Ohio to Begin Meningitis Shots

• Great. but best not to take immunizations when you are sick like with a cold.  In any event take large doses of ascorbic acid orally when you receive an immunization.

One dead, at least three others are infected with meningitis

• It does not matter what causes the free radicals, intravenous sodium ascorbate in adequate amounts will neutralize those free radicals.

Massive rise in lethal form of meningitis

• This disease is made more deadly because of the "acute induced scurvy" involved.  This means that intravenous sodium ascorbate and later bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid should be administered along with the appropriate antibiotic.  Not only does the ascorbate broaden the spectrum of activity of the antibiotics against bacteria and works synergistically with the antibiotic, but it avoids allergic reactions to the antibiotic.  The susceptibility of sick people to allergic reactions is because of the up-regulation of the immune system while you are sick.  This up-regulation is caused by free radicals.  If the free radicals are neutralized by massive doses of ascorbate, the immune system, as far as allergic reactions are concerned, is down-regulated so that allergic reactions to the antibiotics do not occur.  However, unlike steroids that universally down-regulate the immune system, ascorbate up-regulates the ability of white cells to kill viruses and bacteria.

The incidence of meningitis "surges" after the flu because the acute induced scurvy induced by the flu decreases the ability of the body to fight off the meningitis bacteria.

Meningitis Campaign: Too Much For Too Few?

• This article is interesting because it is cost accounting the value of human lives.  It is ironic in that a disease that can be treated with intravenous sodium ascorbate in combination with the appropriate antibiotics is being considered too expensive to vaccinate against because more die of road accidents, suicides, and AIDS.  Ok, but when a case of meningitis occurs, why not treat it with ascorbate?  There have to be some hidden costs of treating with ascorbate for them not to use it.  Cannot we see around the possible profit to a drug company.   Would it be so terrible to treat the dying cases with ascorbate.  OK, OK, if you cured a case of meningitis with IVC, it might occur to a child that IVC might cure a lot of other things, so I guess we have to accept these deaths.  Too bad.

The Plague Dogs: The Black Death Is Decimating Montana Prairie Dogs

• This disease involves free radicals. Therefore, massive doses of ascorbate would ameliorate the disease.  During the acute phase of the disease sodium ascorbate intravenously would markedly decrease the symptoms.  The appropriate antibiotics should be utilized.   The ascorbate will eliminate allergic reactions to the antibiotics.  Later, maintenance bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid should be utilized.

Army Asked To Fight Mosquito Virus

• By using intravenous sodium ascorbate properly, the death rate from this virus would drop to almost zero.

U.S. totally unprepared for bioterrorism

• The Defense Department should really learn how to use massive doses of ascorbate.  It would certainly be of help in some of these circumstances described.

Mosquitoes Are Not Only A Pest But A Huge
Health Threat

• I do not have experience with malaria but massive doses of ascorbate are bound to ameliorate the disease.  It might be that with malaria, the use of massive doses of ascorbate would broad the spectrum of activity of the appropriate antibiotics as it does with resistant bacterial diseases.  I do have the experience to say that massive doses of ascorbate will cure acute self-limiting viral diseases.  Ascorbate in massive doses will cure or ameliorate a disease in proportion to how important free radicals are in the perpetuation or symptoms of the disease.  The secret of the massive doses is that we are throwing away the vitamin C for the electrons carried by the vitamin C.  We are wasting much of the vitamin C for the electrons carried.   When free radicals are surrounded by a sufficient reducing redox potential (free electrons), they are neutralized.  This is a matter of chemistry.  It always works.

US facing 'silent epidemic' of hepatitis C

• Since acute hepatitis A, B, C, etc., is easily cured with massive doses of ascorbate, intravenously and with follow-up with oral ascorbic acid, it is tragic that it is not properly utilized.  Hepatitis C is a special problem because only about a quarter of cases present as acute (when it would be easily cured).  Chronic hepatitis C is more of a problem, however with massive doses of ascorbic acid orally, a no sugar diet, vitamin E, selenium, silymarin, and alpha lipoic acid among other nutrients, I have never seen a case to go onto acute hepatic necrosis or cancer of the liver.

Explanation of how Massive Doses of Ascorbate Cure Acute Viral Diseases from Colds to Polio and Lassa Fever, Etc., Distemper and Kennel Fever

Staph bug grows drug resistant

New Type of Drug-Resistant Bacteria Reaches England

• If massive doses of sodium ascorbate are used intravenously, it will invariably prevent free radical deaths and ameliorate or cure  the disease.  What is important in this case is that massive doses of ascorbate vastly broadens the spectrum of activity of antibiotics while preventing allergic reactions to those same antibiotics.  By neutralizing the free radicals in the tissues involved in the disease, swelling which cuts down on circulation allows better penetration of the antibiotic but more importantly reverses the acute induced scurvy in the involved tissues so that the patients own white cells can resume fighting the infection effectively. 

Mystery Fever Hits British Troops

• It does not matter what the cause of the fever is, if massive doses of sodium ascorbate are used intravenously, it will invariably prevent free radical deaths and ameliorate or cure  the disease.  The ascorbate should be started even before the definitive diagnosis is made.  If after the definitive diagnosis is made there is anything left of the disease (it is likely to have been cured by this time) then the standard treatment can be added to the ascorbate treatment.  The ascorbate would even block any allergic reactions to any necessary antibiotics.  Let's see if the British value their soldiers more than the profits of the drug companies.  I will not hold my breath but if anyone wants to consult on this, I am available to allied military.

Scientists identify virus afflicting British
troops in Afghanistan

• So, the organism has been identifies as a virus.  This means that antibiotics will do no good.  Believe me, it would be cheaper to give these men a couple of days of intravenous sodium ascorbate in a field hospital than to ship them out somewhere.  Their recovery would be very rapid and reliable.  But they will use drugs, after all this is the point, sell drugs.

Girl dies of rare virus; 2 other deaths probed: Disease believed to be spread by rodents

• So here is one of these diseases that kill by overwhelming the victim with free radicals. Now it is here in California. What harm could there possibly be in neutralizing all those free radicals with massive doses of ascorbate?   IVC followed by bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid by mouth would be obviously beneficial.

A pilot study to ascertain carotid artery status in high potency vitamin C supplement takers

Aortic wall damage in mice unable to synthesize ascorbic acid

• Hopefully, these mice that do not make ascorbate will help some "scientists" understand the use of massive doses of ascorbate.  If what we already know works in humans (anecdotal evidence) can be made to work in mice, THAT IS SCIENCE.

Virus Found In Mosquitoes, NYC Birds

• Are we going to go through another season of people dying of a disease that could certainly be ameliorated by massive doses of ascorbic acid by mouth and, where necessary, intravenous sodium ascorbate?

Researchers Identify Killer Virus

• Note that in this disease animals usually survive where 40% of humans die.  The animals, of course, have sense enough to make ascorbate in large amounts.  Humans cannot  make ascorbate in their bodies but can make it in their chemical plants but so far most lack the intelligence to take it in large amounts necessary to cure diseases such as this..

Hospitals told to make emergency plans to cope with biological terrorism attacks

• While this report is about the danger in the UK it is concluded that the danger is greater in the U.S.  I can guarantee that if physicians would learn how to use massive doses of ascorbate, the deaths and injuries from such an attack would be less.

Aid worker with suspected Lassa fever is critical

• The question is whether his doctors will give intravenous C and whether, if others in the hospital start dying, will they be given intravenous C.  Will they allow the acute induced scurvy kill him?

If virus resurfaces, threat could grow, entomologist says

REPORT: Almost 2,000 people may have been infected with the West Nile virus in New York City...

Return of the killer virus that spread terror in New York

• Here it comes again.  Will they use adequate doses of sodium ascorbate intravenously this time to cure the acute induced scurvy that makes the disease frequently fatal.  By adequate doses of sodium ascorbate, I mean around 180 Grams of sodium ascorbate intravenously every 24 hours until the patient is well.   Low doses will not work except if they use low doses and it fails, the study would be a publishable paper.  The high, adequate doses in the past have not been publishable but maybe one of these years..........  The reason it takes such huge doses is that the massive amounts of free radicals made by these diseases that cause acute induced systemic scurvy are so great that it takes massive doses of ascorbate at a rapid rate to neutralize the free radicals being produced at a rapid rate.  Small doses will not accomplish this.  Why is that so difficult to understand?

Massachusetts on mosquito alert

• The question is whether they will let the West Nile encephalitis kill anyone or will they use intravenous C on their patients before the acute induced scurvy kills them?  How long will it be before the public learns that acute self-limiting viral diseases, even polio, can be cured with intravenous vitamin C.  Even in bacterial diseases and parasitic diseases, intravenous vitamin C, in these cases along with the appropriate antibiotic, will prevent the deaths by acute induced scurvy.  When a patient shows up with a high fever and is in danger of dying, intravenous vitamin C should be started even before what the organism is, is discovered. The intravenous C will broaden the spectrum of activity of the antibiotic and also prevent allergic reactions to the antibiotic.

The Clogging of the Carotids with 500 mg/day Doses of Vitamin C.  (See toward the end of this site under another point of view.)

Comments on NEWS coverage on all this.

West Nile virus RNA found in New York mosquitoes

• When the first patients come in ill with this disease they could be saved with massive doses of intravenous sodium ascorbate followed by bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid orally.

Decline In Lung Antioxidants Linked To Asthma Attacks

• No kidding, why don't they use massive doses of ascorbate (the cheapest and most effective antioxidant) that I have known for years to be effective against asthma.

US Biological Attack Said Inevitable

• Massive doses of ascorbic acid orally and sodium ascorbate intravenously would dramatically reduce the morbidity and mortality from such as attack.

US Intelligence Sees Growing Disease Threat

• We had better quit ignoring the Massive Doses of Vitamin C cures of many of these diseases before it is too late.  Even if an epidemic broke out which was 90% fatal, it would take too long for the medical profession to get its act together.  I do not look forward to a small population of vitamin C takers left to populate the world.

What Makes An Epidemic An Epidemic

• An epidemic of the flu in a country is where they are too dumb to know how to use ascorbate properly.

It's Not A Flu Epidemic - Yet

• In the US the worst is yet to come . This epidemic is totally unnecessary because we can cure the flu with massive doses of ascorbic acid orally and, in the worst cases (or cases who also have ulcers, gastritis, etc., preventing taking adequate dose of ascorbic acid), with intravenous sodium ascorbate.   The flu virus damages mitochondria in the affected tissues which cause the mitochondria to make free radicals.  These free radicals damage adjacent mitochondria which cause them to make more free radicals.  A free radical cascade results.   This massive amount of free radicals destroys all the vitamin C in the affected tissues.  Without vitamin C the white cells cannot eat up the viruses.  The only thing that saves most is that after a week or so, the antibodies destroy the viruses.   Antibodies are turned on by free radicals.  In the meantime, the "acute induced scurvy " in the affected tissues may result in pneumonia, sinusitis, otitis media, etc.  All this can be averted with massive doses of ascorbate.  What we are doing with the truly massive doses of ascorbate is throwing away the vitamin C for the electrons carried by the vitamin C.  We are driving the electrons in high concentration (forcing a reducing redox potential) into the affected tissues and neutralizing the free radicals.  Incidentally, it also provides enough vitamin C in the affected tissues so that the white cells come out fighting mad and destroy the viruses immediately.  This phenomenon is a threshold phenomenon: a high enough concentration of ascorbate and its electrons must be achieved, and then suddenly the free radicals are neutralized.  Lesser doses will not accomplish this.  If done properly, the massive doses of ascorbate will cure the disease.

20,000 may die from new flu in UK

• For God's sake, they can use intravenous sodium ascorbate and stop this carnage. These patients should be given up to three bottles of 60 grams of sodium ascorbate per 24 hours until they are much better, then continue bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid until well.  If the doctors will not give the sodium ascorbate intravenously then take the bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid by mouth and if you have a strong stomach, it will probably save your life.

Flu victims stored in lorry morgues

• This is tragic.  These patients are dying of acute induced scurvy.   Intravenous ascorbate should be used in all these flu cases.  Ascorbate would markedly reduce the death rate.

Virulent Flu Strain Taxes Hospitals

• This Flu is obviously causing Acute Induced Scurvy and this causes the spread into bronchitis, pneumonia, etc., and we will be very lucky if there are no deaths among some elderly.  All this could be averted with massive doses of ascorbic acid orally or in severe cases intravenous sodium ascorbate.

True Y2K Bug Hits: Influenza

• This is ridiculous.  Many people will die if ascorbate is not used.

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

• Comment by RFC:  The Medical Tribune, which under the guidance of the great humanitarian and medical prophet Arthur M. Sackler, M.D., followed my early work on vitamin C ( 1, 2, 3),  is still in the forefront in reporting the importance of nutritional and integrative medicine ( 1, 2).

Concerning the resistant tuberculosis coming out of prison camps in Russia and its inevitable spread around the world: there is good evidence that ascorbate would greatly assist in the treatment of this disease.

Concerning the Viral Encephalitis in New York (and apparently people in Connecticut should  be ready with this also):

• It would be reasonable to try massive doses of intravenous ascorbate in these encephalitis patients because of the report in the two papers below by Klenner of his being able to cure encephalitis with intravenous C.  See The Treatment of Poliomyelitis and Other Virus Diseases with Vitamin C and Observations On the Dose and Administration of Ascorbic Acid When Employed Beyond the Range Of A Vitamin In Human Pathology. Encephalitis virus may spread south.

Acute Induced Systemic Scurvy Watch   

            Comment by RFC: Note in all of these cases that develop into a  hemorrhagic fever, the toxicity of the disease is so severe as to deplete all of the bodies of vitamin C, this results in acute induced systemic scurvy which results in hemorrhaging from many tissues of the body. The administration of intravenous vitamin C in combination with the standard treatments for the disease would reduce the fatality rates of these diseases.   In all these diseases, if the serum vitamin C were to be measured, it would be found to be zero.  This then results in the breakdown of all tissues requiring collagen which includes blood vessels. Hemorrhage results (a classic sign of scurvy.)

    Graph of Normal Increasing Bowel Tolerance to Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C)

   Hypothesized Graph of Normal Increasing Bowel Tolerance to Ascorbic Acid in Hemorrhagic Fevers.

• German student with Lassa fever critical, fellow-travelers come
  forward

  The reason these patients hemorrhage is because of "acute induced scurvy."  They should be treated with intravenous sodium ascorbate and then ascorbic acid orally as they recover.  A lot of people may die unnecessarily of this disease some day soon if this treatment with ascorbate for infectious diseases is not recognized.

• Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, 15 viral diseases in 4 families of viruses have been classified as hemorrhagic fevers.  What they have in common is that they all suddenly deplete all of the victims vitamin C causing acute induced systemic scurvy.

• CDC, Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

• Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

• Marburg / Ebola

• Rift Valley Fever

• Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

• Drudge Report 8/4/99 reported fears of Ebola Virus Outbreak in Europe

  • The patient was bleeding from many places.  This turned out not to be Ebola but the patient died of a hemorrhagic fever  complication of yellow fever.

• Dengue Reported in Costa Rica, 8/6/99

                600 cases of dengue including 10 cases of  hemorrhagic dengue

• Ebola -like virus kills 73 in Congo gold mine, 9/10/99

     73 have died of hemorrhagic fever

• Netscape Search on Scurvy

  Comment by RFC: Note that these classic cases of scurvy are the result of chronic deficiency of vitamin C.  Imagine what happens when a severe infectious diseasse wipes out all of the vitamin C in the body in a few hours.  The capillaries hemorrhage all over the body.  Some patients with a disease such as Dengue Fever, if they started out in very good health or have early treatment, etc., may not go onto the hemorrhagic stage; but if the disease is able to totally deplete the vitamin C of the body, shortly the hemorrhages start and the white cells cannot fight the virus.  Death is almost certain unless the acute systemic scurvy is treated with massive doses of C.   The doses have to be massive because the massive amounts of free radicals generated by the disease process destroy the vitamin C at such a rate that the doses based upon the usual concepts of how vitamin C should be administered are many times inadequate. 

New Article: Why Don't Massive Doses of Ascorbate Produce Kidney Stones?  Breaking information about Nanobateria

Robert Cathcart, M.D. spoke at the Health Trends 2000 Conference August 27-29th at Radisson-SAS-Scandinavia Hotel, Copenhagen arranged by the Danish Society of Orthomolecular Medicine, "Vitamin C, The Premier Free Radical Scavenger."

   Slides of the above talk.

• Special Link about the recent story that Vitamin C causes DNA damage.

• Vitamin C? Gene damage?How do you make sense of the research? by Jack Challem

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Sources

• Doc C's Nutrition Store, listing brands and nutrients commonly used by our patients; presented as an order form for the convenience of our patients and others having difficulty finding these elsewhere.

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Publications of Fred R. Klenner, M.D.

Polimyelitis cured in the epidemic of 1948.

The Treatment of Poliomyelitis and Other Virus Diseases with Vitamin C.   Comment by RFC:  Note that this paper was published in 1949.

The Classic Paper on Intravenous Vitamin C

The Classic Paper by Fred R. Klenner, M.D,  1971, Observations On the Dose and Administration of Ascorbic Acid When Employed Beyond the Range Of A Vitamin In Human Pathology.  sodium ascorbate.  See my article on how to make intravenous C solutions.  Comment by RFC:  This paper repeatedly refers to intravenous ascorbic acid.  My personal experience, my talking with Klenner, and with his wife, who served as his nurse, would indicate that he means sodium ascorbate when he uses ascorbate intravenously or intramuscularly.

Significance of High Daily Intake of Ascorbic Acid in Preventive Medicine, by Fred R. Klenner, M.D.

RESPONSE OF PERIPHERAL AND CENTRAL NERVE PATHOLOGY TO MEGA-DOSES OF THE VITAMIN B-COMPLEX AND OTHER METABOLITES

A VITAMIN C STORY: IT’S PAST USE AND ITS CURRENT ACTIVE SUPPRESSION by Gary Wade, Physicist , May 1997
 

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Preparation of Intravenous Vitamin C - Sodium Ascorbate,   For MD's Only

Other Orthomolecular Physicians - (some sites under construction)

• Archie Kalokerinos, M.D.

Medical Pioneer of the 20th Century, Describes how acute induced scurvy is the cause of SIDS, Descibed how innocent people are unjustly jailed for shaken baby syndrome, Describes the injustice of the Australian Nanny case (the most famous case of shaken baby syndrome.)  Describes many other nutritional problems of the Aboriginal children which are also present in white children all over the world.

Thomas Levy, M.D., Colorado Springs, Colorado

Pulsed Intravenous Vitamin C (PIVC) Therapy

Review of Dr. Levy's book by Andrew Saul, PhD.

• Ask Dr. Stoll, Walt Stoll, M.D.

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• Len Saputo, M.D., The Health Medicine Forum, Walnut Creek , California

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• Health Medicine Institute

• Hugh Riordan, M.D., Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning, Wichita, Kansas.  

• Richard P. Huemer, M.D., Lancaster, California,

The Roots of Molecular Medicine: A Tribute to Linus Paulimg

• Sydney M. Baker, M.D. and the Children's Development Database.

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• Elmer M. Cranton, M.D., Mount Rodgers Clinic, Troutdale, Virginia; and Mount Rainer Clinic, Yelm. Washington

• Stephen B. Edelson, M.D., Environmental and Preventive Health Center of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia

• Julian Whitaker, M.D., Dr. Whitaker.Com.

• Gordon Research Institute

• Frank Shallenberger, M.D. The Nevada Center of Alternative and Anti-Aging Medicine,  Carson City, Nevada

Bert Berkson, M.D.,  Las Cruces, New Mexico

Bert Berkson's Triple Antioxidant Therapy for Hepatitis C

The Alpha-Lipoc Acid Breakthrough
 

• Michael Gerber, M.D., The Gerber Medical Clinic, Reno, Nevada

• Sherry A. Rogers, MD., Stop Breast Cancer in Its Tracks

Dr. Dennis Best, NMD, Naturopathic Physician, Tuscon, AZ

   

The Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Papers

Ian Dettman 

• Massive Doses of Vitamin C Do Not Cause Free Radicals in Vivo, Review of Literature by Ian Dettman

Orthomolecular Web Sites:

• The Linus Pauling Institute

Abram Hoffer, M.D., PhD., F.R.C.P. (C)

• Hoffer's Home Page -Orthomolecular Treatment of Cancer.

• The Schizophrenias
• Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine
• Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Archives

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The Linus Pauling Institute

Linus Pauling Video Snippets

AMERICAN SCIENTISTS SAY  THEY INVENTED A CURE FOR HEART DISEASE IN 1991 This site is dedicated to the memory of Linus Pauling (1901-1994)

Evidence that Vitamin C Saves up to 621,000 Lives from Heart Disease Alone

Related Articles and Sites

• William J. Rea, M.D., Environmental Health Center-Dallas  This site is excellent for those with food, chemical and heavy metal sensitivities.

• American Environmental Health Foundation

• Autism: Treatments, chelation of mercury, by Amy S. Holmes, M.D.

• Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) effects on withdrawal syndrome of heroin abusers.

• Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.   Autism Research Institute.

Vitamin C in the Prevention and Treatment of Autism (1998)

• THE AUTISM AUTOIMMUNITY PROJECT

• Cforyourself, An extensive source on Vitamin C.

• Steven Wm. Fowkes,  Antioxidants, Antibodies and Autoimmune Disease

• Mercury amalgam toxicity
• Plantar Fasciitis, (Heel Spurs) The most effective treatment involves massive doses of vitamin C.
• Linus Pauling: Heart Disease Can be Reversed without Surgery
• The Healing Factor: Vitamin C Against Disease, by Irwin Stone
• From Fishes to Mammals, by Irwin Stone
• Vitamin C: How Much is Enough by Patrick Holford
• Vitamin C and Cancer: A Review of the Scientific Literature, by Gary Null, et. al.
• Medical Tribune, Henry Turkel M.D., Vitamin C and Immunization

• William Crook, M.D.  The Yeast Connection

• William Crook, M.D.'s Yeast Connection Questionnaire.

• William Crook, M.D.'s Yeast Connection Questionnaire for Children.

• The Hoffman Center Website

• Gary Null's Natural Living

  The Antioxidant Vitamin - Vitamin C - published in the Townsend Letter for Doctors in 1994

  • Vitamin C and the Treatment of Cancer
    Abstracts and Commentary from the Scientific Literature

Vitamin C, RDAs and Politics by Steven Wm. Fowkes
 

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Organizations

• ACAM, American College for Advancement in Medicine

• Search for physicians in ACAM

• THE COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE.  Letters by Steven Wm. Fowkes
• Alternative Doctors and Other Alternative Information
• Arthritis Fund web site
• Bernard Rimland, Ph.D., The Autism Research Institute
• The McDougall Wellness Center
• Autism Home Page
• Autism links: World Wide
• Vaccine Possible Cause of Chronic Fatigue and some Autoimmune Diseases 

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Other Resources

• The Nutrition Reporter, Jack Challem

• The Arthritis Trust of America

• The CFIDS Association of America

• Environmental Health Network's Home Page

• Health Broadcast Network,  Your Personal 24 Hour Health Connection

• Michael A. Weiner, Ph.D.,  Herbs that Heal, synopsis of the effects of many of the most useful herbs.

• H.R. Alsleben, M.D., Our Greatest Biological Catastrophe: Spongiform Encephalopathy Prion Disease Mad Cow Disease.

• Brain illness kills man and his cat.

• AIDS: WHAT THE GOVERNMENT ISN'T TELLING YOU, Lorraine Day, M.D.

• Lorraine Day, M.D. Cancer Survivor. Here is the rather graphic photo of the tumor she endured. Here is another view.
• Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients: The Examiner of Medical Alternatives

• Articles on Vitamins, Minerals, and Other Nutrients, by Jack Challem
• The Nutrition Reporter
• Gary Null's Natural Living
• John J. Specht
• NEW IDEAS FOR DEALING WITH LYME DISEASE  from someone living with it...
• Published Papers on Diet & Behavior
• The Feingold Association of the United States, information especially on hyperactive children
• Private page for MCS (multiply chemically sensitive) people includes CHAT page
• Yahoo Search for Vitamin C and Cathcart
• Other discussion of vitamin C
• Aids in the HOT MED List
• Allergies Hot List
• Arthritis Hot List
• Candida Hot List
• PubMed Medline Search for Vitamin
• CFS - Chronic Fatigue Hot List
• General Medical Hot List
• Immune System Hot List
• Vitamin Hot List
• References on Lipoic Acid
• Andrew Weil, MD

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Health News

(note: I am leaving some of the following links in place even after they have been discontinued because they still serve to illustated the large number of articles coming out of the lay press that prove that nutrients are of value.  They put some of the statements in a following section "Another Point of View" in proper perspective.)

• Measles Outbreak Prompts Chinese Orphanage Caution

  • Remember that measles is easily cured or ameliorated by massive doses of ascorbate.

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

  • So even if you believe in the cholesterol hoax you should take ascorbic acid.

• Combination therapy with vitamins C plus E inhibits survivin and human prostate cancer cell growth.

• Aneurysm: prevention and nonsurgical repair.

• Sodium Ascorbate in the Treatment of Allergic Disturbances

  • Higher doses work much better on allergies, especially hay fever, asthma, anaphylaxis, etc.

• Reduced Risk of Alzheimer Disease in Users of Antioxidant Vitamin Supplements

• Antioxidant vitamins and mortality in older persons: findings from the nutrition add-on study to the Medical Research Council Trial of Assessment and Management of Older People in the Community.

  • In other words, low blood vitamin C concentrations in the older British population are strongly predictive of mortality.
     

• Vitamins C and E prevent influenza virus-induced oxidative damage

  • Yes, but what about in humans.  We are way ahead of the mouse doctors.  The the article on titrating to bowel tolerance for the doses that work the best.  Vitamin C works better in humans than in mice anyway because a mouse is an ascorbate producing animal and sometimes experiments with mice with vitamin C may produce negative results because the vitamin C given the mouse may make the mouse produce less vitamin C.  This fact, cleverly ignored, has been used by enemies of vitamin C (drug industry) to produce fake reports about vitamin C being ineffective.

• Reduced pain from osteoarthritis in hip joint or knee joint during treatment with calcium ascorbate. A randomized, placebo-controlled cross-over trial in general practice

  • What is this "If the finding can be reproduced with a smaller, acceptable intake of vitamin C, this would be of importance considering the large prevalence of osteoarthrosis?"  A smaller, acceptable intake than one gram a day?  Where have these researchers been?  Don't get me wrong.  I am sort of thankful that they used any vitamin C at all and I am sure the authors may be taking flack over even trying that.  However, anyone who thinks that one gram a day on vitamin C is a high dose and unacceptable either must be a M.D. or live on another planet.  Thousands die of NSAIDs each year and no one dies of vitamin C no matter how much they take.  NSAIDs are expensive and vitamin C is cheap.  Oh! but NSAIDs profit the drug industry while vitamin C does not.

• Plasma vitamin C, cholesterol and homocysteine are associated with
  grey matter volume determined by MRI in non-demented old people.

  • In other words, those who take vitamin C will be smarter in their old age than those who do not.  Maybe they are just smarter in the first place.  Most physicians even take vitamin C.  They just do not give it to patients for obvious financial reasons.

• Improvement of peripheral endothelial dysfunction by acute vitamin C application: different effects in patients with coronary artery disease, ischemic, and dilated cardiomyopathy.

• Oxidative Stress-Induced Dysregulation of Arteriolar Wall Shear Stress in Hyperhomocysteinemia is Prevented by Chronic Vitamin-C treatment.

  • This study shows another reason why vitamin C is beneficial to the heart.  It shows that vitamin C along with folic acid counters the damage of homocysteine.

• Homocysteine and vitamin C.

  • Ditto as above.

• Long-Term Use of Vitamin E and C Supplements May Help to Maintain
  Cognitive Function in Elderly Women

• Articles on Vitamin C and Helicobacter

•  Ascorbic acid dynamics in the seriously ill and injured

  1. At 3 grams a day, they began to see some results.  I wonder if the pharmacy committee and the ethics committee at their hospital would let them use 300 grams a day (if a miracle happens and they do approve such a study, remember that massive doses of ascorbate have to be buffered if given IV . That is why I am calling it sodium ascorbate all the time to avoid confusion.)  Then they would see spectacular results.  Don't get me wrong, this study is a step in the correct direction but at this rate it will be a couple of generations before the true potential of massive doses of vitamin C will be realized and the profits of the drug industry threatened.

  2. However, the authors are to be congratulated because they have managed to sneak over on the editors the fact of acute induced scurvy after injury and infection.  This is a step in the right direction and makes it difficult to rationalize not giving large doses of C.  Actually, it won't make much difference for years because the tactic is to stonewall massive doses of vitamin C.  The genocidal jerks protecting the profits of the drug industry know full well that their ridiculous position against massive doses of ascorbate cannot stand up to any scientific study. (Note: the little "s" science, not the big "S" religious Science of the quackbusters.)

• Effect of vitamin E and vitamin C combination on experimental influenza virus infection.

  • It is probably a good thing to give a little vitamin E along with the C but more importantly higher and higher doses of C should be used.  You should give the C until all the symptoms of the influenza are eliminated (neutralize all the free radicals.)  So whenever you limit the amount of vitamin C given the experiment does not reflect on how C will work if it is administered properly.

  • Another thing is that mice are ascorbate producing animals so you have to be careful that ascorbate you give them does not inhibit the amount of ascorbate they make.  Therefore, experiments concerning ascorbate have little human relevance unless done on man, monkey, or the guinea pig.  These animals make not ascorbate themselves.

• CU and Seoul researchers report anti-cancer mechanism of vitamin C

• Antioxidants May Help Brain Vs. Alcohol

• Curing Schizophrenia with high doses of niacin and vitamin C

• Inertia on folic acid has caused thousands of unnecessary deaths

  • And this is nothing compared to the systematic suppression of knowledge about vitamin C.  All of this profits the drug industry.

• Holiday Sex Spreads Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea in UK

• In the 1970's a drug resistant gonorrhea was spreading around King's Beach, California.  I never saw a case that did not respond to bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid plus the usually otherwise effective antibiotic.  Not only did the ascorbate increase the spectrum of activity of the antibiotic to include the resistant strains but it prevented allergic reactions to the antibiotic.  Gonorrhea without its free radical cover is nothing and without free radicals, there are no allergic reactions.  No wonder the drug industry does not want the public to find out about massive doses of ascorbate.

• Antioxidant vitamins lessen response to cholesterol drugs

  • They should also take CoQ10 to prevent the higher incidence of heart failure with statin drugs.  Also be careful about making cholesterol too low.

• Vitamin C can be considered a potential protective agent against side effects of antitumor drugs

• Vitamins C and E: missing links in preventing preterm premature rupture of membranes?

• Hyperglycemia-induced ascorbic acid deficiency promotes endothelial dysfunction and the development of atherosclerosis.

   

• Scurvy: An Unusual Cause of Anemia

• Natural therapies for ocular disorders, part two: cataracts and glaucoma.

• Can You Tell Me More About The Cancer-Preventing Properties Of Lycopene?

  • Patients with degenerative should remember to avoid tomatoes and other nightshades.

•  Low cholesterol may raise risk of death in elderly.

• Baltimore Claims West Nile Problem

  • See below.

• Florida Fears Massive Outbreak of West Nile Virus

  • All these cases could be ameliorated or cured with massive doses of ascorbate in addition to the standard care and allergic reactions to antibiotics could be averted.  It is the free radicals that kill and cause the severe symptoms, these can be easily neutralized by adequate doses of ascorbate.   The massive doses of ascorbate should be especially useful against the cases of meningoencephalitis by neutralizing the free radicals about the brain.  The ascorbate easily passes the blood brain barrier.

• Thousands of West Nile Viral Infections Occurred During The 1999 Outbreak

  • All these cases could be ameliorated or cured with massive doses of ascorbate in addition to the standard care and allergic reactions to antibiotics could be averted.

   

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Possible Use of Ascorbate in Bacteriologic Warfare

• US lawmakers warned of "dark winter" in case of bioterrorist attack

  • See the comment of the next entry.  If anyone knows how to get in touch with any of the people listed in this link, please let me know.  Unfortunately, I have found this usually worthless because they are more interested in sounding good than doing anything.  The proper use of ascorbate, if well known, would be such a financial disaster to the pharmaceutical industry that the risk of all of us being killed by some disease, curable with ascorbate, seems insignificant to them.

• Outbreak of Influenza in Highly Vaccinated Crew of U.S. Navy Ship

  • This article illustrates how easily an infectious disease could spread among the military.  With more serious diseases, this could cause a crisis.  The use of massive doses of ascorbate in a case like this is obvious much as the majority of physicians want to deny it.  One frightening scenario would be some mad dictator who knows how to use ascorbate properly, stockpiling ascorbate and then releasing bacteriologic warfare against us.   The reason that this is not usually contemplated is because of the "backfire phenomenon."  The proper use of ascorbate would eliminate this backfire phenomenon.  When the diseases started to backfire on the mad dictator, he would use the ascorbate on himself and his chosen friends and his military.  Our military ought to get with it and learn how to use ascorbate properly despite physician resistance.  (By the way, Castro is rumored to be interested in orthomolecular medicine.) (This paragraph will be removed as soon as I hear that the Pentagon is doing something about this.  If someone reading this knows anyone in the military or U.S. government with some importance, please have them read this site.)

• IOM Scrutinizes Link Between Vaccines, Neurological Problems

  • Vitamin C and selenium help the body somewhat against mercury.  Vitamin C in high doses might help also if live viruses of the DPT vaccinations are causeing  autism by way of small bowel lymph node infection and the "leaky bowel syndrome.  But more importantly, what is the rush to immunize infants.  We should wait until the child's immune system has matured (maybe 2 years of age,) never immunize when the child has any sign of illness, and immunize with one vaccine at a time.  If the child become ill before being immunized, taking large doses of ascorbate will ameliorate or cure the disease.

• Dead chipmunk at Tahoe had bubonic plague

  • These types of infectious diseases kill by way of free radicals.  In addition to the appropriate antibiotics, intravenous sodium ascorbate should be administered in massive doses until the patient is mostly well.  Additionally, and for several weeks, this should be followed by bowel tolerance ascorbic acid by mouth.   These doses of ascorbate both intravenously and orally will mostly prevent adverse allergic reactions to the antibiotics necessarily administered.

• Flu Deaths in Seniors Expected to Double in 30 Years

  • That is unless they learn how to use ascorbic acid orally or their doctors learn how to use intravenous sodium ascorbate.

• Growing Medical Fear Over Possible Carcinogenic Virus

  • I wonder if the use of massive doses of C and other nutrients might prevent a percentage of the cancers that otherwise would develop in patients with the SV40 virus?

• Chickenpox Linked to About One Third of Ischemic Strokes in Children

  • Probably, this is caused by free radical damage to the child'd blood vessels caused by the chickenpox virus.  This is similar to arteriosclerosis being initiated by free radical damage to blood vessel walls.  Give ascorbic acid to bowel tolerance in mild cases and intravenous sodium ascorbate to severe cases to neutralize the free radicals.  This should prevent the strokes later.
    

• Estrogen Is Harmful.  June 13, 2001

  • RFC Comment:  Use natural progesterone topically on the skin.  See the work of John Lee, M.D. on natural progesterone.

• Number of sex partners linked to prostate cancer

  • RFC comment:  Although this article does not directly relate to nutrition, I find it interesting because it implies that prostate cancer may be initiated by an infection.

• Consumption of Cranberry Juice Reduces UTI Risk

  • Finally, it has been proven "scientifically" what we have all known for years.  Apparently something in cranberry juice keeps bacteria from sticking to the bladder wall.  Therefore, when you drink more water you are able to flush the bacteria out.  Concentrated cranberry capsules which have the sugar removed probably work better.

• Multiple Sex Partners Raises Virus Risk In Young Women

  • RFC comment:  Although this article is not about nutrition, it is interesting that while cancer of the cervix is caused by the HPV, not all women infected by the virus get cancer of the cervix.  Yhis strongly implies there may be a genetic factor here but frequently the expression of a gene requires something such as poor nutrition.

• Poor Nutrition Linked With More Virulent Virus

• Study sheds light on mystery behind preeclampsia
  

• Engineered Polio Virus Destroys Malignant Glioma Cells in Animal Model

  • This sounds like a great idea.  It is only a hypothesis but those doing research of this type should realize that if the virus begins to do undesirable damage to the patient that they could be "rescued" with massive amounts of ascorbate intravenously.  Remember that even the wild strains of polio can easily be cured with intravenous ascorbate.

• Viral Infection in Youth Appears to Prime CNS for Later Development of MS

  • This is only a hypothesis but this is the reason that I think that the free radicals generated by infections, which damage cells, should be aggressively scavenged with ascorbate when someone has any infectious disease.  This scavenging would prevent damage to cells that make them appear to be foreign to the immune system and trigger off autoimmune diseases in the genetically susceptible person.

• New Therapy for Hepatitis C Shows Promise

  • All this interferon jazz is ridiculous.  It is very expensive and has many side reactions.  Acute hepatitis C can easily be cured with intravenous ascorbate and chronic hepatitis C can be controlled with oral C to tolerance, alpha lipoic acid, selenium, silymarin, vitamin E, and a multiple vitamin-mineral program.  This is inexpensive and has no significant side reactions.   I have never seen a case need liver transplant, cancer of the liver, or acute hepatic necrosis.  This is not a hypothesis; this works.

• C. pneumoniae Infection Tied to Asthma

  • Maybe this is why massive doses of ascorbate help asthmatics so much.  Since ascorbate ameliorates all infectious diseases by scavenging free radicals, we would expect it to help asthma.   I noticed a news item last night where websites were graded by certain words they included like inhalants for asthma.  This is not graded well because patients treated with ascorbate usually do not need inhalers.
    

• High Rate of Severe Liver Toxicity Associated With Antiretroviral Therapy

  • Obviously.  This liver toxicity can be prevented with oral C to tolerance, alpha lipoic acid, selenium, silymarin, vitamin E, and a multiple vitamin-mineral program.
    

• Antioxidant vitamins linked to healthy lungs
  

• Poor memory linked to high homocysteine levels
  

• Drinking plus low folate linked to breast cancer
  

• Free Radical Scavengers Protect Against HIV Neurotoxicity in Vitro

  • Comment by RFC:  They are trying several antioxidants — L-deprenyl, Didox, Imidate, Diosgenin, Euk8, and Ebselen —all patented antioxidant drugs.  Clinically, in humans I have observed that sodium ascorbate, good old cheap vitamin C, inhibits neurotoxicity.  Why do these researchers not try sodium ascorbate in the doses we accomplish with intravenous sodium ascorbate in the concentrations we get into patients with intravenous sodium ascorbate?  I gruess they are not getting paid by the drug companies to do this.   But why does not someone for the good of humanity try sodium ascorbate?  The FDA should never OK an antioxidant drug unless it is more effective, safer or less expensive per reducing equivalents than good old cheap vitamin C.

• Is Heart Disease Caused by Infection?

  • This could explain why high doses of C helps to prevent heart disease.

• Antioxidant vitamins linked to healthy lungs

• Vitamin D and calcium keep blood pressure down

• FDA to allow vitamin B-heart disease health claim

  • Finally!!!  This has been obvious for years.

• Dieting moms who breast-feed may need vitamin B6

• Lack of vitamin B12 linked to repeat miscarriage

• Coenzyme Q10 May Benefit Some Patients With Familial Cerebellar Ataxia

• FDA to Allow Vitamin B-Heart Disease Health Claim

• Vitamin E May Help Prevent Alzheimer's in Certain Patients

• Statins Should Not Be Used For Osteoporosis Without New Trials

  • Regardless, anyone taking statin drugs should be taking CoQ10 also.

• Healthy Without Cardiac Disease Should Avoid Aspirin

• High-dose vitamin E may protect arteries

  • How can this be written about vitamin E without crediting the Shutes? To not credit them is plagiarism.   They were called quacks when they said that 50 years ago.  The comments on vitamin C are ridiculous (See links on this.)

• Metal Toxicity

• Glucosamine Sulphate Proves Worth In Long-Term Osteoarthritis Trial

• Study: Common Infections May Raise Risk Of
  Hardening Of The Arteries
  

• ANTIOXIDANT MAY PROTECT AGAINST ASTHMA

  • Bowel Tolerance Doses of Ascorbic Acid will chamge the life of asthma patients.  Most will be able to get off all drugs.  Lycopene may reduce the amount of ascorbic acid needed to abolish exercise induced asthma.

• ANTIBIOTICS FOR BABIES LINKED TO ASTHMA LATER IN LIFE

  • Usually this is linked to "chronic candidiasis" if a lot of antibiotics have been used.
    

• US panel says estrogen a cancer agent

  • Real progesterone cream should reduce that risk if not make estrogen unnecessary.

• Saw Palmetto may fight prostate cancer

  • "This is the very early stages of our research and so far we have
    identified eight different chemicals in the extract. Once we know more
    about each component, we hope to identify which chemical has the
    most potent effect on prostate cancer cells and develop that into a
    treatment," Goldmann told Reuters Health in an interview. "  This statement can be interpreted that they are looking for a single patentable drug.  The problem is that even if the whole herb is effective and maybe even more effective than any individual component, it is not patentable so don't expect the big drug companies and therefore physicians to be very interested in prescribing saw palmetto to you if you need it.

• Can A Folic Acid Deficiency Cause Depression?

• VITAMIN E MAY LOWER RISK OF ALLERGIES, ASTHMA

• Vitamin E may help ward off Alzheimer's

• Vitamins may protect against cataracts

• Many Americans -- particularly smokers -- lack vitamin C  

• Vitamin E may help heart in type 1 diabetics
          

• Insufficient calcium in pregnancy boosts lead in blood

• Vitamin E may lower risk of allergies, asthma

• Vitamin B12 Deficiency Is Serious Business

  • I have had 3 lady patients in their 90's in the last few years who have had to give up bridge because they could not remember the cards. After a B12, folic acid, multiple B shot they were able to play bridge again.  The last lady won the pot for the day, 2 days after the shot and was complimented on how well she played.

• Folate levels tripled in US women of childbearing age

• Vitamins C And E Might Slow Down Hardening Of The
  Arteries

• Too much iron may 'rust' blood vessels

• Vitamin E may reduce heart attack risk

• Vitamin E may reduce stroke risk in hypertensive men

• Reduction of Resuscitation Fluid Volumes in Severely Burned Patients Using Ascorbic Acid Administration

  • Those in Orthomolecular Medicine have known this and advocated this for years.  Finally, some are beginning to write about this in peer reviewed journals.  It is about time but how long will it take to be generally applied.  It is too bad that this had to come out of Japan when the treatments were first used in the United States.

• Study: Folic Acid Reduces Defects

• Vitamin C and the Skin

• Are High Homocysteine Levels A Risk Factor For Heart
  Disease?

• Folic acid may help prevent second heart attack
  

• Vitamins C, E may lower blood pressure

• Fish oil may be heart healthy for postmenopausal women

• Will Fish Oil Lower High Triglycerides?

• Fish Oils Reduce Blood Pressure

• Alcohol Plus Thiamine Deficiency Spells Trouble For Brain

• Vitamin B12 deficiency linked to depression in women

• Folate May Help Slow Down Alzheimer's

  • Yes, I have noticed that a cocktail of   B12-Hydroxy-Cobal 1000 mcg/ml 1 cc, B-Complex-100,  1 cc, Folic Acid Injection 10 mg/ml, 1 cc injected intramuscularly 2 times a week will restore much of the memory of many patients with senile dementia.   Along with a total nutritional program even the progress of Alzheimer's disease will be slowed.

• Fatty Acids, Antioxidants May Help "Tennis Elbow"

• Vitamin C may help women steer clear of gallstones

• Low Vitamin C Levels Linked to Increase in Gallbladder Disease

• Vitamin C, E May Protect The Aging Brain

  • Note the attitude of this report as compaired to the same story under Another Point of View.

• Vitamin Fights Alzheimer's, Cancer And Heart Disease

• Say 'Nuts' To Coronary Artery Disease

• Vegans Advised To Take Vitamin Supplements

• Contradictory Findings: Fluoride Does Increase Risk Of Hip Fractures

• Vitamin C Can Reduce High Blood Pressure, Study Finds

• Ritalin: A Gateway To Cocaine?

• Many Breast Cancer Patients Don't Tell Docs About Alternative Treatments

• Vitamin C Can Lower High Blood Pressure

  • No kidding.... Since most early hypertension is due to food sensitivities and since large doses of vitamin C czn block most food sensitivities and allergies, higher doses of vitmain C than quoted in the article will lower blood pressure even more.

• Glucosamine Can Offer Relief For Osteoarthritis

  • Admitting this must be like having a tooth pulled (It is about 5 years too late.)  Still there always have to be the obligatory qualifications.

• Fighting Free Radicals

• Alpha-Lipoic Acid Found To Be A Potent Antioxidant

• Hopkins Insider: Folic Acid: Time to Supplement?

• Integrative Medicine Gains Acceptance

• Prognosis For Integrative Medicine: Continued Growth

• Folic Acid May Reduce Risk Of Leukemia

• New Flu Strain Could Kill Millions, New Hong Kong Strain.

  • This is exactly what I have been worrying about.  Millions would die unnecessarily.   While we wait for some drug to be developed, it is ignored that massive doses of ascorbate will take out flues.  Linus Pauling was on the correct path but he did not give high enough doses to take out the most severe colds and flues.  The trick is to give high enough doses to eliminate all the free radicals generated by the disease process.

• Government Approves New Flu Pill

  • In  this article, it is mentioned that 20,000 Americans die each year of the flu.  This is a terrible fact but even more terrible when it is realized that most of these deaths could be avoided if massive doses of ascorbate were utilized.  If the worst cases were given 2-3 days of intravenous sodium ascorbate, all but a rare case would be fine.  Note that these treatments can be started after the person falls ill, the sooner after the better, but still the massive doses of ascorbate are effective in preventing almost all complications even after the person becomes ill.

• Oral vitamins C and E as additional treatment in patients with acute anterior uveitis: a randomised double masked study in 145 patients.

  • In 1981,   I reported dramatic results in a case of acute anterior uveitis with massive doses of ascorbate. How long are they going to fool around with ridiculously low doses.   I can tell you for sure that low doses, such as described in this paper, will give only disappointing to suggestive results because my experience with a large range of doses of ascorbate demonstrated that only the massive doses, as described in my papers, will work.  Lesser doses will only prolong the misery of those affected by these conditions which can be cured.

• Diet Rich In Folate May Reduce Risk Of Heart Disease

• More Evidence That Vitamin C Blocks Exercise-Induced Asthma

  • Finally, but the doses are not high enough yet.  For previous mention of the adequate and proper treatment of exercise asthma with vitamin C see Vitamin C, Titrating to Bowel Tolerance, Anascorbemia, and Acute Induced Scurvy (1981), and The Vitamin C Treatment of Allergy and the Normally Unprimed State of Antibodies (1986).

• Cold Viruses Up Inflammatory Response In Asthma

  • Yes, and if clinical responses mean anything, this up-regulation of the immune system is mediated by free radicals because if one can take massive doses of ascorbic acid, the exacerbation of asthma by various infections and exercise can usually be prevented.  In fact, not only do massive doses of ascorbate prevent exacerbations but most patients with asthma who are tolerant to large doses of ascorbic acid can mostly give up steriods and brochodilator drugs.  Only massive threshold doses of ascorbic acid near bowel tolerance will provide enough electrons to neutralize the free radicals mediating the bronchospasm.

Drug, Gulf War Syndrome link possible...

I found this link on the Drudge Report but it comes up with a blank page with just the header.  I always wonder what is going on when references like this disappear.  I will try to keep on top of this.  The reason I was so interested in this is because massive doses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid orally or sodium ascorbate intravenously) is helpul with the Gulf War Syndrome.  Subsequently, browsing the newspapers revealed that the suspected drug was a vaccination against nerve gas.

• Thiamin Deficiency Can Cause Brain Damage

• Herbs May Be Harmful Before Surgery

  • Note that the herbs mentioned in this article can increase bleeding slightly as can vitamin E rarely.  The two more likely substances to cause bleeding problems are asprin and cod liver oil.

• Oats, Antioxidants May Reduce Short-Term Cardiac Risk

• Federal health panel advises switching to polio shots

  • Note that the 8 cases a year of paralysis from the live polio vaccines could still be saved from paralysis by intravenous ascorbate.

• Vitamin C megadoses eased stress in study of rats

  • (note:  if they think vitamin C eases stress in an ascorbate producing animal such as a rat, they ought to try it on a none ascorbate producing animal such as a human.)

• Study Links Vitamin B Deficiency To Risk Of Stroke In Younger Women

• Antioxidants Said Possible Fighter Of Killer Rare Disease

• The CFIDS Association of America, Inspector General Confirms Mismanagement of CFS Research Funds at the CDC

  • CFIDS is one of those diseases that massive doses of vitmain C help immensely.                

• Many US Adults Low In Vitamin E

• Researchers Find Cinnamon Kills E.coli Bacteria

• Vitamin E, C May Combat Prostate Cancer

• Hopkins: Vitamin A Cuts Children's Malaria Risk By Nearly A Third

• A Prospective Study of the intake of Vitamins C and B6, and the risk of
  kidney stones in men.

• Gulf War Victims Seen Nine Times Less Likely To Have Protective Gene        

  • Comment by RFC: As it becomes more obvious that the Gulf War Syndrome is not a psychological disease (one wonders why anyone would have thought it psychological in the first place,) it becomes more obvious why these patients benefit from the free radical scavenging of massive doses of ascorbate and why they benefit from nutrients and herbs that stimulate circulation, liver detoxification, and nutrition of the brain and nervous system.   

  Risk Of Breast Cancer Increases In Women
  With Breast Cysts

  • Comment by RFC: If cancer of the breast is increased in cystic breasts.  And breast cysts (fibrocystic disease) are usually caused by coffee, tea, and chocolate.   Then is it possible that coffee, tea and chocolate cause ...... .. ... ......?     (I even have trouble writing the logical conclusion.)

• Hopkins: Re-Learning Old Lessons (Comment on Vitamin A)

• Study Suggests Unsaturated Fats Keep Memory Intact

• Beta-carotene Risk In Smokers
  Explained

• Vitamins Could Reduce Lead Levels in Smokers' Blood

• Glucose And Fructose Increase Fat In Bloodstream

• Respiratory Virus Causes Heart Muscle Damage

  •    Comment by RFC:  Maybe this is one of the reasons that large doses of ascorbate regularly over a long period of time reduces the incidence of heart disease.

•  Air Pollution Directly Linked To Asthma In Children

• Purple Grape Juice May Slow Arterial Disease

• Vitamins Show Promise In Improving Cancer Treatment

• Adding Natural Hormone Boosts Brain Function In Hypothyroidism

• Nursing Moms Need Extra Folate, Too

• Brain Blood Flow, Alzheimer Linked, Antioxidants May Protect Against Diabetes

• American Heart Association Recommends Homocysteine Testing In High-Risk Patients
  

• Vitamin A linked to learning in animals

• Damp home ups asthma risk

• Comment by RFC:  What about mold sensitivities?  Treatment with massive doses of ascorbate?

• Fruit, vegetables natural antioxidants

• Early Nutrition In Babies May Have Long-Term
  Effects On The Brain

• Potassium-Magnesium Citrate Effective In Correcting Thiazide-Induced Side Effects. 

• Comment by RFC:  Here is an obvious example where an otherwise useful drug causes nutrient deficiency and can be corrected by large doses of the appropriate nutrients.   This would suggest, as has been found by orthomolecular physicians, that there are many more such examples of this principle that are not as yet recognized.

• Folic acid plus B12 may cut heart risk

• Fermentation May Be At Root Of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

• Folic acid cuts colon cancer risk
• Vitamin E may prevent artery disease
• JAMA, Folate and Vitamin B6 From Diet and Supplements in Relation to Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Among Women
• Vitamin E may stop Alzheimer's cell death
• Antioxidants in fruits and vegetables slow brain aging
• Folate deficiency tied to heart risk
• Magnesium appears to slow bone loss
• Tea may help prevent cancer, heart disease
• Type of vitamin E inhibits cancer cells
• Common virus may cause heart condition.
  • Comment by RFC.
• Supplemented formula ups infant intelligence
• Kaposi's sarcoma linked to herpesvirus,
  • Comment by RFC 8/6/98, Maybe this is why Kaposi's sarcoma responds fairly well to ascorbate.
• Magnesium supplements lower blood pressure
• Zinc Supplementation Reduces Infectious Disease
• Hopkins Q&A: Can Gingko Help Alzheimer's?
• Vitamin B6 may reduce heart disease risk
• Antioxidants And Mad Cow Disease
• Low Dietary Calcium, Low Vitamin C Linked To Increased Risk Of Gum Disease
• Study Confirms That Chromium Picolinate Aids In Body Fat Loss
• Supplements May Block Colorectal Polyps
• Secondhand Smoke Breaks Down Blood Vessel "Smoke Screen" (antioxidants like Vitamin C)
• Vitamin E may limit stroke size
• Colds, Flu Up Heart Attack Risk, note this site removed but read the comment.
  • Comment by RFC
• 15 drugs, dyes and other chemicals newly listed as known or likely human carcinogens
• Aspartame... the BAD news!
• Vitamins Improve Lung Function
• FASEB MEETING: Antioxidants May Reduce Harmful Complications Of Diabetes
• Vitamin C Removes Lead From Blood Stream In Men
• Low Vitamin C Associated With Heart Attacks
• Natural Vitamin E The Supplement Of Choice For Pregnant Women
• Vitamin E Lowers Prostate Cancer Risk
• Low B Vitamin Levels Linked To Increased Heart Disease, Stroke Risk
• AHA STROKE CONFERENCE: B-Vitamins May Reduce Vessel Damage In Stroke Patients
•  Vitamin E May Reduce Smoking Damage In Pregnant Women
• Two B Vitamins May Reduce Risk For Heart Disease In Women
• Vitamins C, E Protect Against Sunburn
• Dioxins, PCBs Linked To ADHD
• Longevity Genes May Come From Mom
• Can Vitamins Slow Arthritis?
• Seafood Oil For The Relief Of Arthritis
• Vitamins C And E Temporarily Block Some Harmful Effects Of High-Fat Meal, (PSL or JAMA)
• Vitamin C Shown To Cross The Blood Brain Barrier  
  •  Comment by RFC
• UN Urge Study Into Mobile Phone Risks
• Some Types of Fat May Be Linked To Reduced Stroke Risks In Men
• Albanian Longevity Linked To Diet
• JAMA study: Work can trigger allergies
• Vitamin E May Enhance Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Drugs
• Vitamin C Deficit Linked To Skin Disease
• Fish Oil May Offer Better Protection Than Olive Oil Against Heart Disease
• Herpes Virus May Trigger Multiple Sclerosis
• Selenium-Based Antihypertensive May Lead To New Family of Therapeutic Agents
• Very Technical Discussion of PRIONS, Brain Killers
• Vitamin E Protects Against Heart Attacks, Reports Study
• Vitamin E May Help Protect Against Colon Cancer
• Food Additive Can Cause Severe Allergies
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  Greed vs. Health: Which Will Win?   Lendon Smith, M.D. on Aspartame

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  ASPARTAME: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

• Inappropriate Use of Antibiotics for Cold and Flu
• Military Program Proposes Saving Money Through Vitamin Supplementation
• Vietnam Combat Linked To Many Diseases 20 Years Later
• Walking May Lower Chances Of Getting Diabetes

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Delay By Intellectualization

As evidence of the value of nutrients, especially vitamin C, as illustrated in the articles above becomes more and more evident to the public, researches produce a mass of articles on minute aspects of vitamin C.  I have been consulted by many researchers who proposed bold studies of the effects of massive doses of ascorbate.   Every time the university center, the ethics committee, the pharmacy committee, etc. deny permission for the use of massive doses of ascorbate and render the study almost useless.  Seasoned researchers depending upon government grants do not even try to study adequate doses.  All of this results in a massive accumulation of knowledge about very little which gives the impression that there is no more of real importance to be learned. This accumulation of minutia hides the great effects of ascorbate already known by some.  The following sites reflect this problem.  As you read these learned papers, you will realize that they seem to be completely unaware of the uses of massive doses of ascorbate.  One of the most amusing aspects of this research are the speculations and research into the toxicity and other adverse reactions of tiny doses of ascorbate when many have used for years 20 to 100 times the amounts being discussed.

• Vitamin C: mysterious benefits.  (please follow the various links of this site.)

Another Point of View

• Vitamin supplements do not reduce
  incidence of cancer or heart disease

• Higher vitamin C intake recommended for women

  • Up from 75 mg to 90 mg.  Ha!  This is a ridiculously low dose.

• Is Stevia A Good Sugar Substitute?

  • The problem is that many patients who are trying to give up sugar completely, including fruit, are addicted to sugar and frequently have "chronic candidiasis."  The candida is causing the patient to crave sugar.  (Conventional medicine denies the existence of "chronic candidiasis and so does not know how to treat it.)   Having patients eat sugar substitutes is like telling a wineo not to drink wine but to carry the cork from the bottle around in his pocket so that he can smell it in an emergency.  I find that patients who get off all sugar for a couple of months do not crave it anymore.  Any cheating or using sugar substitutes will start the craving again.  A no sugar diet is easier for these people than a low sugar diet.

• Is Nicotine Good For The Heart?

  • Interesting, but who paid for this study?

• Vitamins may weaken flu shot's effect in elderly

  • Possibly, but then they are less likely to get the flu if they are taking vitamin C.  Also, if they do get the flu, the symptoms can be ameliorated or cured with massive doses of vitamin C.  Also, probably the rare complication of Reye's syndrome can be prevented.

• Does "C" Hinder Cancer Treatment?  Dr. Weil

  • The trouble with all these comments about vitamin C in the treatment of cancer is that none of them use high enough doses.  Sodium ascorbate administered in doses like 60-120 grams at the rate of 1 gram per minute intravenously 2 to 3 times a week produces peroxide in the cancer cells and selectively kills the cancer cells (See  the article, "Intravenous Ascorbate as a Chemotherapeutic and Biologic Response Modifying Agent," by Hugh Riordan, M.D., Neil H. Riordan, PA-C,  and Ronald E. Hunninghake, M.D.   (Note that alpha lipoic acid used at the same time seems to augment the effect of C on killing cancer.)  Any opinions based on lesser doses are evading the whole point, clouding the issue, and delaying this very useful treatment at the expense of many lost lives.  I named this effect of C on cancer "the Riordan Effect."  I would appreciate it if anyone who knows Dr. Weil would contact him and make him aware of this article.

• Vitamin C Causing Cancer Absurdity - Created by the journal Science article:

  • The Jume 14. 2001 articles in the Washington Post about vitamin C and cancer.   Lab Study Finds Vitamin C Dangers , Study: Vitamin C Pills May Damage DNA

  • Does Vitamin C Cause Cancer - or Here We Go Again, the Linus Pauling Institute Response! 

  • Vitamin C Attacks Continue - Vitamin C Foundation response

  • Trade Group Says Negative Vitamin C Stories "Sensationalized"

  • Google Search on "Vitamin C" + Cancer yields 88,800 links
    

• Vitamin C Found to Promote Cancer-Causing Agents

• Vitamin E For That Cut?

  • RFC comment:  This may be true.  Partly it depends upon how soon after healing the evaluation of the scar is done.  At first it does look redder.  The rashes are a problem for some.  It seems to have nothing to do with oral tolerance.   However, if one has ever used vitamin E oil on a second degree burn, they know how it relieves the pain in a few minutes, which at least one of my patients years ago said the little rash was worth the pain relief.  Aloe juice and particularly 3% sodium ascorbate solution is also good on burns without the problem of allergic reactions.

• Bugs Can Cure What Ails You

  • Interesting, if true.  This is why I am so fanatical about brands.

• FDA to decide if allergy drugs should be OTC

This article clearly spells out part of how drug companies think.  Did you know that your health is subject to this kind of thinking?  Wake up.

• Complementary And Alternative Therapies For Arthritis

  I find this article amazing.  It is the first time I have seen a source like Harvard say that there is any value in eliminating nightshades and other possible food allergins in arthritis.  It is about time considering that we have known this for years.

• FDA Approves Aventis Pasteur's New Low-Mercury Formulation of Tripedia

  How about approving a no mercury immunization?
  

• Docs urged to keep up with alternative medicine

• Vitamin E pills may not benefit the healthy

• Can My House Be Full Of Toxic Mold?

• Is Fibromyalgia A Pain Messenger Problem?

• More Evidence That Chronic Fatigue Might Not Be Physical

  Since fibromyalgia is a frequent symptom of the chronic fatigue syndrome, I guess his conclusion would be that if a person has a cough with a cold, it is psychological.

• Mysterious Syndromes Studied

  If you do not understand the disease, blame it on the patient.

• Study Knocks Hair Analysis

• FDA says jury still out on benefits of fish oil
  

• Am I Allergic to Running?       

Exercise increases the formation of free radicals.  Sometimes this is enough in some people to develop urticaria and other signs of anaphylaxis.  Massive doses of ascorbate will prevent this by neutralizing these extra free radicals.

• Internet becomes a vaccine battleground

• Half of US adults could soon be taking statin drugs
  

• Prescription drug disguised as "Chinese" medicine

  • This is a report we should take very seriously.

• Health Care Reality Check

• Rush to Treatment, Controversial Breast Cancer Therapy Should Not Have Been Used Before Data Was In

• The Importance Of Eating Oranges - And Other Sources Of Vitamin C - Dr. Dean Edell

  • It is true that vitamin C can treat asthma very successfully.  The problem is that with allergies the vitamin C is destroyed in the body far more rapidly than in a perfectly well person.   This fact means that in serious cases of asthma, the vitamin C in food is not adequate.  Vitamin C, in the form of ascorbic acid by mouth taken to bowel tolerance will change the lives of most children with asthma.  Usually, drugs can be abandoned.

• Tofu linked to mental decline in the elderly
  

• What Is A Good Vitamin Supplement For Carpal Tunnel?

  • This answer in frightening.  Physicians in general have been cutting vitamins for so long that they do not know the basic things about nutrients.  Vitamin B6 in the form of pyridoxine will help only a small number of patients with carpal tunnel syndrome.   These would be the patients who have an absolute deficiency of B6 in their diet, which is rare.  This finding was made by John Ellis, M.D., described in Vitamin B6: the Doctor's Report and in The Doctor Who Looked at Hands.  His patients where often women who ate a lot of well done beef.  B6 is heat volatile.  I found that in California, the land of fruits and nuts, that true B6 deficiency in the diet was rare and that the problem is that the patient lacks an enzyme that converts pyridoxine to P5P, pyridoxal 5 phosphate, and then the P5P goes off into the body and does B6 things.   Therefore, one should take P5P.  This is a basic example how in orthomolecular medicine we often bypass a metabolic block.

The other thing is the comment that B6 can be dangerous.  Yes, it can cause numbness and tingling, even finally a temporary paralysis but this is really not due to a B6 toxicity; it is an induced deficiency of other B vitamins causing beriberi or pellagra.   Anyone in orthomolecular medicine knows that you never give large doses of B6 without moderate doses of the other B vitamins.  If non-orthomolecular M.D.s would stop cutting vitamins, they might learn how to use them.

• Vitamins C, E May Help Aging Minds Stay Young

  • Note the attitude of this report as compared with the same story under Health News.

• Doctors Warns Against Big Doses Of Vitamin C During Cancer Treatment

• Heart Not be Protected by Vitamin C, Study Finds

  • This is the story that trigger off all this nonsense.  See the next 4 links.   Discussion of this big lie by the Vitamin C Foundation.

• Re: Vitamin C Foundation response to ABC News article

  • This pretends to be a balanced report but note the advertisement at the top, CBS Health Watch.  I wonder how many drugs CBS advertise whose sales would be hurt if the public understood the proper use of vitamin C.  The report originally came from ABC that advertises drugs.  And as for NBC, about 1978 their  reporter who had just won the Peabody (the rattlesnake in the mailbox story) did a piece on my work up at Incline Village.  She had two photographers who were shooting up film on several of my patients who had been cured suddenly of several infectious diseases (especially on the treatment of hepatitis) with intravenous vitamin C and  massive doses of ascorbic acid orally.  She said this was the best story she had ever done (better than the Peabody winning report?) but the story was squelched the day it was to be aired.  I wonder if they still have that story in the can in their library.  Photographers from PBS came to my office in Los Altos and did a story on my treatment of AIDS with massive doses of C.  They were very impressed but when the story was aired by Spencer Michaels a few nights later, the pitch was that it was quackery.
  • For 3 years straight back in the early '80s, writers who claimed to be writing for the National Enquirer interviewed me about massive doses of C.  The last time, I refused the interviews at first saying that they would never print it and we would be wasting out time.  The reporter was a nice guy and said they printed stuff like this all the time.  So I gave him the interview.  Three months later he called me and said that I was correct, they would not print it.
  • The fact of the matter is that news on massive doses of C has been kept secret by the major media.  I suspect because their advertisers would not like it.  The cost of this in lives and medical expenses has been enormous.

• Study: Vitamin C Pills Linked To Artery Clogging

  • These are ultrasound studies that show, if we can believe it, thickening of the walls of the carotid arteries.  Maybe this is the muscle layer around the artery.   Arteries carry blood at high pressures and thin some as we age.  Maybe, this thickening as a sign of the strengthening of the artery wall.  I will have to see more details of this study to know.  There has been absolutely no clinical evidence of this.  I have put over 25,000 patients on high doses (2,000 to 300,000 mg/day) of C since 1969 and there has been no sign of increasing arteriosclerosis is any of them as far as I know.  If this report is true as headlined, my practice should be full of patients with arteriosclerosis of the brain.  Remember that the drug companies want to put a bad rap on vitamin C.  As the public accepts vitamin C more and more, there will have to be more scare stories put out to prevent the decrease in sales of DRUGS.  

    One very subtile fact is that by scare tactics arguing over 500 mg doses of vitamin C, they completely hide the fact that to get dramatic cures of some diseases it takes 50 to 200 grams or more (50,000 to 200,000 mg or more) of vitamin C.  The amazing thing is that these huge doses do not cause these troubles but they keep us worrying about a pitiful 1/2 gram or 500 mg.  Really.

• Vitamin C Study: A Caution About Megadosing

  • They want something to be the matter with massive doses of vitamin C to cause some trouble so badly, they can taste it.  Anything said against vitamin C will be accepted as fact.  Never mind that it has been known since 1949 that vitamin C in massive doses can cure polio and other acute self-limiting viral diseases and many other diseases.  We shouldn't talk about that but should tell as facts the slightest speculation against vitamin C.

• Study links vitamin C pills with faster clogging of the arteries

  • You would think that these physicians would feel obliged to come to meetings of doctors who have been using megadoses of C for years before popping off as experts.  There are meetings where several hundred MD physicians meet to discuss nutrients but the "orthodox experts" never attend these meetings.  I guess that treating thousands of patients with nutrients and comparing notes with many other physicians who use these nutrients and the reading of journals on these subjects makes one a quack.   It is strange where if you have experience with nutrients, you are a quack but if you have no experience with nutrients, you are an expert in nutrients.  One would hope that some day these experts would become more than drug pushers. 

    It is interesting to see a subject like vitamin E being good for the heart being written about by the experts and never giving the Shute brothers any credit.  I am interested in who will discover titrating to bowel tolerance with ascorbic acid years from now so I can apologize to them for plagiarizing their work back in the '70s.

• Glucosamine Supplements May Raise Diabetes Risk

• I'm Afraid Of Bypass Surgery - Should I Try Chelation Instead? - Dr. Dean Edell

• Who Can We Believe About Vitamins? - Dr. Dean Edell

• New England Journal of Medicine admitted violating its financial conflict-of-interest policy 19 times over the past three years

• Maybe this is why there are no progressive articles about nutrients in the peer review literature.

• Vitamin E Might Protect Against Lung Cancer - But For
  Best Protection, Quit Smoking

  • Note the interesting bias.  Even though the study was done with Vitamin E capsules, it is said that natural foods are better.  And then quiting smoking is emphasized.   Anyone dumb enough to smoke in the first place is not really interested in their health or children around them.  This article should be primarily interesting to non-smokers.

• FDA EASES ALREADY INEFFECTIVE SUPPLEMENT REGULATIONS

• FDA Warns About Silver In Over-The-Counter Drugs

  • Comment by RFC:  I have worried about silver being used systemically because it is classified as a toxic mineral.  However, topically applied, it seems to be effective against many infections.  If I was still doing orthopaedic surgery, I would try silver plating pins uesd to fixate or apply traction to bones where the pin protrudes through the skin.  Many women have found that silver or gold earrings do not get infected where other types may.

• Eight-Year Hepatitis C Study Launched

Comment by RFC:  I really did not know where to put this article because it just illustrates a point of how much money and how many souls will be lost over a subject that is easily treated.  So far, I have never seen a case of acute viral hepatitis which was treated immediately with intravenous sodium ascorbate in the acute stage which ever persisted and went on to the chronic stage.  Usually, the jaundice is cleared in 4 to 5 days.  The SGOT and SGPT start dropping precipitously after the first IVC.  The patient feels better in 2 or 3 days.  Apparently the skin is stained and that is why the jaundice takes so long to go away.  It confounds me as to why this inexpensive, simple, nontoxic  treatment will not be applied to patients.

• Herbs And Drugs: Never Mix, Never Worry

• Criteria and Recommendations for Vitamin C Intake (from JAMA)

Comment by RFC: The amounts of vitamin C advised here are too low even for well people because of the toxic contaminations in our environment.  However, the major problem of this article is the complete misunderstanding  or ignoring of the potential of massive doses of vitamin C in the treatment of various diseases such as infections of all sorts, trauma, surgery, burns, autoimmune diseases, prevention of most allergic reactions to antibiotics, the reduction of complications of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, acute pain, etc..  Additionally, the existence of chronic conditions in the patients body such as undetected allergies, chronic pain, all sorts of stress, EBV, CMV, Hepatitis A thru C and +, Herpes 1 thru 6 & +, HIV 1 & 2, over-colonization of the gut with yeast, parasites, and some unwanted bacteria, and many other as yet undiscovered organisms, etc.,  generating free radicals have to be considered in determining the proper dose of vitamin C in a particular person.

• Federal Agency Warns Of Internet Health Fraud
• AMA, Alternative choices,  What It Means to Use Nonconventional Medical Therapy
• BETA-CAROTENE (Systemic) 
  • This reference from Johns Hopkins warns about the use of beta-carotene by smokers and people who have had exposure to asbestos in the past. This warning should be heeded.
• Natural? Safe? Drug Free? It Might Be None Of The Above
• Despite Misgivings, Herbal Medicine Flourishes

See below how the the law is after the Quackbusters but now the same people have a new organization to continue their propaganda.  The National Council Against Health Fraud, Enhancing Freedom of Choice through Reliable Health (mis)Information.

See the latest on how the idiot Quackbusters are taking gas!

Quackpot Barrett Crushed in Federal Court - Again.., June 25, 2003.

Quackwatch in Legal Trouble

I advise that you first look at the Quackwatch website (the following link) and then read the various exposures of the character of the people behind them.  You will then understand the dangerousness of this type of thinking.  Unfortunately, much of  orthodoxy relies on such as Quackwatch.  The effect is genocidal.

• Quackwatch - Operated by Stephen Barrett, M.D.

  • Read how backward and harmful Quackbusters are.  The big problem is that many orthodox doctors believe this junk.

• Quackbuster Removed From California State Job...

  • The public is finally finding out about the genocidal damage that these quackbusters have done to the public.  Women, children, oldsters and most others have been damaged or killed by the pushing of drugs where nutrients would do better.  Essentially, Bob Sinaiko's crime was to recognize the role of food allergies in the treatment of hyperactivity, and refused to drug children as demanded by the quackbusters.  So the bastards put this honorable, creative physician through hell.  This is one of the major reasons why real medical progress is so slow.  Medicine is so demoralized by this conspiracy and the malpractice crisis that you are lucky to get an English speaking nurse in the hospital.  Wages have to be cut so that hospitals can afford all the nonsense caused by the malpractice crisis  How can you expect that they tell the difference between right or left or A, B, O, AB, (+) or (-) if they work in a Tower of Babel or just don't care.  It is difficult to love your job in medicine these days.  Doctors are taught to and expected to use drugs, drugs, drugs.  Creative people no longer want to go into medicine.  No wonder mistakes are increasing in incidence and that those who still go into medicine do not care.  Under current circumstances, it can only get worse.  Lack of progress accumulates like compound interest.  Of course, the malpractice attorneys love this.  I estimate that for every case of malpractice prevented under the present system, thousands of people die, are maimed, or suffer unnecessarily because of the demoralization and retardation of medical practice.  The tragic thing is that the average person does not even know when they are a victim of all of this  They have had standard practice of the community medicine.  It will get worse and more expensive.

• The Quackbuster's Newest Victim (Wisconsin)...

• Who are these so-called "Quackbusters"

• Hell Burns a Little Brighter This Week...

• Quackpot menace BLOWN AWAY in Florida...

• Stephen Barrett's CRACKPOT lawsuits...

• Quackwatch-Quackpots falsehoods being revealed in court.  Please read this and see if you can help.

• Comment on this website by Owen R. Fonorow, President of the Vitamin C Foundation

• Wallace Sampson, M.D., The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine
• Stephen Barrett, M.D, on Linus Pauling and Vitamin C.
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• Hopkins Q&A: Which Studies to Take Seriously?
  • When reading this, bear in mind biochemical individuality.  You should care how a drug affects you, not how it affects a hundred or a thousand other people.
• Recommended Consumer Protection Publications
• Juice Bars: Too Many Vitamins?
• Superfluous Supplements?
• Conventional Wisdom on Vitamin C.   ASCORBIC ACID VITAMIN C)

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