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Please send messages to everyone you
can think of in the Federal Government, State Governments, CDC, NIH and anyone
else who should be interested to look at this website, http://www.orthomed.com We undoubtedly can ameliorate
antrax and can probably cure most cases of inhalation anthrax with massive
doses of ascorbate and the appropriate antibiotics. We also block
most of the allergic reactions to such drugs as Cipro. So far I get no
responses from anyone. How many deaths do there have to be before they
will listen.
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ORTHOMOLECULAR MEDICINE
VITAMIN C
Robert F. Cathcart, M.D.
- Orthomolecular Medicine
- Orthopedic Medicine
- Allergy Medicine
- Environmental Medicine
Publications and reference links below.
127 Second Street, Suite 4 Los Altos, California 94022 Telephone:
650-949-2822 FAX: 650-949-5083
Google
Search for Cathcart and "Vitamin C" yields ~652 links.
Definition:
"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.-
Anthrax
Smallpox
Publications by Robert F.
Cathcart, M.D.
EBOLA - Acute Induced Scurvy
Use of Ascorbate in Bacteriologic
Warfare
Stupid Propaganda about C and Colds
Ascorbate for Burns
Probable Cure for Legionnaire's Disease
Quackwatch Falsehoods being Revealed in
Court
*****Vitamin C
and Cancer NEWS******
Vitamin C in the Treatment of Cancer
NEWS
**Polio Cured
in 1948 with Intavenous C**
****Important Article on
Glutathione****
**************AIDS
News*************
*********Bubonic
Plague NEWS********
**********Meningitis
NEWS***********
Orthomolecular
Medicine NEWS
Orthomolecular Health Medicine (OHM), formerly
the Orthomolecular Medical Society (OMS), conferences accepted by the
California Medical Association (CMA) for continuing medical education (CME)
DOCC Nutrition
Store. Order the Nutrients Taken by Robert Cathcart's Patients.
***All Persons with PLS Please
Read This Link***
Ascorbate for Burns
Because of all the
burns in New York and at the Pentagon, I would like to try again to tell the
medical profession, if they would listen, how so much misery and how many
infections and deaths could be averted if intravenous and topical sodium
ascorbate would be used in the treatment of severe burns. Note that in the above link to Klenner's article, he refers
to the ascorbate used as ascorbic acid. Actually, he means sodium ascorbate
for intravenous and topical use. This difference is caused by previous
labeling practices.
Vitamin C Causing Cancer Absurdity - Created by the
journal Science article:
·
The Jume 14. 2001 articles in the Washington Post about
vitamin C and cancer. Lab
Study Finds Vitamin C Dangers , Study:
Vitamin C Pills May Damage DNA , Vitamin
C-Induced Decomposition of Lipid Hydroperoxides to Endogenous Genotoxins,
Science Magazine abstract, Vitamin
C Capable of Damaging DNA
·
Vitamin
C Capable of Damaging DNA, Reuters Medical News
·
THEY SAY THAT VITAMIN C
CAN INCREASE THE RISK OF CANCER
Oh yes? And who’s ‘they’?
o
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.
·
Does
Vitamin C Cause Cancer - or Here We Go Again, the Linus Pauling Institute
Response!
·
Comments
from Australia, Archie Kalokerinos, M.D. and Ian Dettman, Ph.D.
·
Novel repair action of
Vitamin C upon in vivo oxidative DNA damage
o
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background.
·
Vitamin C Attacks
Continue - Vitamin C Foundation response
·
Trade Group
Says Negative Vitamin C Stories "Sensationalized"
·
TEN WAYS TO
SPOT ANTI-VITAMIN BIASES IN A SCIENTIFIC STUDY by Andrew Saul
·
Does Vitamin C Really
Damage Your DNA? Dr. Joseph Mercola
·
Vitamin C Test-tube
Study Flawed, by Bill Sardi
·
Google
Search on "Vitamin C" + Cancer yields 122,000
links
Hugh Riordan, M.D.,
Intravenous Ascorbate as a Chemotherapeutic and Biologic
Response Modifying Agent
RECNAC, which is
cancer spelled backward
Intravenous Ascorbate
as a Tumor Cytotoxic Chemotherapeutic Agent, by N. H. Riordan, H. D. Riordan,
Articles on the use on intravenous
ascorbate in the treatment of cancer.
Intravenous
Ascorbate as a Tumor Cytotoxic Chemotherapeutic Agent
Vitamin C and lipoic
acid toxic to cancer cells
Case
from the Center: Intravenous Vitamin C in a Terminal Cancer Patient,
Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Vol.11, No. 1, 1996.
Ascorbate Web,
Read It Yourself. An Outstanding Resource of Articles from Medical
Literature on Vitamin C.
New insights into
the physiology and pharmacology of vitamin C, Canadian Medical
Association Journal
In Extremis: First
Aid for Advanced Cancer (or for anyone with cancer, at any stage)
Drug companies trying to
shove Codex law to outlaw adequate doses of vitamins down the Earth
population's throats so as to sell more drugs. This ridiculous
attempt amounts to GENOCIDE.
JOIN THE MOVEMENT TO STOP THIS and
learn how not to need dangerous drugs.
<A
Archie
Kalokerinos, M.D.
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.
The
Answer to Crib Death “Sudden Infant Death Syndrome” (SIDS) by Joseph G.
Hattersley
Cause
Of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Remains Elusive
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.
New insights into the physiology and pharmacology of vitamin
C with suggestions about investigating intravenous ascorbate in the treatment
of cancer.
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.
Proof versus plausibility: rules of engagement for
the struggle to evaluate alternative cancer
therapies
The
in vitro cytotoxicity of ascorbate depends on the culture medium used to
perform the assay and involves hydrogen peroxide.
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.
Fred Klenner,
M.D. Cured Polio in 1948 with Intravenous Sodium Ascorbate.
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.
Polio
Victims Suffering Late Relapse
AIDS NEWS
·
Hepatotoxicity
of Antiretroviral Agents
o
This
link is a MEDSCAPE AIDS/HIV review of articles on hepatotoxicity of
antiretroviral agents. My experience with this subject is that
hepatotoxicity can be eliminated or ameliorated by bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid,
vitamin E, zinc, manganese, chromium, selenium, multiple B vitamins, cod liver
oil for vitamins A and D and EPA, silymarin and alpha lipoic acid. The
liver under attack wants nutrients, not more drugs.
·
Immunopathogenesis
of HIV Infection
o
RFC comment: Same as above. The
complications of therapy are remarkably ameliorated and the immune system is
augmented in its fight against HIV.
·
Vitamin C and AIDS, Articles by Robert Cathcart, M.D.
o
Vitamin C
Function in AIDS, Medical Tribune, July 13, 1983
o
Medical
Hypotheses article on AIDS, August 1984.
o
Lancet
article on AIDS, January 27, 1990
o
Unpublished
Paper on AIDS, March 10, 1992
Bubonic
Plague NEWS
US
health officials keeping an eye on potential bubonic plague exposure
·
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.
MENINGITIS NEWS
Study
Finds University Students In Dormitories At
Increased Risk Of Meningitis
·
College students please read this, you should have
enough brains to use massive doses of vitamin C even if most older people
cannot figure this out. If
you get ill, use oral ascorbic acid and if you are really severely ill
see if you can get some physician to give you intravenous vitamin C in addition
to the standard care. With meningitis, do not rely on the C alone,
take the standard care. However, high doses of C taken soon enough
will eliminate the free radicals that might kill you or damage your
brain. College students, please pass this information onto your friends.
Meningitis
Scare Fills Clinic Lines
·
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.
Ohio
to Begin Meningitis Shots
·
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.
One
dead, at least three others are infected with meningitis
·
It does not matter what causes the free radicals, intravenous sodium ascorbate in
adequate amounts will neutralize those free radicals.
Massive
rise in lethal form of meningitis
·
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.
Meningitis
Campaign: Too Much For Too Few?
- 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.
Measles
Kills 45 in India; May Be New Type
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.
2nd
Autoworker Dies of Legionnaires, March 17, 2001
The massive doses of ascorbate almost always prevents secondary infections.
One dead in Ohio
Legionnaire's outbreak, March 16, 2001
Legionnaire's
Disease Closes Ford Plant, March 16, 2001
Legionnaire's
disease closes Ford plant, March 14, 2001
EBOLA MAY
THREATEN THE UNITED STATES
Ebola-style
killer virus sweeps Afghan border
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.
Ebola
found in rodents
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.
