Healing Schizophrenia: Complementary Vitamin & Drug Treatments (Naturopathic Healing Series, Professional Edition)
Dr Hoffer first worked for Purity Flour Mills in the early 1940s, where he persuaded his employers to enrich white bread with vitamins B-1 (Thiamin), B-2 (Riboflavin), and B-3 (Niacin) which had been stripped away from the natural grain in processing. While he was Director of Psychiatric Research for the Province of Saskatchewan from 1950-57, he developed vitamin B-3 treatments for cardiovascular disease and for schizophrenia. In his research with schizophrenics, he discovered an extraordinarily high level of LSD in their urine, leading him to investigate the therapeutic properties of hallucin