Sunday, June 21, 2009

Orthomolecular Medicine -Alternative Treatment

Alternative treatment for any disease is always valued especially when it is concerned with natural supplements of the deficient nutrients.

Megavitamin therapy also called Orthomolecular medicine is one such form of complementary and alternative medicine that seeks to prevent or treat diseases with nutrients prescribed as dietary supplements or derived from diets.

Orthomolecular medicine means therapy with the right molecules.

Orthomolecular medicine focuses on what it sees as the right nutritional molecules in the right amounts for the individual.

It often recommends megavitamin doses much larger than those considered medically necessary.

In general, the vitamin megadoses advocated by orthomolecular medicine are unsupported by scientific consensus.

Megadose therapy is a practice particularly common among cancer patients.