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An approach based on the assumption that “for every twisted mind there is a twisted molecule” and that in some way psychiatric illness, and perhaps other illnesses, are due to biochemical abnormalities, resulting in increased needs for specific substances, such as vitamins. This treatment is of unknown and unproved efficacy.An unorthodox method of treatment that claims that diseases should be treated by administering the right nutrient molecules at the right time.