Are you getting enough vitamin C? Is your body absorbing it? Some lucky persons normally need just a few hundred milligrams per day whereas many others will need many grams per day for optimum health. In addition, one person’s need for vitamin C will vary greatly from day to day depending on his health, environment, activity, food intake, etc. One’s vitamin C requirements can jump 100-fold in several hours when the body is under attack.
C-STRIPS are chemically treated test papers (2.5cm x 0.75 cm) used for measuring the vitamin C content of urine and certain other liquids. The presence of Vitamin C will turn the papers from blue to white. They were conceived, developed, and first manufactured by Wholesale Nutrition in 1972, and are available exclusively from us or our representatives. Our C-Strips have a greater range, better accuracy, and are less than one-tenth the cost of competitive products. In addition, C-Strips are specific for the reduced form of Vitamin C, whereas other products will give false indications in the presence of dehydroascorbic acid, the oxidized form of vitamin C, which is a waste product.
Therefore, you’ll find these quick, convenient, and cheap tests for your body’s vitamin C status to be extremely useful. With them you can determine your overall optimum vitamin C requirement and also alert yourself of an impending sickness and the need of an increased, or massive, dose. It has been shown that an infection depletes the urine’s vitamin C a full day BEFORE a fever develops!
At first, you should use C-Strips frequently until you have a feel for how much vitamin C your body needs and how your own unique body reacts to various stresses. After your initial familiarization, occasional use of the test will keep you in optimum health at least cost. When you are ill or if you’re ever injured or poisoned (for example by snake bite, carbon monoxide, etc.), you can use C-Strips to ensure that you’re staying on top of your body’s extra need for vitamin C by testing at every opportunity until the challenge has passed. In acute situations, intake of vitamin C at 20-minute intervals is more effective than larger doses less often.
Vitamin C is water-soluble and so the extra amounts that you take can’t be stored very long. This extra C is removed from the bloodstream by the kidney and passes out of the body through the bladder with the urine. Many think this “unused” vitamin C is wasted and that large doses suggested by Drs. Linus Pauling, Irwin Stone, Bob Cathcart, Fred Klenner, and others, are unnecessary. However, it has already been shown that an excess of vitamin C continually flowing out with the urine:
(1) removes detritus and clears cloudy urine within hours,
(2) may offer protection against bladder cancer,
(3) dissolves (and prevents) kidney and bladder stones,
(4) cures (and prevents) painful urination due to inflammation of the urethra,
(5) cures (and prevents) urinary tract infections and blood in the urine due to unknown causes,
(6) indicates that the body is supplied with vitamin C and that it’s prepared to instantly mount an attack against infection, injury, shock, or stress, anywhere in the body.
Please note that these benefits are due only to the extra vitamin C that some assume is “wasted”. When treating patients with acute symptoms from toxic exposure, infection or other challenges, Dr. Fred Klenner administered large doses of intravenous ascorbate, and he used a urine test to ensure that the patient was getting enough ascorbate to fight the challenge. His test used silver nitrate solution, which is toxic. Testing with a C-Strip is easier to perform and easier to read than Dr. Klenner’s silver nitrate test. C-Strips are also nontoxic.
For a good overview of the role of ascorbate in health and healing see Dr. Tom Levy’s lecture on the Mega-C web site of Smart Life Forum. There you will also find information on Dr. Levy’s November, 2001 book which reviews over 1,200 peer-reviewed journal papers on vitamin C and infections and toxins published in mainstream journals over the latter part of the last century. For additional information about vitamins and supplements you can visit the Wholesale Nutrition website where you will find numerous articles and literature.
About the Author: Oscar Falconi, author of “The Miracle of Vitamin C” received a BS in physics from MIT. He worked and published in that field until 1970 when he founded Wholesale Nutrition. Since then, Mr. Falconi has dedicated nearly 4 decades of his life to helping people achieve greater brain and body wellness. For more information about C-Salts, otherwise known as the best Vitamin C, or about other Vitamin C powder products, visit http://www.nutri.com where you can buy Vitamins and Supplements of the highest quality.
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