"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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In these cases, all those exposed and certainly all those
given Cipro should be given
bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid. With the first symptoms of
anything, these people should be given
massive doses of sodium
ascorbate intravenously in addition to the appropriate antibiotic. This
should prevent the free radical damage to the brain and
free radical deaths.
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.
Great. but best not to take immunizations when you are sick
like with a cold. In any event take
large doses of ascorbic acid
orally when you receive an immunization.
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.
From reading this article the importance and danger of this
disease is obvious. All of these cases should have the free radicals
generated by the disease neutralized by
intravenous sodium ascorbate followed by
oral ascorbic acid to bowel
tolerance. Properly utilized these would save the lives of all cases with
the possible exception of those also extremely ill with something else. It is
the free radicals that kill in an ordinary case.
From reading this article the importance and danger of this
disease is obvious. All of these cases should have the free radicals
generated by the disease neutralized by
intravenous sodium ascorbate followed by
oral ascorbic acid to bowel
tolerance. Properly utilized these would save the lives of all cases with
the possible exception of those also extremely ill with something else. It is
the free radicals that kill in an ordinary case.
Here it comes again. Why not use
intravenous sodium ascorbate
on seriously ill patients and neutralize all their free radicals so as to save
their life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
The question is whether they will let the West Nile encephalitis kill
anyone or will they use
intravenous C on their patients before
the acute induced scurvy
kills them? How long will it be before the public learns that acute
self-limiting viral diseases, even polio, can be cured with
intravenous vitamin C. Even
in bacterial diseases and parasitic diseases, intravenous vitamin C, in these
cases along with the appropriate antibiotic, will prevent the deaths by acute
induced scurvy. When a patient shows up with a high fever and is in danger of
dying, intravenous vitamin C should be started even before what the organism
is, is discovered. The
intravenous C will broaden the spectrum of activity of the antibiotic and also
prevent allergic reactions to the antibiotic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is tragic. These patients are
dying of acute induced scurvy.
Intravenous ascorbate should be used in all these flu cases. Ascorbate
would markedly reduce the death rate.
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.
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).
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.)
The reason these patients hemorrhage is
because of "acute induced scurvy."
They should be treated with
intravenous sodium ascorbate and then
ascorbic acid orally as they
recover. A lot of people may die unnecessarily of this disease some day soon
if this treatment with ascorbate for infectious diseases is not recognized.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is an extremely valuable source that is in a little financial
trouble. I would strongly recommend subscribing to The Journal of the MegaHealth Society.
(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.)
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.
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?
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.
Cholera Kills More Than 900 in Malawi in the Past 6 Months
Here again we have a deadly disease that kills partly by free radicals.
Massive doses of intravenous
sodium ascorbate should be used to prevent the free radical part of
these deaths.
Fatal Yellow Fever in a Traveler Returning
from Amazonas, Brazil, 2002
When a disease has a death rate of 20%
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
RFC
comment: This is a very important article because it shows the usual
pathway of the rereduction of DHA (dehydroascorbate) back to AA (ascorbic
acid) and the importance of GSH (glutathione) in all this. The article
describes how the glutathione is lost in an oxidizing situation. These
oxidizing situations occur in all diseases, trauma, surgery, etc., any time
there is injury to cells and their mitochondria. What is important here,
and is not widely understood, is the redox couples (AA/DHA and the GSH/GSSG
[oxidized glutathione] redox couples. While small doses of AA can easily be
oxidized to DHA and the GSH lost in these adverse conditions. Massive doses
of AA keeps these redox couples reducing or on the good side even under the
most adverse circumstances. Add to this that the half-life of DHA is only a
few minutes in the body and the half-life of AA is long except when it is
oxidized to DHA. Massive doses of AA can keep the redox couple reducing
continuously. This is why massive doses of AA keeps the GSH reduced and
preserves it for all its other functions in the body. All this is why
massive doses of ascorbate as described in
the article on titrating to
bowel tolerance or in the
most serious situations, intravenous sodium ascorbate can cure or
ameliorate most diseases and conditions.
RFC comment: It could be that this is one of the reasons why large
doses of ascorbate prevent so many heart attacks. With infections being a
major factor in heart attacks, this would explain one of the effects of
large doses of C. Not only does C neutralized the free radicals caused by
the infection but it helps the immune system get rid of the infection. No
one in their right mind would want to take antibiotics all the time but
taking C all the time is a very healthy thing.
RFC comment: Although this experiment was done in ferrets, it possibly
implies that stress induced heart problems in humans might be ameliorated by
antioxidants. Clinically this seems to be true.
RFC comment: This is an interesting letter. I had heard from Wendell
Belfield, D.V.M. years ago that ascorbate would prevent hip dysplasia in
pups when given to the pregnant dog. He also said it would ameliorate the
arthritis in adult dogs. It helps humans also. I recommend the ascorbic
acid in humans who can tolerate
it so that we can achieve the ascorbate effect. However, in dogs the
mineral forms are just fine.
These patients should be given
intravenous sodium ascorbate
because
intravenous ascorbate neutralizes streptococcus toxin. This is the
reason that it cures acute cases of scarlet fever and rheumatic fever. The
intravenous ascorbate works synergistically with the appropriate antibiotics
rendering resistant bacteria sensitive. It also prevents allergic reactions
to the antibiotic by neutralizing the free radicals that turn on the
antibodies causing the allergic reaction. Massive doses of ascorbate
augments cellular immunity while turning off the free radicals that trigger
off humeral immunity (antibodies.)
All these cases could be ameliorated or cured with
massive doses of ascorbate in
addition to the standard care and
allergic reactions to
antibiotics could be averted. It is the free radicals that kill and
cause the severe symptoms, these can be easily neutralized by adequate doses
of ascorbate. The massive doses of ascorbate should be especially useful
against the cases of meningoencephalitis by neutralizing the free radicals
about the brain. The ascorbate easily passes the blood brain barrier.
Maybe we should fear this type of virus occurring naturally
in addition to bacteriologic warfare. If you get Ebola, your only hope is
intravenous sodium ascorbate
followed by oral ascorbic acid
to tolerance. Ebola is about a 500 gram disease. This means that the
free radicals produced by this terribly toxic disease destroys potentially 500
grams of ascorbate (if it were available.) If this amount of ascorbate is not
available, it causes acute induced systemic scurvy. (See the diagrams
below.) This results in bleeding in all the tissues of the body; the
collagen begins to break down and cannot be replaced without some vitamin C.
The only chance would be massive amounts of intravenous sodium ascorbate. How
to do this takes some practice. The medical profession better get with it
immediately in order to learn how to use this substance. Sodium ascorbate
needs to be stockpiled. Never mind the fact that this will lead to a general
understanding of how massive doses of ascorbate work and will markedly reduce
the sales of almost all drugs for other conditions. This is a potential
national emergency and the decrease in drug sales consideration has to be
abandoned. This paper on how vitamin C does not prevent
colds and the concept that 1 to 3 grams of ascorbate is a large dose
illustrates the fact that the medical profession is still in the kindergarten
on the subject of ascorbate. This comes from deliberately ignoring the
subject for generations at an immense cost in morbidity and mortality.
The mortality rate is 10% to 20$ for untreated cutaneous anthrax but is
very low with antibiotic treatment. In contrast, the mortality rate for
inhalation anthrax approaches 100%, and therapy is usually unsuccessful. The
inhaled form is what happens when anthrax is sprayed on people in
bacteriologic warfare. The mortality rate for treated gastrointestinal
anthrax is about 50%. Anthrax meningitis is usually fatal.
Since anthrax kills mostly by way of free radicals,
intravenous ascorbate in massive doses should improve these statistics
considerably. However, physicians have to prepare for such an attack in
advance or else they will not know how to administer the ascorbate and will
not have sufficient amounts available.
As to smallpox, the mortality rate is from 20% to 50%. If intravenous
sodium ascorbate were utilized most of these cases could survive. The
reason is that smallpox is at least a 400 to 500 gram disease which rapidly
results in acute induced scurvy. This causes bleeding from almost every
tissue. This is because massive amounts of free radicals are generated by
the mitochondria and other parts of cells damaged by this very toxic virus.
Intravenous sodium ascorbate in massive amounts would prevent this and
markedly reduce the morbidity and mortality of the disease.
See comments on the next entries. This refusal to learn how to use
massive doses of ascorbate on bacterial and viral infections in this time of
national emergency is ridiculous and could cost the life of millions to say
nothing of the horrible
pain and deaths from burns that could be averted with these massive
doses of ascorbate. In most cases these problems kill by way of free
radicals. Sufficient doses of ascorbate will neutralize those free
radicals. It is all a matter of dose.
See the comment of the next entry. If anyone knows how to get in touch
with any of the people listed in this link, please let me know.
Unfortunately, I have found this usually worthless because they are more
interested in sounding good than doing anything. The proper use of
ascorbate, if well known, would be such a financial disaster to the
pharmaceutical industry that the risk of all of us being killed by some
disease, curable with ascorbate, seems insignificant to them.
This article illustrates how easily an infectious
disease could spread among the military. With more serious diseases, this
could cause a crisis. The use of massive doses of ascorbate in a case like
this is obvious much as the majority of physicians want to deny it. One
frightening scenario would be some mad dictator who knows how to use
ascorbate properly, stockpiling ascorbate and then releasing bacteriologic
warfare against us. The reason that this is not usually contemplated is
because of the "backfire phenomenon." The proper use of ascorbate would
eliminate this backfire phenomenon. When the diseases started to backfire
on the mad dictator, he would use the ascorbate on himself and his chosen
friends and his military. Our military ought to get with it and learn how
to use ascorbate properly despite physician resistance. (By the way, Castro
is rumored to be interested in orthomolecular medicine.) (This paragraph
will be removed as soon as I hear that the Pentagon is doing something about
this. If someone reading this knows anyone in the military or U.S.
government with some importance, please have them read this site.)
Vitamin C and selenium help the body somewhat against mercury. Vitamin
C in high doses might help also if live viruses of the DPT vaccinations are
causing autism by way of small bowel lymph node infection and the "leaky
bowel syndrome. But more importantly, what is the rush to immunize
infants. We should wait until the child's immune system has matured (maybe
2 years of age,) never immunize when the child has any sign of illness, and
immunize with one vaccine at a time. If the child become ill before being
immunized, taking large doses of ascorbate will ameliorate or cure the
disease.
I wonder if the use of massive doses of C and other nutrients might
prevent a percentage of the cancers that otherwise would develop in patients
with the SV40 virus?
Probably, this is caused by free radical damage to the child's blood
vessels caused by the chickenpox virus. This is similar to arteriosclerosis
being initiated by free radical damage to blood vessel walls. Give
ascorbic acid to bowel
tolerance in mild cases and
intravenous sodium ascorbate
to severe cases to neutralize the free radicals. This should prevent the
strokes later.
RFC comment: Although this article does not directly relate to
nutrition, I find it interesting because it implies that prostate cancer may
be initiated by an infection.
Finally, it has been proven "scientifically" what we have all known for
years. Apparently something in cranberry juice keeps bacteria from sticking
to the bladder wall. Therefore, when you drink more water you are able to
flush the bacteria out. Concentrated cranberry capsules which have the
sugar removed probably work better.
RFC comment: Although this article is not about nutrition, it is
interesting that while cancer of the cervix is caused by the HPV, not all
women infected by the virus get cancer of the cervix. This strongly implies
there may be a genetic factor here but frequently the expression of a gene
requires something such as poor nutrition.
This is only a hypothesis but this is the reason
that I think that the free radicals generated by infections, which damage
cells, should be aggressively
scavenged with ascorbate when someone has any infectious disease. This
scavenging would prevent damage to cells that make them appear to be foreign
to the immune system and trigger off autoimmune diseases in the genetically
susceptible person.
All this interferon jazz is ridiculous. It is
very expensive and has many side reactions. Acute hepatitis C can easily be
cured with intravenous
ascorbate and chronic hepatitis C can be controlled with
oral C to tolerance, alpha
lipoic acid, selenium, silymarin, vitamin E, and a multiple vitamin-mineral
program. This is inexpensive and has no significant side reactions. I
have never seen a case need liver transplant, cancer of the liver, or acute
hepatic necrosis. This is not a hypothesis; this works.
Maybe this is why massive
doses of ascorbate help asthmatics so much. Since ascorbate ameliorates
all infectious diseases by scavenging free radicals, we would expect it to
help asthma. I noticed a news item last night where websites were graded
by certain words they included like inhalants for asthma. This is not
graded well because patients treated with ascorbate usually do not need
inhalers.
Obviously. This liver toxicity can be prevented
with oral C to tolerance,
alpha lipoic acid, selenium, silymarin, vitamin E, and a multiple
vitamin-mineral program.
Comment by RFC: They are trying several
antioxidants — L-deprenyl, Didox, Imidate, Diosgenin, Euk8, and Ebselen —all
patented antioxidant drugs. Clinically, in humans I have observed that
sodium ascorbate, good old cheap vitamin C, inhibits neurotoxicity. Why do
these researchers not try sodium ascorbate in the doses we accomplish with
intravenous sodium ascorbate
in the concentrations we get into patients with intravenous sodium ascorbate?
I guess they are not getting paid by the drug companies to do this. But
why does not someone for the good of humanity try sodium ascorbate? The FDA
should never OK an antioxidant drug unless it is more effective, safer or
less expensive per reducing equivalents than good old cheap vitamin C.
Bowel Tolerance Doses of
Ascorbic Acid will change the life of asthma patients. Most will be
able to get off all drugs. Lycopene may reduce the amount of ascorbic acid
needed to abolish exercise induced asthma.
"This is the very early stages of our research and so far we have
identified eight different chemicals in the extract. Once we know more
about each component, we hope to identify which chemical has the
most potent effect on prostate cancer cells and develop that into a
treatment," Goldmann told Reuters Health in an interview. "
This statement can be interpreted that they are
looking for a single patentable drug. The problem is that even if
the whole herb is effective and maybe even more effective than any
individual component, it is not patentable so don't expect the big drug
companies and therefore physicians to be very interested in prescribing saw
palmetto to you if you need it.
I have had 3 lady patients in their 90's in the last few years who have
had to give up bridge because they could not remember the cards. After a
B12, folic acid, multiple B shot they were able to play bridge again. The
last lady won the pot for the day, 2 days after the shot and was
complimented on how well she played.
Those in Orthomolecular
Medicine have known this and advocated this for years. Finally, some
are beginning to write about this in peer reviewed journals. It is about
time but how long will it take to be generally applied. It is too bad that
this had to come out of Japan when the treatments were first used in the
United States.
Yes, I have noticed that a cocktail of B12-Hydroxy-Cobal 1000 mcg/ml 1
cc, B-Complex-100, 1 cc, Folic Acid Injection 10 mg/ml, 1 cc injected
intramuscularly 2 times a week will restore much of the memory of many
patients with senile dementia. Along with a total nutritional program even
the progress of Alzheimer's disease will be slowed.
No kidding.... Since most early hypertension is
due to food sensitivities and since large doses of vitamin C can block most
food sensitivities and allergies, higher doses of vitamin C than quoted in
the article will lower blood pressure even more.
In this article, it is mentioned that 20,000
Americans die each year of the flu. This is a terrible fact but even more
terrible when it is realized that most of these deaths could be avoided if
massive doses of ascorbate were utilized. If the worst cases were given 2-3
days of intravenous sodium ascorbate, all but a rare case would be fine.
Note that these treatments can be started after the person falls ill, the
sooner after the better, but still the massive doses of ascorbate are
effective in preventing almost all complications even after the person
becomes ill.
In
1981, I reported dramatic results in a case of acute anterior uveitis with
massive doses of ascorbate. How long are they going to fool around with
ridiculously low doses. I can tell you for sure that low doses, such as
described in this paper, will give only disappointing to suggestive results
because my experience with a large range of doses of ascorbate demonstrated
that only the massive doses, as described in my papers, will work. Lesser
doses will only prolong the misery of those affected by these conditions
which can be cured.
Yes, and if clinical responses mean anything, this
up-regulation of the immune system is mediated by free radicals because if
one can take massive doses of ascorbic acid, the exacerbation of asthma by
various infections and exercise can usually be prevented. In fact, not only
do massive doses of ascorbate prevent exacerbations but most patients with
asthma who are tolerant to large doses of ascorbic acid can mostly give up
steroids and bronchodilator drugs. Only massive threshold doses of ascorbic
acid near bowel tolerance will provide enough electrons to neutralize the
free radicals mediating the bronchospasm.
I found this link on the Drudge Report but it comes
up with a blank page with just the header. I always wonder what is going on
when references like this disappear. I will try to keep on top of this.
The reason I was so interested in this is because massive doses of vitamin C
(ascorbic acid orally or sodium ascorbate intravenously) is helpful with the
Gulf War Syndrome. Subsequently, browsing the newspapers revealed that the
suspected drug was a vaccination against nerve gas.
Note that the herbs mentioned in this article can
increase bleeding slightly as can vitamin E rarely. The two more likely
substances to cause bleeding problems are aspirin and cod liver oil.
(note: if they think vitamin C eases stress in an
ascorbate producing animal such as a rat, they ought to try it on a none
ascorbate producing animal such as a human.)
Comment by RFC: As it becomes more obvious that
the Gulf War Syndrome is not a psychological disease (one wonders why anyone
would have thought it psychological in the first place,) it becomes more
obvious why these patients benefit from the free radical scavenging of
massive doses of ascorbate and why they benefit from nutrients and herbs
that stimulate circulation, liver detoxification, and nutrition of the brain
and nervous system.
Comment by RFC: If cancer of the breast is
increased in cystic breasts. And breast cysts (fibrocystic disease) are
usually caused by coffee, tea, and chocolate. Then is it possible that
coffee, tea and chocolate cause ...... .. ... ......? (I even have
trouble writing the logical conclusion.)
Comment by RFC:
Maybe this is one of the reasons that large doses of ascorbate regularly
over a long period of time reduces the incidence of heart disease.
Comment by RFC: Here is an obvious example where
an otherwise useful drug causes nutrient deficiency and can be corrected by
large doses of the appropriate nutrients. This would suggest, as has been
found by orthomolecular physicians, that there are many more such examples
of this principle that are not as yet recognized.
As evidence of the value of nutrients,
especially vitamin C, as illustrated in the articles above becomes more and
more evident to the public, researches produce a mass of articles on minute
aspects of vitamin C. I have been consulted by many researchers who proposed
bold studies of the effects of massive doses of ascorbate. Every time the
university center, the ethics committee, the pharmacy committee, etc. deny
permission for the use of massive doses of ascorbate and render the study
almost useless. Seasoned researchers depending upon government grants do not
even try to study adequate doses. All of this results in a massive
accumulation of knowledge about very little which gives the impression that
there is no more of real importance to be learned. This accumulation of
minutia hides the great effects of ascorbate already known by some. The
following sites reflect this problem. As you read these learned papers, you
will realize that they seem to be completely unaware of the uses of massive
doses of ascorbate. One of the most amusing aspects of this research are the
speculations and research into the toxicity and other adverse reactions of
tiny doses of ascorbate when many have used for years 20 to 100 times the
amounts being discussed.
The problem is that many patients who are trying to give up sugar
completely, including fruit, are addicted to sugar and frequently have
"chronic candidiasis." The candida is causing the patient to crave sugar.
(Conventional medicine denies the existence of "chronic candidiasis and so
does not know how to treat it.) Having patients eat sugar substitutes is
like telling a wineo not to drink wine but to carry the cork from the bottle
around in his pocket so that he can smell it in an emergency. I find that
patients who get off all sugar for a couple of months do not crave it
anymore. Any cheating or using sugar substitutes will start the craving
again. A no sugar diet is easier for these people than a low sugar diet.
Possibly, but then they are less likely to get the flu if they are
taking vitamin C. Also, if they do get the flu, the symptoms can be
ameliorated or cured with massive doses of vitamin C. Also, probably the
rare complication of Reye's syndrome can be prevented.
Oh, but if you must have chemotherapy, it is probably not a good idea to
take free radical scavengers, including C, the day of treatment because the
chemotherapy, when it works, works by way of free radicals killing the
cancer cells. Probably, the same thing for radiotherapy, however, this
raises the interesting question as to what would happen if vitamin C was
used along with higher doses of radiotherapy. In any event, use of C the
day before and the day after treatments would probably be beneficial.
Vitamin C Causing Cancer Absurdity -
Created by the journal Science article:
RFC comment: This may be true. Partly it depends upon how soon after
healing the evaluation of the scar is done. At first it does look redder.
The rashes are a problem for some. It seems to have nothing to do with oral
tolerance. However, if one has ever used vitamin E oil on a second degree
burn, they know how it relieves the pain in a few minutes, which at least
one of my patients years ago said the little rash was worth the pain
relief. Aloe juice and particularly 3% sodium ascorbate solution is also
good on burns without the problem of allergic reactions.
I find this article amazing. It is the first time I have seen a source
like Harvard say that there is any value in eliminating nightshades and
other possible food allergens in arthritis. It is about time considering
that we have known this for years.
Since fibromyalgia is a frequent symptom of the chronic fatigue syndrome, I
guess his conclusion would be that if a person has a cough with a cold, it is
psychological.
Exercise increases the formation of free radicals. Sometimes this is
enough in some people to develop urticaria and other signs of anaphylaxis.
Massive doses of ascorbate will prevent this by neutralizing these extra
free radicals.
This answer in frightening. Physicians in general have been cutting
vitamins for so long that they do not know the basic things about
nutrients. Vitamin B6 in the form of pyridoxine will help only a small
number of patients with carpal tunnel syndrome. These would be the
patients who have an absolute deficiency of B6 in their diet, which is
rare. This finding was made by John Ellis, M.D., described in Vitamin B6:
the Doctor's Report and in The Doctor Who Looked at Hands. His patients
where often women who ate a lot of well done beef. B6 is heat volatile. I
found that in California, the land of fruits and nuts, that true B6
deficiency in the diet was rare and that the problem is that the patient
lacks an enzyme that converts pyridoxine to P5P, pyridoxal 5 phosphate, and
then the P5P goes off into the body and does B6 things. Therefore, one
should take P5P. This is a basic example how in orthomolecular medicine we
often bypass a metabolic block.
The other thing is the comment that B6 can be dangerous. Yes, it can
cause numbness and tingling, even finally a temporary paralysis but this is
really not due to a B6 toxicity; it is an induced deficiency of other B
vitamins causing beriberi or pellagra. Anyone in orthomolecular medicine
knows that you never give large doses of B6 without moderate doses of the
other B vitamins. If non-orthomolecular M.D.s would stop cutting vitamins,
they might learn how to use them.
This pretends to be a balanced report but note the advertisement at the
top, CBS Health Watch. I wonder how many drugs CBS advertise whose sales
would be hurt if the public understood the proper use of vitamin C. The
report originally came from ABC that advertises drugs. And as for NBC,
about 1978 their reporter who had just won the Peabody (the rattlesnake in
the mailbox story) did a piece on my work up at Incline Village. She had
two photographers who were shooting up film on several of my patients who
had been cured suddenly of several infectious diseases (especially on the
treatment of hepatitis) with intravenous vitamin C and massive doses of
ascorbic acid orally. She said this was the best story she had ever done
(better than the Peabody winning report?) but the story was squelched the
day it was to be aired. I wonder if they still have that story in the can
in their library. Photographers from PBS came to my office in Los Altos and
did a story on my treatment of AIDS with massive doses of C. They were very
impressed but when the story was aired by Spencer Michaels a few nights
later, the pitch was that it was quackery.
For 3 years straight back in the early '80s, writers who claimed to be
writing for the National Enquirer interviewed me about massive doses of C.
The last time, I refused the interviews at first saying that they would
never print it and we would be wasting out time. The reporter was a nice
guy and said they printed stuff like this all the time. So I gave him the
interview. Three months later he called me and said that I was correct,
they would not print it.
The fact of the matter is that news on massive doses of C has been kept
secret by the major media. I suspect because their advertisers would not
like it. The cost of this in lives and medical expenses has been enormous.
These are ultrasound studies that show, if we can believe it, thickening
of the walls of the carotid arteries. Maybe this is the muscle layer around
the artery. Arteries carry blood at high pressures and thin some as we
age. Maybe, this thickening as a sign of the strengthening of the artery
wall. I will have to see more details of this study to know. There has
been absolutely no clinical evidence of this. I have put over 25,000
patients on high doses (2,000 to 300,000 mg/day) of C since 1969 and there
has been no sign of increasing arteriosclerosis is any of them as far as I
know. If this report is true as headlined, my practice should be full of
patients with arteriosclerosis of the brain. Remember that the drug
companies want to put a bad rap on vitamin C. As the public accepts vitamin
C more and more, there will have to be more scare stories put out to prevent
the decrease in sales of DRUGS.
One very subtile fact is that by scare tactics arguing over 500 mg doses
of vitamin C, they completely hide the fact that to get dramatic cures of
some diseases it takes 50 to 200 grams or more (50,000 to 200,000 mg or
more) of vitamin C. The amazing thing is that these huge doses do not cause
these troubles but they keep us worrying about a pitiful 1/2 gram or 500
mg. Really.
They want something to be the matter with massive doses of vitamin C to
cause some trouble so badly, they can taste it. Anything said against
vitamin C will be accepted as fact. Never mind that it has been known since
1949 that vitamin C in massive
doses can cure polio and
other acute self-limiting viral diseases and many other diseases. We
shouldn't talk about that but should tell as facts the slightest speculation
against vitamin C.
You would think that these physicians would feel obliged to come to
meetings of doctors who have been using megadoses of C for years before
popping off as experts. There are meetings where several hundred MD
physicians meet to discuss nutrients but the "orthodox experts" never attend
these meetings. I guess that treating thousands of patients with nutrients
and comparing notes with many other physicians who use these nutrients and
the reading of journals on these subjects makes one a quack. It is strange
where if you have experience with nutrients, you are a quack but if you have
no experience with nutrients, you are an expert in nutrients. One would
hope that some day these experts would become more than drug pushers.
It is interesting to see a subject like vitamin E being good for the
heart being written about by the experts and never giving the Shute brothers
any credit. I am interested in who will discover
titrating to bowel tolerance
with ascorbic acid years from now so I can apologize to them for
plagiarizing their work back in the '70s.
Note the interesting bias. Even though the study was done with Vitamin
E capsules, it is said that natural foods are better. And then quitting
smoking is emphasized. Anyone dumb enough to smoke in the first place is
not really interested in their health or children around them. This article
should be primarily interesting to non-smokers.
Comment by RFC: I have worried about silver being
used systemically because it is classified as a toxic mineral. However,
topically applied, it seems to be effective against many infections. If I
was still doing orthopaedic surgery, I would try silver plating pins used to
fixate or apply traction to bones where the pin protrudes through the skin.
Many women have found that silver or gold earrings do not get infected where
other types may.
Comment by RFC: I really did not know where to put
this article because it just illustrates a point of how much money and how
many souls will be lost over a subject that is easily treated. So far, I have
never seen a case of acute viral hepatitis which was treated immediately with
intravenous sodium ascorbate
in the acute stage which ever persisted and went on to the chronic stage.
Usually, the jaundice is cleared in 4 to 5 days. The SGOT and SGPT start
dropping precipitously after the first IVC. The patient feels better in 2 or
3 days. Apparently the skin is stained and that is why the jaundice takes so
long to go away. It confounds me as to why this inexpensive, simple,
nontoxic treatment will not be applied to patients.
Comment by RFC: The amounts of vitamin C advised
here are too low even for well people because of the toxic contaminations in
our environment. However, the major problem of this article is the complete
misunderstanding or ignoring of the potential of massive doses of vitamin C
in the treatment of various diseases such as infections of all sorts,
trauma, surgery, burns, autoimmune diseases, prevention of most allergic
reactions to antibiotics, the reduction of complications of chemotherapy and
radiotherapy, acute pain, etc.. Additionally, the existence of chronic
conditions in the patients body such as undetected allergies, chronic pain,
all sorts of stress, EBV, CMV, Hepatitis A thru C and +, Herpes 1 thru 6 &
+, HIV 1 & 2, over-colonization of the gut with yeast, parasites, and some
unwanted bacteria, and many other as yet undiscovered organisms, etc.,
generating free radicals have to be considered in determining the proper
dose of vitamin C in a particular person.
This reference from Johns Hopkins warns about the
use of beta-carotene by smokers and people who have had exposure to asbestos
in the past. This warning should be heeded.
This study is ridiculous. It could have not been designed
better so as to give worse results. It was designed to be published in the drug
controlled journals. After a cold
begins it takes 30 to 100 grams per 24 hours to abort the cold. If the 1 to
3 grams used in this study had been given before for prevention, there is some
danger that it would have prevented some colds. The idea that 1 to 3 grams is a
high dose is ridiculous. The problem is that after a cold gets going, 1 to 3
grams is almost worthless. This is propaganda that this is a high dose.
Nowhere in this whole website is it suggested that 1 to 3 grams of ascorbate is
good for anything. The drug industry wants to keep the idea in the public mind
that 1 to 3 grams is a high dose. They are afraid that if the public discovers
how to use adequate doses of vitamin C that the sales of drugs will plummet.
Anyone who knows how to properly use ascorbate will take far less drugs for
almost all reasons. This constant negative propaganda against ascorbate amounts
to genocide for the sake of selling a lot of drugs.
The tragedy of all this is that not only are hundreds of people
dying unnecessarily from conditions every day that could be cured or ameliorated
by ascorbate but that heroes of the Twin Towers who have been crushed or
burned are suffering
unnecessarily. Some are dying unnecessarily because of the refusal to use
ascorbate properly. Most stupid doctors believe this drug company propaganda
that 1 to 3 grams is a high dose but there are also evil ones that continue this
for their own profit.
With the threat of bacteriologic warfare
looming, it is criminal that doctors do not learn how to use
intravenous sodium ascorbate.
It is possible that millions of lives could be saved. There is the danger that
some mad terrorist, not beholden to the drug companies, who learned to use
ascorbate could prevent backfire and would be relieved of one major disadvantage
of using bacteriologic agents.
Here is an example of how like Joseph Goebbles said if you
here a lie often enough the public comes to believe it (a lie like there is
no cure for the common cold.) If the inexperts would get some experience with
vitamin C, they would not appear so foolish to those who have experience with
using adequate doses of
ascorbate. In this study, they used low doses of vitamin C so it could
not be expected to do anything except at the very end of the disease, it might
knock a couple of days off the length of the disease and its complications. I
am not saying that antibiotics are good for most bronchitis but do not use
vitamin C as a placebo. If you know how to use proper doses, it will have
dramatic effects. In reading this article I wondered what happened to the old
idea of a sputum culture to find out if the infection is viral or bacterial.
This culture will not help the diagnosis in every case such as with
non-specific pneumonitis like legionnaires disease. but
there, if you are giving massive doses of C, that will take care of that
problem.
Anyway, under the classification of what can I expect in the
future: I cannot expect that the experts will ever use proper doses of vitamin
C because it would be too expensive to the drug industry.
This is the latest ridiculous point of view or the
orthodoxy. I was recently at a medical conference where most of the doctors
had colds. This is stupid in the year 2002. See the comments immediately
above and the article on
titrating to bowel tolerance for the routine cold. If you have a serious
flu, you may require intravenous
sodium ascorbate in addition. If the public in general learns of these
uses of ascorbate, imagine how much less drugs will be necessary.
When reading this, bear in mind biochemical
individuality. You should care how a drug affects you, not how it affects a
hundred or a thousand other people.
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