Linus Pauling first coined the word “orthomolecular” in an article he wrote in the journal Science in 1968. Quite simply, ortho means correct or right, and molecular refers to the simplest building block of any substance. Dr. Pauling started the whole concept of orthomolecular medicine by pointing out that the only true way to prevent or treat any medical condition is to restore whatever important natural substances (nutrients, vitamins, minerals) that are depleted. And the corollary of this approach to healthcare is that no patient is sick because they have low levels of any synthesized agents (prescription drugs) that are not found in nature.
As a rule, a pharmaceutical agent impacts some metabolic pathway in such a manner that helps to alleviate a symptom without lessening the pathology causing that symptom to be present. With the rarest of exceptions, pharmaceutical agents reliably allow a disease to continue to evolve while one or more of the associated symptoms are chronically suppressed. However, when deficiencies of important natural substances are corrected, positive clinical results not known to (or acknowledged by) traditional medicine are consistently seen. Clinical improvement following the resolution of such deficiencies typically indicates that the underlying disease is no longer progressing and possibly even reversing. And depending on how chronic the condition was, an eventual return to physiological normalcy might also result.
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