High-Dose Vitamin C Therapy Proven Effective

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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 5, 2010

High-Dose Vitamin C Therapy Proven Effective " My doctor doesn't believe in

vitamins. " Since when is medicine based on belief?

(OMNS, January 5, 2010) The medical literature has virtually ignored 75

years of physician reports and laboratory and clinical studies on successful

high-dose vitamin C therapy.

Effective doses are high doses, often 1,000 times more than the US

Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) or Daily Reference Intake (DRI). It is a

cornerstone of medical science that dose affects treatment outcome. This

premise

is accepted with pharmaceutical drug therapy, but not with vitamin

therapy. Most unsuccessful vitamin C research has used inadequate, low doses.

Low

doses do not get clinical results.

Investigators using vitamin C in high doses have consistently reported

excellent results. High doses were advocated almost immediately after ascorbic

acid was isolated by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, M.D. (1893-1986). Notable early

medical pioneers of high-dose vitamin C (ascorbate) therapy are Claus

Washington Jungeblut, M.D. (1898-1976); J. McCormick, M.D. (1880-1968);

and Frederick R. Klenner, M.D. (1907-1984). More recently, important work

has been published by Hugh D. Riordan, M.D. (1932-2005) and F.

Cathcart III, M.D. (1932-2007).

It Was 75 Years Ago Today

Dr. Jungeblut, Professor of Bacteriology at Columbia University, first

published on vitamin C as prevention and treatment for polio, in 1935. (1)

Also in 1935, Jungeblut showed that vitamin C inactivated diphtheria toxin.

(2) By 1937, Jungeblut demonstrated that ascorbate inactivated tetanus toxin.

(3) Between 1943 and 1947, Dr. Klenner, a specialist in diseases of the

chest, cured 41 cases of viral pneumonia with vitamin C. By 1946, Dr.

McCormick showed how vitamin C prevents and also cures kidney stones; by 1957,

how

it fights cardiovascular disease. Beginning in the 1960s, Dr. Cathcart used

large doses of vitamin C to treat pneumonia, hepatitis, and eventually

AIDS. For more than three decades, beginning in 1975, Dr. Riordan and his team

have successfully used large doses of intravenous vitamin C against

cancer. The use of doses of tens of thousands of milligrams of vitamin C per

day

may be the most unacknowledged successful research in medicine.

Heard this one before? " If vitamin C was that good, doctors would tell

their patients to take a lot of it. " It is surprising how many physicians have

done precisely that.

What's that? Your doctor still doesn't?

Why? Decades of physicians' reports and controlled studies support the use

of very large doses of vitamin C.