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Robert F. Cathcart, M.D.
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"Orthomolecular Medicine emphasizes natural
substances such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, essential fats, and diet in
the prevention and treatment of diseases. Food and chemical sensitivities,
candida, and parasites are considered important. Chelation for the elimination
of heavy toxic metals is utilized where needed. I am especially interested in
the use of mega doses of vitamin C, both orally and intravenously." -Robert
F. Cathcart, M.D.-
Orthomolecular Medicine NEWS
Orthomolecular Health Medicine (OHM),
formerly the Orthomolecular Medical Society (OMS), conferences accepted by the
California Medical Association (CMA) for continuing medical education (CME)
This site is a takeoff on the Drudge Report that reports on various health
problems such as the suppression of vitamins and minerals in the treatment of
many diseases by the drug industry and others who profit from the sales and
distribution of drugs where none drug treatments work better and would save many
lives.
Ascorbate for Burns
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Comment by RFC: This is a most interesting article that
reveals the ulterior motives behind this smear on vitamin C. It is worse
than I thought. Link to the article above.
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Finally, I thought that hell would freeze over before
Sloan-Kettering would admit that vitamin C was good for anything. But how
many generations and how many deaths will be necessary before it is admitted
that ascorbate is useful as part of the treatment of almost all diseases.
This almost universal benefit is because massive doses of ascorbate neutralize
massive amounts of free radicals and free radicals mediate all inflammations.
Most acute infectious diseases can be cured if the free radicals are
eliminated.
His book, Medical
Pioneer of the 20th Century, Describes how acute induced scurvy is the
cause of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.)
His constant fight with the medical establishment in Australia and their
refusal to listen to the obvious which would save thousands of infants is
recorded. Describes how innocent people are unjustly jailed for
the shaken baby syndrome. Describes the
injustice of the Australian Nanny case (the
most famous case of shaken baby syndrome.) Describes many other nutritional
problems of the Aboriginal children which are also present in white children
all over the world.
See the above book by Archie Kalokerinos, M.D.,
Medical Pioneer of the 20th
Century, who has shown that SIDS is caused by acute induced scurvy. Why is
this not investigated? As far as I know there have never been any studies that
refute this claim. Is admitting that large doses of ascorbate that terrible?
In the reference by
Hattersley above one can see the massive number of references on this
subject in the literature. This hiding of the efficacy of ascorbate is going
from the ridiculous to the sublime.
The proposed studies are fraught
with possibilities of not making it work if previous patterns of investigating
ascorbate are utilized. One of the frequent problems of investigators who have
contacted me about investigating ascorbate is that the investigational
committees, ethics committee, or pharmacy committee will not allow the
investigator to use adequate doses of ascorbate thereby insuring failure of the
project. To learn how to treat many cancers with ascorbate, the investigators
should contact Hugh Riordan, M.D. Refusing to do that I would suggest no less
than 60-120 grams of sodium
ascorbate intravenously rapidly infused at a rate of 60 grams in 2 to 3
hours every day for several months. As the tumor resolves, the infusions may
possibly be dropped to 2 times a week for a long time. One caution is that if
the patient has not been taking ascorbate orally in fairly large doses, they
should be started on oral ascorbic acid very slowly if there is widespread
metastasis. This caution is because about one out of 100 tumors will suddenly
drop dead at the sight of ascorbate and the sudden death of a large tumor mass
may kill the patient. This caution was noted in Cameron and Pauling's Vitamin C
and Cancer. Additionally, I would suggest a overall nutritional support plan
that Hugh Riordan, M.D. could help with. Especially important in addition to
the basic nutrients is alpha lipoic acid 100 mg 3 times a day.
This paper is important when one is thinking about how ascorbate could
selectively kill cancer and not normal cells. Normal cells have
catalase and cancer cells do not.
WHO
Says One Polio Strain Eradicated but there are 2 strains remaining affecting
more than 28,000 cases a year. Why are not the more than 28,000 cases a year
treated with intravenous sodium
ascorbate which would cure most of them? You know, of course, that
how to cure polio was published in
1949? You didn't know that? I wonder why not. There has never been a
paper to counter Klenner's clinical observations. I wonder why not.
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Here we go again, another hemorrhagic fever. These are diseases that
involve so many free radicals rapidly that they cause an acute induced scurvy
situation and bleeding starts all over the body. The hemorrhagic fevers can
be countered with massive doses
of intravenous sodium ascorbate. However, recognition of this fact would
bring the general public to the conclusion that massive doses of ascorbate
would be helpful in all infectious diseases and that would be a financial
disaster for all the drug companies. Remember that
polio was cured back in 1948
and that was kept secrete because of the polio industry. The problem is now
that if some country such as Iran listened to all this, it would not take a
genius to figure out that ascorbate would be a very important weapon in
bacteriologic warfare. Again I make the offer that if any allied military
source or, like for instance, the CDC will listen to all this and do something
about it for the benefit of the public, I will take all references to this of
the website. So far, no takers. One of these days, either deliberately or
accidentally, one of these hemorrhagic fevers is going pandemic and we are
going to be caught with our pants down when the solution is so easy. Are the
profits of the drug companies all that important?
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It is too bad that this woman was not treated with massive doses of
intravenous sodium ascorbate. This would have undoubtedly taken care of this
problems shortly. The spider bite itself would have been immediately
detoxified, any allergic reaction would have been blocked, and any infection
would be more rapidly eliminated. Even if antibiotics were necessary to treat
an infection the spectrum of activity of the antibiotic would be broadened and
any allergic reaction to the antibiotic would be blocked. See the comment on
the next entry. See the
part of the article by Klenner on spider bites.
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If you love animals, you should read this. And when you
realize that this works in dogs and other animals, why is it not used with
humans. It is interesting that these findings are being made in a different
continent, Australia. It appears that facts are facts in every part of the
world. I have had the experience in treating a warehouse worker with a
recluse spider bite where he would have sloughed out down to bone part of his
forearm where bitten. However, because of massive doses of vitamin C, you
could not see where he was bitten in 24 hours.
ECSTACY
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Although this study was done on rats (an ascorbate producing
animal) anything that works on rats should work even better in humans. The
brain of a human who takes ecstacy cannot be proportionately much larger than
a rat (rats are smart enough not to take ecstacy voluntarily) but in addition,
since humans do not make ascorbate, they should be benefited even more than
rats.
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This disease would undoubtedly be ameliorated by massive
doses of intravenous sodium ascorbate. This is because step toxin seems
neutralized instantly by sufficient doses of ascorbate. I come to this
conclusion because of my experience with strep throats and scarlet fever. It
turns out that the usual case of scarlet fever is the easiest disease of all
to cure with massive doses of ascorbate. This is because scarlet fever is
caused by a allergic reaction to a minute amount of step toxin released by a
strep infection which has been left over from an infection which is usually
already gone. The ascorbate instantly neutralizes that minute amount of strep
toxin so that the disease immediately resolves, sometimes in 15 minutes. In
the case of these flesh eating rashes caused by streptococcus, the massive
doses of ascorbate would have to be administered until the disease resolves
because the infection continues to release toxin until the bacteria is
killed. Massive doses of ascorbate also has the advantage of broadening the
spectrum of activity of penicillin and prevents allergic reactions to
penicillin. I would recommend starting with at least 180 grams of sodium
ascorbate (60 grams in 500 cc lactated Ringers in 8 hours 3 times a day). The
dosage should be increased and given more rapidly if the rash and fever does
not resolve in a few hours. It is possible that the rate should be increased
to 60 grams in 500 cc of lactated Ringers in 4 hours or even more rapidly if
necessary.
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In cases where there is some other bacteria involved rather
than or in addition to streptococcus, the massive doses of ascorbate would
neutralize free radicals preventing free radical
deaths if the ascorbate is given soon enough and fast enough. It
would increase the spectrum of activity of the appropriate antibiotics and
prevent allergic reactions to them.
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RFC comment: Same as above. The complications of therapy
are remarkably ameliorated and the immune system is augmented in its fight
against HIV.
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Vitamin C and AIDS, Articles by Robert Cathcart, M.D.
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Note by RFC: All of these severe acute infectious diseases
do great damage and kill partly because of free radicals. If these free
radicals are eliminated the disease runs a short, more benign course. This
neutralization of the deadly free radicals can be accomplished by
intravenous sodium ascorbate.
I would think that 120 to 180 grams of sodium ascorbate intravenously per 24
hours until much better followed by
bowel tolerance doses of
ascorbic acid for several more days until the patient feels well would be
indicated. This will not conflict with the appropriate antibiotic and
make allergic reactions to the
antibiotic non-existent.
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These patients should be given
intravenous vitamin C along
with the standard treatments including antibiotics where indicated. The IVC
would ameliorate the disease considerably and probably save some lives.
Sufficiently large amounts of ascorbate easily cross the blood brain barrier
and protect the brain and spinal cord from free radical damage.
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This disease is made more deadly because of the "acute
induced scurvy" involved. This means that
intravenous sodium ascorbate
and later
bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid should be administered along
with the appropriate antibiotic. Not only does the ascorbate broaden the
spectrum of activity of the antibiotics against bacteria and works
synergistically with the antibiotic,
but it avoids allergic
reactions to the antibiotic. The susceptibility of sick people to
allergic reactions is because of the up-regulation of the immune system while
you are sick. This up-regulation is caused by free radicals. If the free
radicals are neutralized by massive doses of ascorbate, the immune system, as
far as allergic reactions are concerned, is down-regulated so that allergic
reactions to the antibiotics do not occur. However, unlike steroids that
universally down-regulate the immune system, ascorbate up-regulates the
ability of white cells to kill viruses and bacteria.
The incidence of meningitis "surges" after the flu because the
acute
induced scurvy induced by the flu decreases the ability of the body
to fight off the meningitis bacteria.
- This article is interesting because it is cost
accounting the value of human lives. It is ironic in that a disease that can
be treated with intravenous sodium ascorbate in combination with the
appropriate antibiotics is being considered too expensive to vaccinate against
because more die of road accidents, suicides, and AIDS. Ok, but when a case
of meningitis occurs, why not treat it with ascorbate? There have to be some
hidden costs of treating with ascorbate for them not to use it. Cannot we see
around the possible profit to a drug company. Would it be so terrible to
treat the dying cases with ascorbate. OK, OK, if you cured a case of
meningitis with IVC, it might occur to a child that IVC might cure a lot of
other things, so I guess we have to accept these deaths. Too bad.
Ascorbic acid in
large doses orally will ameliorate measles. In cases where there is
inflammation of the brain,
intravenous sodium ascorbate should be used. These types of diseases kill
by way of free radicals. This is a very simple situation to solve. You just
give massive doses of ascorbate in sufficient amounts to provide the electrons
to neutralize the free radicals. The person's immune system then makes short
work of the virus. This works with all acute self-limiting viral diseases
because they all kill or cause symptoms and complications with free
radicals.
Legionnaire's Disease
The president of one of the companies that I have worked with
in the past told me this story: In 1976, he and his friend went to a conference
in Philadelphia. A few days after he came home, he came down with what he
thought was bronchitis. He said that he thought that it would be a good time to
try "Cathcart's titrating to bowel tolerance" with vitamin C. So he began
taking ascorbic acid in large doses (actually he did not get to tolerance at
first). The next day he was not well but he was still working. So he raised
the dose. Still no diarrhea; he was not well but still working. Then he heard
that his friend had died!!! He went to his doctor who tested his blood and
prescribed him erythromycin. The first dose made him so sick that he did not
take more erythromycin. He increased the dose of C and after a few days was all
well. The blood work had come back by this time and it showed he had had
Legionnaire's disease. The conference he had gone to was that famous
Legionnaire's meeting. His friend had died of the disease.
OK gang, why don't you try this? With a death rate of 20%-50%
what could it hurt? Those who are not yet hospitalized can try the
titrating to bowel tolerance
method (Do see your doctor and take his prescription probably of
erythromycin.) However, if you are in the hospital and can get your
physician's cooperation, be given
intravenous sodium ascorbate. Recovery should be quite rapid. It cannot
hurt and may save your life. There is no conflict between ascorbate and
antibiotics and the ascorbate will, most probably, block any true allergic
reaction to the antibiotic.
The massive doses of ascorbate almost always prevents secondary
infections.
WEST NILE VIRUS
- Here it comes. Why not try ascorbate in these deathly ill patients.
- When you read this article realize that the severe inflammatory damage is
caused by free radicals. Massive doses of ascorbate will neutralize those
free radicals if enough ascorbate is used. This is a matter of chemistry.
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This disease involves free radicals. Therefore, massive doses of ascorbate
would ameliorate the disease. During the acute phase of the disease
sodium ascorbate intravenously
would markedly decrease the symptoms. The appropriate antibiotics should be
utilized. The ascorbate will eliminate allergic reactions to the
antibiotics. Later, maintenance
bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid should be utilized.
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The Defense Department should really learn how to use massive doses of
ascorbate. It would certainly be of help in some of these circumstances
described.
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I do not have experience with malaria but massive doses of ascorbate are
bound to ameliorate the disease. It might be that with malaria, the use of
massive doses of ascorbate would broad the spectrum of activity of the
appropriate antibiotics as it does with resistant bacterial diseases. I do
have the experience to say that massive doses of ascorbate will cure acute
self-limiting viral diseases. Ascorbate in massive doses will cure or
ameliorate a disease in proportion to how important free radicals are in the
perpetuation or symptoms of the disease. The secret of the massive doses is
that we are throwing away the vitamin C for the electrons carried by the
vitamin C. We are wasting much of the vitamin C for the electrons carried.
When free radicals are surrounded by a sufficient reducing redox potential
(free electrons), they are neutralized. This is a matter of chemistry. It
always works.
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Since acute hepatitis A, B, C, etc., is easily cured with massive doses of
ascorbate, intravenously and
with follow-up with oral
ascorbic acid, it is tragic that it is not properly utilized. Hepatitis C
is a special problem because only about a quarter of cases present as acute
(when it would be easily cured). Chronic hepatitis C is more of a problem,
however with massive doses of
ascorbic acid orally, a no sugar diet, and many other nutrients, I have
never seen a case to go onto acute hepatic necrosis or cancer of the liver.
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If massive doses of sodium
ascorbate are used intravenously, it will invariably prevent
free radical deaths and ameliorate or
cure the disease. What is important in this case is that massive doses of
ascorbate vastly broadens the spectrum of activity of antibiotics while
preventing allergic reactions to those same antibiotics. By neutralizing the
free radicals in the tissues involved in the disease, swelling which cuts down
on circulation allows better penetration of the antibiotic but more
importantly reverses the acute induced scurvy in the involved tissues so that
the patients own white cells can resume fighting the infection effectively.
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It does not matter what the cause of the fever is, if
massive doses of sodium
ascorbate are used intravenously, it will invariably prevent
free radical deaths and ameliorate or
cure the disease. The ascorbate should be started even before the definitive
diagnosis is made. If after the definitive diagnosis is made there is
anything left of the disease (it is likely to have been cured by this time)
then the standard treatment can be added to the ascorbate treatment. The
ascorbate would even block any allergic reactions to any necessary
antibiotics. Let's see if the British value their soldiers more than the
profits of the drug companies. I will not hold my breath but if anyone wants
to consult on this, I am available to allied military.
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So, the organism has been identifies as a virus. This means that
antibiotics will do no good. Believe me, it would be cheaper to give these
men a couple of days of
intravenous sodium ascorbate in a field hospital than to ship them out
somewhere. Their recovery would be very rapid and reliable. But they will
use drugs, after all this is the point, sell drugs.
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So here is one of these diseases that kill by overwhelming the victim with
free radicals. Now it is here in California. What
harm could there possibly be in neutralizing all those free radicals with
massive doses of ascorbate?
IVC followed by bowel
tolerance doses of ascorbic acid by mouth would be obviously beneficial.
- Hopefully, these mice that do not make ascorbate will help some
"scientists" understand the use of massive doses of ascorbate. If what we
already know works in humans (anecdotal evidence) can be made to work in mice,
THAT IS SCIENCE.
- Are we going to go through another season of people
dying of a disease that could certainly be ameliorated by massive doses of
ascorbic acid by mouth and, where necessary, intravenous sodium ascorbate?
- Note that in this disease animals usually survive where 40% of humans
die. The animals, of course, have sense enough to make ascorbate in large
amounts. Humans cannot make ascorbate in their bodies but can make it in
their chemical plants but so far most lack the intelligence to take it in
large amounts necessary to cure diseases such as this..
- While this report is about the danger in the UK it is concluded that the
danger is greater in the U.S. I can guarantee that if physicians would learn
how to use massive doses of ascorbate, the deaths and injuries from such an
attack would be less.
- The question is whether his doctors will give
intravenous C and whether, if others in the hospital start dying, will
they be given intravenous C. Will they allow
the acute induced scurvy
kill him?
- Here it comes again. Will they use adequate doses of
sodium ascorbate intravenously
this time to cure the acute
induced scurvy that makes the disease frequently fatal. By adequate doses
of sodium ascorbate, I mean around 180 Grams of sodium ascorbate intravenously
every 24 hours until the patient is well. Low doses will not work except if
they use low doses and it fails, the study would be a publishable paper. The
high, adequate doses in the past have not been publishable but maybe one of
these years.......... The reason it takes such huge doses is that the massive
amounts of free radicals made by these diseases that cause acute induced
systemic scurvy are so great that it takes massive doses of ascorbate at a
rapid rate to neutralize the free radicals being produced at a rapid rate.
Small doses will not accomplish this. Why is that so difficult to understand?
- No kidding, why don't they use massive doses of ascorbate (the cheapest
and most effective antioxidant) that I have known for years to be effective
against asthma.
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We had better quit ignoring the Massive Doses of Vitamin C
cures of many of these diseases before it is too late. Even if an epidemic
broke out which was 90% fatal, it would take too long for the medical
profession to get its act together. I do not look forward to a small
population of vitamin C takers left to populate the world.
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In the US the worst is yet to come .
This epidemic is totally unnecessary because we can cure the flu with massive
doses of ascorbic acid orally
and, in the worst cases (or cases who also have ulcers, gastritis, etc.,
preventing taking adequate dose of ascorbic acid), with
intravenous sodium ascorbate.
The flu virus damages mitochondria in the affected tissues which cause the
mitochondria to make free radicals. These free radicals damage adjacent
mitochondria which cause them to make more free radicals. A free radical
cascade results. This massive amount of free radicals destroys all the
vitamin C in the affected tissues. Without vitamin C the white cells cannot
eat up the viruses. The only thing that saves most is that after a week or
so, the antibodies destroy the viruses.
Antibodies are turned on by
free radicals. In the meantime, the "acute
induced scurvy " in the affected tissues may result in pneumonia,
sinusitis, otitis media, etc. All this can be averted with massive doses of
ascorbate. What we are doing with the truly massive doses of ascorbate is
throwing away the vitamin C for the electrons carried by the vitamin C. We
are driving the electrons in high concentration (forcing a reducing redox
potential) into the affected tissues and neutralizing the free radicals.
Incidentally, it also provides enough vitamin C in the affected tissues so
that the white cells come out fighting mad and destroy the viruses
immediately. This phenomenon is a threshold phenomenon: a high enough
concentration of ascorbate and its electrons must be achieved, and then
suddenly the free radicals are neutralized. Lesser doses will not accomplish
this. If done properly, the massive doses of ascorbate will cure the disease.
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For God's sake, they can use
intravenous sodium ascorbate
and stop this carnage. These patients should be given up to three bottles of
60 grams of sodium ascorbate per 24 hours until they are much better, then
continue bowel tolerance doses
of ascorbic acid until well. If the doctors will not give the sodium
ascorbate intravenously then take the bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid
by mouth and if you have a strong stomach, it will probably save your life.
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This Flu is obviously causing Acute
Induced Scurvy and this causes the spread into bronchitis, pneumonia, etc.,
and we will be very lucky if there are no deaths among some elderly. All this
could be averted with massive doses of
ascorbic acid orally or in
severe cases intravenous sodium
ascorbate.
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Comment by RFC: The Medical Tribune,
which under the guidance of the great humanitarian and medical prophet Arthur
M. Sackler, M.D., followed my early work on vitamin C (
1,
2,
3), is still in the
forefront in reporting the importance of nutritional and integrative medicine
(
1,
2).
Acute Induced Systemic Scurvy Watch
Comment by RFC: Note in all of
these cases that develop into a hemorrhagic fever, the toxicity of the disease
is so severe as to deplete all of the bodies of vitamin C, this results in acute
induced systemic scurvy which results in hemorrhaging from many tissues of the
body. The administration of
intravenous vitamin C in combination with the standard treatments for the
disease would reduce the fatality rates of these diseases. In all these
diseases, if the serum vitamin C were to be measured, it would be found to be
zero. This then results in the breakdown of all tissues requiring collagen
which includes blood vessels. Hemorrhage results (a classic sign of scurvy.)
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Viral
Hemorrhagic Fevers, 15 viral diseases in 4 families
of viruses have been classified as hemorrhagic fevers. What they have in
common is that they all suddenly deplete all of the victims vitamin C causing
acute induced systemic scurvy.
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Drudge Report 8/4/99 reported fears of Ebola Virus Outbreak
in Europe
The patient was bleeding
from many places. This turned out not to be Ebola but the patient died of a
hemorrhagic fever complication of yellow fever.
600 cases of dengue
including 10 cases of hemorrhagic dengue
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73 have died of hemorrhagic fever
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Comment by RFC: Note that these classic
cases of scurvy are the result of chronic deficiency of vitamin C. Imagine
what happens when a severe infectious disease wipes out all of the vitamin C
in the body in a few hours. The capillaries hemorrhage all over the body.
Some patients with a disease such as Dengue Fever, if they started out in very
good health or have early treatment, etc., may not go onto the hemorrhagic
stage; but if the disease is able to totally deplete the vitamin C of the
body, shortly the hemorrhages start and the white cells cannot fight the
virus. Death is almost certain unless the acute systemic scurvy is treated
with massive doses of C. The doses have to be massive because the massive
amounts of free radicals generated by the disease process destroy the vitamin
C at such a rate that the doses based upon the usual concepts of how vitamin C
should be administered are many times inadequate.
Robert
Cathcart, M.D. spoke at the Health Trends 2000 Conference August 27-29th at
Radisson-SAS-Scandinavia Hotel, Copenhagen arranged by the Danish Society of
Orthomolecular Medicine,
"Vitamin C, The Premier Free Radical Scavenger."
Sources
Publications
of Fred R. Klenner, M.D.
Medical Pioneer of the 20th Century, Describes how acute induced scurvy
is the cause of SIDS, Described how innocent people are unjustly jailed
for shaken baby syndrome, Describes the injustice of the Australian Nanny
case (the most famous case of shaken baby syndrome.) Describes many other
nutritional problems of the Aboriginal children which are also present in
white children all over the world.
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The problem with all the previous articles and partly the problem with the
present articles is that they are all discussing doses that are either too
small or just marginally enough to produce a suggestive result. One would
suspect that those pushing and manufacturing drugs are perpetuating this
deception so as to keep the real
value of massive doses of ascorbate from being recognized by the public.
The press is equally guilty of perpetuating the controversy about small doses
of C and refuses to cover the effects of massive doses of ascorbate. Remember
that Klenner cured polio back in
1948 with intravenous and intramuscular injections of massive doses of sodium
ascorbate and this has been kept secrete by all concerned at the cost of
numbers of deaths and disability that amount to genocide. In articles
mentioning cancer, it is negligent not to discuss the
recent discoveries of Riordan about the use of intravenous sodium ascorbate in
the treatment of cancer. I am particularly concerned about the
implications of all this and bacteriologic warfare or a pandemic of
hemorrhagic fever because massive doses of ascorbate would be a very effective
treatment. The only rational explaination of all this is to protect the
profits of the drug companies. As Hitler said, it is easier to convince the
public of a big lie than of little lies. Perhaps the biggest lie of the 20th
Century is that there is no cure of the common cold.
Abram
Hoffer, M.D., PhD., F.R.C.P. (C)
Related Articles and Sites
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- Abstract: Free radicals produced as by-products of aerobic metabolism
in mitochondria contribute to certain neurodegenerative diseases and aging.
At the forefront of the fight against these scavengers, the Oxygen Society
and its members seek to understand the
mechanisms of free radical damage and develop interventions to slow the
damage.
- Comment by RFC: This reference shows that the
university professors have become interested in free radicals. The thing I
would like to emphasize is the tremendous volume of free radicals generated
by damaged mitochondria in infectious disease and serious trauma. Free
radical scavengers neutralize free radicals by donating electrons to them.
It is becoming politically correct in nutritional medicine to give many free
radical scavengers together, such as vitamin C, vitamin E, beta carotene,
alpha lipoic acid, selenium, etc., because it is known that they work
together as a team, the so-called buddy system, to neutralize free radicals
by repairing mitochondria and making sure that none of the “team” of the
free radical scavenging system is lacking.
Because the number of electrons usually carried at
any instant is not enough to neutralize the free radicals formed when a
patient is sick, it is usually the mitochondria that actually refuel the
free radical scavengers so they can be used repeatedly and continue to
donate electrons to neutralize free radicals. The most critical point I
want to make is that when a patient is very sick, the number of free
radicals formed and the damage to the mitochondria make it impossible for
the whole free radical scavenging system to provide enough electrons to
neutralize most of the free radicals.
What I am doing with the massive
doses of ascorbate is throwing away the vitamin C for the electrons
carried. It is possible to administer enormous amounts of ascorbate
carrying massive amounts of extra electrons in order to neutralize the
massive amounts of free radicals generated by serious disease processes and
injuries. This “ascorbate effect” is a threshold effect where sufficient
reducing redox potential forces electrons into the oxidized tissues and
neutralizes all the free radicals.
William
J. Rea, M.D., Environmental Health Center-Dallas This site is excellent
for those with food, chemical and heavy metal sensitivities.
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- Orthomolecular Medicine Online
- International
Society for Orthomolecular Medicine (ISOM)
- Hugh Riordan, M.D., Center for the
Improvement of Human Functioning, Wichita, Kansas.
- Leonard Saputo, M.D., The Health
Medicine Forum, Walnut Creek, California
- Douglas Brodie, M.D. Reno, Nevada
- Stephen B. Edelson, M.D., Environmental and
Preventive Health Center of Atlanta
- Orthomoleculair Nieuws Fit met
Voeding Online
- Ortho Institute, The Netherlands
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Alternative Medizin und Orthomolekulare Medizin
- The Dutch Orthomolecular
Education Foundation S.O.E. (Stichting Orthomoleculaire Educatie)
- Hal A. Huggins, DDS, MS, Research in
Toxicity (especially Mercury Amalgams)
- Contributions of Linus
Pauling especially on heart disease and the non-reporting of these discoveries
by the media.
(note: I am leaving some of the following links in
place even after they have been discontinued because they still serve to
illustrated the large number of articles coming out of the lay press that prove
that nutrients are of value. They put some of the statements in a following
section "Another Point of View" in proper perspective.)
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It has not been my clinical experience that patients taking large doses
of vitamin C have a tendency to arteriosclerosis (this needs statistical
analysis) but, nevertheless, vulnerable plaque is the type of plaque that is
the frequent cause of fatal heart attacks. Therefore, the type of plaque
that usually causes the fatal heart attacks is prevented by vitamin C.
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So, therefore, vitamin C not only prevents a lot of wrinkles, makes you
healthier, but also helps you keep your weight down when you get older.
Sounds like a pretty good deal except that it would cut down on the profits
of the drug companies. Could that be why the public does not hear about all
this scientific research?
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- In other words, you are less likely to have a stroke or heart attack and
it likely to cause less damage if you take vitamin C. The science is more
and more proving what has been obvious for years.
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Cholera Kills More Than 900 in Malawi in the Past 6 Months
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Fatal Yellow Fever in a Traveler Returning
from Amazonas, Brazil, 2002
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massive doses of intravenous
sodium ascorbate will certainly save a percentage of people by
preventing free radical deaths. In
cases such as this where the liver is involved, high doses of alpha lipoic
acid should also be used. In Germany, alpha lipoic acid has been used for
many years in cases of liver injury. Here I have not found any physician,
outside of orthomolecular physicians, who knows what alpha lipoic acid is.
In Germany alpha lipoic acid is patentable so it is distributed and
advertised as a drug so most doctors there use it.
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- This study is definitely in the correct direction. The only problem is
that some patients require rather massive doses of ascorbate to come out
where others are with small doses. This is primarily due to "bug" (viruses,
bacteria, parasite, fungi), allergies, stress, autoimmune diseases, etc.,
that produce free radicals in massive amounts in patients having these
problems. These free radicals destroy ascorbate rapidly. This fact is why
some patients need far more massive doses of ascorbate to achieve effects
like lowering blood pressure than others.
The variation of bowel
tolerance to ascorbic acid in different patients dramatically proves this
point.
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- This study is another that is in the correct direction. See the
comments above. When I was in medical school years ago I was taught that in
healthy persons they were sterile in their brain, bones, muscles, liver,
blood stream, etc. The contents of the gut were recognized as full of
bacteria but they were considered outside the body. Now it is realized that
there are "bugs" inside the body that constantly cause some damage producing
free radicals. These free radicals cause the type of damage referred to in
this article. It is true that small doses of the free radical scavengers
will help in small people but if a person has a large amount of free radical
producers in their body that small amount of ascorbate will be rapidly
destroyed. That is why some people require massive doses of ascorbate to
accomplish such a goal. Therefore, for instance, if a person is infected
with chronic EBV, he will require far more ascorbate to accomplish these
benefits. The problem is that if this fact is recognized, then the doses
that will have to be investigated will take on serious diseases and that
recognition would be a disaster to the drug industry and all who push drugs.
- In addition, there appears to be an advantage to higher doses of
ascorbate even in relatively uninfected and unaffected people because higher
doses force a reducing redox potential into affected tissues. There is a
threshold dose level that suddenly neutralizes the free radicals in an area.
- It is interesting to speculate on how many of these studies that point
out the obvious benefits of ascorbate will make these conclusions so obvious
that the drug industry cannot longer prevent the public from coming to the
recognition of what genocide is being committed against them.
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- Years ago when the official medical study on aspirin was proposed and
they were asking for physician volunteers, I declined and suggested that the
buffered form of aspirin they were using that contained aluminum might be
causing brain difficulties in those proposing the study. So with my vitamin
C, vitamin E, lysine and cod liver oil, I have no hint of heart trouble.
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Not only would massive doses of ascorbate slow the progression of
arteriosclerosis, it would also eliminate much of the pain post operatively,
cause more rapid healing, and decrease the rejection of the new heart by
eliminating the free radicals necessarily involved in surgical trauma which
are one of the factors that turn on the immune system to reject the new
heart.
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I cannot tell you what this rash is caused by, but it is certainly
mediated by free radicals. Why not ameliorate it by
tritrating to bowel tolerance
with oral ascorbic acid. This destroys the free radical toxins causing
the disease.
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In the case that something else might develop later as in scarlet fever
or rheumatic fever, the massive doses of ascorbate would probably prevent
the complications just as it does in scarlet fever and rheumatic fever. The
case of scarlet fever is interesting because massive doses of ascorbate
given early cures it in an hour or so. It does this so rapidly that
apparently the ascorbate must neutralize the minute amount of strep toxin
that is causing the disease. Acute scarlet fever is possibly the easiest
disease to cure with large doses of ascorbate. In most diseases the source
of free radicals is still active at first but in scarlet fever it apparently
is a delayed reaction to a minute amount of strep toxin formed a couple of
weeks before. The source of the free radical toxin is already gone when the
rash appears so when the ascorbate neutralizes the free radical toxin, that
is the end of the disease.
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If the patients that are possibly dying of this flu were to be given
massive doses of intravenous
sodium ascorbate many would be saved and the ones that were going to get
over it anyway would get over it quite rapidly. The ascorbate would prevent
acute induced scurvy and
free radical deaths if given in adequate
amounts. Flues or whatever viral or bacterial infections are always
markedly ameliorated by eliminating the free radicals involved.
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- This article is very interesting in that many areas of guinea pig health
problems are similar to human health problems. The fact that guinea pigs do
not make ascorbate similar to man and monkeys is undoubtedly the reason for
this. Guinea pigs would be a much better model on which to conduct
experiments on human diseases not like the ascorbate producing animals like
rats and mice.
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- Since these cases involve vomiting, the usefulness of oral ascorbic acid
might be limited. It would be reasonable that in cases exposed to the
disease that they take high doses of ascorbic acid orally that might
possibly prevent some cases but would more likely prevent any complications
in the very old and young. However, for the very old and very young, who
become very ill, I would advise intravenous sodium ascorbate to decrease the
death rate.
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The evidence is slowly accumulating about the ability of ascorbate is
great. Hopefully the drug companies for their own profit will not be able
to keep the usefulness of massive doses of ascorbate to neutralize the free
radicals of most diseases, trauma, burns, allergies, etc. a secret for much
longer.
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They are going to have to do better than 6.3 days of a cold to beat
vitamin C unless they keep secret how to properly use C. With the proper
use of C by titrating to bowel
tolerance , you ought to be able to prevent most colds and if you do
catch cold, you should be able to get rid of it in one day and have zero
complications.
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Effects of pH, Nitrite, and Ascorbic Acid on Nonenzymatic Nitric Oxide
Generation and Bacterial Growth in Urine.
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- These ground squirrels when they hibernate have their body temperature
drop below 32 degrees and have marked decrease in blood supply to their
brain. How can they do this and survive? They make vitamin C and have 3
times their normal levels when they hibernate. Obviously, this suggests a
possible treatment of strokes and other brain injuries.
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Here is another example of where free radical
deaths could probably be prevented with
massive doses of intravenous
sodium ascorbate. Post Op patients from any surgery should be started
on IVC. This will prevent most infections and if one develops, along with
the appropriate antibiotic most free radical deaths
could be prevented, the spectrum of activity of the antibiotic would be
broadened, and allergic reactions to the antibiotic would be prevented.
Additionally, there is an almost complete elimination for the need for pain
medications. Usually the surgical wounds are itching by the next day.
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EBOLA - Acute
Induced Scurvy
THEY
SAY THAT VITAMIN C 
Hugh
Riordan, M.D., 
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Linus Pauling Institute
Bernard
Rimland, Ph.D. Autism Research Institute.
Tom
Levy, M.D. A Great Source for Dental Toxicity Problems. Amalgams, Root
Canals, etc.
William
Crook, M.D. The Yeast Connection
