which have confirmed this early work still consistently refuse to
acknowledge the prior work of these great pioneers, as if the idea had
sprung freshly minted from their own foreheads when they launched the
Harvard Vitamin E studies. Had the Shutes' findings been taken seriously in
1960, think of enormous saving of human health, the enormous decrease in
human misery and the enormous financial saving over the past 35 years.

In the early Fifties, Dr. Fred Klenner began his work on megadoses of
vitamin C. He used doses up to 100 grams per day orally or intravenously.
In clinical reports he recorded the excellent response he saw when it was
given in large doses. He reported, for example, that patients given vitamin
C would suffer no residual defects from their polio. A controlled study in
England on 70 children, half given vitamin C and half given placebo showed
that none of the treated cases developed any paralysis while up to 20
percent of the untreated group did[11] . This study was not published
because the Salk Vaccine had just been developed and no one was interested
in vitamins. Dr. Klenner's work was ignored.

However, only after Linus Pauling entered the field with his classic
report to Science in 1968 did the use of megadoses of vitamins receive
major world attention. The public and a few scientists were immediately
attracted to his conclusions world wide, while the medical profession as a
block dumped all over him. Their main objection apparently was that he did
not have an M.D. Dr. Pauling became interested in vitamins about the time
he had decided to retire. He had won his second unshared Nobel Prize and
was getting tired and frustrated by the opposition to his work for peace.
He had made a few powerful enemies including Senator McCarthy of anti
communist fame, and Joseph Stalin of communist fame who considered his
views on the atom directly opposed to communist theory. At a meeting in New
York in 1966, both Dr. Irwin Stone and I met Dr. Pauling for the first
time. Dr. Stone had assembled a large collection of vitamin C papers (he
hated the word vitamin C and preferred the more correct term ascorbic
acid). Dr. Stone first used the word megavitamin and the word
hypoascorbemia. He considered scurvy, not a deficiency disease, but a
metabolic error. I urged him to publish his review of ascorbic acid which
he did several years later[12] . Irwin heard Dr. Pauling state that he
wished he could live another 25 years because science was making so many
interesting discoveries. Dr. Stone wrote to him and told him he could
achieve his goal if he would take vitamin C in megadoses. Dr. Pauling tried
it out, was convinced because he felt so much better, and lived another 30
years.

The major impetus given by Linus Pauling to the megadose concept of
vitamin C stimulated by Irwin Stone has finally thrown this vitamin into
public and medical acceptance. Many years ago Linus Pauling concluded that
people taking ascorbic acid would live longer[13] . All the information we
have about ascorbic acid lead to this conclusion. It is therefore very
helpful to actually see what it can do in practice for the final test is
the practical one - does it work? In fact, it does. Dr. James Enstrom[14] ,
School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles analyzed a
ten year study of 11,348 people, aged 25 to 74. Men who consumed at least
300 mg of ascorbic acid suffered 41 percent fewer deaths during that period
compared with men who took only 50 mg, in their food. They lived on the
average 6 years longer. For women the results were not as striking. This
amount of ascorbic acid can not be obtained from the diet alone and shows
that supplements are essential. Had they used gram doses daily, I think the
results would have been more striking.

Dr. A.G. Brox[15] and colleagues at McGill University found that two
grams of ascorbic acid daily, successfully treated 7 out of 11 patients
with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). They had all been sick more
than two months and had not responded to adrenocorticosteroids. Three had
had splenectomies. Four had failed additional treatment including the
current usual treatments. Their report had been rejected by the New England
Journal of Medicine, I think, because they were then involved in a dispute
with Linus Pauling. They had refused to advise him whether a rebuttal
letter answering the Mayo cancer and ascorbic acid studies he had submitted
would be published until he threatened them with legal action. Then they
rejected it. I have one patient now with ITP on ascorbic acid who has been
well over five years, but only as long as she remains on her ascorbic acid.
If she discontinues it, her platelet count begins to sink within a few weeks.

Linus Pauling[16] carried the orthomolecular concepts into the field
of cancer and again stirred up a hornets nest of hostility. For a good
discussion of his work see Hoffer[17] . But I am totally convinced he was
correct. His many scientific reports were very impressive. My studies with
Pauling[18] on 660 cancer patients beginning in 1978 are confirmatory.

The first major attention to megadoses of vitamins followed our
report of the effect of nicotinic acid on cholesterol, not because we had
reported it but because it was promptly confirmed by the Mayo Clinic. I had
been invited by the Mayo Foundation to give them a series of lectures on
schizophrenia. During a dinner I told their chief of psychiatry about the
effect of nicotinic acid on cholesterol. He passed it on to the chief of
medicine in the presence of his senior resident Dr. W. B. Parsons Jr[19] .
Dr Parsons is one of the preeminent experts in the use of megadoses of
nicotinic acid. The work was then taken up by Dr. E. Boyle, then with the
National Institute of Health, and later by the Coronary Drug Study which
eventually established nicotinic acid as the treatment of choice for
hypercholesterolemia. It is also by and large the cheapest and safest.

During that time Humphry Osmond and I published our second book, "How
To Live With Schizophrenia"[20] . A California patient[21] had recovered on
orthomolecular treatment having failed the best California could offer over
four years. Her father was so grateful he decided to educate every
physician in his community. He did so by handing out copies of our book.
One of them came into the hands of a psychiatrist. Dr. Pauling and Ava
visited her one afternoon, and Dr. Pauling saw the book on her coffee
table. He began to read it, borrowed it, and finished it by morning. He
went to bed still thinking of retiring and he arose the next day determined
that he would not and would enter this new field of megavitamin therapy. He
was intrigued by the large doses of vitamin B-3 we were using with safety.
This led to his Science report[22] and to his amazing contribution to the
theory of meganutrient therapy, in the use of vitamin C for viral and other
infections, for his very recent contribution to the cholesterol problem and
heart disease. Dr. Pauling made the greatest individual contribution toward
the overthrow of the old paradigm and its replacement by the newer, more
accurate, and useful one.

Megavitamin therapy was ignored by medicine at large and was vilified
by psychiatry. Only after Dr. Pauling entered the fray did the major
profession take notice, and then it too became very hostile and critical
especially after Dr. Pauling's first book on the common cold appeared. The
National Institute of Mental Health funded a study in New Jersey under the
direction of Dr. Wittenborn, a research psychologist. They had first
approached a psychiatrist in St. Louis, who agreed to do the study if I
would be a consultant. So the NIMH turned to New Jersey. The Wittenborn
study was double blind and was an attempt to repeat our original double
blind controlled studies started a decade before. Dr. Wittenborn in his
first report found that there was no difference between the placebo and the
treated group. We had claimed that it worked best for early or acute
patients and did not by itself help the very chronic ones. The
Wittenborn[23] study was primarily on these chronic cases. Later Dr.
Wittenborn re-analyzed his results by pulling out the early cases as we had
done, and in his second report he showed that he got the same results that
we had. His first report was greeted with shouts of enthusiasm from NIMH
and later by the American Psychiatric Association when they did their task
force report on Megavitamins and Orthomolecular Psychiatry. His second
report was greeted by a cold silence and may have cost him any further
support. His second paper was never referred to by the critics of
megavitamin therapy.

The American Psychiatric Association called Humphry Osmond and me
before their Committee on Ethics because I had published the California
paper. After a vigorous half-day debate over 20 years ago in Washington
they told us they would let us have their decision in a few weeks. We are
still waiting. However, they effectively killed interest in the use of
vitamins for treating schizophrenia when they issued their irresponsible
and flawed report[24] . The APA bears major responsibility for preventing
the introduction of a treatment which would have saved millions of patients
from the ravages of chronic schizophrenia. Just as the APA was once
captured by psychoanalysis, it is now captured by tranquilizers.

Folic acid is another safe water soluble vitamin. It has been used in
doses up to 15 mg daily. There has been a report that this dose caused
gastrointestinal disturbances but in another study with the same dose this
was not seen. Most patients do not need more than 5 mg. Recently it has
been proven that women will give birth to babies with spina bifida and
similar neural tube defects (NTD) much less frequently if they take
supplemental folic acid, 1 mg per day. I generally recommend 5 mg daily.
Dr. Smithells[25] in 1982 showed that giving pregnant women extra folic
acid decreased the incidence of NTD's. Before that he had measured the red
cell folate and white cell vitamin C levels of mothers who had babies with
NTD's and found they were lower in both. It was thus known since 1981 that
a multivitamin preparation containing folic acid would decrease the birth
of these damaged babies.

The immediate reaction to the original findings was one of strong
disbelief and hostility, and the establishment refused to advise women to
take folic acid until the requisite number of double blind experiments were
done. At last they are satisfied 11 years later, culminating with a report
in J. American Med Ass in 1989. Folic acid provided protection for most
causes of the defect. Even in women with a family history, the frequency of
babies with the defects was more than five times greater - 18 per 1000
against 3.5 per 1000, in women who did not take the vitamin in the first
six weeks of pregnancy. How many babies could have been saved by such a
simple solution? Even if the original findings had been wrong, what harm
would it have done to have advised them immediately about this very
important finding? I was astonished in 1981 at the vehemence of the
reaction by physicians and nutritionists, and I am still astonished. The
recent studies showed that folic acid decreased NTD's by 75 percent. If all
the other vitamins were used as well I am certain that figure would be
closer to 100 percent.

I can not recall in the past 40 years a single female patient of mine
on vitamins giving birth to any child with a congenital defect. I have been
able to advise them all that they not only would not harm their developing
baby by taking vitamins, but that their chances of giving birth to a
defective child would be greatly diminished. I was frequently asked this by
my patients who had been told by their doctors that they must stop all
their vitamins while pregnant. They looked upon vitamins as toxic drugs. I
am still asked the same question for the same reason today.

However, governments can learn and respond. It is now official that
pregnant women should take extra folic acid in order to prevent spina
bifida and other birth defects. The U.S. Public Health Service has issued
the following advisory: "In order to reduce the frequency of NTD's
(neural-tube defects) and their resulting disability, the United States
Public Health Service recommends that: All women of childbearing age
capable of becoming pregnant should consume 0.4 mg of folic acid per day
for the purpose of reducing their risk of having a pregnancy affected with
spina bifida or other NTD's". This amount will not be provided by most
diets and requires supplementation. Apparently the US Public Health Service
is considering fortifying bread with folic acid. Folic acid is destroyed by
heat but some will survive.

In USA about 25,000 babies are born each year with spina bifida. In
Canada it has been estimated that each of these children will have cost
about $40,000 by the time they are 14 years of age. Giving women folic acid
early in their pregnancy would have avoided perhaps 3/4 of these births.
Over ten years, while the cautious scientists were discussing whether folic
acid was safe enough and was effective, 250,000 children were born at a
total cost of 10 billion dollars (over ten years). Folic acid for pennies
per day could have saved the United States public 7.5 billions dollars over
this ten year period. The saving in public health dollars will be enormous.
The waste in this long delay is inexcusable, since folic acid is totally
safe and could have been given to all pregnant women over ten years ago.
This is the costs of inactivity, of the conservative stance of the
profession when it comes to the super safe vitamins.

Conclusion
The vitamins-as-treatment paradigm is developing very rapidly and
will absorb the vitamin-as-prevention paradigm which is no longer needed.
Vitamins are important nutrients which will be used in optimum doses, small
or large, for conditions which are responsive whether or not they are
considered to be vitamin deficiency diseases. Only the fossilized
physicians who have been the most powerful antagonists of the newer
medicine still adhere to the old, totally inadequate paradigm. But there
are still physicians who question whether vitamin B-3 is the correct
treatment for pellagra. They will still promote their old ideas and will
bolster them by manufacturing toxicities. As a rule, when there are no
toxicities, it is simple to invent them, such as vitamin C causes kidney
stones, or damages the liver, or interferes with the treatment of diabetes
and so on. Every month I hear about new toxicities which totally surprise
and delight me because they indicate how imaginative my colleagues can be.
A. Hoffer, M.D, Ph.D.

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