b'Zero Deaths fromWhy Isnt My Brain Working?Vitamins, Zero DeathsA Revolutionary Understanding from Minerals of Brain Decline and Effective Strategies to Recover Your Brains Supplement Safety Confirmed by Health Americas Largest DatabaseBy Dr. Datis Kharrazian, Ph.D. T he39thannualreportfromtakeBY ANDREW W. SAUL thatService,nowinits19thyearoffree(ISBN-13: 978-0985690434, Elephant Press; illustrated edition, 2013, paperback, 624 pages, $24.00)is 86%.[2]But lets just use the lower theAmericanAssociationnumber. Should each of those peoplepublication. He is also a member of the ofPoisonControlCentersonly one single tablet daily,Japanese College of Intravenous Ther-(APCC)shows zerodeathsstill makes over 220,000,000 individualapy; the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall fromvitamins.Confirmingdataisindoses per day, for a total of well over80of Fame; and is author or coauthor of Table 22B, pp. 1613-1615, at the very endbillion doses annually. Since many per- twelve books. He has no financial con-of the lengthy report published inClin- sons take far more than just one singlenection whatsoever to the supplement or ical Toxicology.[1]It is interesting thatvitamin tablet, actual consumption ishealth products industry. it is placed way back there where naryconsiderably higher, and the safety of a news reporter is likely to see it. Butvitamin supplements is all the more re- Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular there it is: no deaths, none whatsoever,markable. Medicinefrom Vitamin A, niacin, pyridoxine (Vi- Throughout the entire year, coast toOrthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutri-tamin B6), or from any other B-vitamin.coast across the entire USA, there wastional therapy to fight illness. For more informa-There were no deaths from Vitamin C,not one single death from a vitamin ortion:http://www.orthomolecular.org.Vitamin D, or Vitamin E. There weremineral supplement. If supplements areOriginally published at: http://orthomolecular.org/no deaths from multiple vitamins. Thereallegedly so dangerous, as the FDA,resources/omns/v17n31.shtml. wereno deaths from any vitamin at all. the news media, and even some physi- Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (OMNS) free subscription link: http://www.orthomolecular.Furthermore, there were no fatalitiescians still claim, thenwhere are the bod- org/forms/omns_subscribe.shtml;from mineral supplements. Two fatal- ies? OMNS archive link: http://orthomolecular.org/re-ities from Iron and Iron Salts weresources/omns/index.shtml.clearly stated asnotbeing due to sup- Endnotesplemental iron (p. 1607).No deaths from vitamins. No deaths1.Gummin DD, Mowry JB, Beuhler MC, et al., 2021 fromminerals.WanttobetthiswillAnnualReportoftheNationalPoisonDataSystem (NPDS) from Americas Poison Centers: 39th Annual Re-neverbeontheeveningnews?Well,port, Clinical Toxicology, 2022, 60:12, 1381-1643, doi: have you seen it there? And why not?10.1080/15563650.2022.2132768.This is of real importance to the pub- 2. AOA Media Team, Poll finds 86% of Americans take lic. After all, at least two-thirds of thevitamins or supplements yet only 21% have a confirmed nutritional deficiency, American Osteopathic Association, U.S. population takes daily nutritionalJanuary 16, 2019, at https://osteopathic.org/2019/01/16/supplements.AHarrisPollindicatedAndrew W. Saul is Editor-in-Chiefpoll-finds-86-of-americans-take-vitamins-or-supplements-that for American adults, the numberof theOrthomolecular Medicine Newsyet-only-21-have-a-confirmed-nutritional-deficiency/.28 H ealtHF reedomN ews /w iNter2022'