hi. i do old-school Orthomolecular, once called "mega-vitamin therapy for the schizophrenias." It was developed in the 1950s, by Canadian psychiatry Dr.Abram Hoffer.
Its pretty simple...massive vitamin C doses, natural form vitamin E, high dose B3 (I go for niacinamide), b-100 complex tablets, plus whatever else you want, really (I add in natural form beta carotene and biotin, for instance).
the combination seems to help make my tranquilizer (Abilify) easier to tolerate. In some older studies, Orthomolecular seems to reduce the TD risk considerably, which probably means it reduces brain damage from "standard treatment."
I have been able to reduce the # of psych drugs I take to 2. I've also been able to have the Abilify dosage reduced a bit, from a whopping 30 to 20, and I'm actually doing better on the 20 than I did on the 30. The 2nd drug is 200mgs/Lamictal.
0 EPS, 0 TD, 0 akathisia, far less severe depression, less dysphoria from the tranquilizer...all in all, Orthomolecular has been good to me. :-)
|