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Doctors Say Vitamins Are Safe

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> Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, July 11, 2006

>

> DOCTORS SAY VITAMINS ARE SAFE

> Follow-Up Report by the Independent Vitamin Safety Review Panel

>

> (OMNS July 11, 2006) More and more practicing physicians are coming

> forward in support of vitamins. Drawing on decades of actual experience

> with many thousands of patients, family doctors and specialists assert

> that vitamin supplements are safe and effective even in high doses.

>

> H. Lauda, M.D., of Vienna, Austria writes:

> " Over all the years I have prescribed vitamins for prevention and

> treatment, for a huge number of patients including both adults and

> children. I have never seen any serious problems or dangerous side effects

> caused by vitamin supplements. Furthermore, routinely performed lab

> analyses did not show any impairments or objective signs of liver, renal

> and other organ damage caused by vitamin supplements. "

>

> F. Cathcart, M.D., of California says:

> " Vitamin supplements are safe. I have never seen a serious reaction to

> vitamin supplements. Since 1969 I have taken over 2 tons of ascorbic acid

> myself. I have put over 20,000 patients on bowel tolerance doses of

> ascorbic acid without any serious problems, and with great benefit. "

>

> Allan N. Spreen, M.D., of Arizona, says:

> " I can certainly state that, after many years of both hands-on practice

> and personal research, vitamin supplementation is extraordinarily safe,

> even in doses far higher than published daily recommendations. They are

> also infinitely safer than any prescription medications. "

>

> P. Huemer, M.D., of California, writes:

> " Reports of vitamin toxicity, rare as they are, are sometimes based on

> flimsy evidence. Such fallacious reports may appear in medical journals.

> In one, it was asserted that a rather unimpressive chronic dose of vitamin

> A had caused liver failure, but certain histologic features of vitamin A

> toxicity were not described, nor was any attempt made to quantify vitamin

> A in the liver or even in the blood. "

>

> Jerry Green, M.D., Canada, says:

> " After practicing orthomolecular medicine for over 35 years, I have seen

> that vitamins are extremely safe particularly when one compares them to

> other patient choices such as drugs, surgery, or doing nothing and thereby

> suffering from vitamin deficiency from our modern devitalized foods. "

>

> Paterson, M.D., also of Canada:

> " As a family doctor, I often see serious adverse effects in my patients

> from conventional drugs. I have yet to see any such thing from megadoses

> of vitamins. I believe myself to be alive because of the large doses of

> vitamins which I take on a daily basis. "

>

> Klaus Wenzel, M.D., Germany, writes:

> " For more then 20 years I have used vitamin supplements for an increasing

> number of patients and medical problems. And from all these years of

> medical practice, I can state that vitamin supplements are very safe. "

>

> M. Reading, M.D., in Australia, says:

> " I have had measurement done of serum vitamin levels in over ten thousand

> patients since 1978, and have safely corrected low levels with supplements

> in amounts far higher than the RDA. Vitamin supplements are safe and

> essential to correct low vitamin levels and to correct ill health. In my

> experience, vitamin supplements can save people from premature death,

> depression, suicide, dementia, psychosis, and heart failure. "

>

> Karin Munsterhjelm-Ahumada, M.D., from Finland, writes:

> " After nearly 20 years using only conventional medicine, I have an

> additional 10 years experience working with high dose vitamins. I can

> assure you that not only have they been very safe, but vitamins are also

> very helpful in my work with all kinds of very ill patients. "

>

> From Sweden, Bo H. Jonsson, M.D., Ph.D., writes:

> " Vitamin supplements are very safe, especially when compared to xenobiotic

> drugs. Used with knowledge, vitamins are enormously important for

> prevention and treatment of disease. "

>

> The educators and physicians of the Independent Vitamin Safety Review

> Panel assert that:

>

> 1. There is not even one death per year from vitamins. ( WA et al.

> 2003 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers

> Toxic Exposure Surveillance System. Am J Emerg Med. 2004

> Sep;22(5):335-404.)

> http://www.aapcc.org/Annual%20Reports/03report/Annual%20Report%202003.pdf

>

> 2. Consumers are not getting a fair picture of vitamin safety and efficacy

> from government-sponsored sources, particularly the National Institutes of

> Health. ( http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v02n05.shtml and

> http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v02n06.shtml )

>

> 3. When they do have all the information, consumers see that vitamin

> supplements are safe, far safer than drugs. (Lucian Leape, Error in

> medicine. Journal of the American Medical Association, 1994, 272:23, p

> 1851. Also: Leape LL. Institute of Medicine medical error figures are not

> exaggerated. JAMA. 2000 Jul 5;284(1):95-7.)

>

> 4. Public access to vitamins should not be restricted. (Testimony before

> the Government of Canada, House of Commons Standing Committee on Health,

> regarding nutritional supplement product safety. Ottawa, May 12, 2005).

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/testimony.htm

>

> 5. Vitamin supplementation is not the problem. It is under-nutrition and

> over-medication that are the problems. Vitamins are the solution.

>

> INDEPENDENT VITAMIN SAFETY REVIEW PANELISTS:

>

> Abram Hoffer, MD

> F. Cathcart, MD

> Janson, MD

> Levy, MD, JD

> Paterson, MD

> Woody R. McGinnis, MD

> Allan N. Spreen, MD

> Bo H. Jonsson, MD, PhD

> M. Reading, MD

> Bradford Weeks, MD

> Karin Munsterhjelm-Ahumada, MD

> Jerry Green, MD

> Faulkner, MD

> Klaus Wenzel, MD

> Huemer, MD

> H. Lauda, M.D.

> Prousky, ND

> Friedman, ND

> B. Grant, PhD

> Harold , PhD

> H. H. Nehrlich, PhD

> Steve Hickey, PhD

> Gert E. Schuitemaker, PhD

>

> W. Saul, Editor. Contact email mailto:drsaul@...

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