Here we go again, on to the next single-vitamin bandwagon. This time, the flavour of the month is Vitamin D. Everyday new research touts the benefits of Vitamin D: for MS, Cancer, Osteoporosis, and cardiovascular disease. Personally, I have no doubts that Vitamin D can help with these conditions. However, by applying the ‘single-vitamin’ law we are simply mimicking the problematic one-magic-pill paradigm embedded deeply in Western society’s psyche.

 Who knew, orthomolecular has gone humanitarian.  I was ecstatic after reading an article from CBC news titled “Eat Your Vitamins: A very Canadian way to solve a world problem” to see that the true value of a vitamin has finally been captured.  This article demonstrates that one small vitamin pill can have global implications and enormous economical impact. 

So I figured by now that many, if not most, have already thrown in the towel on at least one of their New Year's resolutions, particularly when it comes to “eat healthier, lose weight, get in shape”. The reason many of these resolutions fall through is that most people try to change the entire scope of their eating and exercise habits overnight – and without doing the proper research.

Hello !First time posting, well, I am an artist and very much interested in the following questions:1) Can we empower our own health? be our own doctor? How do we do this?2) Is there a system out there that's making us sick on purpose?3) What would allopathic doctors do with their time if there was a suddenhealth revolution and everyone was just so radiantly healthy??? Would hospitals and clinics be transformed into preventative clinics or ping pong tables?

Having majored in human biology I once took a course in neurochemistry and behaviour.  It was an interesting course and I remember being instructed on the many names and effects of various pharmaceuticals but never was the concept of orthomolecular medicine touched upon.  We never heard mention about niacin, folic acid or any of the other vitamins, minerals and coenzymes and their beneficial effects.  It didn’t seem strange at the time as that was what the curriculum had outlined, but in retrospect, and having been introduced to the concept of orthomolecular medicine wh