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Are Vitamins and Supplements Safe?

Phil Le Breton — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:01:15 +0000

Here at Wholesale Nutrition, we highly value valid research related to vitamins and supplements. We are continually impressed with the reports from Orthomolecular Medicine News Service and would like to share some of their content with you from time to time. We hope you find it as fascinating as we do!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, December 28, 2011

No Deaths from Vitamins
America’s Largest Database Confirms Supplement Safety

(OMNS, Dec 28, 2011) There was not even one death caused by a vitamin supplement in 2010, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System.

The new 203-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published online at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2010%20NPDS%20Annual%20Report.pdf, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.

Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or dietary mineral supplement.

Three people died from non-supplement mineral poisoning: two from medical use of sodium and one from non-supplemental iron. On page 131, the AAPCC report specifically indicates that the iron fatality was not from a nutritional supplement.

Fifty-seven poison centers provide coast-to-coast data for the National Poison Data System, “one of the few real-time national surveillance systems in existence, providing a model public health surveillance system for all types of exposures, public health event identification, resilience response and situational awareness tracking.”

Well over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. Even if each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes 165,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 60 billion doses annually. Since many persons take far more than just one single vitamin or mineral tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of nutritional supplements is all the more remarkable.

Over 60 billion doses of vitamin and mineral supplements per year in the USA, and not a single fatality. Not one.

If vitamin and mineral supplements are allegedly so “dangerous,” as the FDA and news media so often claim, then where are the bodies?

Reference:

Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Dart RC. 2010 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers’ National Poison Data System (NPDS): 28th Annual Report. The full text article is available for free download at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2010%20NPDS%20Annual%20Report.pdf

The data mentioned above are found in Table 22B. Mineral data on page 131; vitamin data on pages 137-139 .

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How to Slow Down the Aging Process

Phil Le Breton — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:23:28 +0000

Aging is a part of life that cannot be avoided. However, we may have some control over how quickly we age or how our bodies respond to age. Much of rate of the aging process is determined by our lifestyle, our genes, and environmental influences. Learning how aging occurs can help us to avoid things that trigger accelerations in the aging process. If it were not for disease, declining or malfunctioning organs, or the slowing of body systems, we probably wouldn’t mind aging much at all.

Slowing down the aging process and preventing things that are in our control can help us to reduce the risk of illness, disease, and disability. If you ask most people, the will agree that improving the quality of life is just as important as increasing longevity.

One interesting discovery about telomeres shows us how exercise can literally increase your lifespan in a way that we previously have not considered possible. Telomeres are “genetic”, so you would think that it would be something that you do not have control over. A telomere is like a cap that fits over the end of a strand of DNA. Telomeres protect our chromosomes from being damaged. Every time a cell replicates, the DNA strand separates and it loses a little bit of length from the telomere. When the telomere gets too short, DNA can be damaged. This is generally when our cells are “too old” to replicate anymore and enter a period of decline, or aging.

Studies on telomere length are interesting and show that people who exercise lose their telomere length at a much slower rate than their sedentary counterparts. In fact, runners in their 50’s have telomeres similar to those of someone in their 20’s, indicating that their cells will last a lot longer before they reach their replication limits and age.

Another way to lengthen the life of your cells is to protect your cells’ mitochondria. Mitochondria convert energy from each cell into a usable form. The process produces free radicals, or waste products, that need to be cleared from the cell. As we use oxygen, more free radicals are produced. Athletes produce more free radicals, which you would think damage and kill more cells, but regular exercise also increases each cell’s defense against the damage of free radicals.

Antioxidants are molecules that trap free radicals so that they can be cleared from the body before they cause damage to cellular membranes or DNA, which kills the cell. The body cannot manufacture all types of antioxidants, so even those who exercise regularly are generally urged to get extra vitamin E and vitamin C through supplementation or their diets. Those who don’t exercise regularly have an even higher requirement for antioxidants because when they exercise, they produce excess free radicals, but have not yet built up the natural defenses of their cells. People who live a sedentary lifestyle have an even higher depletion of antioxidants and are the most susceptible to oxidative stress, disease, and early death.

Aging can also affect our ability to absorb and use the antioxidants that we take or include in our diets. Highly absorbable, readily bioavailable forms of supplements are generally recommended as we get older. Sodium ascorbate is one of the best forms of vitamin C and is generally well tolerated by those who have gastrointestinal disturbances with other forms of vitamin C. Speak with your doctor about how much of this buffered form of vitamin c powder would be appropriate for your age and activity level.

About the Author: Phil Le Breton is owner at Wholesale Nutrition. He has a strong interest in helping people achieve greater brain and body health with vitamins and supplements, with an emphasis on vitamin C powder. Wholesale Nutrition has provided the world with the best vitamin C and wholesale vitamins since 1970. Visit http://www.nutri.com to buy high-quality discount vitamins today!

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http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/antiox.html

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/phys-ed-how-exercising-keeps-your-cells-young/

http://www.benbest.com/lifeext/aging.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_radicals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_oxygen_species

http://longevity.about.com/od/researchandmedicine/p/telomeres.htm

http://www.netwellness.org/healthtopics/aging/introduction.cfm

Vitamin C Saves Lives

Phil Le Breton — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:24:17 +0000

Vitamin C Saves Lives

Millions die each year from heart disease and stroke, and the overwhelming evidence is that vitamin C supplementation would save many lives.

Two-time Nobel Prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling estimated that the rate of heart disease would be reduced by 80 per cent if adults in the US supplemented with 2,000 to 3,000 mg of vitamin C each day. According to Dr. Pauling, “Since vitamin C deficiency is the common cause of human heart disease, vitamin C supplementation is the universal treatment for this disease.”[1] Heart disease is the number one killer in the US. For those with existing heart disease Dr. Pauling said that blockage of heart arteries could actually be reversed by supplementing with 6,000 of vitamin C and 6,000 of lysine (a common amino acid) taken in divided doses throughout the day. Vitamin C supplementation both lowers serum cholesterol levels and repairs lesions of arterial walls. 1998 Nobel Prize winner Dr. Louis J. Ignarro found that supplementing with vitamin C and vitamin E significantly reduces the risk of developing arteriosclerosis.[2]

A study examined vitamin E and vitamin C supplement use in relation to mortality risk in 11,178 persons aged 67-105 who participated in the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly over a nine year period.[3] Simultaneous use of vitamins E and C was associated with a lower risk of total mortality and coronary mortality after adjusting for alcohol use, smoking history, aspirin use, and medical conditions.

A landmark study following over 85,000 nurses over a 16-year period for a total of 1,240,000 person-years found that vitamin C supplementation significantly reduced the risk of heart disease.[4] Intake of vitamin C from foods alone was insufficient to significantly effect the rate of heart disease. High quantities of vitamin C from supplements was essential to provide the protective effects. The study adjusted for age, smoking, and a variety of other coronary risk factors.

An international team pooled data from nine prospective studies of 293,000 people that included information on intakes of vitamin E, carotenoids, and vitamin C, with a 10-year follow-up to check for major incident coronary heart disease events in people without disease when the study began. Dietary intake of antioxidant vitamins was only weakly related to a reduced coronary heart disease risk. However, subjects who took as little as 700 mg of vitamin C daily in supplement form reduced their risk of heart disease events by 25 per cent compared to those who took no supplements. [5]

Researchers in Finland measured serum vitamin C levels in 2,419 middle-aged male participants of the ongoing Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study. Men with a history of stroke were excluded from this analysis. Participants were followed for up to 10 years; the outcome of interest was development of stroke. During the follow-up period 120 participants suffered a stroke. After controlling for potential confounders – including age, BMI, smoking, blood pressure, and serum cholesterol – the researchers found that men with a low vitamin C level in their blood were more than twice as likely as those with a higher vitamin C blood level to experience a stroke.[6]

A stroke commonly occurs when a blood clot or thrombus blocks the blood flow to parts of the brain. A thrombus may form in an artery affected by arteriosclerosis. A recent study has shown how low plasma vitamin C was associated with increased risk of stroke, especially among hypertensive and overweight men.[7]

Vitamin C is preserves the integrity of the artery walls and strengthens cardiovascular tissue. Research indicates a reduced incidence of major coronary heart disease events at high supplemental vitamin C intakes.[8] Recent studies have shown that vitamin C appears to reduce levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation, and there is a growing body of evidence that chronic inflammation is linked to an increased risk of heart disease.[9]

Most Americans fail to eat the US RDA for several vitamins and minerals. Supplements are not the problem; they are the solution. Malnutrition is the problem.

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References
[1] “A unified theory of human cardiovascular disease leading the way to the abolition of this disease as a cause for human mortality”. Rath, M., Pauling, L., J of Orthomolecular Medicine, 7: 5-15.7. [2] “Long-term combined beneficial effects of physical training and metabolic treatment on arterioscleroses in hypercholesterolemic mice”, Ignore, LJ, Publication of the National Academy of Science, Vol 101, 246-252, June 8, 2004.
[3] Am J Clin Nutr, Vol 64, No 2, p 190-6 Aug 1996.
[4] Department of Applied Biochemistry and Food Science, University of Nottingham, Loughborough Age Ageing, Jan 1988, 17 (1) p 35-41. [5] Am J of Clin Nutr, Vol 80, No. 6,1508-1520, Dec 2004.
[6] “Plasma vitamin C modifies the association between hypertension and risk of stroke”. S. Kurl, TP. Tuomaninen, JA. Laukkenen, et. al., Stroke, 2002, vol. 33, p 1568-1573.
[7] See ref [6].
[8] See ref [5].
[9] J Am Coll of Nutr, Vol. 23, No. 2, 141-147.

Article published at http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v01n02.shtml.

Getting Vitamin C with Stomach Ulcers

Phil Le Breton — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:38:45 +0000

Most people with stomach ulcers have to avoid certain foods that cause them pain or discomfort. This generally includes spicy foods and foods with a high acid content. Unfortunately, this eliminates many of the fruits and vegetables from the diet that are high in vitamin C. Many people complain that vitamin C supplements, like chewable vitamin C tablets, are too acidic and aggravate their stomach discomforts.

The problem now is that most doctors are recommending a diet high in vitamin C for people with irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, peptic ulcers, and ulcerative colitis. You can avoid the discomfort of acidic foods and vitamin supplements by using the best vitamin C on the market, vitamin C powder. Vitamin C powder is a buffered form of vitamin C called “sodium ascorbate”. It is easily absorbed and used by the body and is almost completely acid-free.

There are many good reasons why doctors and gastroenterologist recommend higher doses of vitamin C to their patients suffering from gastrointestinal conditions. Most stomach ulcers are caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). In a study done by the Journal of the American College of Nutrition showed that patients with H. pylori infections had low levels of vitamin C. While they couldn’t say if the low levels of vitamin C were caused by the infection or if the infection took hold because of vitamin C deficiencies, other studies have found that vitamin C supplementation may help to prevent or reduce the effects of these infections.

Vitamin C is essential in creating, repairing, and maintaining connective tissues, like the epithelial tissues in the stomach lining. It is a vital part of collagen and elastin production. Collagen and elastin are constantly needed for repairing our cells. Epithelial cells, like in the stomach lining, are constantly breaking down and needing to be rebuilt. Without enough vitamin C in the diet of someone suffering from stomach ulcers, these repairs cannot take place and damage will continue to occur.

Supplementing with sodium ascorbate is a great way to ensure that your stomach lining is healing as quickly as possible. Other benefits include a strengthening of the immune system, reducing your chances of developing more ulcers. Stress has been identified as a trigger for ulcers to develop and using vitamin c powder as a supplement is a great way to regulate the production of stress hormones.

Talk with your doctor about incorporating vitamin C supplements into your treatment plan. A combination of antibiotics and stomach acid inhibitors or neutralizers will likely still be necessary. However, you can shorten your healing time and reduce your chances of recurring infections by adding vitamin C to your treatment plan.

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Sources:

http://www.mindbodyhealth.com/roexepithelial.htm

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/id/QAA352656

http://www.livestrong.com/article/82221-foods-can-eaten-stomach-ulcer/

http://www.dynamicchiropractic.com/mpacms/dc/article.php?id=45382

Alcohol Related Vitamin Deficiency and Hangovers

Phil Le Breton — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:33:33 +0000

When alcohol is broken down by the liver, it is converted to acetaldehyde, which is between 10 and 30 times more toxic than the alcohol that was consumed. As this happens, other enzymatic systems in the body are inhibited and the liver must focus its energy on repairing these systems. Therefore, it is unable to perform its duties of helping blood glucose levels rise back up to acceptable levels. Alcohol consumption also keeps the kidneys from inhibiting diuresis, which means the body becomes dehydrated.

The brain needs high levels of glucose and water to function, so the combined dehydration and hypoglycemia cause extreme fatigue, fogginess, headaches, light sensitivity, depth perception, depression, anxiety, and more. Additionally, the over-production of urine and dehydration cause many vitamins and nutrients to be flushed from the body.

Normally, the liver would be able to remove toxins, such as acetaldehyde, from the body. However, because the liver’s supply of peptides and amino acids, such as glutathione, are flushed, it is unable to remove dangerous toxins and free radicals. Furthermore, the presence of ethanol in the body causes the enzyme cytochrome P450 2E1 (CYP2E1) to be activated. This enzyme produces a flood of toxins and free radicals in the body, which the liver is unable to handle. This enzyme also interferes with the way most medications work, putting you at an even higher risk for disease.

When ethanol is present in the bloodstream, metabolism is suppressed, causing many of these enzymatic processes to be slowed. This is why a hangover is not usually felt until the alcohol has “worn off”. It is also why many hangover symptoms can be “cured” by drinking more alcohol. This is a very dangerous way to cure a hangover because you are stacking toxins on top of toxins and further inhibiting, and likely permanently squelching, your body’s ability to recover.

Antioxidant vitamins and supplements can help you to aid your liver in removing damaging free radicals. Vitamins must be replaced to get the body back in balance so that it can function normally. Vitamins are not just for making you feel better, but are necessary for you to protect yourself from disease caused by the havoc that alcohol wreaks on your body. Thiamine, vitamin B1, is the most common deficiency found in people that consume alcohol. This deficiency causes irreversible brain damage, inhibits the absorption of vitamins and nutrients, and when left untreated, causes damage to the liver, intestines, and pancreas.

Vitamins are necessary for helping your body recover from alcohol use. Vitamin C is an excellent choice of antioxidant if you’re looking to protect your cells from damage and remove toxins from the body. When combined with other antioxidants, like vitamin E and CoQ10, the protective qualities are enhanced and prolonged. The best vitamin C is a buffered vitamin c powder, a non-acidic, highly absorbable form of vitamin C is a good way to get started on a vitamins and supplements routine. Have your vitamin B levels checked by your physician so that they can help you decide which daily vitamins are right for you.

Properly taking care of your body before and after alcohol consumption will help your body to absorb the vitamins that you take, store the ones that need to be stored, and use them in the way that they are supposed to be used.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangover

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11304071

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Vitamin C Benefits for Skin

Phil Le Breton — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:31:04 +0000

Vitamin C has been proven to be very beneficial for a wide variety of skin problems. Vitamin C is necessary for the body to produce collagen and elastin. It also neutralizes skin damaging free radicals that are produced when you are stressed, exposed to the sun, pollution, cigarette smoke and more. Vitamin C thickens the skin, helping it to retain moisture and a plumped, younger looking appearance.

For years, cosmetics companies have been trying to incorporate vitamin C into their wrinkle creams and serums. However, there has always been the problem of keeping the vitamin C stable enough not to oxidize while in the product or on the face. Vitamin C becomes oxidized when it is exposed to oxygen. This will make it turn yellow, orange, or brown. When it is in the oxidized form, it is actually very harmful to the skin. This is why, when you buy products that have vitamin C in them, you should always choose ones that are white or clear so that you can tell when they expire.

Studies show that products containing between 10% and 20% vitamin C are most effective. Formulations containing ferulic acid are the most stable for external use. Ferulic acid is found in plants and it gives their cell walls their rigidity. It not only adds an extra benefit for firming skin, but also works synergistically with vitamin C to keep it from oxidizing for longer.

When used with vitamin E, vitamin C and ferulic acid protect DNA from the photochemical reactions that can lead to tumors, skin discolorations, and several types of skin cancer. When used topically, they inhibit the production of pyrimidine dimers, which are the primary cause of melanomas in humans. They also help to protect cells and heal cells that have been mutated by pyrimidine dimers.

Besides inhibiting tumor formation and helping to protect the skin from the damaging effects of the sun and pollutants, vitamin C can have some cosmetic benefits as well. It increases collagen and elastin formation, which helps to thicken, protect, and heal cells. This thickening effect helps skin to retain moisture, increasing circulation and plumping up the skin’s surface. It eradicates free radicals that damage skin, causing wrinkles and discolorations. It lightens dark discolorations, such as freckles and age spots. Continued use can reverse sun damage and help you to achieve younger, smoother looking skin.

Most people are tolerant of vitamin C on their skin. However, if you have more sensitive skin, you may notice some irritation. If you experience this, use products with a lower concentration of vitamin C. You may also choose to make your own vitamin C masks, serums and moisturizers using a non-acidic, buffered form of vitamin C, like vitamin c powder. The best vitamin C in the form of a powder may have added ingredients, such as potassium, magnesium, calcium and zinc, to increase the absorption and effectiveness of the vitamin C on your skin.

To make your own vitamin C products, first dissolve the powder in water. Then, put it directly on your skin or mix it with honey, lotion or other facial products. Because vitamin C will oxidize, you should only leave it on your skin, exposed to the air, for around 20 minutes. You can leave some of the product that you make out in the open to see how long it lasts before you decide how long you can leave it on.

If you are concerned or experience a skin reaction, you should contact your physician or dermatologist for advice. If you are unable to use vitamin C externally, you may consider adding it into your vitamins and supplements routine. You can still experience the protective and beautifying benefits of vitamin C whether you use it topically or internally.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymine_dimer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferulic_acid

https://www.pharmacymix.com/topical-vitamin-c-for-skin.htm

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Vitamins for Aging

Phil Le Breton — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:34:04 +0000

Many people turn to vitamins when searching for the “fountain of youth”. With only a little research you will start to see the value of vitamins for the brain, immunity, skin, cardiovascular health, and more. However, it can be difficult to formulate your own cocktail of vitamins and supplements that will help you to live a healthier and happier, longer life. Here we wanted to dive into why certain vitamins work in certain combinations and how they can slow down or stop the deterioration that happens when we age.

Most problems that come with aging are not due to the natural decline in the ability of the body to do its job, but can be contributed directly to free radical damage and oxidative stress inhibiting these processes. Our genes are programmed to handle almost anything that is thrown at them. However, free radicals interfere with the activation of our genes’ protective abilities and result in chronic inflammation and disease.

Our bodies need oxygen to survive, but too much oxygen or broken molecules of oxygen, can damage cells. We are designed to handle this sort of assault and we actually need it to activate protective actions in our cells, among other biochemical processes in the body. However, an imbalance in the rate in which our bodies break down and repair themselves can lead to oxidative stress. This is where the level of free radicals becomes too high and begins to interfere with and kill healthy cells.

Antioxidants attract free radicals and keep them from attaching to healthy cell components. As we age, our natural antioxidant levels are diminished. Therefore, supplementing with antioxidant vitamins becomes increasingly important as time progresses. Certain antioxidants work well together, so there are a few things to consider when you start talking with your doctor about which vitamins and supplements routines will work best for you.

As antioxidants take over free radicals, they essentially become a weaker form of a free radical themselves. However, these free radicals can be turned back into an antioxidant by other antioxidants. That is why it is so important to carefully choose and combine your antioxidant vitamins. Vitamin E can be revived by vitamin C or coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10). Glutathione and vitamin C can be revived by vitamin E. Antioxidant vitamins work together synergistically to avoid cellular death and the diminished protective function of cells that commonly causes depressed health in advanced age.

Speak with your doctor about which antioxidant vitamins are best for you. According to Dr. Lester Packer, a leading expert in the field of biochemistry and biophysics, the right combination of antioxidants includes vitamin C, vitamin E, glutathione, coenzyme Q10, and lipoic acid. His research has shown that each one revives and spares one another from destruction, making them a potent combination for combating the problems that occur with aging.

Choose highly absorbable, potent forms of vitamins to ensure that they will not go to waste. The best vitamin C is a buffered, non-acidic, vitamin c powder. Make sure that you take water soluble vitamins with water and fat soluble ones with fats. Correctly taking the right combination of antioxidant vitamins in your later years can help you to avoid illness and diseases that can diminish your quality of life.

Sources:

http://www.thaiwave.com/networkantioxidants/about.htm

http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/micro.html

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How Doctors Use (Or Should Use) Vitamin Therapy

Phil Le Breton — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:21:59 +0000

(OMNS October 21, 2010) Numerous letters to the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service come from readers wanting to know exactly how to use nutritional therapy for a specific disease. Since we cannot answer such emails personally, we wanted to provide some highly useful resources for our readers’ benefit.

We suggest that you print these documents out and take them to your doctor.

Multiple Sclerosis
The vitamin-based treatment plan of Frederick Robert Klenner, M.D. is a free download at http://www.townsendletter.com/Klenner/KlennerProtocol_forMS.pdf

Cardiovascular Disease
Vitamin E dosages as written and used by Drs. Evan and Wilfrid Shute are posted at http://www.doctoryourself.com/shute_protocol.html

The doctors specifically treated the following with vitamin E:

Coronary thrombosis
Acute rheumatic fever
Chronic rheumatic heart disease
Angina
Hypertension
Thrombophlebitis and Phlebothrombosis
Thrombocytopaenic Purpura
Diabetes Mellitus
Acute and Chronic Nephritis
Burns
Cancer
Hugh D. Riordan, M.D. and colleagues tell how to employ vitamin C intravenously in a free download from http://www.doctoryourself.com/RiordanIVC.pdf or http://www.riordanclinic.org/research/vitaminc/protocol.shtml

Compare with this original 1986 IV vitamin C protocol by Ewan Cameron, M.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/cameron.html

Instructions on Making an Injectable Vitamin C Solution
Written for physician and hospital use by Robert F. Cathcart III, M.D. http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitciv.html

At http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html Dr. Cathcart provides specific dosage ranges for treating these illnesses:

Mild cold
Severe cold
Influenza
Coxsackievirus
Mononucleosis
Viral pneumonia
Hay fever
Asthma
Environmental and food allergy
Burns
Injury
Surgical recovery
Anxiety
Cancer
Ankylosing spondylitis
Reiter’s syndrome
Acute anterior uveitis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Bacterial infections
Infectious hepatitis
Candidiasis
Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C
The full text of this book by Lendon H. Smith, M.D. is posted at http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/198x/smith-lh-clinical_guide_1988.htm

Writes Dr. Smith: “I have used Dr. Klenner’s methods on hundreds of patients. He is right. It helps almost every condition and situation, and my failures were due to inadequate amounts.”

The book discusses, in varying detail, megavitamin treatment of the following illnesses:

Virus Pneumonia
Poliomyelitis
Hepatitis
Herpes Simplex & Zoster
Chicken Pox
Measles
Mumps
Mononucleosis
Diphtheria
Dysentery
Pancreatitis
Scarlet fever
Rheumatic fever
Tuberculosis
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Tetanus
Arthritis
High cholesterol
Ruptured intervertebral discs
Corneal ulcers
Diabetes
Glaucoma
Schizophrenia
Burns
Heat stroke
Radiation burns
Surgery
Heavy Metal (including Lead) Poisoning
Other Poisonings
Venomous bites
Allergies
Poison Oak or Ivy
Myasthenia Gravis
Experienced physicians have used massive amounts of vitamin C and other nutrients in treating an astonishing and nearly unbelievable variety of conditions. “Many physicians refuse to employ Vitamin C in the amounts suggested,” writes Dr. Klenner, “simply because it is counter to their fixed ideas of what is reasonable. There is no doubt that physicians are being brainwashed with the current journal advertising. I have never seen a patient that Vitamin C would not benefit.”

Dr. Klenner was board certified in diseases of the chest. The Shutes, in obstetrics. Dr. Cathcart, in orthopedic surgery. Dr. Smith, in pediatrics. Dr. Riordan, in psychiatry. Dr. Cameron, in surgery.

What you will learn from the documents above may be a good start, but it is only a start. We recommend that you read extensively and then discuss these physicians’ experiences with your doctor before making any health decision.

For Further Reading:

A searchable free archive of hundreds of full-text nutrition therapy papers is available at http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/

Bibliographies of the published writings of orthomolecular doctors are posted at
Robert F. Cathcart, M.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_cathcart.html
Emanuel Cheraskin, M.D., D.M.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_cheraskin.html
Benjamin Feingold, M.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_feingold.html
Max Gerson, M.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/bib_gerson.html
Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_hoffer.html
Hans Nieper, M.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_nieper.html
William J. McCormick, M.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_mccormick.html
William Kaufman, M.D., Ph.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_kaufman.html
Humphry Osmond, M.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_osmond.html
Linus Pauling, Ph.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_pauling_ortho.html
Carl C. Pfeiffer, M.D., Ph.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_pfeiffer_ed.html
Hugh D. Riordan, M.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_riordan.html
Evan Shute, M.D. and Wilfrid Shute, M.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_shute.html
Lendon H. Smith, M.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_lsmith.html
Roger J. Williams, Ph.D.: http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_williams.html

To locate a nutritionally-minded physician: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n09.shtml

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Vitamin C Therapy for Coronary Artery Disease

Phil Le Breton — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:35:47 +0000

As the leading cause for death in the United States for men and women, coronary artery disease is a big concern for its citizens. It is usually caused by atherosclerosis, or plaque build-up in the arteries. As the spaces in the arteries narrow, blood flow to the heart is significantly reduced and can actually stop. Symptoms are usually described by patients as chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, or as chest constriction associated with increased activity or stress levels. Atherosclerosis leads to coronary artery disease, or heart disease, and can result in stroke, heart attack, heart failure, or death.

You may be wondering why heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. It can generally be linked to things like smoking and drinking, which significantly increase inflammation and decrease vitamin stores in the body. Diabetics, people with kidney disease, and people who live sedentary lifestyles are also at a very high risk for developing heart disease.

If you are at high risk or have been diagnosed with heart disease by your doctor, you will need to follow treatment programs very closely. Abruptly stopping medications used to treat high cholesterol (statin drugs), high blood pressure, blood thinners, or diuretics can cause a heart attack or make symptoms worse.

Coronary arteries take on a lot of stress, stretching and compressing a large amount of blood every second to keep blood flowing into and out of the heart. If there are insufficient vitamin levels in the body, these arteries lose elasticity and become cracked, brittle and damaged. Calcium is attracted to these cracks and deposits itself in them, leaving arteries hard and fragile.

The body tries to repair the damaged arteries by producing extra cholesterol to smooth over these hard patches. High cholesterol is often a warning that heart disease has already started to develop. Preventing further damage to the arteries is the best way to control the outcome of this process.

Because coronary arteries take on a heavy workload, there will always be a process of breaking down and building up going on. If you were perfectly healthy, the lesions and stress points in your arteries would be healed with collagen and elastin, not calcium and cholesterol. Collagen and elastin create a flexible, soft, healthy artery wall, while calcium and cholesterol produce hard, brittle patches that attract more calcium and plaque.

Vitamin C is necessary for the production of collagen and elastin. People who are deficient often end up with coronary artery disease, high cholesterol, osteoporosis, and other diseases that are caused by an insufficient supply of collagen and elastin in the body. These inflammatory diseases cause the body to quickly be depleted of vitamin stores. When combined with a poor diet, lack of exercise, smoking or drinking, it can be almost impossible to produce collagen and elastin.

Taking vitamin C to repair damage in your arteries, control inflammation, and stop further damage from occurring is a great way to help you beat the odds. It is important to speak with your physician before starting a vitamins and supplements routine, because taking higher doses of certain vitamins can alter the effects of the medications that your doctor prescribes. Taking a highly absorbable, non-acidic form of the best vitamin C, like vitamin c powder, can help you to take the doses that are necessary to get your body back in balance. Work with your doctor when treating the root cause of your coronary artery disease and you could be on your way to healing and preventing more damage.

Sources:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0004449/

http://www.the-natural-path.com/vitamin-c-therapy.html

Part 3: Vitamin C Deficiency and Spinal Disc Herniation

Phil Le Breton — Wed, 25 May 2011 00:09:48 +0000

In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we discussed how vitamin C can control inflammation, reduce back pain, repair and maintain the discs of the spine, and protect bones from losing calcium. Linking back pain to osteoporosis is an interesting concept and can help many back pain sufferers aware of their increased risk of osteoporosis.

Robert P. Heaney, MD, Professor at John Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, is an expert in bone health and osteoporosis. After studying the physiology of bone health for over 50 years, he believes that “If you don’t have enough vitamin C, you don’t make bones right. Collagen is the principal protein of bones, accounting for nearly half of the volume. What the collagen does is prevent bones from coming apart. There is good biology behind it.”

Knowing what we know about vitamin C and its role in the production, repair and protection of our connective tissues it makes sense. Our bodies have to make collagen and elastin to repair and rebuild our muscles, bones, ligaments, and other tissues of the body. Humans do not make their own vitamin C, which is necessary for the production of collagen and elastin, so we must get it in our diets or through supplementation. If we don’t get enough to repair our bodies and protect them from the dangers of inflammation, then we will see them slowly break down on many levels.

James Greenwood, Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at Baylor University’s College of Medicine, did a study on the use of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) to treat his five hundred patients with spinal disc problems and back pain. He gave them each 250mg of vitamin C four times per day and the patients reported “considerable relief”. Greenwood said that “a significant percentage (of patients in the study) with early disk lesions were able to avoid surgery,” and “the number of reoperations on the same patient for recurrence at the same level or a new disk lesion at a different level was greatly reduced.”

Ascorbic acid in the form of a buffered vitamin c powder is considered to be the best vitamin C on the market today by the most highly respected experts in the medical field. This highly absorbable and potent powder is buffered so there is virtually no acidity to cause stomach upset or aggravate stomach ulcers. As always, speak with your physician or neurosurgeon about using buffered vitamin C powder to treat your back pain, osteoporosis, or spinal injury before starting a vitamins and supplements routine.
　
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Sources:

http://www.cforyourself.com/Conditions/Back_Health/back_health.html

http://www.webmd.com/osteoporosis/back-pain-osteoporosis-bone-fractures

http://www.beverageinstitute.org/webinar-beverages-and-bone-health-cpe.htm