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Old October 13th 10, 06:52 AM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids,misc.kids.health,sci.med
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 12, 2010

About "Objections" to Vitamin C Therapy
(OMNS October 12, 2010) In massive doses, vitamin C (ascorbic acid) stops a
cold within hours, stops influenza in a day or two, and stops viral
pneumonia (pain, fever, cough) in two or three days. (1) It is a highly
effective antihistamine, antiviral and antitoxin. It reduces inflammation
and lowers fever. Administered intravenously, ascorbate kills cancer cells
without harming healthy tissue. Many people therefore wonder, in the face of
statements like these, why the medical professions have not embraced vitamin
C therapy with open and grateful arms.

Probably the main roadblock to widespread examination and utilization of
this all-too-simple technology is the equally widespread belief that there
must be unknown dangers to tens of thousands of milligrams of ascorbic acid.
Yet, since the time megascorbate therapy was introduced in the late 1940's
by Fred R. Klenner, M.D. (2), there has been an especially safe, and
extremely effective track record to follow.

Still, for some, questions remain. Here is a sample of what readers have
asked OMNS about vitamin C:

Is 2,000 mg/day of vitamin C a megadose?
No. Decades ago, Linus Pauling and Irwin Stone showed that most animals make
at least that much (or more) per human body weight per day. (3,4)

Then why has the government set the "Safe Upper Limit for vitamin C at 2,000
mg/day?
Perhaps the reason is ignorance. According to nationwide data compiled by
the American Association of Poison Control Centers, vitamin C (and the use
of any other dietary supplement) does not kill anyone. (5)

Does vitamin C damage DNA?
No. If vitamin C harmed DNA, why do most animals make (not eat, but make)
between 2,000 and 10,000 milligrams of vitamin C per human equivalent body
weight per day? Evolution would never so favor anything that harms vital
genetic material. White blood cells and male reproductive fluids contain
unusually high quantities of ascorbate. Living, reproducing systems love
vitamin C.

Does vitamin C cause low blood sugar, B-12 deficiency, birth defects, or
infertility?
Vitamin C does not cause birth defects, nor infertility, nor miscarriage.
"Harmful effects have been mistakenly attributed to vitamin C, including
hypoglycemia, rebound scurvy, infertility, mutagenesis, and destruction of
vitamin B-12. Health professionals should recognize that vitamin C does not
produce these effects." (6)

Does vitamin C . . .
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled 14 day trial of 3,000 mg per
day of vitamin C reported greater frequency of sexual intercourse. The
vitamin C group (but not the placebo group) also experienced a quantifiable
decrease in depression. This is probably due to the fact that vitamin C
"modulates catecholaminergic activity, decreases stress reactivity, approach
anxiety and prolactin release, improves vascular function, and increases
oxytocin release. These processes are relevant to sexual behavior and mood."
(7)

Does vitamin C cause kidney stones?
No. The myth of the vitamin C-caused kidney stone is rivaled in popularity
only by the Loch Ness Monster. A factoid-crazy medical media often overlooks
the fact that William J. McCormick, M.D., demonstrated that vitamin C
actually prevents the formation of kidney stones. He did so in 1946, when he
published a paper on the subject. (8) His work was confirmed by University
of Alabama professor of medicine Emanuel Cheraskin, M.D.. Dr. Cheraskin
showed that vitamin C inhibits the formation of oxalate stones. (9)

Other research reports that: "Even though a certain part of oxalate in the
urine derives from metabolized ascorbic acid, the intake of high doses of
vitamin C does not increase the risk of calcium oxalate kidney stones. . .
(I)n the large- scale Harvard Prospective Health Professional Follow-Up
Study, those groups in the highest quintile of vitamin C intake (greater
than 1,500 mg/day) had a lower risk of kidney stones than the groups in the
lowest quintiles." (10)

Dr. Robert F. Cathcart said, "I started using vitamin C in massive doses in
patients in 1969. By the time I read that ascorbate should cause kidney
stones, I had clinical evidence that it did not cause kidney stones, so I
continued prescribing massive doses to patients. Up to 2006, I estimate that
I have put 25,000 patients on massive doses of vitamin C and none have
developed kidney stones. Two patients who had dropped their doses to 500 mg
a day developed calcium oxalate kidney stones. I raised their doses back up
to the more massive doses and added magnesium and B-6 to their program and
no more kidney stones. I think they developed the kidney stones because they
were not taking enough vitamin C."

Why did Linus Pauling die from cancer if he took all that vitamin C?
Linus Pauling, PhD, megadose vitamin C advocate, died in 1994 from prostate
cancer. Mayo Clinic cancer researcher Charles G. Moertel, M.D., critic of
Pauling and vitamin C, also died in 1994, and also from cancer (lymphoma).
Dr. Moertel was 66 years old. Dr. Pauling was 93 years old. One needs to
make up ones own mind as to whether this does or does not indicate benefit
from vitamin C.

A review of the subject indicates that "Vitamin C deficiency is common in
patients with advanced cancer . . . Patients with low plasma concentrations
of vitamin C have a shorter survival." (11)

Does vitamin C narrow arteries or cause atherosclerosis?
Abram Hoffer, M.D., has said: "I have used vitamin C in megadoses with my
patients since 1952 and have not seen any cases of heart disease develop
even after decades of use. Dr. Robert Cathcart with experience on over
25,000 patients since 1969 has seen no cases of heart disease developing in
patients who did not have any when first seen. He added that the thickening
of the vessel walls, if true, indicates that the thinning that occurs with
age is reversed. . . The fact is that vitamin C decreases plaque formation
according to many clinical studies. Some critics ignore the knowledge that
thickened arterial walls in the absence of plaque formation indicate that
the walls are becoming stronger and therefore less apt to rupture. . .
Gokce, Keaney, Frei et al gave patients supplemental vitamin C daily for
thirty days and measured blood flow through the arteries. Blood flow
increased nearly fifty percent after the single dose and this was sustained
after the monthly treatment. (12)."

What about blood pressure?
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study showed that
hypertensive patients taking supplemental vitamin C had lower blood
pressure. (13)

So why the flurry of anti-vitamin-C reporting in the mass media? Negative
news gets attention. Negative news sells newspapers, and magazines, and
pulls in lots of television viewers. Positive drug studies do get headlines,
of course. Positive vitamin studies do not. Is this a conspiracy? You mean
with unscrupulous people all sitting around a shaded table in a darkened
back room? Of course not. It is nevertheless an enormous public health
problem with enormous consequences.

150 million Americans take supplemental vitamin C every day. This is as much
a political issue as a scientific issue. What would happen if everybody took
vitamins? Perhaps doctors, hospital administrators and pharmaceutical
salespeople would all be lining up for their unemployment checks.

A skeptic might conclude that there is at least some evidence that the
politicians are on the wrong side of this. After all, the US RDA for vitamin
C for humans is only 10% of the government's USDA vitamin C standards for
Guinea pigs. (14) But conspiracy against nutritional medicine? Certainly
not. Couldn't be.



References and Additional Reading:

(1) Cathcart RF. Vitamin C, titration to bowel tolerance, anascorbemia, and
acute induced scurvy." Medical Hypothesis 7:1359-1376, 1981.
http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html

See also: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v05n09.shtml and
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v05n11.shtml

(2) Saul AW. Hidden in plain sight: the pioneering work of Frederick Robert
Klenner, M.D. J Orthomolecular Med, 2007. Vol 22, No 1, p 31-38.
http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerbio.html and
http://orthomolecular.org/hof/2005/fklenner.html

Dr. F.R. Klenner's Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C is posted in its
entirety at
http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorba...guide_1988.htm

(3) Pauling L. How to Live Longer and Feel Better. Corvallis, OR: Oregon
State University Press, 2006. Reviewed at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/livelonger.html . Linus Pauling's complete
vitamin and nutrition bibliography is posted at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_pauling_ortho.html

(4) The complete text of Irwin Stone's book The Healing Factor is posted for
free reading at http://vitamincfoundation.org/stone/

(5) http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n04.shtml

(6) Levine M et al. JAMA, April 21, 1999. Vol 281, No 15, p 1419.

(7) High-dose ascorbic acid increases intercourse frequency and improves
mood: a randomized controlled clinical trial. Brody S. Biol Psychiatry 2002
Aug 15; 52(4):371-4.

(8) McCormick WJ. Lithogenesis and hypovitaminosis. Medical Record, 1946.
159:7, July, p 410-413.

(9) Cheraskin E, Ringsdorf, Jr. M and Sisley E. The Vitamin C Connection:
Getting Well and Staying Well with Vitamin C. New York: Harper and Row,
1983. Also paperback, 1984: New York, Bantam Books. "Vitamin C in the urine
tends to bind calcium and decrease its free form. This means less chance of
calcium's separating out as calcium oxalate (stones)." [page 213] See also:
Ringsdorf WM Jr, Cheraskin E. Nutritional aspects of urolithiasis. South Med
J. 1981 Jan;74(1):41-3, 46.

(10) Gerster H. No contribution of ascorbic acid to renal calcium oxalate
stones. Ann Nutr Metab. 1997;41(5):269-82. See also:
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v01n07.shtml

(11) Mayland CR, Bennett MI, Allan K. Vitamin C deficiency in cancer
patients. Palliat Med. 2005 Jan;19(1):17-20. See also:
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v01n09.shtml and
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v04n19.shtml

(12) Free full text paper at
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/99/25/3234
See also: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n20.shtml and
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v01n02.shtml

(13) Duffy SJ, Gokce N, Holbrook M, Huang A, Frei B, Keaney JF Jr, Vita JA.
Treatment of hypertension with ascorbic acid. Lancet. 1999 Dec
11;354(9195):2048-9.

(14) http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n08.shtml



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Old October 13th 10, 12:10 PM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids,misc.kids.health,sci.med
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On 10/13/10 1:52 AM, john wrote:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 12, 2010

About "Objections" to Vitamin C Therapy
(OMNS October 12, 2010) In massive doses, vitamin C (ascorbic acid) stops a
cold within hours, stops influenza in a day or two, and stops viral
pneumonia (pain, fever, cough) in two or three days. (1) It is a highly
effective antihistamine, antiviral and antitoxin. It reduces inflammation
and lowers fever. Administered intravenously, ascorbate kills cancer cells
without harming healthy tissue. Many people therefore wonder, in the face of
statements like these, why the medical professions have not embraced vitamin
C therapy with open and grateful arms.


Simple: These are mere statements. There is no good scientific evidence
to back them.

Vitamin C doesn't work as advertised.

Jeff

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Old October 16th 10, 12:54 AM posted to misc.health.alternative,misc.kids,misc.kids.health,sci.med
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"dr_jeff" wrote in message ...
On 10/13/10 1:52 AM, john wrote:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 12, 2010

About "Objections" to Vitamin C Therapy
(OMNS October 12, 2010) In massive doses, vitamin C (ascorbic acid) stops a
cold within hours, stops influenza in a day or two, and stops viral
pneumonia (pain, fever, cough) in two or three days. (1) It is a highly
effective antihistamine, antiviral and antitoxin. It reduces inflammation
and lowers fever. Administered intravenously, ascorbate kills cancer cells
without harming healthy tissue. Many people therefore wonder, in the face of
statements like these, why the medical professions have not embraced vitamin
C therapy with open and grateful arms.


Simple: These are mere statements. There is no good scientific evidence to back them.

Vitamin C doesn't work as advertised.

Jeff


Yeah, but cellsalts do.


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