Vit C for skin

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Age Spots, Basal Cell Carcinoma and Solar Keratosis

by , Doctor Yourself Staff Volunteer in Tennessee

I have fair skin and was often sunburned during childhood. Now I'm 57 years old and have had problems with age spots (discolored skin spots that look like freckles), basal cell carcinoma and solar keratoses on the skin of my temples, tops of ears and forehead. I go for a checkup at my dermatologist every six months. During my dermatologist checkup seven months ago my dermatologist said I had what appeared to be small (largest the diameter of a pencil lead) spots of basal cell carcinoma, age spots and solar keratoses. He recommended that I undergo a treatment during which I would go to his office and he would apply a cream that would dissolve the sun-damaged skin and new healthy skin would grow back on the affected areas. The treatment (application of the cream) would involve two visits a week to the dermatologist's office for an eight-week period (total of 16 office visits).

I told the dermatologist I would consider it. I did some research on the Internet and decided to try another approach.

I found that research involving vitamin C and cancer showed that in vitro, some types of human cancer cells were killed by relatively dilute concentrations of vitamin C, more types were killed with higher concentrations of vitamin C and all types were killed with the highest concentration of vitamin C. I decided I would try the following treatment and see what happened.

In the evening I take a hot shower to wash away oil on my skin and to open the skin pores. Immediately after drying, I apply a water solution of ascorbic acid vitamin C (directions for making the solution are below). The water solution of vitamin C dries on my skin in two or three minutes. When the water dries, a clearly visible thin coat of vitamin C crystals remains on the applied areas. My skin itches and stings a little for 30 minutes. I leave the vitamin C on my skin overnight and then wash it off in the morning. Small spots of basal cell carcinoma die and fall off in a couple of weeks. Small solar keratoses are killed. Age spots are bleached and become hardly visible. I continue this nightly application of ascorbic acid vitamin C water until the desired results are achieved or until it becomes obvious after a couple of weeks that the vitamin C is doing no further good.

One month ago I went to my dermatologist for a routine check. He killed some large solar keratoses by freezing with liquid nitrogen and he said I now have no areas of skin of concern.

http://dermatlas.med.jhmi.edu/derm/IndexDisplay.cfm?ImageID=-451564798 is a site showing many basal cell carcinomas. To see a close-up of any of them, just click on the image. Caution: the images are not pretty. I really don't worry about the very small spots of basal cell because I know I can kill them. They are very slow growing and it is extremely rare for them to metastasize. The trick is to kill them as soon as possible.

I worry about the solar keratosis; about two per cent will turn into squamous cell carcinoma.

I'm a chemical engineer, and by training and predisposition I try various ways to solve problems. I still have a number of solar keratoses on my forehead. They are not growing on the surface of the skin; they are growing beneath the skin surface. I can see them but can't get to them by applying vitamin C to the surface of my skin. I keep applying vitamin C and when small keratoses come to the surface of the skin, the vitamin C quickly kills them in just one or two applications. The problem is getting the vitamin C in contact with the keratoses.

It seems to me that vitamin C kills many types of abnormal cells.

I examine my skin daily. These skin problems are serious business. This is not a treatment that one can apply and then forget. I know that I'll be concerned about my skin for the rest of my life. About one million people are diagnosed with skin cancer every year and about 1,500 die as a result of skin cancer (at least half of those are from melanoma which does metastasize relatively easily). I also go to the dermatologist regularly. I don't always do what he says, but I do listen to what he says.

This is from the 1971 Klenner Vitamin C article posted on the Doctor Yourself website:

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

"Five percent ointment using a water soluble base will cure acute fever blisters if applied 10 or more times a day and we have removed several small basal cell epithelioma has with a 30 percent ointment."

How do I help prevent further sun damage to the skin? I wear a hat with a rim whose shadow covers my head, ear tips and upper face during the summer and I take extra vitamin C. The 1971 Klenner Vitamin C paper

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html says "one gram taken every one to two hours during exposure will prevent sunburn." Exposed parts of my skin turn red in the summer but the skin does not burn.

Preparation of Water-Saturated Vitamin C:

I take a small three-ounce juice glass, add about six grams of ascorbic acid vitamin C crystals (crushed tablets are OK too) and add just enough cool tap water to the glass to cover the vitamin C crystals. Stir well. Be sure after two minutes or so of stirring that there are still undissolved crystals in the bottom of the glass (If not, add a couple more grams of vitamin C crystals and stir again). The water in the glass is now saturated with vitamin C and is ready for use. Touch the tip of a finger in a saturated water solution of vitamin C. Touch the wet finger to the skin area to be treated. The water will evaporate in two or three minutes and leave a plainly visible coat of vitamin C crystals on the skin.

Becky

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