The importance of diet in relationship to optimal health has been
understood throughout recorded history. Hippocrates
regarded food as a primary form of medicine more than
2,500 years ago. Records from ancient Egypt as far back
as 5000 BC show the use of specific foods to treat various
conditions. Ayurveda the ancient Indian system of medicine
also stresses this point about eating ‘satvic’
foods.
True scientific understanding of diet and how the body metabolizes
food to create energy did not occur until the 18th century.
In the 21st century also, scientists do not dispute these fundamental
truths.
Orthomolecular medicine is a treatment system that
seeks to prevent or treat diseases with nutrients prescribed
as dietary supplements or derived from diets. Orthomolecular
medicine focuses on what it sees as the right nutritional
molecules in the right amounts for the individual. Proponents
of this system believe that low levels of these substances
can cause chronic problems way beyond just vitamins
and minerals deficiencies.
The content of this site will demystify the human body and help
you face and overcome the challenge of diseases the
“Orthomolecular” way.
This site is dedicated to the cause of Orthomolecular Medicine and
to those noble souls who have, and are, and will propagate
it.
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