megavitaminn.
/ˌmɛɡəˈvɪtəmɪn/, /ˌmɛɡəˈvʌɪtəmɪn/, U.S. /ˌmɛɡəˈvaɪdəm(ə)n/ A large or concentrated dose of a vitamin. Frequently attributive, designating forms of therapy based on the taking of large doses of vitamins.
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megavitamin1968
1968 L. Pauling in Science 19 Apr. 268/3 These considerations obviously suggest a rationale for megavitamin therapy.
1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 20 Feb. 19/2 Dr. Abram Hoffer, a Saskatchewan psychiatrist who pioneered megavitamin therapy for schizophrenia.
1977 C. McFadden Serial (1978) xxix. 64/2 Ms. Murphy..urged him to take ‘massive doses of megavitamins’.
1988 R. Tisserand Aromatherapy for Everyone (1990) v. 118 Using a combination of aromatherapy and megavitamin therapy he treated sixteen people in 1986 who had been taking tranquillizers for between six months and twelve years.
1996 She Apr. 80/2 (caption) Food will be boosted with megavitamins and we'll eat things that actively prevent illness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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