Optimum nutrition: The medicine of tomorrow.

In 1968 one of the great minds of this century, twice Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, coined the term Orthomolecular Nutrition. "Orthomolecular" is, literally, "pertaining to the right molecule". Pauling proposed that by giving the body the right molecules (optimum nutrition) most disease would be eradicated. There is a movement among medical professionals based on Pauling's premise that "optimum nutrition is the medicine of the future".

Orthomolecular doctors and nutritionists believe that the treatment of infectious and degenerative diseases should be a matter of varying the concentration of "right molecules" (i.e. vitamins, minerals, trace elements, amino acids, enzymes, hormones, etc.) which are present in the body. Practitioners of optimum nutrition adhere to the belief that the optimum nutritional micro-environment of every cell in the body is vital to achieve or restore optimal health; deficiencies in this environment cause the body to be more susceptible to disease and degeneration.

The list of necessary nutrients is the same for every human being, but the relative amounts needed by each individual to attain optimum nutrition are different. Why? Because there are many factors that determine the unique needs of each individual.

In other words, your optimum daily need is determined by your own biochemical uniqueness, which in turn relates to your mental and spiritual state. Optimum nutrition is not just about preventing or reversing disease states; more than that, it is about living optimally, where you have room to stretch your physical, mental and spiritual "muscles" to the full, without overstepping the threshold at which cellular health in any of the systems of the body becomes threatened.



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