Vitamin C: The Overlooked Miracle Drug
Vitamin C – The Overlooked Miracle Drug
In medical school, there is little or no time spent on vitamins, and thousands of hours of instructions spent on pharmaceuticals (drugs).? As a result, most MD’s are “educationally handicapped” about vitamins.?
In the days of “wooden ships and iron men”, the most dreaded disease was scurvy.? It was the result of a lack of vitamin C.? Captain Cook and others found that a little bit of lemon or lime juice every few days prevented it, and kept their sailors better able to do their duty to King and Country.? This is where the term “limey” came to be applied to English sailors.
THE MYTH:? At the beginning of the last century, the then US government became somewhat more worried about the public health than today’s government, and funded several cereal companies to research and find a minimum amount of vitamins that would prevent the deficiency diseases of scurvy, pellagra, and beri-beri.?
Of course, the cereal companies were mostly concerned about pellagra and beri-beri, (deficiencies of niacin – then known as B3, and a deficiency of B2.? They already knew that a lime a day or so prevented scurvy.? So, they set up a MINIMUM DAILY ALLOWANCE (MDA) chart. It was (and is) designed to just be enough to prevent these three terrible deficiency diseases.? It has been modified and added to along the way.?
Also, along the way, the food industry lobbied successfully to change that name to “Recommended Daily Allowance”.? This sounds better, and it leads the public to believe (as they now do) that this RDA is somehow good enough for good health.? The RDA is definitely NOT sufficient for good health.? That’s the myth that has been promoted by advertising.? The RDA amounts are barely enough to prevent bad health.? Particularly with vitamin C.
Because of this wide belief, even researchers are misled.? Since the RDA for vitamin C is only 75 mg (about an orange a day), then anything 5-10 times that amount MUST be a “megadose”.? And that amount is used to test vitamin C, and to “scientifically prove” that? vitamin C cannot cure a cold, a flu, or a virus borne disease at all.? Take any such “studies” with a salt shaker ? they are false!
What isn’t well known is the actual RDA for “good health”.? It turns out that? is about 4000 mg (4 grams) of vitamin C per day per 150 pounds of every primate.? Every zoo vet knows this and since a 150 pound ape is very valuable, they carefully make sure that they get this amount in food and supplemental vitamin C.? Since vitamin C only lasts in the bloodstream for 4 hours or so, splitting up any dosage Is best.? I use 2 grams? AM and PM for this reason.??
You should know that all primates, including the apes (and us) lost a very important enzyme some 65 million years ago that chemically changed glucose (blood sugar) into Vitamin C in the blood.? Virtually all other animals actually manufacture vitamin C in their bodies, increasing it with stress and or disease.? That’s why cats, dogs, vultures, and other animals can eat dead meat loaded with bacteria and not get sick.? (if we could get that enzyme back, we’d be very healthy with all the junk food that transforms into glucose.)? Oh well!
That ratio of about 4 grams per 150 pounds of body weight seems to be a pretty good one for establishing “good health” guidelines for vitamin C.? A small mouse generates a proportional average amount of vitamin C daily.? So does a cow, or an elephant.? The actual amounts that are generated depend on how much is needed to combat any stress, fight germs, etc.? Studies show that most animals can generate 10 times this average as needed.
?I weigh about 200 pounds, and I eat? enough whole? fruits so that I believe that 4 grams per day is right for me.? I take 2 grams with breakfast, and 2 more grams at supper, leaving the noon for taking of other vitamins and minerals.? This way, the supplemental minerals needed aren’t taken out of the bloodstream by the vitamin C too fast.
VITAMIN C AND “GERMS”:? Probably the most important job that vitamin C does is kill bacteria and virus cells in the bloodstream.? Let’s call them both “germs” for simplicity.??? Remember that this killing is only effective in the bloodstream.? If “germs” get into an organ or a cell, vitamin C cannot reach them.?
Vitamin C kills invaders by combining with them, and this uses up the available vitamin C fairly quickly.? Bacteria and viruses multiply quickly.? Both double in about 20 minutes.? This means that if you take only enough vitamin C to kill off half of the invader before being used up, in another 20 minutes, the invader is back up to the previous strength.
Very few of those scientists use much more than a few grams of C in their tests.? In most of the studies I’ve seen, only 500 to 2000 mg is used.? That might kill half of the invaders as in the example above.? Or, let’s be very generous.? Let’s say that this researcher actually used a dose that kills off 99% of the invaders.? Would you believe that it only takes 140 minutes to get back to original strength???? No wonder that so many so-called “scientific tests” show that vitamin C isn’t effective against colds and flu’s and other problems.? If you take 1/10 of an aspirin, it probably won’t cure a headache either!?
The above is why it is necessary to saturate the blood with vitamin C, and keep it saturated for some time in order to kill all the invaders.? This takes massive amounts of vitamin C.? Now you see why some of the “scientific studies” on vitamin C are not so scientific at all.? Again, a clear case of educationally handicapped.?
VITAMIN C AND BOWEL TOLERANCE;? While it is impossible to harm yourself by overdosing on vitamin C, there is a point where the “overdose” causes diarrhea.? This is actually a very interesting signal.? Where this saturation point is for any individual is different, and dependent on several factors,?? Bowel tolerance is used by alternate therapists to determine actual saturation level.? Overdose until that point where diarrhea just starts, then cut down to just below that point.?
The problem is how to cut down to that “point” just before diarrhea.? Cut down too little and you run the risk of the “germs” recovering, multiplying, and getting out of hand again.? Too much, and diarrhea may cause dehydration.? (Diarrhea ain’t much fun anyway.)
Whenever I even think I might have a flu or cold coming on, I start taking 2 grams every hour until I just start diarrhea.? Then I cut to every 2 hours or maybe every 2.5 hours trying to keep the bloodstream saturated with vitamin C, and trying to just keep at that point between blood saturation and diarrhea.
As the “germs” are killed, that bowel tolerance gets lower and
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