Feed Your Head What causes mental illness? Are we, indeed, what
we eat? A Documentary Film by Connie Littlefield Psychiatrists
Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond met in Saskatchewan in 1951, and
embarked on a quest to do what traditional psychiatry deemed
impossible: to find a cure for schizophrenia. Their work spawned
a number of directions for research, many of which are only
gaining acceptance in wider circles now. Their primary
contribution to psychiatry was a theory about treating people
suffering from mental illness using nutrition. Hoffer and Osmond
set out to prove that the symptoms of schizophrenia could be
controlled with healthy, unprocessed food and large doses of
Linus Pauling was an American scientist, peace activist, two-
time Nobel Prize winning author and educator. Pauling & Hoffer
became friends and together advocated for mega-doses of niacin,
vitamin C and other nutrients in the treatment of all kinds of
disease. Pauling came up with the name Orthomolecular for this
new, yet ancient, form of tr