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"Vitamin C is the only vitamin repeatedly proven to increase the human lifespan when taken in doses that exceed dietary levels of this vitamin." - Bill Sardi

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How much vitamin C do you take each day?
None     6%  150
The RDA (less then 100 mg)     4%  95
Less than 500 mg     7%  179
Less than 1001 mg     18%  452
Less than 5001 mg     34%  855
Less than or equal 10000 mg     13%  331
More than 10000 mg     18%  442
Total: 2504
Comment: I Take 3000mg aday - anonymous
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Contents


Basic Vitamin C Information
FAQs
Foundation's Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA)
Comments on the 'puny' Government RDA
Our Response to Media Vitamin Bashing
Top Ten Websites that Provide Misinformation About Vitamin C
Articles
Alzheimers
Arthritis
Lungs
Intensive Care Mortality Reduced 50%
Low Blood Vitamin C Concentrations Strongly Predict Mortality
Stroke
Vitamin Science
News
News Archives
Vitamin C Clinical Guide On-line
Contribute
Scurvy
Heart Disease
Statin Cholesterol Drug Alert!
Why Vitamin C is Nature's Perfect Statin
Cancer
Infections
Cold/Flu Cure
HIV/AIDS
SARS
Experts
Linus Pauling
Dr. Cathcart
Dr. Ely
Drs. Hickey/Roberts
Dr. Klenner
Vitamin C Clinical Guide On-line
Dr Levy
Dr Saul
Dr. Bush
Bill Sardi
Irwin Stone
The_Healing_Factor - On-line Book
Founder Fonorow's Articles
NIH Research Grant Request Documents
Science Projects
Megascorbate Therapies On-line Journal
Vitamin C During Pregnancy and for Kids
Rethinking Hemochromatosis and Vitamin C...
USDA Database of Vitamin C Content in Foods(Large File)
About the Vitamin C Foundation
Contact Us
Technical Advisors
Join the Foundation
 

Answers to frequently asked questions

Answers to frequently asked questions by physicians

 

Anecdotes

 

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Highlights




Vitamin A produces astonishing leukemia cure rate, even without chemotherapy...



Vitamin A: Little Known Secret to Preventing Breast Cancer
If the cells don't get enough vitamin A stored, the retinoic acid receptor doesn't get activated, cells don't differentiate and they can turn cancerous.

Vitamin E wards off Lou Gehrig's disease...


Magnesium deficiency implicated in osteoporosis rise ...



World's Leading Experts Blast Vitamin C RDA...
This book presents an open challenge to the government “experts”, who support the out-of-date RDA approach to nutrition and thereby endanger the health of the entire population.

Download 'Ridiculous Dietary Allowance'
The printed version is in press and will be available shortly for about $15.00.





Major Vitamin C Discovery...
Researchers in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University have made a major discovery about the way vitamin C functions in the human body - a breakthrough that may help explain its possible value in preventing cancer and heart disease.



The New Definition of Scurvy...
BREAKTHROUGH: RETINAL PHOTOS CONFIRM VITAMIN C PILLS CAN REVERSE ARTERY DISEASE...





Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C... NOW ON-LINE!



Now Posted: Irwin Stone's 1972 book: The Healing Factor



The Top Ten Websites that Disseminate Misinformation about Vitamin C ...
Topping the list are websites hosted by prestigous organizations such as the National Library of Medicine's "Medline Plus," the National Institutes of Health, the Mayo Clinic, Quackwatch, Consumerlab.com, WebMD and the Merck Manual.


Foundation Responds to Media Propaganda Campaign Directed at Vital Nutrients...




Bill Sardi


No More War Against Vitamin C...
"There is a renaissance in vitamin C supplementation underway. A series of events is unfolding so fast it is difficult to stay current on this topic. " - Bill Sardi


Predicted collapse of conventional medicine now underway – one vitamin could save Medicare from bankruptcy ...
Guess which one...


Premature Birth, Life-long Developmental Problems, Linked to Low Vitamin C Levels During Pregnancy...


The Vitamin C Fanatics Were Right All Along...
"According to newly revealed science, the belittled mega-dose vitamin C users may be purchasing the cheapest and most effective health insurance one can buy."


Diagnosis: Corruption...


Campaign Launched Against Dietary Supplements...







Testimonials


Curing the Incurable
Dear Sirs,

I am 32 and have suffered with sinus infections my entire life. Sometime more than 5 a year and sometimes lasting several months. I have tried every product on the market and almost every prescription known for this. 

I thought there was no cure.  Only temporary fixes that antibiotics and decongestants offered would stave off the infection for a time.

However, with your help I believe I have found a cure.

I now treat myself with regular dosages of vitamin c in excess of 3000mg a day.  However, this alone has not been the complete cure.  I found that although this improved my overall health and well being I still was getting them.

So, one day I felt the sinus pressure building in my head, my face starting to swell. I decided I would crush the vitamin c into a fine power and "SNORT IT" through the nostrils.  I did not try the nasal spray suggested by your articles.  I just did not want to waste time.  I would take a very small amount of vitamin c power on the tip of my finger and sniff it into each nostril about every 5 to 10 minutes. 

Here is the amazing part.

I noticed immediately that the mucus was breaking up. Much similar to a nasal spray like [deleted] that causes an initial break up.  However, unlike [product deleted] which eventually stops the mucus break up and then has the reverse effect and also drys your nasal passages.  The vitamin c power kept on breaking up the mucus and causing drainage.  My very painful sinus headache was literally gone in about 30 minutes.

Better than that though! I felt completely clear headed in about an hour.  And even better than that was greenish in color coming out of my nose was now clear!!!  I really believe this is a miracle cure!!!  I mean I have been suffering with this my whole life!!!! 

How and why is this working?  What is it doing to my nasal passages?  Also, am I experiencing an anti-histamine affect stronger than oral ingesting vitamin c? I think I must be for my sinuses to clear so quickly and stay clear for over 10+ hours!!!
 
Thank You and God Bless You
Tom T
IMPORTANT NOTE

From Vitamin C Foundation Medical Advisor and Medical Doctor

This effect is well known to me. Many of my patients have [used powdered vitamin C up the nose] up to 30 years ago, however, I would have several comments.

First, the unqualified term "vitamin C" should be qualified as ascorbic acid, sodium asecorbate, calcium ascorbate, etc. This is very important. (Please make it policy that all references to vitamin C when it is used in a treatment specify the type of ascorbate used. Otherwise, it will cause confusion.)

Most people will damage their mucous membranes with ascorbic acid directly so they should use sodium ascorbate.

Usually sodium ascorbate in a water solution as a spray is best. Low dose should be about 3% but one can carefully experiment with higher concentrations. I use straight ascorbic acid powder with a tiny amount of water to burn off warts on the skin. This is followed by sodium ascorbate or vitamin E oil under a bandade.

My real objection of even using sodium ascorbate nasally is that chronic sinusitis is an indication of chronic subclinical scurvy. A heart attack might be next. 3,000 mg (3 grams) per day is [simply not enough].

A patient with chronic sinusitis should take Cathcart's bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid orally ( http://www.orthomed.com/titrate.htm). My guess would be that this might be around 30 grams or more a day. Maybe start with 3 grams 10 times a day. If he does not take enough ascorbic acid orally to clear the sinuses, he runs the risk of other symptoms of chronic subclinical scurvy (infections, allergies, autoimmune diseases, hearta attacks, death, etc.)

If a patient cannot tolerate a significant dose of ascorbic acid orally, something is already the matter with the GI tract and he should be worked up by an orthomolecular physician because that otherwise hidden difficulty with the GI tract can cause serious problem in the future.

Advisor, M.D.



The Vitamin C Calamity
The Massive Failure of the Multi-Billion Dollar Taxpayer Funded National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Protect the Public Interest...
Recently published scientific studies now confirm that high-dose vitamin C taken throughout the day may dramatically reduce major health risks. But funny thing, nobody noticed. Even though the data was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in the early months of 2004, doctors paid no attention. [Annals Internal Medicine, April 6, 140: 533-37, 2004] The news media also appears to be oblivious to the report. It should have been a major headline. But worse yet, government researchers who conducted the study failed to alert the public or the news media. Countless millions of Americans could avoid cataracts, aneurysms, gallstones, cancer and heart disease with this knowledge.



LETTER TO HHS SECRETARY TOMMY THOMPSON...


Our Last (2002) NIH Grant Submission to Fund A Small Study of the Pauling Therapy for Heart Disease REJECTED!



In his budget request for Fiscal Year 2003, President Bush asked Congress to provide $27.3 billion for the NIH.


Congressman Istook Requests Funds For Vitamin Relief USA...


With the current NIH Funding ($27 billion) every man, woman and child in the United States could be supplied with Vitamin C!
We Got This Idea From a 99-year-old Atomic Scientist...



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Vitamin C may cure West Nile Virus ..



Vitamin C's Effect on Skin Cancer

I've had two more people rid themselves of basal cell carcinoma by wiping on concentrated solution of vitamin C. One used sodium ascorbate and the other buffered C from Life Extension Foundation. Both scabbed up and left clean scars in one to two weeks depending on how large the thing is.

There's no question that vitamin C is a big gun in the anti-cancer arsenal!

This would be a good test to see if a mole is cancerous or not. Just rub on the C solution and if it crusts up and falls off it was, if nothing happens then it's probably not cancer. We know from Dr. Riordan's research that C is toxic to melanoma in cell culture.

WMW, MD





Vitamin C helps prevent contrast-mediated nephropathy ...
Contrast-mediated nephropathy is a decrease in kidney function diagnosed by an increase in serum creatinine which results from contrast agents used in radiographic procedures such as coronary angiography...




Flashback: 70 Years Ago...


From the September 22, 1934, issue of Science News

 
SYNTHETIC VITAMIN PRODUCES STRIKING UNEXPECTED CURES
Synthetic vitamin C, called ascorbic acid, in its first actual use on medical patients is producing very striking and unexpected disease conquests, the British Association for the Advancement of Science was informed by Prof. A. Szent-Györgyi, the Hungarian chemist who played a major role in the artificial manufacture of this important vitamin.

The mouth disorder known as pyorrhea, a certain kind of hemophilia, which is a disease of bleeding, certain forms of hemorrhagic nephritis, and several other diseases against which medicine was helpless are seemingly being cured by ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid is not a cure for hereditary hemophilia.

"This is the more striking since these pathological conditions have not been thought to be connected with lack of vitamin," Prof. Szent-Györgyi explained. "These curative effects suggest that humanity is suffering much more gravely from a lack of vitamin C than has hitherto been supposed."

Disfiguring colorations of the skin brought on by illness are also made to disappear by ascorbic acid. Patients with Addison's disease, who have a yellow color, can be bleached out again by the use of this substance.











Linus Pauling


Ten Years Since the Death of Linus Pauling

A Tribute to Linus Pauling: Vitamin C, he was right all along...
from the Bolen Report



Nov 8, 2004

My name is Pauline (Sarah) Sowders. I am 62 years old and had quadruple heart bypass surgery March 2002. Had incredibly difficult time recuperating. Disagreed with my doctor on treatment regarding statin drugs. My problems with statins were muscle cramps, severe joint pain, stomach pain, depression and nerve problems which finally caused me to take a medical leave from my job this past March. Some time ago a friend recommended taking the following supplements instead of prescription drugs: 

 Fish Oil Pills 1,000 mg - 6/day
 Red Yeast Rice 600 mg - 4/day
 Vitamin E 400 mg - 1/day
 Folic Acid 400 mg  - 2/day

I felt no significant change.

Sept 1st of this year I found the following statement on a web site (can't remember where but thank GOD!). "Try this - guaranteed to lower cholesterol at least 18% in six weeks." 6000 mg. Vitamin C, 6000 mg L-Lysine, 200 mg CoQ10.

I began taking this combo in addition to the Fish Oil etc. on Sept 12 of this year. I'm not sure if the fish oil regimen in combination with the vit. C made a difference or if it was just the Vitamin C regimen. But, after only two weeks I began feeling like a new person. For the first time in years I wanted to do things that I had to force myself to do only a few days before. I began cleaning, cooking, sewing, working in the yard - just could not figure out how to work everything into each short day. I actually enjoy getting up in the morning.

I found the Heart Technology web site a few days after I discovered this vitamin C stuff works. Really was having trouble swallowing 24 vitamin pills per a plus a blood thinner and baby aspirin. My regimin is now as follows: (so simple)

  • Two scoops Heart Tech in A.M., 2 fish oil capsules, 1 CoQ10,
  • Two scoops Heart Tech in P.M., 2 fish oil capsules.

Have stopped the blood thinner and baby aspirin. (NO MORE BRUISES! THANK YOU LORD!)

My blood test results from May 2004 and October 2004 follow. (LDL dropped from 203 to 161 and total cholesterol dropped from 290 to 248).

I had been off statin drugs for approximately 3 months before each test. The October test was done after being on vitamin C for one month. Both my doctor and I were thrilled about the latest test results, until he discovered that I was not taking any prescription drugs, at which time he said, "You're playing Russian roulette you know." Maybe so, but I doubt it. I feel wonderful and the proof is in the puddin.

More Testimonials...



Linus Pauling
LINUS PAULING VITAMIN C AND WELLNESS...

THE LIFE OF LINUS PAULING...




Why Is
This Picture
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Pauling Speaks to us on Video

"For three days I have been listening to talks about the value of large intakes of vitamin C and other natural substances, and I have not heard a single mention of the name Linus Pauling. Has not the time come when we should admit that Pauling was right all along?" -- Carlos Krumdieck MD to standing ovation at 1992 New York Academy of Sciences symposium in Arlington, VA

The following Video Clips Require RealPlayer





Linus Pauling Investigates Vitamin C...


LINUS PAULING AND THE RACE FOR DNA - 50-YEARS LATER...

WHAT ASTONISHED LINUS PAULING ...
 

BUT WAIT.. FRENCH DISCOVER TRIPLE-STRAND DNA THAT MATCHES PAULING'S MODEL...
 

The LINUS PAULING PAPERS from the National Library of Medicine

 

 

SUPPLEMENTS SLOW AGING IN RATS...
" Ames et. al. want to help us remain as healthy and as young as possible, right up until the end. That goal fits nicely with the vision of the man whose name hangs over the door of the institute where Hagen now works. Two-time Nobel prize-winner Linus Pauling predicted decades ago that free radicals, or other oxidants, were causing many of our problems, including age-related declines. That's why he vociferously pushed for vitamin C, a natural antioxidant.

But like most of us, he hated the thought of getting old. I know that because a number of years ago I celebrated his 90th birthday with him. I followed him around for three days, from his fabulous estate on California's Big Sur coastline to Stanford University, where he taught a graduate seminar on chemistry.

While delivering his lecture, the 90-year-old Pauling forgot something he was about to say. That happens to all of us from time to time, but the grand old man of science looked terrified as he stood speechless in front of his young audience. They probably figured he was getting senile.

Pulling himself together, he finally said, "I guess you're all wondering what we're doing over at the institute."

He picked up a piece of chalk and wrote a formula on one of three huge blackboards that blanketed three walls in the lecture hall. For nearly an hour, he expanded on the formula until it filled all three walls. Then he turned to the students, who sat with their mouths hanging open in absolute awe.

"Any questions?" he asked.

Not a one.

Now there's a man who knew how to stay young.

Lee Dyes column appears weekly on ABCNEWS.com. A former science writer for the Los Angeles Times, he now lives in Juneau, Alaska.

 



Now Posted: Irwin Stone's 1972 book: The Healing Factor








Top Stories


 

Vitamin C, Chronic Scurvy and Heart Disease

 

According to the world's only twice-unshared Nobel prize winner,  Linus Pauling,  "heart disease" is a chronic form of scurvy - the vitamin C deficiency disease!   Read the COMPLETE UNIFIED THEORY that explains why Lp(a) cholesterol acting as surrogate for low vitamin C, leads to atherosclerosis.



CHRONIC SCURVY
The 50-year Suppression of the Real Nature, Cause and Outright Cure for Heart Disease ... - By Foundation Co-Founder, 2005




Radio Interview: Vitamin C and Heart Disease...
Foundation's cofounder two-hour interview on Americans Freedom Radio Network (May 2003, Requires RealPlayer)



Monitoring the Vitamin C "Natural Statin" Effect with a Lifestream® Cholesterol Monitor...
"I sent you the following results to demonstrate how quickly the body changes to vitamin C supplementation, both in a positive and negative manner. Any point when I withdrew myself from the vitamin C, either because I ran out or got lazy, my cholesterol jumped up." - Richard Kuminkoski (rsk@zbzoom.net)

Nature's Perfect Statin® -- Vitamin C Lowers Cholesterol Naturally

High dose vitamin C linked to lower heart attack risk ...



Antioxidant vitamins and coronary heart disease risk: a pooled analysis of 9 Cohorts...
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest a reduced incidence of major CHD events at high supplemental vitamin C intakes. The risk reductions at high vitamin E or carotenoid intakes appear small.

"This pooled study shows health benefits at >700 mg vitamin C from supplements compared to no supplementation. This ABSOLUTELY disproves the RDA and the false idea that there is a 200 mg daily limit on health benefits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" - B Sardi


Urgent Bill Sardi Vitamin C RDA Letter to USA Food and Nutrition Board ...


Over 100 MEDLINE Abstracts That Relate Antioxidant Intake to Heart Disease...






10-YEARS AGO: THE LINUS PAULING LECTURES ON VITAMIN C AND HEART DISEASE... Buy Video of the Pauling Lecture...


Linus Pauling, PhD, A Decade After His Last Interview, His Reputation Continues to Grow...
" On August 19, 1994, Linus Pauling, PhD died of cancer at age 93 at his home in Big Sur, California. The only person to win two unshared Nobel prizes (for Chemistry in 1954 and Peace in 1962), Pauling, during the last 25 years of his life, became a vocal and uniquely effective advocate for vitamin C and nutritional medicine. He has been given credit by many people for almost single handedly making vitamin C the most popular and widely used nutritional supplement in the world and for helping to significantly advance the fields of clinical nutrition, primary prevention, and "orthomolecular" medicine (a term he coined)." -- Peter Barry Chowka



Vitamin C is Nature's Perfect Statin



Warning! Your cholesterol-lowering drug may be destroying your health!

The Dangers of Statin Drugs: What You Haven't Been Told About Cholesterol-Lowering Medication
Part I.
Part II.


"Our Mission: Warn Heart Patients About the Hidden Dangers of the Top Selling Statin Cholesterol Lowering Drugs."
STATIN DRUG DANGER!...

"These drugs weaken muscle, leading to heart failure, and at high enough dosage without antioxidant support, to heart transplant. These drugs are the wrong prescription for anyone, much less heart patients." - Owen Fonorow




CoQ10 and Statins: The Vitamin C Connection
"We are now in a position to witness the unfolding of the greatest medical tragedy of all time - never before in history has the medical establishment knowingly created a life threatening nutrient deficiency in millions of otherwise healthy people." - Peter H. Langsjoen, MD





AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION ADVICE: Don't Take Supplements


Vitamin C may be extremely beneficial to heart patients and provides low cost insurance. The proper advice, considering the following recent studies, (for some reason these studies were ignored by the AHA), is for the AHA to RECOMMEND supplements for everyone until vitamin C is proven NOT to work. - Owen Fonorow


Recent science ignored by the AHA:
  1. 2003 Harvard: 15-YEAR HARVARD STUDY OF 85,000 FINDS SINGLE VITAMIN C PILL REDUCES HEART DISEASE ALMOST 30%.
    Interestingly, dietary intake of vitamin C seemed to have little effect on coronary heart disease risk. But if women used vitamin C supplements, their risk was reduced by 27 percent. According to the numbers in [this story] A single 360 mg vitamin C pill daily would save more than 300,000 lives per year.
  2. 2003 UK: ANTIOXIDANT VITAMINS AND MORTALITY IN OLDER PRESONS...
    FINDINGS: Strong inverse relationship for blood ascorbate (vitamin-C) concentrations with all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality, which were only marginally reduced after adjustment for confounders or supplement use. Those in the lowest fifth (< 17 micromol/L) had the highest mortality, whereas those in the highest fifth (> 66 micromol/L) had a mortality risk nearly half that (hazard ratio = 0.54; 95% CI: 0.34, 0.84). Similar results were found after the exclusion of those subjects with cardiovascular disease or cancer at baseline (hazard ratio = 0.51; 0.28, 0.93). In fully adjusted models, there was no evidence for an influence of alpha-tocopherol (vitamin-E), beta-carotene, or retinol (vitamin-A) on total mortality. Dietary antioxidants measured by the food-frequency questionnaire were not associated with all-cause or cardiovascular disease mortality"
  3. 2004 UCLA NOBELIST LOUIS J. IGNARRO LEADS STUDY SHOWING SUPPLEMENTS SLOW ATHEROSCLEROSIS...

  4. 2003: New Dutch finds people with the lowest amount of vitamin C in their diets were 30 percent more likely to have a stroke than people with the highest amount of it. This confirms a 2002 study with similar findings.

  5. 2002 JAMA: RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND CONTROLLED TRIAL IN HUMANS FOUND STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT 60-SECOND TREADMILL EXERCISE IMPROVEMENTS IN 5000 MG VITAMIN C GROUPS
    You will have to read this study. BOTH study groups received vitamin C (and magnesium) and both study groups experienced a 60-second statistically significant treadmill exercise improvement. [Chelation Therapy for Ischemic Heart Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Knudtson, et. al. JAMA, Jan 23/30, 2002 - Vol 287, No 4. Pp 481-486]
  6. 2004: INFLUENCE OF L-ARGININE AND VITAMIN C ON THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM IN CHRONIC HEART FAILURE SECONDARY TO ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY...

  7. 2003: VITAMIN C IS SUPERIOR TO DILTIAZEM FOR RADIAL ARTERY VASODILATION IN PATIENTS AWAITING CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING...

  8. 2003: IMPROVEMENT OF PERIPHERAL ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION BY ACUTE VITAMIN C APPLICATION: DIFFERENT EFFECTS IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE, ISCHEMIC, AND DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY...

  9. 2004: VITAMIN C REDUCES LEVELS OF C-REACTIVE PROTEIN

  10. 1996 (Submitted, but rejected): SUPPLEMENTS HALT ATHEROSCLEROSIS
    Nutritional Supplement Program Halts Progression of Early Coronary Atherosclerosis Documented by Ultrafast Computed Tomography
  11. 1977: EFFECT OF ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C) ON PLASMA CHOLESTEROL IN HUMANS IN A LONG-TERM EXPERIMENT...
    In all these time intervals, ascorbic acid was found significantly to depress cholesterolemia and its effects persisted 6 weeks after termination of the experiment.






WHOSE INTERESTS ARE THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION REALLY PROTECTING?...





AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION RECOMMENDS STATINS...

Statins, Calcium a Deadly Mix ...
"A three-year follow-up on a study of people taking cholesterol-lowering statins, who had a heart attack, revealed that they had a significant amount of calcium in their coronary arteries... Now even the traditional doctors are questioning the benefits of taking statins."
.

An Epidemic of Congestive Heart Failure ...

Heart Failure Epidemic...

The Danger Has Been Known For About 13 Years...

NSAIDs Cause 1 in 5 Heart Failures ...



Vitamin C and Vascular Disease ...

COLOSSAL Medical Blunder?


Foundation's Heart Disease Page...




 


Steve Hickey and Hiliary Roberts

THE VITAMIN C CONTROVERSY IS RESOLVED...


ASCORBATE...
"The most important development in the history of vitamin C." - Owen Fonorow

This new book presents a new model, describing the action of vitamin C in health and disease. It demonstrates conclusively that the establishment has misinterpreted the evidence, potentially resulting in epidemic levels of avoidable disease. [More]



Researchers Claim the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) For Vitamin C is Too Low...
Professors Hickey and Roberts have found that that half-life of vitamin C in the blood stream is only 30 minutes. They recommend 2500 mg, spread throughout the day and say current RDA is "untenable".

GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS NO LONGER DEFEND THEIR DATA, NOW THEY VIOLATE SCIENTIFIC PROTOCOL

YOUR PERSONAL ACTION PLAN...
Please Get Involved!

Letter to Congress(Road map for letters to your local newspaper editors)

Is the Recommended Dietary Allowance for Vitamin C Too Low?...

THE HICKEY LETTERS TO AUTHORITIES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE U.S. RDA




Major Articles





"Mercury from Dental Amalgams causes 80-90% of Alzheimer's Disease" - John Ely, Ph.D.

John Hopkins University has now found that combining vitamin E and vitamin C supplements can dramatically reduce the risk of Alzheimer's ...


Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid): Use of this vitamin is the most effective method of raising the levels of the mercury detoxification compound glutathione.


John Hopkins Update: Vitamin C Key to Alzheimer's Prevention ...
"The results confirm findings reported by John Hopkins researchers earlier this year - use of vitamin E and C in combination reduced prevalence of the disease by about 78 per cent and incidence by about 64 per cent but they found no benefit from vitamin E used alone. "


MERCURY DETOXIFICATION PROTOCOL ...



Arizona State University Researchers Find Scurvy Is Serious Health Problem ...
"Overall, we found, 12 percent of Americans had vitamin C deficiency," said Hampl. "Normally, doctors and other health professionals think of scurvy as a disease of the past, but our research has shown that this really isn't true."

Scurvy, or vitamin C deficiency, is associated with low-grade inflammation, fatigue, limping, gum bleeding, or swollen extremities. Vitamin C depletion can also lead to a multitude of other health problems and diseases"




Vitamin C Benefits Arthritis
High Vitamin C Eases Pain...
"A High vitamin C intake protects against the development of painful rheumatoid arthritis. Research published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases showed people with inflammatory polyarthritis tended to have a lower daily intake of fruit and vegetables than those who did not develop the disease.

But vitamin C itself seemed to have an even more important role. Those with the lowest levels of vitamin C intake were three times more likely to develop inflammatory arthritis than those with the highest intakes, the results showed.

Those with levels below the RDA (40 mg in UK) were at four times the risk of inflammatory polyarthritis. Those at less than 56mg a day were still at three times the risk"









Lack of Vitamin C Linked to Respiratory Disorders ...
"A study has found that vitamin C may prevent symptoms associated with airway diseases such as cystic fibrosis, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The findings were published in the March 2, 2004, issue of the Proceedings of the [U.S.] National Academy of Sciences.

In the two-year study, researchers discovered that vitamin C supports the normal hydration of airway surfaces, while vitamin C deficiency may lead to dry, sticky mucus membranes lining the airway. Thus, low levels of vitamin C may play a role in the progression of common inflammatory airway diseases by making the airways susceptible to infections. "




In Extremis: First Aid for Advanced Cancer...
(or for anyone with cancer, at any stage)

The 100-year-old Understanding and Cure for Cancer




How Vitamin C Is Administered Affects How Much Reaches the Bloodstream and May Affect the Results of Studies of Its Potential Effect on Cancer ...
 

 

Vitamins C & E Cut ICU Deaths in Half...
Randomized, Prospective Trial
The early administration of antioxidant supplementation using alpha-tocopherol and ascorbic acid reduces the incidence of organ failure and shortens Intensive Care Unit (ICU) length of stay in this cohort of critically ill surgical patients.


SCURVY IN INTENSIVE CARE...
"Despite daily administration of 130mg/day of vitamin C since his admission, his ascorbic acid blood levels had collapsed. Administration of 1g/day relieved the symptoms within four weeks."
 

 

Evidence Vitamin C Saved 250,000 - 621,000 Lives (USA) in year 1999



A Brilliant Suggestion from a 99-year-old Atomic Scientist...



If you contribute to the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State, you should read this...

 





Nature's Perfect Statin® -- Vitamin C Lowers Cholesterol Naturally

The Original HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitor

 


WHY LINUS PAULING IS SMILING

Low Blood Vitamin C Concentrations in the Older British Population Strongly Predict Mortality...

UK STUDY: ANTIOXIDANT VITAMINS AND MORTALITY IN OLDER PERSONS...

RESULTS: Strong inverse relationship for blood ascorbate (vitamin C) concentrations with all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality, which were only marginally reduced after adjustment for confounders or supplement use. Those in the lowest fifth (< 17 micromol/L) had the highest mortality, whereas those in the highest fifth (> 66 micromol/L) had a mortality risk nearly half that (hazard ratio = 0.54; 95% CI: 0.34, 0.84). Similar results were found after the exclusion of those subjects with cardiovascular disease or cancer at baseline (hazard ratio = 0.51; 0.28, 0.93). In fully adjusted models, there was no evidence for an influence of alpha-tocopherol (vitamin-E), beta-carotene, or retinol (vitamin-A) on total mortality. Dietary antioxidants measured by the food-frequency questionnaire were not associated with all-cause or cardiovascular disease mortality


Dr Linus Pauling's Unified Theory of Cardiovascular Disease



High Vitamin-C Linked to Reduced Stroke Risk...
 
"The risk of stroke was 70% higher among those in the lowest quartile for serum vitamin C than among those in the highest."




Vitamin C Foundation's Recommended Vitamin C Intake


The Cure for Heart Disease

Surefire Cure for the Common Cold

 







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Vitamin C Prevents Stroke ...
"A new Dutch study finds people with the lowest amount of vitamin C in their diets were 30 percent more likely to have a stroke than people with the highest amount of it."
Vitamin E Reduces Risk of Bladder Cancer ...
"Researchers discovered that the higher the intake of vitamin E, the greater amount of protection offered."
High antioxidant vitamin intakes reduce adverse effects of chemotherapy in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia...
 Nobelist Ignarro USC study finds supplements may prevent atherosclerosis ...
Vitamins C & E Cut ICU Deaths in Half... Antioxidant intervention blunts renal injury ...
Inhibition of liver cancer cell proliferation and migration with ascorbic acid (vitamin C)... Combination therapy with vitamins C plus E inhibits human prostate cancer cell growth...
John Hopkins University has now found that combining vitamin E and vitamin C supplements can dramatically reduce the risk of Alzheimer's ... Vitamin C reverses osteoporosis in mice...
Vitamin E Cuts Bladder Cancer Risk by 50%... Vitamin C Boosts Immune System in as Little as 5 hours.
Vitamin C Research: 'Important New Treatment of Respiratory Disorders'... Lowered plasma vitamin C, but not vitamin E, concentrations in dementia patients...
Even 'vitamin-like' supplementation with combination of vitamin E and vitamin C slows atherosclerosis... U.N. Researchers said they could predict 62 percent of heart disease deaths by looking at blood levels of vitamin E...
Common Nutrients Fed To Pregnant Mice Lowered the Offspring's Susceptibility to Obesity, Diabetes and Cancer... Ames: High Dose Vitamins can Treat more then 50 Genetic Disorders
Vitamin C Does Not Cause Kidney Stones! Fourteen Year Study of 85,557 implicates low vitamin B6, exonorates Vitamin C. NUTRIENT CHOLINE DURING PREGNANCY 'SUPER-CHARGES' CHILD'S BRAIN FOR LIFE...
Millions not getting key vitamins leading to diminished brain power...

Vitamin C treats Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), the most common inherited peripheral neuropathy...

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ASCORBATE

To be blunt -- the NIH gave a dose of vitamin C, waited until it had been excreted, and then measured blood levels.
NEW BOOK by Dr. Steve Hickey and Hilary Roberts
This book presents a new model, describing the action of vitamin C in health and disease. It demonstrates conclusively that the establishment has misinterpreted the evidence, potentially resulting in epidemic levels of avoidable disease. The dynamic flow model explains the current results and points the way for future experiments.

The failure of the medical establishment to perform critical follow-up experiments may have resulted in much suffering and countless deaths. As Dr Hickey says, "If this book doesn't shock you, you haven't understood it". For this reason, the book ASCORBATE lists the essential experiments necessary to restore respectability to the scientific evaluation of vitamin C. If even a few of the hypotheses are confirmed, readers will understand why double Nobel Prize winner Dr Linus Pauling was prepared to stake his scientific reputation on ascorbate.

Excerpt:

"A large result was observed in a small group, indicating the possibility of a strong effect. Conversely, if you need a large group to demonstrate the effect, the result is probably less important, as it affects a small proportion of subjects or the consequence is weak. It is easy to see that an experiment with ten subjects is unlikely to give a positive result for a treatment that will cure only one patient in one hundred. With a small group of subjects, you will generally find only the larger effects. "

"Large-scale double-blind mega-studies are the current fashion in medicine. The assumption is made that by increasing the number of subjects, the work somehow becomes more valid. Regrettably, these studies are borderline science, as a large-scale study is difficult to repeat and replication is at the core of the scientific method. Of particular concern are those studies that are so expensive that only pharmaceutical companies are ever likely to perform them. The way studies are financed and the potential source of any experimental bias or error become more important with larger studies, as they are more difficult to replicate. Replication reduces the possibility of bias. A large-scale study giving positive results is less convincing than, say, three smaller, equally positive studies by independent researchers, in different institutions, separately funded and using dissimilar methods."




Hickey is now challenging authorities to explain or stand behind their previous work. The Hickey findings are surprising, and so far his effort is being ignored by the National Institutes of Health and the Linus Pauling Institute, and of course, the Media.

THE HICKEY LETTERS TO AUTHORITIES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE U.S. RDA




1949 - A YEAR IN MEDICINE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY....
 

During the 1950s isolated doctors around the world tried Klenners cure. Those who used vitamin C at doses below those recommended by Klenner reported no benefit; those who followed his dosages reported good results... Klenner: "To those who say that Polio is without cure, I say that they lie. Polio in the acute form can be cured in 96 hours or less. I beg of someone in authority to try it." - Robert Landwehr

Observations On the Dose and Administration of Ascorbic Acid When Employed Beyond the Range Of A Vitamin In Human Pathology By Fred Klenner, MD.

 

 

The Treatment of Poliomyelitis and Other Virus Diseases with Vitamin C

 




Super Health During Pregnancy and Childhood


Super Health for Children

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"Healthy babies don't cry. If your baby cries a lot, try supplementing vitamin C" - Owen Fonorow

Children Don't Have to Get Sick
 


PREMATURE BIRTH, LIFE-LONG DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS, LINKED TO LOW VITAMIN C LEVELS DURING PREGNANCY ...


Women who take multivitamins before becoming pregnant are less likely to give birth to premature babies ...




World Expert Robert Cathcart, III, MD


Ascorbic Acid Orally - NOT for IV!

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Levy's World Class Vitamin C Book

 
Vitamin C Book Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins
by Thomas Levy (Paperback - September 2002)

DOSE DEPENDENT, VITAMIN C CURES DEADLY INFECTIONS, NEUTRALIZES TOXINS...
 

Citing over 1,200 articles from scientific and medical journals around the world, Levy shows that many viral diseases such as polio, hepatitis, and encephalitis have been consistently cured by high doses of vitamin C given intravenously. While maintaining that lower doses of vitamin C taken by mouth may have little or no effect on many infections, Dr. Levy adds that high enough doses administered directly into the blood can demonstrate clinical effects that border on the unbelievable. He notes that large enough oral doses of vitamin C can prevent many infections, but intravenous dosing is often needed to cure infections already contracted.

READ LEVY VITAMIN C BOOK REVIEW BY A. SAUL
Without hedging, Dr. Levy explains why, even in his subtitle, he uses the word "cure" as boldly as Dr. Klenner ever did:
"It is completely appropriate to use the term "cure" when, in fact, the evidence demonstrates that a given medical condition has clearly and repeatedly been cured by a specific therapy. . . Avoiding the use of a term such as "cure" when it is absolutely appropriate does as much harm as using it inappropriately. Not realizing the incredible ability of vitamin C to cure a given infectious disease just perpetuates the usage of so many other needlessly applied toxic drugs and clinical protocols. If the shoe fits, wear it, and if the treatment works, proclaim it." (p 15)
And this is precisely what Dr. Levy does.
"Properly dosed vitamin C will reliably and quickly cure nearly all cases of acute polio and acute hepatitis. Polio babies are completely well in less than a week and hepatitis patients are sick for only a few days, not several months." (p 19)




WATCH DR. LEVY'S AMAZING VITAMIN C PRESENTATION [Part 1] and [Part 2]

 


THE SAFETY OF HIGH DOSES OF VITAMIN C...


LATEST VITAMIN C 'MIRACLE'. from Dr. Levy's Newsletter...
" I simply told her that this patient was nearly dead from pulmonary embolism, and the moment of death could occur at any time. She was not comatose, but she was very weak with very labored breathing. At any moment another blood clot could break away from her tender and swollen legs and she would be another victim of traditional medicine. She was on Coumadin and was well anticoagulated. " - Tom Levy






John Ely and the Glucose-Ascorbate Antagonism Theory
 
Ascorbic Acid and Glucose
"This man Ely is brilliant. After thirty years of trying, I finally get it."


Vitamin C and Some Other Modern Analogs of the Germ Theory...


On the Science of Essential Nutrients...


 

The (western diet) meals competitively inhibit insulin-mediated active transport of A A into these cells, resulting in low intracellular AA levels, low HMP shunt, and cell dysfunction (i.e., leukocytes don't attack tumors or pathogens, fetal cells divide too slowly, etc.); this is the "Antagonism"...

The GAA theory gives rise naturally to "Aggressive Glycemic Control" (AGC) as a modality that, properly used, appears to have much value against many disorders as stated above ." - Ralph Lotz

Vitamin C is transported into the cell by insulin. Vitamin C is a carbohydrate-like substance and is the missing stress hormone as explained by Stone. Below, BG = blood glucose: Glycemic Control.

Almost 2000 years ago in the time of Galen, it was observed that tumors grew poorly or not at all in underfed (i.e., low BG) animals. In 1972, Ely deduced and related to Linus Pauling a theoretical reason why clinical trials of AA against colds and cancer might fail because of the high BG levels in the affluent nations. The theory is relevant to aging, birth defects, cancer, cardiovascular disease (cvd), infections, etc.

It is called the "Glucose Ascorbate Antagonism" (GAA) and is important in the "small" dose range (AA~10g/d or less). It says that certain cell types such as leukocyte and fetal have intracellular AA levels that are "pumped up" largely by insulin ~50 times higher than serum AA levels in the surrounding blood. This occurs if BG is in the low range that was normal until the 1900's and is still seen today where the primitive (unrefined) diet prevails, i.e., 50-90 mg% two hours postprandial (Ely 1996; Chatterjee and Bannerjee, 1979, Table1). ...



Ely/Krone Essential Nutrient Theory (ENT) of Aging..




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Vitamin C for SARS
"Amazingly, vitamin C has actually already been documented in the medical literature to have readily and consistently cured both acute polio and acute hepatitis, two viral diseases still considered by modern medicine to be incurable." - Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD

Vitamin C has been known to cure over 30 major diseases for over 50 years...

" The enormous clinical usefulness of vitamin C remains little appreciated"...
 


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Irwin Stone's Entire Book Now Posted

Now Posted: Irwin Stone's 1972 book: The Healing Factor


Forewords by Linus Pauling and Albert Szent-Gyorgyi...

 

Excerpts

 

 


     
    IS VITAMIN C REALLY A VITAMIN?
    IRWIN STONE SAYS NO!

    After 40 years research, Irwin Stone unfolds his startling conclusion that an ancient genetic mutation has left the primate virtually alone among animals in not producing ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) in his own body. By treating it as a "minimum daily requirement" instead of the missing metabolite it really is, we are living in a state of sub-clinical scurvy whose symptoms have been attributed to other ailments. The answer is to change our thinking about Vitamin C and consume enough to replenish this long lost "healing factor." Stone illustrates, with massive documentation, Vitamin C's remarkable ability to fight disease, counteract the ill effects of pollution and prolong healthy life -- easily and inexpensively!
     


    "Roots" cover SCURVY, THE COSMIC CONNECTION


    "The atmosphere in those days was quite different from what it is today. The living process developed in an essentially oxygen-free atmosphere. Today the atmosphere contains about 20 percent oxygen, which is a by-product of the chemical reactions of photosynthesis. Early life forms produced so much oxygen that the atmosphere gradually changed from a reducing to an oxidizing one. This oxygen was toxic to living cells, creating the planet's first air-pollution crisis. The situation threatened to kill the living cells that had been so successful up to that point.

    Nature developed ascorbic acid to save the living process from extinction. This same procedure occurred many times in subsequent evolutionary crises, so that ascorbic acid became, in a sense, the favorite evolutionary life saver. "


    Eight Decades of Scurvy. The Case History of a Misleading Dietary Hypothesis...




     

    Vitamin C Journal: MEGASCORBATE THERAPIES On-line

     

    Read the non-profit VITAMIN C FOUNDATION new on-line publication: MEGASCORBATE THERAPIES: Vitamin C in Medicine.

    1. Free Version

    2. Updated Members Version

       


      What is Vitamin C?
       

      THE NOBEL PRIZE LECTURE ON VITAMIN C

       

      Our thanks to Vitamin C Foundation researcher Ralph Lotz for finding this reference.
       

      ASCORBATE WEB One of the largest collections of vitamin C research on the web.

      New Mega C Educational Web Site...
       

      Vitamin C Overview We've been asked to provide basic information to help students at various age levels.

      ANOTHER GOOD OVERVIEW OF STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION: Vitamin of the Month, Vitamin C...
       


      Nutrition Journal Article on Vitamin C
       

      Good overview. Excellent references. The authors make the common mistakes (e.g. they cites tissue saturation without explaining why animals produce so much more endogenous ascorbate past their own 'tissue saturation' levels, etc.).

      Vitamin C Content in Foods (Large file! Derived from the USDA database)

      Vitamine VITAMIN. THE EARLY YEARS OF DISCOVERY...


      Vitamin C: A Perspective on Scurvy (Another good overview)

      Vitamin C and Scurvy

      The New Definition of Scurvy...

      Eight Year old Daniel Crawford's Science Project Testing for Vitamin C in foods.

      Testing for Vitamin C Here is a test for the presence of Vitamin C in foods that students are using for science projects.

      The Last Interview Linus Pauling's final interview with the Journal of Optimum Nutrition in 1994.

      The genetic reason why we can't make our own vitamin C

      Vitamin C Study Abstracts Amazing findings from the latest studies.



      VITAMIN C IS NOT ALL THE SAME!...
       

      "The assumption the public is under is that vitamin C added as a supplement during the manufacture of any liquid is all beneficial; this is a myth. The facts are that adding vitamin C to drinks may constitute only 50-60% L, with the remainder being the D side. Although it is believed that the body discards the D side of vitamin C, further research needs to be undertaken to confirm this theory. It may be that is some individuals that an abundance of the D side of vitamin C could conceivably be detrimental to their optimal health." - Robert Mason, PhD


      . Karl Loren's Discussion: Synthetic Vitamin C Versus "Natural" Vitamin C...

      Dietary Supplement Information Bureau...




      New technology for vitamin C production may end Chinese monopoly...


      Vitamin C Toxicity...

      Flawed Orthodox Vitamin C Science used to Justify Codex...

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      Vitamin C in the News


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      1. HARVARD: "VITAMIN C 'ONLY SUBSTANCE OUT OF 880 TESTED' THAT TRANSFORMS MOUSE STEM CELLS INTO HEART MUSCLE CELLS"...
         
      2. 16-Year Harvard Study Finds Single Vitamin C Pill Would Save 300,000 Lives Annually...
        "The study published July 16, 2003 in CARDIOLOGY tracked more than 85,000 nurses over 16 years found that those taking vitamin C supplements (360 mg) had almost 30 percent lower risk of getting heart disease. The number of deaths from heart disease every year is estimated at 950,000.

        Interestingly, dietary intake of vitamin C seemed to have little effect on coronary heart disease risk. But if women used vitamin C supplements, their risk was reduced by 27 percent."

         
      3. John Hopkins University has now found that combining vitamin E and vitamin C supplements can dramatically reduce the risk of Alzheimer's ...
         
      4. Common Nutrients Fed To Pregnant Mice Lowered the Offspring's Susceptibility to Obesity, Diabetes and Cancer...
         
        "For the first time ever, we have shown precisely how nutritional supplementation to the mother can permanently alter gene expression in her offspring without altering the genes themselves."
      5. Vitamin C is Nature's Perfect Statin
         
      6. VITAMIN C REVERSES OSTEOPOROSIS IN MICE...
         
      7. STUDY LINKS LEAD EXPOSURE WITH 46% INCREASED RATE OF MORTALITY FROM ALL CAUSES - VITAMIN C CHELATES LEAD
        "Goyer and Cherian (1979) addressed the treatment of lead toxicity in rats. They found that orally administred vitamin C had a comparable ability to that of injected EDTA in the removal of lead from the animals, with equivalent amounts of lead being excreted in the urine. These researchers established that the combination of vitamin C and EDTA was more than twice as effective as either agent alone in the removal of lead" - Thomas Levy, MD,JD
         
      8. Ames: High Dose Vitamins can Treat more then 50 Genetic Disorders Common thread discovered.
         
      9. Vitamin C Does Not Cause Kidney Stones!!! Fourteen Year Study of 85,557 implicates low vitamin B6, exonorates Vitamin C.
         
      10. Why the Vitamin C Foundation Does Not Recommend Ester-C®
         

      Even More Vitamin C Foundation News

       

      1. READ the Bolen Report - Health and Freedom Newsletter. Updated daily.
         
      2. Vitamin A produces astonishing leukemia cure rate, even without chemotherapy...

         
      3. Pregnant women should take vitamin D supplements to protect their offspring from multiple sclerosis...

         
      4. How Vitamin C Fights Cancer...

         
      5. Vitamin C Effective Against Common Feminine Problem...

         
      6. Vitamin C treatment reduces transcapillary escape rate of albumin in type 1 diabetes...

         
      7. Alternative Medicine: Fortifying Yourself with Vitamin C...

         
      8. Breakthrough in Vitamin C synthesis...Just in time?

         
      9. Vitamin C Deficiency, Iron Overload and Alcohol Abuse Underlie the Severe Osteoporosis in Black African Patients with Hip Fractures ...

         
      10. Ascorbic acid recycling by cultured beta cells: effects of increased glucose metabolism...

         
      11. Suppository chelation therapy (+vitamin C/lysine and other support) reverses calcification in coronary artery disease ...

         
      12. Topically applied vitamin C increases the density of dermal papillae in aged human skin...

         
      13. Requirement and criteria of adequate vitamin supply in healthy newborns...

         
      14. Production of L-Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C) by Metabolically Engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Zygosaccharomyces bailii...

         
      15. Lack of Vitamin C Linked to Respiratory Disorders...

         
      16. Using Vitamin C Topically to Protect from UV Light...

         
      17. Relation Between Serum Lipoprotein (a) and Residual Lesion Stenosis of Coronary Artery After Myocardial Infarction Without Reperfusion Therapy... [PubMed]

         
      18. Study Shows Vitamins C And E Can Prevent Metabolic Damage In Extreme Exercise

         
      19. Concern Unfounded About Damage From Vitamin C...

         
      20. Mercury From Dental Amalgams is the Cause of 80-90% of Alzheimer's - John Ely, Ph.D.

        MERCURY TOXICITY & DISEASES, ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, DEMENTIA

         
      21. There is a possible role for vitamin K2 in the prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma in women with viral cirrhosis...

         
      22. Arizona State University Researchers Find Scurvy Is Serious Health Problem ...

         
      23. Combination of TRISENOX(R), Vitamin C and Low-Dose Melphalan Produces 54 Percent Objective Response Rate in Late-Stage Multiple Myeloma Patients...

         
      24. Improved nutrition could prevent more than half of the world's child deaths...

         
      25. Subjects with the lowest alpha-carotene, beta-carotene and lycopene levels had the highest risk of ischemic stroke...

         
      26. Study: Supplements Halt Progression of Early Coronary Atherosclerosis Documented by Ultrafast Computed Tomography...

      27. EXERCISE FAILS TO SLOW ATHEROSCLEROSIS PROGRESSION IN MEN TAKING STATINS...

         
      28. High antioxidant vitamin intakes reduce adverse effects of chemotherapy in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia...

         
      29. Iodine deficiency causes permanent brain damage ...

         
      30. CARDIOLOGISTS OVERLOOK LIFESAVING CO-Q10 DISCOVERIES...

         
      31. Antioxidants prevent birth defects...

         
      32. Infantile Scurvy Rate of childhood strokes has doubled: study...

         
      33. Nobelist Ignarro USC study finds supplements may prevent atherosclerosis ...

         
      34. Reevaluation of ascorbate (Vitamin C) in Cancer Treatment...

         
      35. Manipulation of L-ascorbic acid (LAA) to extremes in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemi...

         
      36. Intragenic deletion in the gene encoding L-gulonolactone oxidase causes vitamin C deficiency in pigs...

         
      37. How Vitamin C Is Administered Affects How Much Reaches the Bloodstream and May Affect the Results of Studies of Its Potential Effect on Cancer ...

      38. Vitamin C reduces levels of C-reactive protein...

         
      39. Influence of maternal serum levels of vitamins C and E during the second trimester on birth weight and length...

         
      40. Vitamin C: basic metabolism and its function as an index of oxidative stress...

         
      41. The protective effects of ascorbic acid on arterial haemodynamics during acute hyperglycaemia...

         
      42. Pernicious anemia: presentations mimicking acute leukemia...

         
      43. Frequent sex helps prevent prostate cancer...

         
      44. Boosting vitamin D levels may help prevent breast cancer, study suggests...

         
      45. Zinc supplements could help treat ADHD...

         
      46. Effect of ascorbic acid on plasma cholesterol in humans in a long-term experiment...

         
      47. Vitamin C Pharmacokinetics: Implications for Oral and Intravenous Use

         
      48. Vitamin D Lowers Risk of Multiple Sclerosis

         
      49. Taking a folic acid supplement stops the onset of migraines...

         
      50. Vitamins reduce risk for congenital anomalies other than neural tube defects...

         
      51. Is Low Dietary Intake of Omega-3 Fatty Acids Associated With Depression? ..

         
      52. Zinc speeds recovery from pneumonia in boys...

         
      53. Reduced vitamin B12 levels correlate with poor memory in those at risk for Alzheimer's disease...

         
      54. In the present study, we demonstrate for the first time that there is a significant increase in ATP synthetic capacity in lymphocytes from patients undergoing CoQ10 treatment...

         
      55. Vitamin C and selenium reduce alcohol induced hyperlipidemia in male guinea pigs...

         
      56. Medicine in the USA Kills Almost 1 Million Yearly... "Recent attacks aimed at natural medicine prompted an independent review of government-approved medicine, which revealed that conventional medicine was the leading cause of death in the United States.

        This review of government health statistics showed that in most cases, American medicine does more harm than good. Compelling evidence from this study unveiled astounding statistics on the 783,936 deaths per year that have resulted from conventional medicine."

         

      57. Paracetamol linked to asthma... Women who took the drug for more than 14 days per mo nth were 63% more likely to develop asthma

         
      58. Combination therapy with vitamins C plus E inhibits human prostate cancer cell growth...

         
      59. Antioxidant intervention blunts renal injury ...

         
      60. Vitamins C & E Cut ICU Deaths in Half...

         
      61. Vitamin E useful in the management of transfusio n-dependant Ebeta- and beta-thalassemia patients...

         
      62. Nutritional Supplements Historical Background...

         
      63. Early Vitamin E Supplements Stem Development Of Hallmark Alzheimer's Symptoms In Mice...

         
      64. Vitamin E Cuts Bladder Cancer Risk by 50%...

         
      65. Even low dosage antioxidants shown to have "significant" benefit in diabetics...

         
      66. Brain needs more vitamin C than any other part of the body...

         
      67. Vitamin deficiency of the B vitamins, vitamin E and even vitamin C, can adversely affect your memory...

         
      68. Millions not getting key vitamins leading to diminished brain power...

         
      69. Vitamin C treats Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), the most common inherited peripheral neuropathy...

         
      70. New tumor cell strategy uses altered vitamin B-12 ...

         
      71. Vitamin C Research: 'Important New Treatment of Respiratory Disorders'...

         
      72. Lowered plasma vitamin C, but not vitamin E, concentrations in dementia patients...

         
      73. CLINICAL TRIAL: 5% VITAMIN C TOPICALLY IS AN EFFECTIVE SKIN ANTI-AGING/ANTI-WRINKLE TREATMENT...

         
      74. NUTRIENT CHOLINE DURING PREGNANCY 'SUPER-CHARGES' CHILD'S BRAIN FOR LIFE...

         
      75. Inhibition of liver cancer cell proliferation and migration with ascorbic acid (vitamin C)...

         
      76.   Influence of l-arginine and vitamin C on the autonomic nervous system in chronic heart failure secondary to ischemic cardiomyopathy...

         
      77. Even 'vitamin-like' supplementation with combination of vitamin E and vitamin C slows atherosclerosis...

         
      78. U.N. Researchers said they could predict 62 percent of heart disease deaths by looking at blood levels of vitamin E...

         
      79. BASAL CARCINOMA CURE (skin cancer) - VITAMIN C SOLUTION...

         
      80. Reducing TB With Light...

         
      81. Vitamin E reduces muscle soreness...

         
      82. IRON DEFICIENCY LEADS TO HAIR LOSS...

         
      83. Topical vitamin C is the latest rage in anti-wrinkle products...

         
      84. Opposition to naming a middle school after Linus Pauling...

         
      85. Bones of St. Croix Island tell tale of suffering at Champlain settlement...An archeologist says many of the bones recovered on the island, now an international historic site, bear the unmistakable scars of scurvy, a fatal condition caused by lack of vitamin C in the diet.

         
      86. Vitamin C inhibits HMG-CoA reductase in humans...

         
      87. A Simple Preventive and Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)...

         
      88. Vitamin C helps neutralize toxins in CA state park...
        "Once again, the Berkeley Skate Park is ailing, and the cure could be something that's in everyone's medicine cabinet -- vitamin C. Marc Seleznow, acting director of Berkeley's Parks, Recreation and Waterfront Commission, said vitamin C helps neutralize the toxic substance chrome 6, which was first detected at the park at Fifth and Harrison streets near Interstate 80 three years ago. Vitamin C, technically known as absorbic acid, is sprayed into cracks and brushed in, he said. "

         
      89. Genotoxic effects of a complex mixture adsorbed onto ambient air particles on human cells in vitro; the effects of Vitamins E and C...

         
      90. Effect of ascorbate on serum lipids and urate metabolism during exhaustive training...

         
      91. Vitamin C prevents cigarette smoke-induced oxidative damage in vivo...

         
      92. Some swear by intravenous vitamin therapy...  (Link to the 'Myers Cokctail')

         
      93. Scurvy in children...

         
      94. Research: Vitamin E, vitamin C improves fibrosis...
         
      95. Vitamin A cures lung disease emphysem in mice...
         
      96. A form of vitamin D combined with radiation treatment can reduce breast cancer tumors by about 50% more than radiation alone...
         
      97. Vitamin C pills protect the heart...
         
      98. A diet rich in Vitamin C can help lower the risk of stroke...
         
      99. Vitamin C reduces allergy symptoms...
         
      100. VITAMIN C HALTS STOMACH AILMENTS...
         
      101. Improvement of peripheral endothelial dysfunction by acute vitamin C application...
         
      102. PRECURSOR TO HEART DISEASE - OXIDATIVE ARTERIOLAR WALL SHEAR STRESS - IS PREVENTED BY CHRONIC VITAMIN-C TREATMENT...
         
      103. LOW PLASMA VITAMIN C IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RISK OF STROKE...
         
      104. LONG-TERM USE OF VITAMIN C AND E SUPPLEMENTS HELP TO MAINTAIN COGNITIVE FUNCTION...
         
      105. "A study done on 1,000 Finnish men demonstrated that men with low vitamin E levels in their serum were almost 400 percent more vulnerable to develop diabetes."
         
      106. Elderly falls linked to vitamin-D deficiency ...
         
      107. The Use of Vitamin C as an Adjuvant Therapy to Recombinant Human Erythropoietin in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease...
         
      108. Autoschizis: How vitamins C and K3 kill cancer cells...
         
      109. More on vitamin induced autoschizis for prostate cancer...
         
      110. Vitamin C and Vitamin E in Prevention of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease ...
         
      111. Therapeutic efficacy of high-dose vitamin C on acute pancreatitis and its potential mechanisms...
         
      112. High Doses of Antioxidants Including Vitamin C Do Not Decrease the Efficacy of Chemotherapy...
         
      113. Ascorbic Acid: a promising memory-enhancer in mice...
         
      114. UK: New Treatment for Osteoporosis Found, 20,000 mg vitamin C...
         
      115. Protective effect of vitamin C against the ethanol mediated toxic effects on human brain glial cells....
         
      116. Low vitamin C linked to stomach cancer...
         
      117. Top 10 Vitamins for better health...
         
      118. Vitamin C treatment reduces Huntington disease symptoms in mice ...
         
      119. Antioxidant Vitamins C and E Prevent Certain Complications of Surgery...
         
      120. Serum concentration of lipoprotein(a) decreases on treatment with hydrosoluble coenzyme Q10 in patients with coronary artery disease: discovery of a new role...
         
      121. THE CANCER COVER-UP...
         
      122. Antioxidant Vitamins C and E Improve Endothelial Function in Children With Hyperlipidemia...
         
      123. Role of ascorbic acid in the modulation of inhibition of platelet aggregation by polymorphonuclear leukocytes...
         
      124. The Effect of Ascorbate on Serum Lipids and Urate Metabolism During Exhaustive Training
         
      125. Exercise-induced endotoxemia: the effect of ascorbic acid supplementation
         
      126. Role of ascorbate in oxidative protein folding
         
      127. Plasma Vitamin C is associated with grey matter volume determined by MRI in non-demented old people...
         
      128. Vitamin Cuts Second-hand Smoke Damage...
         
      129. Effects of high dose vitamin C treatment on Helicobacter pylori infection and total vitamin C concentration in gastric juice...
         
      130. Harvard: Vitamin C Reduces Risk of Heart Disease...
         
      131. Correlation Between Helicobacter pylori Infection and Vitamin C Levels in Whole Blood, Plasma, and Gastric Juice, and the pH of Gastric Juice...
         
      132. The effect of 5-year vitamin C supplementation on serum pepsinogen level and Helicobacter pylori infection...
         
      133. Topical ascorbic acid (vitamin C) on photoaged skin...
         
      134. Vitamin C treatment attenuates the Huntington behavioral phenotype in mice...
         
      135. Magnesium supplementation decreases oxidative stress in diabetic rats ...
         
      136. Low vitamin C increases the risks of developing inflammatory arthritis...
         
      137. Vitamin K can lessen bruising...
         
      138. MECHANISM OF ACTION FOUND FOR VITAMIN C AGAINST CANCER...
         
      139. Vitamin C helps drugs cross blood brain barrier...
         
      140. Vitamin C Transforms Mouse Stem Cells Into Heart Muscle Cells...
         
      141. Vitamin C Boosts Immune System in as Little as 5 hours.
         
      142. Independent consumer lab rates vitamin C products, quality improving...
         
      143. The definitive scientific evidence demonstrating the efficacy and safety of Vitamin C for cancer treatment
         
      144. Hypothesis: vitamin C is superior to diltiazem for radial artery vasodilation in patients awaiting coronary artery bypass grafting
         
      145. BULLETIN: Researchers admit vitamin C/E data does not support claim that these antioxidants increase mortality...
         
      146. MORE BAD SCIENCE: Bogus study makes news... Why and where do such false reports come from?
         
      147. Novel Vitamin C use High-dose ascorbic acid increases intercourse frequency and improves mood: a randomized controlled clinical trial.
      148. JAMA study inadvertantly proves Vitamin C and Magnesium benefits for cardiovascular patients... and More on the questionable use of placebos in medical trials...
      149. Vitamin C treatment for snake bites in dogs...
      150. Multivitamins 'cut birth defects' BBC
      151. Reevaluation of ascorbate in cancer treatment recommended "We propose that ascorbate treatment of cancer should be reexamined with rigorous scientific scrutiny in the light of new evidence."
      152. Effects of oral vitamin C on monocyte: endothelial cell adhesion in healthy subjects
      153. Even mild vitamin C deficiency impairs vascular function...
      154. Plasma Vitamin C Modifies the Association Between Hypertension and Risk of Stroke.
      155. Vitamin C prevents hyperoxia-mediated vasoconstriction and impairment of endothelium-dependent vasodilation.
      156. Low vitamin C consumption may be linked to a serious complication of pregnancy called pre-eclampsia
      157. Low VITAMIN C more than doubles stroke risk
      158. Vitamin C benefits in Heart Disease after high fat meals
      159. Study links low vitamin C levels to heart attack and stroke
      160. New Study: Vitamin C Beneficial for Lung Health
      161. Taking vitamins C and E could slow the progress of a potentially fatal cardiovascular condition in heart transplant patients, scientists suggest.
      162. Vitamin C Proven to Prevent Gallstones
      163. Fourteen Year Study of 85,557 Confirms Vitamin C Does Not Cause Kidney Stones!!!
      164. Vitamins Reduce Pregnancy Danger Pregnant women at risk of the potentially deadly condition pre-eclampsia appear to benefit from doses of vitamins C and E, research says.
      165. Proposed laws supported by pharmaceutical companies would severely restrict the public's access to vitamins To date 604 million Europeans have signed the largest global on-line petition ever.
      166. Vitamin C Transporter Gene Discovery In Mice Suggests Possible Role for Ascorbic Acid in Preventing Life-threatening Complications Seen in Premature Infants NIH National Genome Research Institute: "Low Vitamin C Could Be Linked to Massive Brain Bleeding and Lung Failure in Premature Newborns."
      167. More then 50 genetic disorders now understood that can be successfully treated with high-dose vitamins" Bruce Ames in Amer. J. of Clinical Nutrition.
      168. Hemorrhage associated with vitamin C deficiency in surgical patients Show this paper to your doctor before scheduled surgery.
      169. Study confirms that circulating vitamin C levels differ from tissue levels.
      170. Long-term study shows safety of daily high-dose vitamin A. No clinical symptoms or signs of liver toxicity attributable to vitamin A excess were detected. Five to seven years.

         

        **** Vitamin A a medical Erroneous zone by Don Davis, an associate of the late Roger J. Williams.

      171. Vitamin C Cancer Benefits Amazing anecdotal report.
      172. Study claims that the vitamin C content of popular ready-to-drink brands of orange juice can drop from 45 mg per cup to zero within four weeks after opening
      173. More vitamin C and beta-carotene, less meat, means longer life for smokers
      174. Sloan-Kettering Admits Vitamin C PROTECTS Against DNA Damage
      175. New Study: Vitamin C and Vitamin E Prevent Atherosclersosis
      176. Vitamin C, H. Pylori and stomach cancer
      177. Explaining Just How Vitamin C Works Against Cancer
      178. Adding Vitamin C to some Drugs May help Alzheimers Patients
      179. Vitamin C Found To Inhibit Congestive Heart Failure
      180. Vitamin C Cuts Cold Symptoms 85%
      181. Read the Debate on whether Garlic provides anti-bacterial protection against Anthrax! This is the way science is supposed to work.
      182. Animal-Based Nutrients Linked With Higher Risk Of Stomach And Esophageal Cancers Vitamin C supplements reduce stomach cancer by 40% "We also found that regular users of vitamin C supplements were at significantly lower risk of stomach cancer"
      183. High dose Vitamin C and Iron does NOT damage DNA Says recent study that was designed to find out.
      184. Vitamin C and Vitamin K3 Treatment for Cancer The cancer cells die in a way unlike apoptosis or necrosis
      185. Vitamin C Derivative Prevents Stroke Damage in Mice
      186. STUDY MIS-CHARACTERIZES ROLE OF ANTIOXIDANTS IN BLOOD VESSEL DISEASE
      187. Are Vitamin C and Vitamin E Bad for Heart Patients? Who should we believe: August 8th news report, or Linus Pauling?
      188. Vitamin C T-Shirts from Japan
      189. Protective action of vitamin C against DNA damage induced by selenium-cisplatin conjugate.
      190. Comparison of nitric oxide-releasing NSAID and vitamin C with classic NSAID in healing of chronic gastric ulcers
      191. Cambridge Medical School Researchers Report (Mar 2001): Even Miniscule Increases in Blood Vitamin C Levels Result in Great Decreases in Death from All Conditions Two recent independent studies give similar results, yet these peer-reviewed, published papers did not make news!?
      192. Vitamins Prevent Stomach CancerNotice that some participants received 2,000 milligrams per day of vitamin C, the same "mega-doses" that just last year we were warned might cause tumors to grow explosively. In reality, they made these pre-cancerous stomach lesions shrink.
      193. Is Vitamin C Risky? plus our rebuttal to recent Media terror attacks.
      194. Young having more Heart Attacks. Pauling explained why Children need more vitamin C.
      195. Headline: New life for vitamin C as cancer treatment: Articles say early studies of its value were prejudiced
      196. Vitamin C May Prevent Coronary Artery Disease (Feb 01)
      197. FDA attempting to regulate maximum vitamin limits (Dec 00)
      198. Genetically engineered mice implicate vitamin C deficiency in heart disease More evidence supporting the Pauling/Rath heart disease theory.
      199. Doctors strike In Israel good for health The real story behind the new wave of prescription drug advertising.
      200. Life Extension doctors check USC "artery clogging" results LEF scientists look for carotid artery thickening in high-dose vitamin C users - and fail!
        "The results of The Life Extension Foundation's four-pronged carotid ultrasound test showed that in 23 out of 30 of these very high vitamin C supplement takers, there was no evidence of carotid plaque formation, obstruction (stenosis) or intimamedia thickening. Blood flow velocity through the carotids was completely normal in these 23 subjects.

        "If we had set a cutoff of 60 years of age as the American Heart Association did, we would have found that none of our test subjects would have shown clinically significant carotid artery pathology. In other words, had we used the same narrow parameters (under age 60) that were presented at the American Heart Association meeting, we would have had no carotid artery pathology to report in this group of people who take very high doses of supplements."

      201. Is vitamin C Risky? Politics versus Science. The new RDA ignores the science.
      202. ``A crime against our society'' Lawsuit to be Filed Against National Academy of Sciences Jay Patrick charges US National Academy of Science with "absolute falsehoods" regarding the use of high intakes of vitamin C, vitamin E and selenium.
      203. RDA Increased! [Editorial] Bowing to public pressure, the National Academy of Sciences has increased the Vitamin C Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) by 50% from 60 mg to 75-90 mg, more for smokers. RDA for vitamin E also raised. [RDA Press Release]
      204. Liver Detoxification Vitamin C countered Tylenol poisoning.
      205. Low Vitamin C Levels Linked to Increase in Gallbladder Disease Large study confirms 1950s research.
      206. Vitamin C, E Protect the Aging Brain Elderly men who took vitamin E and C supplements were protected from dementia and showed improvements in cognitive function.
      207. Oral vitamin C supplementation proven to benefit arteries. Researchers say ascorbate may be an effective therapy in cardiovascular disease.
      208. Vitamin C with vitamin K3 causes "new kind" of cancer cell death. from Ralph Moss's cancerdecisions.com
      209. Vitamin C lowers lead levels in blood. Especially in children.
      210. JAMA and others urge increase in RDA of vitamin C
      211. NIH Team: Vitamin C could be an approach to tackling antibiotic resistant bacteria
      212. Antioxidant Vitamin C helps heart and circulation by enhancing cell production of nitric oxide (NO) a free radical!
      213. Vitamin C may reduce risk of cataract development
      214. New research on vitamin C and tooth decay supports decades old reports that 6 gm vitamin C provides 100% protection against tooth cavities.
      215. Vitamin C a polio cure. Note: This paper was published in 1949!
      216. The Linus Pauling/Matthias Rath Unified Theory of Human Cardiovascular Disease On-line paper published in the J. of Orthomolecular Medicine.
      217. The early Willis vitamin C and atherosclersosis studies

         

        Other News

      218. How did Flu Remedy Relenza make it past the FDA? From Newsmax.com
      219. Feds want Big Brother (aka FDA) to regulate internet
      220. Evidence of Research Fraud in Magnesium Study
      221. Vitamin E Safe, Contrary to Recent Press Reports
      222. Finnish Beta Carotene Study - The Untold Story
      223. Selenium Protects Against Prostate Cancer Large Study shows major benefit of Selenium
      224. Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy
        "THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE ANTI-AGING STRATEGY IS TO TAKE A SPECTRUM OF HIGH POTENCY VITAMINS, MINERALS, AND TRACE ELEMENTS, INCLUDING THE ANTI-OXIDANTS. RECENT MEDICAL RESEARCH IN MAINSTREAM JOURNALS DOCUMENTS CLOSE TO 50% REDUCTION IN CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE BY MERELY TAKING SUPPLEMENTS FAR MORE POTENT THAT THE RDAs. SINCE CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE CAUSE 75% OF DEATHS AND DISABILITIES WITH AGING, THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT. AGING CAN TO SOME EXTENT BE LOOKED ON AS A DEFICIENCY OF MICRONUTRIENTS." [Dr. Elmore Cranton]
      225. Discovery: New DNA type that conforms to the "incorrect" Pauling triple-strand model
      226. JAMA Androstenedione study - a critique
      227. Fresh Fields aka Whole Foods Market, Inc., buys Vitamin C Books from Foundation, but refuses to pay!!

       

      Quotable JAMA Quote:

      "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"
      [M. Levine, et al, JAMA, April 21, 1999-Vol 281, No. 15 p. 1419]

       

      Ascorbate Contingency? Jurassic Park introduced the so-called "lysine contingency" to control the dinosaur. Did our creators genetically engineer our dependence on ascorbic acid?

      More Vitamin C Research from the Life Extension Foundation

      Are You Making A Presentation on Vitamin C?

      Dr. Cathcart's Slides from his recent talk in Copenhagen

      From Medical Tribune

      ‘C’ Is For Crucial Vitamin C is the most important water-soluble nutrient, by Ross Pelton.

       

      PROPAGANDA WARNING: The Media is spreading False Information about Vitamin C and other antioxidants. Read our rebuttals and some ideas about who might be pulling the strings HERE

      Recent Media Onslaught -- Vitamin C Attacked!

      "Policital Dimension of DNA Damage: The helpful voice of Victor Herbert, M.D., was added to those of the researchers at Leicester University where the study was done. For those unfamiliar with Dr. Herbert, he is a notorious quack-buster, fostering vehement anti-vitamin rhetoric in the United States about any danger - real or perceived - from dietary supplements. The eminent Dr. Herbert's involvement suggests that there may be an overt political agenda behind the publicity. In other words, why would a relatively obscure indeterminate finding generate such massive world-wide publicity?" [S. W. Fowkes]

       

       

      There is a long history to these attacks..

      According to Stephen Jeffrey, DDS,
      "The ongoing effort to discredit vitamin C began in the 1940s after it was shown to have anti-viral and antitoxic properties. Certain members of the pharmaceutical/medical complex, after first promoting vitamin C as a treatment for fevers and infections, realized that widespread use of this non prescription substance would cancel the need for developing a lucrative prescription anti viral drug market.

      For this reason, all the scientific trials which have not shown vitamin C to be of any benefit against viral attacks either shorted the recommended dose or altered the recommended treatment procedure. Anyone who knows that vitamin C has been blatantly discredited in this manner should be ashamed to speak of ethics in order to forestall a proper evaluation of the vitamin's therapeutic potential."

      a[Initial response to the unsubstantiated AP report that vitamin C hardens arteries]
      and a [Vitamin C and collagen] tutorial.

      A Critique: The Mark Levine Vitamin C paper in April 1999 JAMA

      "Andrew Weil: there's now evidence that 200 to 500 mg vit C a day is more than enough to saturate the body's tissues."...

      A common mistake is to assume that tissue or blood serum "saturation" indicates the optimal vitamin C intake. The focus on ascorbate tissue levels and maximum blood concentrations misses the point -- a point that Linus Pauling made often -- ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is transformed or destroyed as the body uses it for a wide variety of metabolic functions. For example, vitamin C is destroyed during the production of the most abundant protein in the human body: collagen. Tissue saturation is just the starting point for many pathways that are not otherwise activated. Cathcart's bowel tolerance seems to be better measure of each individual's optimal vitamin C intake. As the body needs more of the vitamin, it absorbs more. [Owen Fonorow]

      Scott Roberts on the tissue saturation issue: A critique of the recent Levine, et. al., JAMA article.

      Christian Viewpoint on Vitamin C

      "This claim that C destroys DNA; well, this is simply nonsense. The people who made this study better read their test tubes a little more carefully because there is a Grand Canyon of illogic behind that thinking. [Steve Coffman]

      Steve Coffman's column includes his thoughts about alleged DNA Damage, concerns about eye floaters, and natural versus synthetic vitamin c.

       

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