What does Vitamin C do for us?

[Guest guest]

I've read that people with high levels of vitamin c have less problems

with h. pylori. I've also read that vitamin c is just good for you so

supplementing with it can't hurt.

Does anyone know of anything specific that it does for problems like

the ones we on this board have.

Everything I've read about it suggest that any link between vitamin c

and gastrointestinal problems is coincidental. Money is tight so if

I'm going to buy it I need better proof that it helps in some way.

[Guest guest]

Vitamin C, an important antioxidant helps the immune system operating well and

even helps with all kinds of detox. It is the cheapest vitamin out there. The

best dose is as high as you can before getting diarrhea.

Best,

Haleh

--- manwithnoname37 <manwithnoname37@...> wrote:

> I've read that people with high levels of vitamin c have less problems

> with h. pylori. I've also read that vitamin c is just good for you so

> supplementing with it can't hurt.

>

> Does anyone know of anything specific that it does for problems like

> the ones we on this board have.

>

> Everything I've read about it suggest that any link between vitamin c

> and gastrointestinal problems is coincidental. Money is tight so if

> I'm going to buy it I need better proof that it helps in some way.

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is very good for the integrity and healing of the

tissues of your

body. I still remember my old German immigrant physiology professor talking

about how

necessary it is for " wound healing, " he made it sound like winding up a clock.

It holds us

together. It's necessary for the integrity of connective tissue especially.

Primates,

including humans, and guinea pigs are the only two kinds of mammals that cannot

make

their own vitamin C. If we ate as much vitamin C as most mammals make,

proportionately, it would probably be several grams a day. It is also good to

help detoxify

the body. Scurvy, the classic deficiency of vitamin C, is probably just the tip

of the iceberg.

I was listening to Boyd Haley, PhD world expert on mercury toxicity and

biochemistry,

lecturing last weekend and he was talking about a new safe protocol that is

already being

used in Europe to remove mercury from people's bodies...IV vitamin C and

glutathione.

Vitamins are called vitamins because they are essential. Vitamin C is one of

the cheapest

vitamins you can get, but it's a good idea to get it in powdered form, buffered

if you can

afford it. Many medical nutritionists recommend that you get it and test

yourself to see

what " bowel tolerance " would be--i.e., what doesn't give you diarrhea-- and take

a little

less than that every day. Others would say, you need to keep from destroying

B12, so

don't take TOO much. B12 is important too. I've heard of people with serious

viral illness

recovering after being given 100,000 milligrams in an IV by a doctor in a

hospital.

Have you read Linus ing's classic on this topic? He was a Nobel Prize winner

but of

course nobody wanted to listen to him on the subject of vitamin megadoses. But

he just

might have been right. If you are ill, and your body tissues need to be healed,

you need

more C. Drink lots of water with it. Your body will get rid of any excess,

it's water

soluble. 500 mg/day is certainly not an excessive dose. I can't tolerate too

much acid so I

have to take calcium ascorbate. That is a buffered form of C. If you are worried

about H.

pylori because you have ulcers, a buffered form of C would be better because it

wouldn't

add to your stomach acid.

Peace,

Kathy E.

>

> I've read that people with high levels of vitamin c have less problems

> with h. pylori. I've also read that vitamin c is just good for you so

> supplementing with it can't hurt.

>

> Does anyone know of anything specific that it does for problems like

> the ones we on this board have.

>

> Everything I've read about it suggest that any link between vitamin c

> and gastrointestinal problems is coincidental. Money is tight so if

> I'm going to buy it I need better proof that it helps in some way.

>

[Guest guest]

>

> I've read that people with high levels of vitamin c have less problems

> with h. pylori. I've also read that vitamin c is just good for you so

> supplementing with it can't hurt.

>

> Does anyone know of anything specific that it does for problems like

> the ones we on this board have.

Severe vitamin C deficiency was one of the reasons why my son had

viruses in his brain. His immune system had basically no vitamin C in

it, and every time my son had a virus [cold, flu, etc], the virus just

went straight into his brain.

Dana