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Excellent article . I'll have to up our doses at home. Thanks.

Rick

Putting the " C " in Cure: Quantity and Frequency are the Keys to

Ascorbate Therapy

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:31:58 -0600

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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, December 15, 2009

PUTTING THE " C " IN CURE:

Quantity and Frequency are the Keys to Ascorbate TherapyComment by W.

Saul

Editor-In-Chief, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

(OMNS, December 15, 2009) What is it about a little left-handed molecule of

six carbons, six oxygens, and eight hydrogens that ticks off so many in the

medical community? Maybe it's cases like this one: Ray, a health professional I

know, had an 11-month old son who was very sick for over a week. No one, and I

mean no one, in their family had had any sleep in a long time. They were up

night after night with this child, who had a high fever, glazed watery eyes,

tons of thick watery mucus and labored breathing. The child would not sleep, and

did little else but cry. The baby was under the care of a pediatrician, who, in

the infant's eleven months on earth, had already prescribed twelve rounds of

some very serious antibiotics. That they clearly were not working was all too

apparent to Ray, who out of desperation decided to try something he previously

had been taught to not try: bowel tolerance quantities of oral ascorbate. Ray

and his wife gave their baby vitamin C about every 15 minutes. As a result, the

baby was noticeably improved in a matter of hours, and slept through the night.

With frequent doses continuing, the child was completely well in less than 48

hours. Ray calculated that the child had received just over 2,000 mg vitamin C

per kilogram body weight per day. This is even more than what vitamin C expert

Dr. Frederick Klenner customarily ordered for sick patients. Remarkably,

at 20,000 milligrams of vitamin C/day, that baby never had bowel-tolerance loose

stools. (1)

With such a little body, you have to marvel at where all that ascorbate was

going. Of course, it is the opinion of those who promulgate the US RDA and

related nutritional mythology that almost all of that baby's vitamin C went

uselessly into the toilet. Ray and his wife would tell you differently. They

would say that their sick child soaked it up like a sponge, and then promptly

got better. You choose the answer that works for you.

Quantity of Dose

Dr. Frederick Klenner earned his MD from Duke University School of

Medicine and was subsequently board certified in diseases of the chest. (2) A

working summation of Dr. Klenner's therapeutic use of vitamin C is 350

milligrams vitamin C per kilogram body weight per day (350 mg/kg/day), in

divided doses. (3) Since a kilogram is about 2.2 pounds, this translates to:

mg of Vitamin " C "

Body Weight

Number of Doses

Amount per dose

35,000 mg

220 lb

17-18

2,000 mg

18,000 mg

110 lb

18

1,000 mg

9,000 mg

55 lb

18

500 mg

4,500 mg

28 lb

9

500 mg

2,300 mg

14-15 lb

9

250 mg

1,200 mg

7-8 lb

9

130 - 135 mg

Although these quantities may seem high, Dr. Klenner actually used as much as

four times as much for serious viral illness, administered by injection. The

oral doses listed above are, for the doctor, comparatively moderate.

Frequency of Dose

For those unable to obtain intravenous vitamin C, it is essential to pay

special attention to one of the most important aspects of vitamin C therapy:

dividing the dosage improves absorption and retention of vitamin C. High oral

doses of vitamin C yield higher blood levels of the vitamin, and dividing the

oral doses maintains those higher levels. Although initially seeming almost too

obvious to mention, these are not self-evident concepts. Many a medical website

and government-based dietary recommendation hinge on ignoring them.

, PhD, writes: " Stressed and even mildly ill people can tolerate 1,000

times more vitamin C, implying a change in biochemistry that was ignored in

creating the RDA. In setting the RDA, unsubstantiated risks of taking too much

vitamin C have been accorded great importance, whereas the risks of not taking

enough have been ignored. Real scientists understand that 'no scientific proof'

is a fancy way of saying 'we don't like this idea.' " (4)

And there is ample proof to not like. Vitamin C, in very high doses, has been

used to successfully treat several dozen illness (5), with a published,

peer-reviewed literature spanning the last 60 years. Therefore, the

effectiveness and safety of megadose vitamin C therapy should, by now, be

yesterday's news. Yet I never cease to be amazed at the number of persons who

remain unaware that vitamin C is the best broad-spectrum antibiotic,

antihistamine, antitoxic and antiviral substance there is. Equally surprising is

the ease with which some people, most of the medical profession, and virtually

all of the media have been convinced that, somehow, vitamin C is not only

ineffective but is also downright dangerous.

Bias against Ascorbate Therapy

When you pick up a health or nutrition book and need to know really fast if it

is any good or not, just check the index for " Klenner " and three other key

names: Cathcart, Stone, and ing. F. Cathcart, an orthopedic surgeon,

administered huge doses of vitamin C to tens of thousands of patients for

decades (6), without generating a single kidney stone. Irwin Stone, the

biochemist who first put Linus ing onto vitamin C, is the author of The

Healing Factor: Vitamin C against Disease. (7) ing cites Stone thirteen

times in his landmark book How to Live Longer and Feel Better (8), a

recommendation if there ever was one. The importance of vitamin C's power

against infectious and chronic disease is extraordinary. To me, omitting it is

tantamount to deleting Shakespeare from an English Lit course.

Because of such bias, the primary way patients (and through them, their

physicians) have been exposed to Dr. Klenner's work has been through Dr. Lendon

's 68-page Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C: The Clinical Experiences

of Frederick R. Klenner, M.D. (9) Upon discovering this book, one of my

undergraduates submitted a paper to another class discussing a substantial

number of medical references she had found on vitamin C as a cure for polio.

That course's instructor told me privately that the student's work was absurd,

and he literally described her as a " dial tone. " I recall a nutritional

presentation I made to a hospital staff. All was going well until I mentioned

using vitamin C as an antibiotic, as Dr. Klenner did. The mood changed quickly.

And how many of us have heard this old saw: " If vitamin C was so good, every

doctor would be prescribing it! "

Cardiologist Levy, MD, explains: " I could find no mainstream medical

researcher who has performed any clinical studies on any infectious disease with

vitamin C doses that approached those used by Klenner. Using a small enough dose

of any therapeutic agent will demonstrate little or no effect on an infection or

disease process. " (10)

Preventive Doses

Dr. Klenner recommended daily preventive doses of 10,000 to 15,000 mg/day. He

advised parents to give their children their age in vitamin C grams (1 g = 1,000

mg). That would be 2,000 mg/day for a two year old, 9,000 mg/day for a nine year

old, and for older children, a leveling-off at about 10,000 mg/day. As for me, I

simply say, " Take enough C to be symptom free, whatever that amount may be. " It

worked for my family. I raised my children all the way into college and they

never had a dose of any antibiotic. Not once.

It is high time for medical professionals to welcome vitamin C megadoses and

their power to cure the sick. Cure is by far the best word there is in medicine.

It would seem that you cannot spell " cure " without " C. " I do not think Dr.

Klenner would dispute that.

( W. Saul taught nutrition, health science and cell biology at the

college level, and has won three New York State teacher fellowships. He is the

author of Doctor Yourself and Fire Your Doctor! and, with Dr. Abram Hoffer,

co-author of Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone and The Vitamin Cure for

Alcoholism. Saul is featured in the documentary film Food Matters.)

References:

(1) Bowel tolerance as an indicator of vitamin C saturation is discussed by

Dr. RF Cathcart at http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html and

http://www.doctoryourself.com/cathcart_thirdface.html

(2) For more about Dr. Klenner's life and work:

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerbio.html

(3) Klenner FR. The significance of high daily intake of ascorbic acid in

preventive medicine, p 51-59, in: A Physician's Handbook on Orthomolecular

Medicine, Third Edition, , PhD, ed. Keats, 1979.

(4) Hickey S and H. Ascorbate: The science of vitamin C. 2004. ISBN

1-4116-0724-4. ville, NC: Lulu.

(5) http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitaminc.html

(6) http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_cathcart.html

(7) The complete text of Irwin Stone's book The Healing Factor is posted for

free reading at http://vitamincfoundation.org/stone/

(8) ing L. How to Live Longer and Feel Better, revised edition, 2006.

ISBN-13: 9780870710964. Reviewed at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/livelonger.html

(9) The full text of Dr. Frederick R. Klenner's Clinical Guide to the Use of

Vitamin C is posted for free reading at

http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/198x/smith-lh-clinical_guide_1988.htm

(10) Levy TE. Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins: Curing the

Incurable. Livon Books, 2002. ISBN: 1-4010-6963-0 and 978-1401069636

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