"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
megadoses 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)
oComment 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.
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.
Descibes 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 Riorday, 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.
·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.
·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 prescrition 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.
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.
A soft hypothesis: In the past, I have observed that if you
cannot give a disease to any animal except for man, monkey, or guinea pig, try
vitamin C in high doses on the humans with the disease and you will
probably cure the disease. This is because man, monkey, and guinea pigs
do not make ascorbate; other animals do. It has been observed by many
that vitamin C in moderate doses will usually cure a cold only if taken very
early. This is because the moderate doses are not enough to cure the
disease after a significant free radical cascade starts. Massive doses
will cure the disease, however. Even though Ebola is probably a "500 gram disease,"
the animals who make ascorbate should be relatively immune to it because they
are able to control the virus before it can cause the free radical cascade.
The number of links shows how seriously the Ebola Virus is taken in many
countries. It could kill millions in this country. This makes one
wonder about why the medical community will not try massive doses of ascorbate
on Ebola and other hemorrhagic fever patients who are mostly dying anyway.
It will certainly ameliorate the disease. In the book, Fever, by John G. Fuller, he mentions that he
first survivor of Lassa Fever, nurse Pinneo, was taking vitamins. If the
doctors will not give sodium
ascorbate by vein, maybe families might sneak in ascorbic acid by mouth; it might
help. The problem is that this may be a 500 gram disease.
If the doctors do not think she has acute induced scurvy they should test
her blood levels of vitamin C. I will guarantee that they will be zero or
almost zero. Therefore, she should be given massive doses of sodium ascorbate intravenously
followed by bowel tolerance doses
of ascorbic acid as she recovers.
That was close. They are still worrying about
some hemorrhagic fever, but the patient is bleeding from several
orifices. With the hemorrhagic fevers or any severe infectious disease,
the patient's vitamin C is burned up by free radicals so rapidly that they get "acute induced scurvy."
One of the symptoms of scurvy is bleeding of course. Massive doses of C
will probably correct this situation no matter which hemorrhagic fever or other
serious infectious disease causes it. If this lady were given sodium ascorbate intravenously,
her recovery would probably amaze all the doctors. So far, I am not
reassured. With the patient bleeding from several orifices and the cause
being unknown, not only do they not know what it is, they do not know how it is
spread. I would not let down isolation proceedures; I would
strengthen them and give the patient intravenous sodium ascorbate. It
does not matter at this time what is causing the bleeding, her chances would be
better if they gave IVC.
·So now Ebola is probably in Canada, I wonder if they
will give intravenous sodium
ascorbate a try. Free radicals play a part in killing these
victims. Therefore, massive doses of oral ascorbic acid or in more
severe cases intravenous sodium
ascorbate would neutralize these free radicals and save lives.
·Better stock up on sodium ascorbate for intravenous
injection. This ascorbate in massive doses will neutralize the free
radicals which kill in Bbola and other hemorragic fevers as a result of the
"acute induced scurvy." Ascorbate in massive doses will
neutralize free radicals; it is a matter of chemistry; however, in Ebola which
is probably about a 500 gram
disease, enough ascorbate must be used to drive a reducing redox potential
into the affected tissues.
·Here again we have a use for oral ascorbic acid and intravenous sodium ascorbate
that would save many lives. I will admit that I have never treated a case of
Ebola but I have treated hundreds of cases of flu and ascorbate absolutely
works to prevent many cases and markedly ameliorates established cases. Flus
are usually 100 to 150 gram diseases so they usually do not provoke bleeding.
The Ebola is probably a 300 to 500 gram disease so it rapidly causes a severe
acute induced scurvy which causes bleeding throughout the body, malaise, coma,
death, etc. There has recently been discovered a toxin produced by the Ebola
virus which damages the blood vessels and causes the bleeding. This toxin is
undoubted a free radical which can be neutralized by massive and only massive
doses of ascorbate.
·Here we have a mysterious
infectious disease that is killing people. Free radicals are a major part
of what is killing these people no matter what the organism turns out to
be. Massive doses of
ascorbic acid by mouth or in the more serious cases, intravenous sodium ascorbate
would save most of these lives.
·OK gang, what would it hurt to use intravenenous sodium ascorbate, maybe
in doses of 200 to 500 grams per 24 hours. They are going to die
anyway. You would have to experiment to find out the flexible doses.
If this disease gets loose in the US, half the people could be dead in 6
months. Free radicals can always be neutralized with enough vitamin
C. We throw away the vitamin C for the electrons carried.
This is why the enormous doses. When you neutralize all the free
radicals generated by other acute infectious diseases, They are cured. Come on gang, give it a try; see if Ebola can be cured.Even polio can be cured with
massive doses of IV C.
·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 aymptoms. The appropriate
antibiotics should be utilized. The ascorbat 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 followup 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.
·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 mde 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 parasititic 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 stong 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 hemorraging 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 diseasse 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.
Doc C's Nutrition Store,
listing brands and nutrients commonly used by our patients; presented as
an order form for the convenience of our patients and others having
difficulty finding these elsewhere.
Medical Pioneer of the 20th
Century, Describes how acute induced scurvy is the cause of SIDS, Descibed 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.
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
illustated 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.)
oRFC comment: This is a very important article because
it shows the usual pathway of the rereduction of DHA (dehydroascorbate) back to
AA (ascorbiv 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 [oxidided 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. uears 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 nertralizes 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 mortalitiy
rate is 10% to 20$ for untreated cutateous antrax but is very low with
antibiotic treatment. In contrast, the mortality rate for inhalated
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
causeing 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?
oProbably, this is caused by free radical damage to the child'd
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.
oRFC 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. Yhis strongly
implies there may be a genetic factor here but frequently the expression
of a gene requires something such as poor nutrition.
oThis 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.
oAll 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.
oMaybe 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.
oObviously. 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 gruess 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 chamge 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 czn block most food
sensitivities and allergies, higher doses of vitmain C than quoted in the
article will lower blood pressure even more.
oIn 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.
oIn 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 steriods and brochodilator 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 helpul 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 asprin 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.
oComment 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.
oComment 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.
oPossibly, 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 scavangers, 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 allergins
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
quiting 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 uesd 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.
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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