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8 Acabando Con El Negativismo
8 Acabando Con El Negativismo
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Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine Vol. 21, No. 4, 2006
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Paradigm Blindness: Academic vs. Clinical Medicine
siological assistance with diagnosis and a 50-Year Distinguished Life Fellow of the
an effective treatment modality would American Psychiatric Association and also
have been equally ridiculed. inducted into the 2006 Orthomolecular
The overall results, however, were Medicine Hall of Fame. In 1989, he was
astonishing in that the patient made a full knighted by the Sovereign Order of St. John
recovery. The hair analysis (as clinically of Jerusalem (founded 1077) in recognition
suspected) showed mercury poisoning. for his service to humanity.
Rotation diets revealed cerebral wheat
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