I don't believe the current pharmaceutical paradigm is the best modern medicine can do. Surely a responsible approach looks to the factors that create and prevent dis-ease -  rather than simply suppressing symptoms for great profit once we're sick. 

 

My name is Nonie De Long and I came to understand the power of food as medicine when my young son was diagnosed as seriously mentally ill by the tender age of 7. The medical 'treatment' he received was comprised of indiscriminate drugging and draconian institutionalization. Understandably, he became increasingly unstable, violent, paranoid, and dissociative. I knew I had to find something better if I was going to help him.

 

That's when I found the late Dr. Abram Hoffer and his orthomolecular psychiatry. I flew my son to see him, and with his guidance my son was different overnight. 

 

I became passionate about food as medicine and returned to school to study first orthomolecular nutrition, then herbalism and classical homeopathy.  I developed the dietary and supplement program for Canada's first in-patient holistic addiction treatment centre, and began my free Ask the Nutritionist column to inform and empower others to use nutrition to treat the underlying causes of disease in their own lives. 

 

Using food as medicine is safe, empowering, preventative, and low cost - and nothing a person does will impact their health outcomes more profoundly. 

 

If you or someone you care about is suffering and this approach speaks to you, I invite you to reach out. Until you experience it, it's almost impossible to understand the transformational power of nutritional therapies.