Orthomolecular

The term ‘orthomolecular’ was introduced in 1968 in the magazine Science, by two times Nobel Prize winner Prof. Dr. Linus Pauling. He defined orthomolecular medicine as the prevention and treatment of diseases by providing organs with the optimum molecular environment, in particular the ‘optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human body’. He thereby laid the foundation for high-dosage food supplements.

Dr. Gert E. Schuitemaker introduced the orthomolecular concept to the Netherlands in the early nineteen eighties. He is founder and director of the Ortho Institute, for years the leading centre of knowledge in the field of orthomolecular sciences in the Netherlands, and president of the International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine (ISOM), based in Toronto. Schuitemaker is also editor-in-chief of the magazines Ortho and Fit met Voeding.