According to information he received from a colleague in New Zealand, John Appleton, the following occurred:
A Waikato farmer went to Fiji for a holiday and started developing flu-like symptoms, but decided to tough it out. He arrived back in New Zealand very sick with swine flu.
Tauranga Hospital was not able to treat him (what was not known at the time is that he has leukemia -- he didn't know either.) They sent him to Auckland Hospital, but he continued to deteriorate, despite the use of Tamiflu and antibiotics.
His brother-in-law (who knows a bit about vitamin C) contacted Dr. Thomas Levy in the U.S., who referred him to John Appleton.
John Appleton provided a lot of information on vitamin C and referred the family to CAM (Centre for Advanced Medicine), www.camltd.co.nz in Auckland. The family pushed to get him some IV vitamin C, but the hospital refused. CAM doctors encouraged the hospital to try vitamin C.
The patient deteriorated further and was on life support. The family was told nothing more could be done and life support would be switched off. His lungs were not functioning. The family said NO -- not until everything has been tried.
The hospital was pushed hard to give him IVC and reluctantly agreed, saying if there was no improvement by Friday, that's it.
The patient showed signs of improvement by Wednesday, to the hospital’s surprise.
Concerns were expressed about his kidneys, and a new specialist wanted to stop the vitamin C use -- the family was told his liver was failing, “caused by vitamin C”.
John Appleton gave them data showing the liver is more likely to be affected by antibiotics.
Patient recovery continued to the point where he could be transferred to Waikato (closer to home). He was still on a ventilator and NG tube feeding. The doctors there were more receptive to vitamin C, but wouldn't agree to continue the treatment.
The family got a high profile lawyer involved who wrote a letter about patient rights and called the hospital to recommend that they sort it out with the family.
As a result, the hospital continued with IVC, albeit at a much lower dose. A CAM doctor traveled to Waikato to endorse the treatment and recommend IVC at higher doses. The patient continued to recover -- he was now conscious.
The hospital staff was stunned -- they had never seen anything like this.
The patient was told by his brother-in-law that IVC had saved him. The patient’s wife had not lost her husband and the children have their father. The patient was by this time fully 'with it' and talking normally with family and taking Lypospheric vitamin C (6 grams daily).
For those doctors wondering about doses, Dr. Levy communicated directly with the brother-in-law to find out.
On the Tuesday following the initial "deadline," 25 grams were given intravenously.
On Wednesday, 25 gram infusions were again repeated twice.
Thursday the patient received 75 grams.
Starting on Friday he received 100 grams intravenously and stayed at this dose daily for another 4 to 6 days.
Then the new consultant had the vitamin C discontinued completely.
One week later, the IVC was restarted at only one gram twice daily.
Dr. Levy encourages everyone to resend this case history to any and all who you think could benefit, including your friends and contacts in the government.
Obviously, a reasonable daily dose of vitamin C could be expected to do an even better job at preventing H1N1 while having no downside relative to the mass vaccinations getting ready to take place.
I’m very pleased to share this case report I recently received from him, where a patient fully recovered from a near-lethal case of the swine flu, using intravenous vitamin C.
The report also illustrates just how difficult it may be to get a conventional hospital to concede to such measures. Fortunately, this man’s family was both resourceful and insistent.
Vitamin C and Infectious Disease
In one of his articles, Dr. Levy describes the mechanics of vitamin C, and how it works to treat infectious diseases such as the flu.
According to Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (who won the Nobel Prize in 1937 for his discovery of vitamin C), “health” occurs when there is an ample flow and interchange of electrons in your cells. Impaired or poor electron flow and interchange equals “disease,” and when the flow and interchange ceases entirely, your cells die.
Oxidation, caused by free radicals in your body, involves the loss of electrons.
Antioxidants counters the disease process caused by oxidation (loss of electrons) by supplying electrons.
Vitamin C is a major antioxidant, and according to Dr. Levy, perhaps the most important “electron donor” to maintain optimal electron flow in your cells.
Using vitamin C to combat infectious diseases is not new, yet conventional medicine can be quite resistant to the idea, as this case report shows. Even when the man was on his death bed the hospital was still unwilling to give him intravenous vitamin C, despite the fact they had absolutely nothing left in their own toolkit!
In 2005, the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (anon-profit and non-commercial informational resource), published findings that vitamin C beats bird flu and other viruses:
“High dose vitamin C is a remarkably safe and effective treatment for viral infections. In high doses, vitamin C neutralizes free radicals, helps kill viruses, and strengthens your body's immune system.
Taking supplemental vitamin C routinely helps prevent viral infections.
The Avian Flu (or Bird Flu), so often mentioned by newspapers, magazines and other news sources, is a particularly severe form of influenza. It should probably be called Poultry Flu, since almost all of the 150 or so human infections have come from domestic poultry.
Interestingly, the symptoms of avian flu include hemorrhages under the skin, and bleeding from the nose and gums. These are also classical symptoms of clinical scurvy, which means a critical vitamin C deficiency is present. This means that vitamin C (ascorbate) is needed to treat it.
Severe cases may require 200,000 to 300,000 milligrams of vitamin C or more, given intravenously (IV) by a physician.
This very high dosing may be needed since the Avian Flu appears to consume vitamin C very rapidly, similar to an acute viral hemorrhagic fever, somewhat like an Ebola infection.”
They even stated that vitamin C, at saturation, can replace antiviral drugs.
Here are three other sources discussing the remarkable benefits of vitamin C for infectious diseases such as the flu:
Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, 1999 found that vitamin C in megadoses administered before or after the appearance of cold and flu symptoms relieved and prevented the symptoms in the test population compared with the control group.
Orthomed.com – Dr. Robert Cathcart, MD, also offers personal case studies where intravenous administration of vitamin C turned out to be lifesaving in cases of acute flu complications.
“It is not really a matter of medicine; it is a matter of chemistry. Doses of ascorbate which are massive enough to force a reducing redox potential into tissues affected by the disease will always neutralize the free radicals,” he says.
Alternatives to Dangerous and Poorly Tested Flu Vaccines
It’s nice to know there are at least two viable alternatives to conventional flu treatments, especially now that governments and health officials everywhere are gearing up to inoculate as many as possible with the experimental swine flu vaccine.
The other alternative, of course, is vitamin D, which I have already mentioned in previous articles.
Although the studies proving vitamin D’s protective powers against the flu do not include the swine flu virus specifically (it’s too new), it’s likely that vitamin D can offer protection against swine flu as well.
Flu viruses mutate each year, yet people with sufficient vitamin D levels appear more or less immune to the seasonal flu without regard for which strain is currently in circulation.
There is so much compelling evidence, that I believe keeping your vitamin D levels optimized year-round is one of the absolute best strategies for avoiding infections of ALL kinds, and vitamin D deficiency is likely the TRUE culprit behind the seasonal flu -- not the flu virus itself.
If you are coming down with flu-like symptoms and have not been on vitamin D you can take doses of 50,000 units a day for three days to treat the acute infection. Some researchers like Dr. Cannell believe the dose could even be as high as 1,000 units per pound of body weight for three days.
That said, there’s always the possibility that if you’ve never been exposed to the antigens, there is a chance that the vitamin D might not work, even in these megadoses.
Ultimately, your best bet is to maintain healthy levels of vitamin D around 60 ng/ml year-round. For more in-depth information about test values, recommended labs, and the treatment of vitamin D deficiency, please review this previous article.
It’s important to remember that every nutrient you ingest raises or lowers up to nine other nutrients in your body.
Every nutrient needs certain synergistic nutrients, and if you are already low in those synergistic nutrients, taking more of one thing will only further deplete the existing deficient levels, worsening any problems relating to that nutrient’s metabolism.
For example, taking large doses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) on a regular basis lowers your level of copper, so if you are already deficient in copper and take high doses of vitamin C, you can compromise your immune system.
So, whereas temporarily taking megadoses of vitamin C supplements to combat a case of the cold or flu is likely not going to cause a problem, for long-term, daily use, your best bet is to eat an diet that is full of high quality organic vegetables and fruits that are minimally processed. Not only will you get vitamin C, but you will get all the other accessory nutrients and micronutrients that are needed to optimize it.
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Posted On Sep 08, 2009
In 1948, a North Carolina physician, Dr. Klenner in his efforts to treat children infected with poilo, found that high doasage vitamin C therapy was highly effective and almost universally successful in treating this disease. As described in the above post, it is also effective against MANY viral syndromes. A Dr. Cathcart enhanced Dr. Klenner's work and simplified these therapies so that lower and oral doages could be used. This survey article from the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine is very informative www.seanet.com/.../landwehr-r-j_orthomol_med-1991-v6-n2-p99.htm The key thing to understand is not only the resistance of the Allopathic community (aka CULT) to these cheap and effective therapies, but also that the Medical-Pharmaceutical cartel, using trade law such as Codex is determined to remove Vitamin supplements from the market so that you will not even be able to get these therpaies over the counter. Have no doubt about this, the profit motive is at work here, not any interest in your health or well being and certainly not your health freedom.
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scintilla1 Novice UserJoined On 2/2008 Send Message Add as FriendPosted On Sep 24, 2009
NB: "...he continued to deteriorate, DESPITE the use of Tamiflu and antibiotics." The deterioration was probably because of the drugs, laid on top of the double whammy of infection added to an unrecognized underlying disease (leukemia) -- which in turn is related to antioxidant deficiency.
Great that the hospital staff got their eyes opened at least temporarily. Wonder how many will go into denial and explain this away? Any bets they keep denying this to other patients? Good for the family to have put up a fight. Everyone family should throw lawsuits at doctors who won't use natural therapies, long before the patient is at death's door.
In a national single-payer system you'd think people would want to get a patient out of expensive ICU as soon as possible. Natural therapies which help do that is simple logic. But Canada's official medical system is gung-ho for Tamiflu and vaccines, and the compliant media is keeping up the selling job despite adverse reports, e.g. "Unpublished studies question whether seasonal flu shot raises swine flu risk", by medical reporter Helen Branswell. (Canadian Press story)
When I heard this on radio, I imagined panic ensuing among "vaccinologists":
"Officials are scrambling to contain the outbreak of truth on the airwaves. Because this hit fast from an unexpected quarter (an unpublished report), the issue has been boosted from level 5 to level 6 in pandemic preparedness. New vaccines of disinformation larded with poisonous adjuvants of overblown concern for public health are being rushed to news markets without prior testing."
Dr. Jonathan Wright explained in one of his newsletters (last year?) that antioxidants were demonstrated in some comparative studies to reduce ICU time for trauma patients and to improve outcomes. As part of a finance committee he tried to convince the hospital to adopt this as a cost-saving measure, but it was turned down "for medical reasons".
I don't know what the requirements to sue a doctor are in your area, but in the US another doctor must certify that mal-practice took place.
Not easy to get another doctor to do that.
I had surgery, which the doctor talked me into, and had a horrible outcome. -- When I talked to an attorney about it, he said: "That is a 'known consequence' of that surgery, so it would be hard to prove that it was mal-practice".
It wasn't "known" to me, but evidently that doesn't matter.
Doctors are "important people" in the community. "We" evidently are not.
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NaturalHealthEd Novice UserJoined On 6/2009 Send Message Add as FriendPosted On Sep 24, 2009
It's so sad that almost every real change in the medical world comes about only after many lives are lost and ruined. I heard someone say that doctors and the medical establishment take to change like a hippopotamus putting on a girdle.
That's why it's so important what Dr. Mercola and many others are doing - educating the world. Without correct information, it's very difficult to make informed decisions. Look at how important it was for that man's life that his brother had heard about Dr. Levy.
If you want to watch a very revealing video about vitamin c given by Dr. Levy, yo can here: http://ow.ly/qRmF
Vitamin c treatment is very powerful indeed, as are many other natural treatments. The more one learns, the better choices you are able to make for yourself and your loved ones.
Check out the studies by researcher Dr. Linus Pauling. Dr. Pauling was the recipient of much ridicule once his findings on the effects of Vitamin C were published. Even today many try to label Dr. Pauling's discoveries as pure Quackery. I guess this is why the WHO has restricted the amount of Vitamin C shipped to The African Continent. According to Dr. Pauling, Vitamin C properly administered, will kill any virus.
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ET Novice UserJoined On 7/2006 Send Message Add as FriendPosted On Sep 24, 2009
You mention Dr Cathcart, and so does Dr. Levy in a presentation he made to the Cancer convention. It seems that this site doesn't allow links, so if you are interested go to Youtube, and search for Dr. Levy. There are 4 videos in this series, and @ 4:25 in the third video Dr. Levy states that 5 grams of Lypo-Spheric Vitamin C is "clinically more effective than 50 grams of IV "C", and yet he doesn't mention it in the above article.
Very strange.
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KelleyEidem Savvy UserJoined On 11/2007 Send Message Add as FriendPosted On Sep 25, 2009
Another great use for vitamin c is to detoxify from anesthesia AFTER surgery. The drug can stay in your system for up to a year otherwise, affecting memory and fatigue.
For the same reason, avoid vitamin c for a day or two prior to surgery to avoid a paralyzed state of awakening. The "c" can detoxify the anesthesia which can result in feeling the surgery but being paralyzed and unable to communicate the horrific situation.
The seeming rocky resistance of the allopathic system, is going to be just
so much powdery gravel as the diamond-hard Truth impacts it time after time.
The grinding however must be done with gentle precision.
His Word puts it thus - Speak the Truth in Love.
Love is the answer to everything, and guess what?
The Body of Believers (in His Word) is compared to the human body.
And what is the (spiritual) collagen which holds the cells together? LOVE!
What's the (spiritual) protection which repels destructive attacks? LOVE!
So when we think of Vitamin C - let's be thankful for His LOVE.
When we think of LOVE, let's be thankful for Vitamin C.
Right now I'm seeing the universal symbol for infinity...
Come visit us at endureinstrength.org
Blessings!
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BobK50 Novice UserJoined On 9/2009 Send Message Add as FriendPosted On Sep 27, 2009
Just the kind of article folks need to see. If people become aware of the need to supplement with vitamins and trace minerals, we can reverse the epidemics of diabetes, MS and even cancer and heart disease. But what prompted me to post is comment is that the article neglected to mention that people taking high levels of Vitamin C should also increase their intake of Magnesium - otherwise they run a higher risk of developing kidney stones.
Kidney stones are no fun. Vitamin C is great, but the caveat should be included.
A couple of things: 1. If taking high doses of vitamin C, do NOT use "Ester C" - it's calcium ascorbate and will give you an unhealthy dose of calcium. Even if you're taking just 5000 mg. a day of ester C, the calcium dose you're getting can be considered to be high. Robert Cathcart and Linus Pauling failed to mention that they were using sodium ascorbate for their IV use as well as oral use. Sodium ascorbate is a buffered form of vitamin C because of the salt. The salt is NOT table salt which is sodium chloride, which is the culprit for hypertension and all the negative associations with salt. Sodium ascorbate will generally not produce any of those problems. Sodium ascorbate is the safest, best buffered version of vitamin C you can take.
2. Kidney stones. Robert Cathcart maintains that in most people, high dose sodium ascorbate actually prevents kidney stones. While he says there may be some people who can develop kidney stones, sufficient intake of water should help prevent this.
3. High dose C above 10 grams a day for any extended time has the ability to leech all minerals from your body, not just copper. So a comprehensive mineral supplement is recommended if taking large amounts of C.
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beht Novice UserJoined On 8/2008 Send Message Add as FriendPosted On Sep 24, 2009
I have to add to my post to say also that taking high amounts of vitamin C for a few days to battle a cold or flu or anything like that is great and effective, but one thing is important to remember and this also applies for IV vitamin C use: you can't just take high amounts and suddenly stop. Cathcart will talk about this on his site. Even if you're taking as low as 8 grams a day, which I do, you can't just stop overnight. Well of course you can, and I've done it, but it's not a good idea. On any high dose of vitamin C, if you want to go back down or stop altogether, do it a little gradually, as otherwise, it shocks your body and can actually leave you open to infection for a few days.
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N. C. Apprentice UserJoined On 11/2006 Send Message Add as FriendPosted On Sep 24, 2009
I also use sodium ascorbate (Nature's Way The Right C 500 mg caps). It might be made from GM corn, but I still use it for now. Natural C products are just too expensive for therapeutic use. Nature's Way also has cal/mag ascorbate 500 mg caps with only 4 mg calcium and 4 mg magnesium, although I prefer sodium ascorbate.
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prosilver Novice UserJoined On 2/2009 Send Message Add as FriendPosted On Sep 24, 2009
Before retiring, I worked for a nutriceutical company for several years that has the largest selling vitamin C product in the US. The company founder worked with Pauling, Stone, Gyorgyi and Hoffer to develop a C that could be given in high doses without the high acidity of ascorbic acid alone. Ascorbic acid is not C, the mineral ascorbates are, but you need all eight of them in balance. Not just sodium alone.
No doubt a person with undiagnosed chronic scurvy (which is what a lot of illness is) will respond favorably to the addition of any of the ascorbates, but for maximal results I would certainly not depend solely on sodium ascorbate. Calcium and sodium ascorbate are only 1/4 of the ascorbate complex that makes up vitamin C. There is also magnesium, potassium, zinc, manganese, chromium... and I can't remember the 8th one, but it is important, too.
The downside to mineral ascorbates is that, with the exception of calcium, magnesium and sodium, the others degrade quickly. So quickly that they cannot be packaged for marketing.
Recognizing the problem, it was determined that all of the necessary minerals, in natural body ratios to one another, must be reacted and immediately consumed. This was done by combining the 8 minerals, in carbonate form, with ascorbic acid and some natural fruit flavor, packed as powder in individual one dose hermetically sealed packets. When water is added to the packet contents in a glass the acid reacts with the mineral carbonates and, Voila! a glass of true vitamin C is created for immediate consumption.
The company is Alacer. The product is Emergen-C. The creator of the product is probably one of the great unsung heros of Vitamin C research. His name is Jay Patrick. He passed away at the age of 92 and ran the company every day until about a week before his demise. He had to be dragged to the hospital. His diet was deplorable and he got no exercise. I attribute his longevity to his massive consumption of his own invention.
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beht Novice UserJoined On 8/2008 Send Message Add as FriendPosted On Sep 24, 2009
Prosilver: The other mineral ascorbates are simply not to be taken at high doses as they all could produce very severe problems very quickly. For a daily supplement at a normal dosage, that product sounds fine. But for use in IV or high oral doses, the only really safe ones are sodium ascorbate or pure ascorbate, and I again leave calcium ascorbate out of the safe ones for high doses. All of Cathcart's and Pauling's research was done with sodium ascorbate.As I say, multi-mineral ascrobates for smaller daily doses is probably better than anything but are dangerous to use for the purpose of this thread.
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CCurtis Apprentice UserJoined On 7/2007 Send Message Add as FriendPosted On Sep 25, 2009
LoriJean, I also use garlic when I get a cold. Only I boil it in broth (any kind). I take an entire head of fresh garlic, peel, cut and boil in a couple cups of broth until it is mush and the broth reduced to a thickened broth but not too syrupy. I drink this and the cold goes away much faster (although you will smell like garlic through your pores). But who cares about the smell -- if your home sick and avoiding everyone, then no one will mind!
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Posted On Sep 24, 2009
It's all about the oxygen and alkalinity balance in the body... As we get too acidic and the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood diminishes (mostly from processed foods and stress) the good bacteria die and can't defend us against the pathogens. That's why hydrogen peroxide is so good... and high dose intravenous C... as well as magnesium chloride and bi-carb of soda, and sufficient drinking of clean water (not polluted with fluoride, chlorine, heavy metals etc. See protocol by Dr Mark Sircus www.imva.info/.../medical-news-commentaries-life-and-death-oxygen-and-cancer.html
In these conditions the bad bacteria, parasites and viruses can't survive. As Dr Mercola said, a balance of nutrients is important... So if you have huge amounts of 'calcium ascorbate' and if you already have too much calcium and not enough magnesium you are doing more harm than good. Calcium deposits in the arteries, joints and other soft tissue is the result. In this case find a different form of vitamin C like acsorbic acid (better still, mixed with hesperidin and other complementary nutrients... and if taking orally mix with freshly squeezed lemon (not processed juice) because the living enzymes add extra power to the powdered C... like a catalyst. A 'whole' and more complementary approach means you need less quantity - just more 'balance'.
Vitamin C is an essential nutrient, but when it is in an isolated and/or synthetic form, it is quite poorly absorbed and can actually adversely affect our health!According to one human study, 1500 mg (total) of isolated and/or synthetic vitamin C per day can cause iron deficiency and anaemia!
Most of the isolated and/or synthetic vitamin C consumed is unused by the body. What's worse, it puts a negative strain on your liver and kidneys to excrete it, and it is quite acid forming in the body! If a vitamin C is an ingredient of a product, it is synthetic and/or isolated. If it is naturally contained in the ingredient(s), it is naturally occurring (as it is in our product)! Ascorbic Acid and Calcium Ascorbate are synthetic/isolated forms of Vitamin C. "Ester-C" has a few elements added back to an isolated vitamin C molecule and is therefore more absorbable than Ascorbic Acid or Calcium Ascorbate. However, Truly Natural Vitamin C™ has all of the naturally occurring elements synergistically present and bonded (including naturally occurring bioflavonoids) because it is 100% food (100% Acerola Cherry Powder).
Truly Natural Vitamin C contains naturally occurring vitamin C in a complex. It is non-toxic in low or high dosages, highly absorbable, and therefore is rarely excreted (expensive waste) through your urine. Other products sometimes give the illusion of being totally or partially whole food products, but in reality, they actually are not!Vitamin C never occurs as an isolate in nature. It is always a part of an entire Vitamin C complex.
There are many "Vitamin C with rose hips and acerola" type products out there. Every one of those products we have seen has a very small amount of rose hips and/or acerola (which are plants naturally high in absorbable vitamin C) with a whopping amount of synthetic and/or isolated Vitamin C! Vitamin C mixed with whole foods is not the same as vitamin C contained in whole foods. The superfoods added "on the side" are good for you, but not the main ingredients or the supplement as a whole! Get your Vitamin C the way nature truly intended!http://www.edenhealthfoods.com.au/product_details.php?cat=2&pid=43