This morning, January 22,1997, I received a phone call from a worried mother living in Illinois. In July 1990, she and her son had come to see me. He had been diagnosed schizophrenic with his first episode in 1981. He had become disoriented, slightly confused, and found it difficult to distinguish the visual background from the foreground. He was started on Haldol and slowly improved. After being relatively well for a while, he went off the drug and had another episode. By the time I saw him he had had four major relapses into his psychosis. He had been taking a variety of nutrients for some time.

When he consulted me he was free of perceptual symtoms, and he was free thought disorder, but he described what it v.tis like when he was psychotic, and he was extremely anxious. He excreted large amounts of kryptopyrrole, about 2.5 times the normal amount. On the HOD test he was high only in depression, but on the Experiential World Inventory (EWI) test he scored entirely in the schizophrenic range. I recommended a comprehensive program of nutrients including 6 grams of niacin daily. By August, 1993, he was well and had been well. He was able to work at his job as a top research scientist.