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David Nabert, MD's avatar

What is old is now new again. My father a school Psycologist inthe 70s told me as a child about dangers of sugar. He had read Pure White and Deadly and worked with Drs Shachter and Schenkin the first Orthomolecular Psychiatrists, in Nyack NY. I thought when older he was a typical psychologist and not medically minded. I was wrong. They aggressively treated the new condition of ADD with sugar reatriction

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Nick Norwitz MD PhD's avatar

I'd never heard of "Orthomolecular Psychiatrists." Thanks for sharing.

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David Nabert, MD's avatar

It was a 70s thing. By the time I got to med school in the 80s it had disappeared, everyone believed the anti sugar people were crazy,unfortunately myself included

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ilaria bertini's avatar

even transgenerational ...

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Nick Norwitz MD PhD's avatar

In the PNAS study with aspartame, yes.

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Nick Norwitz MD PhD's avatar

For sure Ernie!

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