Ask Dr Robbins

[Chemar]

Environmental Physician Dr Albert Robbins is currently featured in an Ask Dr Robbins Q&A format on Latitudes blog Better Brains Naturally

 

http://latitudes.blogs.com/weblog/

[kim]

reading thru the site, made me think of something that I read recently. Thanks for posting this Cheri.

 

 

 

http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v04n25.shtml

 

High Doses of Vitamins Fight Alzheimer's Disease

Why Don't Doctors Recommend Them Now?

(OMNS, December 9, 2008) The news media recently reported that "huge doses of an ordinary vitamin appeared to eliminate memory problems in mice with the rodent equivalent of Alzheimer's disease." They then quickly added that "scientists aren't ready to recommend that people try the vitamin on their own outside of normal doses." (1)

 

In other words, extra-large amounts of a vitamin are helpful, so don't you take them!

 

That does not even pass the straight-faced test. So what's the story?

 

Researchers at the University of California at Irvine gave the human dose equivalent of 2,000 to 3,000 mg of vitamin B3 to mice with Alzheimer's. (2) It worked. Kim Green, one of the researchers, is quoted as saying, "Cognitively, they were cured. They performed as if they'd never developed the disease."