Vitamin C post

[celica]

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Gen Smedley Butler won TWO (2) MEDALS of HONOR, and deserved another; Linus Pauling won TWO (2) NOBEL PRIZES. I trust their insight over today's politicians or media or "our" DEPT. Homeland Security.

http://www.orthomolecular.org/resou...ns/v01n12.shtml

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Vitamin C Beats Bird Flu and Other Viruses, Too (OMNS) High dose vitamin C is a remarkably safe and effective treatment for viral infections. [1,2] In high doses, vitamin C neutralizes free radicals, helps kill viruses, and strengthens the body's immune system. Taking supplemental vitamin C routinely helps prevent viral infections. The Avian Flu (or Bird Flu), so often mentioned by newspapers, magazines and other news sources, is a particularly severe form of influenza. It should probably be called Poultry Flu, since almost all of the 150 or so human infections have come from domestic poultry. [3] Interestingly, the symptoms of avian flu include hemorrhages under the skin, and bleeding from the nose and gums. These are also classical symptoms of clinical scurvy, which means a critical vitamin C deficiency is present. This means that vitamin C (ascorbate) is needed to treat it. Severe cases may require 200,000 to 300,000 milligrams of
vitamin C or more, given intravenously (IV) by a physician. This very high dosing may be needed since the Avian Flu appears to consume vitamin C very rapidly, similar to an acute viral hemorrhagic fever, somewhat like an Ebola infection. What should you do if you think you have a viral infection - any viral infection - coming on and IV vitamin C is not readily available? Nobel laureate Linus Pauling said that as soon as you feel the symptoms of sniffles, a cold or the flu, take oral doses of thousands of milligrams of vitamin C. For best results, take vitamin C in evenly divided doses during the waking hours. Continue taking vitamin C on this schedule until, Pauling says, you have loose stool (just short of diarrhea). After having loosened stool, reduce the vitamin C dosage reduce by about 25 per cent. If you have another loose stool, reduce the vitamin C again, but if the symptoms of the viral infection begin to return, increase the dosage. You will quickly learn how much
vitamin C to take; even children can learn to do this. Continue until you are completely well. Vitamin C greatly shortens the severity and duration of viral illnesses. Vitamin C expert Robert Cathcart, M.D., specifies very high therapeutic doses of vitamin C. For a severe cold: 60,000 to 100,000 milligrams/day. [4] For most influenza (flu), 100,000 to 150,000 mg/day. [5] For Avian (Bird) Flu, 150,000 to 300,000 mg/day.[6] Remember: Vitamin C replaces antiviral drugs at saturation (bowel tolerance or loose stool) levels. The reason very high doses of a vitamin can cure an illnesses is because a disease-induced deficiency of that vitamin can be a cause of the illness. As for the safety of this approach: There is not even one death per year from vitamins. Pharmaceutical drugs, properly prescribed and taken as directed, kill over 100,000 Americans annually. Hospital errors kill still more. Unlike drugs, with vitamins, the range of safe dosages is extraordinarily large. What
is Orthomolecular Medicine? Linus Pauling defined orthomolecular medicine as "the treatment of disease by the provision of the optimum molecular environment, especially the optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human body." Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org Take the Orthomolecular Quiz at http://www.orthomolecular.org/quiz/index.shtml The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and non-commercial informational resource. Editorial Review Board:
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To subscribe at no charge: http://www.orthomolecular.org/subscribe.html References:
1. Gorton HC, Jarvis K. The effectiveness of vitamin C in preventing and relieving the symptoms of virus-induced respiratory infections. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1999 Oct;22530-3. "Vitamin C in megadoses administered before or after the appearance of cold and flu symptoms relieved and prevented the symptoms in the test population compared with the control group."
2. Smith L. (Ed) Clinical guide to the use of vitamin C. (Also published as: Vitamin C as a fundamental medicine: Abstracts of Dr. Frederick R. Klenner, M.D.'s published and unpublished work) 1988. F. R. Klenner, M.D., "reports cases of influenza, encephalitis, and measles easily cured with Vitamin C injections and oral doses." http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorb..._guide_1988.htm
3. http://my.webmd.com/content/article/112/110522.htm
4. Cathcart RF. Vitamin C, titrating to bowel tolerance, anascorbemia, and acute induced scurvy. Medical Hypotheses, 7:1359-1376. http://www.orthomed.com/titrate.htm
5. Cathcart RF. Treatment of the flu with massive doses of vitamin C. http://www.orthomed.com/mystery.htm#treatment
6. Cathcart RF. Avian (bird) flu. http://www.orthomed.com/bird.htm (end)

"Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world." - Linus Pauling

Getting well is done one step at a time, day by day, building health and well being

 

[shootfighter1975]

GREAT READ!!! Thanks bro.

 

[itlnstln]

The Government has covered up the healing properties for YEARS:

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service
March 15, 2006

VITAMIN C HAS BEEN KNOWN TO FIGHT 30 MAJOR DISEASES . . . FOR OVER 50 YEARS

... why haven't you heard more about it? Why haven't more doctors used vitamin C as medicine?

Progress takes time. Fresh fruit was known to cure scurvy by 1753, yet governments ignored the fact for nearly 100 years. Countless thousands died in the meantime. The 19th century doctor who first advocated washing one's hands between patients died ignored and in disgrace with the medical profession. The toxic metal mercury was used as medicine into the twentieth century.

The first physician to aggressively use vitamin C to cure disease was Frederick R. Klenner, MD, beginning back in the early 1940's. Dr. Klenner successfully treated chicken pox, measles, mumps, tetanus and polio with huge doses of the vitamin.

The following is a complete list of the conditions that Dr. Klenner found that responded to extremely high dose vitamin C therapy:

Pneumonia
Encephalitis
Herpes Zoster (shingles)
Herpes Simplex
Mononucleosis
Pancreatitis
Hepatitis
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Bladder Infection
Alcoholism
Arthritis
Some Cancers
Leukemia
Atherosclerosis
Ruptured Intervertebral Disc
High Cholesterol
Corneal Ulcer
Diabetes
Glaucoma
Schizophrenia
Burns and secondary infections
Heat Stroke
Radiation Burns
Heavy Metal Poisoning (Mercury, Lead)
Venomous Bites
Multiple Sclerosis
Chronic Fatigue
Complications of Surgery

This seems like an impossibly long list. At this point, one can either dismiss the subject or investigate further. Dr. Klenner chose to investigate. The result? He used massive doses of vitamin C for over forty years of family practice. He wrote two dozen medical papers on the subject. (1) It is difficult to ignore his success, but it has been done. Dr. Klenner wrote: "Some physicians would stand by and see their patient die rather than use ascorbic acid (vitamin C) because in their finite minds it exists only as a vitamin."

Vitamin C is remarkably safe even in enormously high doses. Compared to commonly used prescription drugs, side effects are virtually nonexistent. It does not cause kidney stones. In fact, vitamin C helps dissolve kidney stones and prevents their formation. William J. McCormick, MD, used vitamin C since the late 1940's to prevent and treat kidney stones. (2) Robert F. Cathcart III, MD, reports that he started using vitamin C in massive doses with patients in 1969. He writes: “I estimate that I have put 25,000 patients on massive doses of vitamin C and none have developed kidney stones.” (3) Said Dr. Klenner: "The ascorbic acid/kidney stone story is a myth." Recent scholarship has confirmed this. (4,5)

How much vitamin C is an effective therapeutic dose? Dr. Klenner administered up to an astounding 300,000 milligrams (mg) per day. Generally, he gave 350 to 700 mg per kilogram (2.2 lb) body weight per day. That is a lot of vitamin C.

But then again, look at that list of successes.

Dr. Klenner emphasized that small amounts do not work. He said, "If you want results, use adequate ascorbic acid."

For Further Reading:

The Vitamin C Connection, by Emanuel Cheraskin, MD et al (Harper and Row, 1983)

How To Live Longer and Feel Better, by Linus Pauling, PhD, (Freeman, 1986)

The Healing Factor: Vitamin C Against Disease, by Irwin Stone (Putnam, 1972)
The complete text of this book is posted for free reading at http://vitamincfoundation.org/stone/ , a not-for-profit foundation's website.

Physicians and other health professionals may wish to read papers by William J. McCormick, MD, Linus Pauling, PhD, Abram Hoffer, MD, and Robert F. Cathcart III, MD. The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine is also recommended
http://www.orthomed.org/jom/jomlist.htm

References:

1. All of Dr. Klenner’s papers are listed and summarized in the Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C (ed. Lendon H. Smith, MD, Life Sciences Press, Tacoma, WA, 1988. This book is now posted in its entirety at a non-commercial website.

2. McCormick WJ. Lithogenesis and hypovitaminosis. Medical Record 1946, 159:7, July.

3. Cathcart RF. www.orthomed.com

4. Gerster H. No contribution of ascorbic acid to renal calcium oxalate stones. Ann Nutr Metab. 1997;41(5):269-82.

5. Hickey S and Roberts H. Vitamin C does not cause kidney stones.
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, July 5, 2005.

What is Orthomolecular Medicine?

Linus Pauling defined orthomolecular medicine as "the treatment of disease by the provision of the optimum molecular environment, especially the optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human body." Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org

 

[Quiltie]

Bump, great info!!!

 

[itlnstln]

I've been taking TONS of Vitamin C over the last couple of years.

The FDA has seen PROOF that large dose Vit-C therapy cures almost all forms of cancers(just to list one benefit) - but they just keep sweeping the facts under the rug.

I think Vit-C is a true miracle drug.

 

[Slyder190]

Yep. Great post. The government doesn't want us to know about how well nutrition can help keep us healthy, they'd rather collect big paychecks from the drug comapanies. But I guess they're making progress a lil, since now at leat we're hearing stop smokin and stop lettin your kids become obese couch potatoes. K round on me to everyone on this one.

 

[itlnstln]

Yep. Great post. The government doesn't want us to know about how well nutrition can help keep us healthy, they'd rather collect big paychecks from the drug comapanies. But I guess they're making progress a lil, since now at leat we're hearing stop smokin and stop lettin your kids become obese couch potatoes. K round on me to everyone on this one.

Notice on the smoking and couch potato thing, they waited just long enough to where it was an epidemic that only THEY had the resources to solve, so they are making $$$ on both ends.

 

[Themachine01]

I have been over-dosing on Vit-C for about 2 years now, I love it. It is also excellent to take prior to training which will help in neutralizing the free-radicals, which will result in less muscle damage. The harder you train the more oxygen you use, the more oxygen you use the more free radicals are formed which cause muscle damage, and VitC is a great anti-oxidant that helps fight these dirty little bastards. I usually chew about 5 sugar-free VitC tabs right before training, each one being 500mg, so thats 2500mg of VitC.

 

[swordfish151]

Great find...I also take Vit C..but never "over dosed" the vitamin....i like that idea machine..gonna have to try it..

 

[swordfish151]

so how much would a 215lb man take if wanting to take more Vit C a day? Right now i think i consume like 5g a day...