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Foundation Move to Illinois Completed

We have completed our move from Texas to the land of high taxes, err, we mean the Land of Lincoln. We are also excited about opening our first retail store in Naperville on April, 2013.

Our new place of business was furnished by Restore - Habitat for Humaniy. This charity uses proceeds from sales to build homes for the homeless. pics of our new digs

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Vitamin C In The News

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Recent Vitamin C News Articles from Around the World

L-Carnitine Significantly Improves Patient Outcomes Following Heart Attack, Study Suggests

Apr. 11, 2013 . L-carnitine significantly improves cardiac health in patients after a heart attack, say a multicenter team of investigators in a study published today in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Their findings, based on analysis of key controlled trials, associate L-carnitine with significant reduction in death from all causes and a highly significant reduction in ventricular arrhythmias and anginal attacks following a heart attack, compared with placebo or control. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130412132321.htm

In an odd coincidence, only 3 days prior to the release of the real Mayo Clinic study about carnitine, a story with the opposite information about carnitine was released, per this article in the Huffinton post L-Carnitine, Nutrient In Red Meat, Linked With Heart Disease The first story was discussed by our forum at this topic

Amazing 10-Times Anti-Cancer Effect of Mushroom D-Fraction and Vitamin C Together Make it into a Mainstream Journal
Induction of Cell Death in Renal Cell Carcinoma With Combination of D-Fraction and Vitamin C.

Conclusion: The present study demonstrates that the combination of PDF and VC can become highly cytotoxic, inducing severe cell death in ACHN cells.

There Should Be No Debate on Health Benefits of Vitamin C


Oxidative Stress: A Novel and Efficient Strategy to Kill Cancer Cells

We explored therefore a selective exposure of cancer cells to an oxidative stress induced by pro-oxidant mixtures containing pharmacological doses of vitamin C and a redox active compound such as menadione (vitamin K3). Indeed, the combination of vitamin C (which accumulates in hepatoma cells) and a quinone undergoing a redox cycling (vitamin K3) leads to an oxidative stress that kills cancer cells in a selective manner.

Vitamins C, E Reduce DNA Damage Induced by Breast Cancer Chemotherapy


Anti-freeze Tainted Vitamin C Makes its Way to USA from China...

A Minneapolis-based food firm this week sued one of its ingredient suppliers, alleging that antifreeze-tainted vitamin C made its way from China into thousands of boxes of Malt-O-Meal-branded cereal.
Note: Vitamin C Foundaton Approved® Vitamin C is NOT Made in China

Even Low Dose Vitamin C Plus Zinc Supplements Fight Common Cold (2 studies)

It is amazing that researchers from a major drug company reported two trials in The Journal of International Medical Research that demonstrated that taking vitamin C plus zinc supplements helps relieve the common cold symptoms and reduce the illness duration.

Silvia Maggini at Bayer Consumer Care Ltd in Basel, Switzerland and colleagues presented data from two preliminary, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials in which patients with the common cold were given a combination of 1000 mg vitamin C and 10 mg zinc for five days.

In both trials, the vitamin C plus zinc supplement nonsignificantly reduced rhinorrhoea duration by 9 to 27 percent. In an analysis of combined data from the two trials of 94 subjects, the vitamin C plus zinc supplement reduced rhinorrhoea over a 5-day treatment more effectively than placebo.

Vitamin C Reduces the Liver Injury Induced by MSG


New Study Shows Vitamin C Prevents Bone Loss in Animal Models

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have shown for the first time in an animal model that vitamin C actively protects against osteoporosis, a disease affecting large numbers of elderly women and men in which bones become brittle and can fracture. The findings are published in the October 8 online edition of PLoS ONE.

Higher RDA for Vitamin C Needed, How Much and Why

The result, according to Frei, is that "Significant numbers of people in the US and around the world are deficient in vitamin C, and there's growing evidence that more of this vitamin could help prevent chronic disease."

Higher Levels of Vitamin C Help Cut Heart Disease, Cancer

Washington: The recommended dietary allowance, or RDA, of vitamin C is less than half what it should be, scientists have argued in a recent report.

Vitamin C Deficiency Accelerates Bone Loss


Vitamin C, Zinc and Omega 3 Fatty Acids Help Children's Asthma


IV Vitamin C Achieves Clinical Success with Prostate and Breast Cancer

IV (intravenous) vitamin C therapy has already been clinically proven to markedly improve quality of life for cancer patients, but a new landmark study has shown for the first time it can reduce inflammation and tumor markers in prostate cancer and breast cancer patients. Inflammation markers reduced in 76 percent of cancer patients. The science behind IV vitamin C as a cancer therapy is now advancing faster than ever before, with six clinical trials currently underway worldwide, including colorectal, prostate, pancreatic and other cancers.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22963460

Vitamin C, Vitamin A Blood Serum Levels Found to be Low in People with Dementia.

The concentration of vitamin C and beta-carotene in the serum of those with Alzheimer's disease-patients were significantly lower than in the blood of control subjects, but there was no such difference between the groups who took vitamin E, lycopene and coenzyme Q10. Potential confounding factors such as education, civil status, body mass index, consumption of alcohol and tobacco were considered in the statistical analysis.

Study: Vitamin C Helps Children with Autism

Michelle Cobb Dolske of University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, Alabama and colleagues tested vitamin C in children with autism and found supplementation of this vitamin at a dose of 8 grams per 70kg per day for 30 weeks reduced symptom severity.

Study: Serum Vitamin C and other Antioxidants Reduce Menopausal Symptoms

Monday Sept 3, 2012 (foodconsumer.org) -- A Japanese study recently published in the journal Climacteric suggests that maintaining a high antioxidative potential by taking antioxidant supplements such as such as vitamin E and vitamin C, Vitamin A and Carotenoids,Selenium, CoEnzyme Q10, Alpha-lipoic acid may help reduce menopausal symptoms like hot flashes in women who are experiencing the transition of menopausal status. The study led by J.T. Chen and K. Kotani of Jui-Tung Chen Clinic in Tokyo found severity of menopausal symptoms inversely linked to serum levels of antioxidant potential in women at menopause.

Superbug Succumbs to Vitamin-Boosted Immune System

Researchers found that vitamin B3 (nicotinamide, NAM) pretreatment boosted levels of C/EBP. in neutrophils, and resulted in up to 1,000-fold greater level of pathogen clearance after three hours when compared with untreated blood.

Vitamin C Improves Sperm DNA Quality in Older Men

Scientists assessed 80 healthy male volunteers between 22 and 80 years old. The men over 44 who had the most vitamin C in their diet had 20 percent less sperm DNA damage compared to their peers who consumed the least vitamin C, the researchers said

Study: Asthma/COPD Sufferers Worse when Vitamin C Blood Levels Low

People who have asthma and COPD are more vulnerable to particulate air pollution if they have low levels of vitamin C in their blood, a study from London found.

Study: Intravenous Vitamin C Relieves Pain Induced by Herpes Zoster Virus

Intravenous injection of vitamin C can help relieve pain and dematologic symptoms of shingles induced by herpes zoster, a new study in the April 2012 issue of Medical Science Monitor.

Even Low Dose Vitamins C/E Benefit Women on Oral Contraceptives


Small Amount (500 mg) of Vitamin C Improves Pulmonary Function in Newborns of Pregnant Smoking Women


Japan: Vitamin C Prevents Radiation Damage


Vitamin C Rapidly Improves Emotional State of Acutely Hospitalized Patients, Study Suggests


New Function of Vitamin C: Treating Alzheimer's disease

"When we treated brain tissue from mice suffering from Alzheimer's disease with vitamin C, we could see that the toxic protein aggregates were dissolved. Our results show a previously unknown model for how vitamin C affects the amyloid plaques", says Katrin Mani, reader in Molecular Medicine at Lund University.

Vitamin C Shown to Boost Cell Regeneration and Aid Stem Cell Research

According to a new study published by Cell Press, vitamin C boosts the production of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which offer a potential for regenerative medicine.

Vitamin C 'Cures' Mice with Accelerated Aging Disease

In the research report, a team of Canadian scientists shows that vitamin C stops and even reverses accelerated aging in a mouse model of Werner's syndrome, but the discovery may also be applicable to other progeroid syndromes.

Study: Vitamin C has Crucial Anti-ageing Properties


Study: Vitamin C can Halt Premature Aging (Canada)


Study: Vitamin E and C Help Traumatic Brain Injuries

Diabetes

Researchers Stop Diabetes Damage with High Doses of Vitamin C

Researchers at the Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center have found a way to stop the damage caused by Type 1 diabetes with the combination of insulin and a common vitamin found in most medicine cabinets.

While neither therapy produced desired results when used alone, the combination of insulin to control blood sugar together with the use of Vitamin C, stopped blood vessel damage caused by the disease in patients with poor glucose control. "We had tested this theory on research models, but this is the first time anyone has shown the therapy's effectiveness in people," said Michael Ihnat, Ph.D., principal investigator and a pharmacologist at the OU College of Medicine Department of Cell Biology.

2011: Study of 232,007 Find Significantly Lower Risk of Diabetes Associated with the Use of Vitamin C Supplements


Study: Vitamin C Shown to Help Type II Diabetics


Nutritional Supplements (Esp. Vitamin C) Key to Preventing Diabetic Retinopathy (DR)


Liquid Chromatography Reveals Vitamin C Deficiency Common in Dialysis Patients


Vitamins and Minerals Lower Risk of Mortality Study Confirms


Plasma vitamin C concentrations predict 42% lower risk of incident stroke over 10 y in 20,649 participants


Vitamin C 'A Must' During Pregnancy

A new study has announced that poor absorption of vitamin C during pregnancy may decrease a baby's chances of survival.

Research published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation found that a specific protein called Slc23a1 may regulate the ability of a newborn's kidneys to absorb the nutrient. Having adequate levels of vitamin C during pregnancy can ensure that a number of bodily systems run smoothly.

2011: Vitamin C Strengthens Eye and Brain Function

"We found that cells in the retina need to be bathed' in relatively high doses of vitamin C, inside and out, to function properly"

Total vitamin C, Ascorbic Acid, and Dehydroascorbic Acid (Oxidized Vitamin C) Concentrations in Plasma of Critically Ill Patients

Supports similar findings by Willis in 1950s that chronically ill patients have very low vitamin C levels.

2011: Low Plasma Vitamin C Linked to Cataract

The tests and analyses revealed vitamin C was significantly inversely associated with cataract, while lutein, zeaxanthin, retinol, .-carotene, and .-tocopherol were linked to a much smaller effect on cataract. On type of cataract (nuclear, posterior subcapsular or cortical), vitamin C had a similar inverse association, while the other antioxidants had no significantly observable association.

2011 Study Confirms Strong Correlation between Lack of Vitamin C and Higher Incidence of Cataracts


Celebrities Flocking to Wellness Centers, Paying Hundreds of Dollars for Intravenous Vitamin and Mineral Therapy


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Heart Disease

Recent Articles re: Vitamin C News Heart Disease

Reversing Heart Disease with a Vitamin Dr. Cobb is a physician and one of our customers. His article reprinted with permission from wellbeingjournal.com

Three Case of Heart Disease Reversed by Dr. Cobb.

Her MD then told her that "I don't usually get to tell a patient this, but" - she didn't have heart disease any more, there was no need to put stents in, and she should come back in two years.

"In financial terms, my total income from these 3 reversals of heart disease is $65.00."

New Book Written by and about another Pauling-therapy Success story.

Letter: Yet Another Pauling Therapy Success: Former Congressman Berkley Bedell

Berkley Bedell is Chairman of the Foundation for Alternative and Integrative Medicine (FAIM.org). While in congress, he was a co-sponsor of the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of health. He is and has been a great friend of alternative medicine. We were told that he had a nearly fatal illness earlier this year (i.e., that he was near death from heart disease after three heart attacks.) Bedell was sent a "care package" of our Cardio-C and literature. Today, we were happy to receive this cautiously optomistic letter from him! (Aug 20, 2012)

Moderate Doses of Vitamin C Lower Blood Pressure

High Cholesterol Protects Against Infections and Atherosclerosis (Heart Disease)(Oxford Journal of Medicine)

A Novel in vivo Study of Vitamin C and Heart Disease

"Some rodents (those in one of the two hypoxia groups and in one of the two control groups) were given vitamin C water daily for its antioxidant effects. When the pups were born, the researchers noticed dramatic differences between the various groups. Rats born of hypoxic pregnancy with no vitamin C treatment showed increased thickening of the walls of the aorta.up to 170% above normal. and molecular markers of disease, such as an increase in the heart's heat shock proteins, a signal of cardiac oxidative stress. When the pups grew to adulthood, at about 4 months, their hearts pumped consistently harder and faster than normal, which, over the long term is a known predictor of eventual heart failure. The pups also showed obstructions in their large arteries, just as people developing cardiovascular disease do. These changes were not seen in newborn and adult offspring of hypoxic pregnancies treated with vitamin C, the team reports online today in PLoS ONE. "

Dec 2011 - Korea: Research Showing that High Levels of Vitamin C Help People with Heart Failure to Live Longer


Aug 2011 - UK: Low plasma Vitamin C Predicts Incident Heart Failure

"The risk of heart failure increased with decreasing plasma vitamin C; Every 20 .mol/L increase in plasma vitamin C concentration (1 SD) was associated with a 9% relative reduction in risk of heart failure after adjustment for age, sex, smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, occupational social class, educational level, systolic blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol concentration, and body mass index, with similar result if adjusting for interim coronary heart disease."

Audio (5 minutes): Intro to Sydney Bush's Cardioretinometry "Absolutely Stunning", "Biggest Development in Cardiology this Century", "Should Rock Every Cardiologist..." -- Talk Show Host Jeff Rense


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Curing Heart Disease W/Vitamin C Before X-Rays Can Show It

Israeli Study: Antioxidant Vitamins C/E Keep Arterial Blood Vessels Healthy in Smokers/Drinkers

Long-Term Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) Administration Reverses Endothelial Vasomotor Dysfunction in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

Vitamin C Treatment Lowers Elevated C-Reactive Protein

Vitamin C and Cardiovascular Disease - The Untold story

Vitamin C Cuts Smoking-Induced Atherosclerosis Risk

Vitamin C Improves Myocardial Perfusion in Elective PCI

Scientists show Vitamin C Protects Against Hypertension-Induced DNA Damage

Vitamin C Quickly Boosts Smokers' Blood Circulation

Higher Vitamin C Levels Linked to Lower Blood Pressure

Vitamin C Fights Heart Disease


Read more Vitamin C and Heart Disease

Cancer

Recent Articles About Vitamin C and Cancer

Vitamin C Foundation Approved® Chicago-area Cancer Clinic
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NIH: Pharmacologic Ascorbic Acid Concentrations Selectively Kill Cancer Cells


Vitamin C Foundation Approved® Chicago-area Cancer Clinic


Study: Long Term Use of Antioxidant Supplements Cuts Risk of Breast Cancer in Half

Taking antixodant vitamins for a long term may help prevent breast cancer, according to a study published in the Aug 24, 2011 issue of BMC Cancer. The study led by S.Y. Pan of Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and colleagues showed that premenopausal women who had taken zinc supplements for 10 years or longer were 54 percent less likely to develop breast cancer, compared to those who had not. The study also showed that supplementation of multivitamin, beta-carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E and zinc for 10 or more years was associated with 26, 42, 21, 25, and 53 percent reduced risk of breast cancer, respectively, in postmenopausal women. On the other hand, dietary antioxidants including beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, lycopene, lutein and zeaxanthin, vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium and zinc or supplementation of antioxidants for less than 10 years were not associated with reduced risk of developing breast cancer.

Study: Antioxidant Intake Significantly Decreases Pancreatic Cancer Risk by 67%

What researchers found was that those who consumed the most selenium roughly halved their risk of developing pancreatic cancer compared to participants with the lowest intake. Even more remarkable, participants in the top 25 percent of consumption of vitamins C, E and selenium reduced their risk by 67 percent. The authors concluded that this amount of reduced risk could possibly prevent 8 percent of pancreatic cancers.

Vitamin C Induces "Cancer-Cell Suicide" in Pancreatic Cancer.


Study: Vitamins E, C Cut Prostate Cancer Risk

The study led by E. Bidoli of Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, IRCCS, Aviano, (PN), Italy and colleagues found men who had highest vitamin E intake were 22 percent less likely to develop prostate cancer, compared to those who had the lowest intake.

A similar association was found between vitamin C intake and risk of prostate cancer. Men who had the highest intake were 14 percent less likely to develop prostate cancer compared with those who had the lowest intake.

Vitamin C Suppresses Prostate Cancer - June 2010 Study


Study: Vitamin C, E and Selenium Drastically Reduce Risk of Death from Gastric Cancer (Stomach Cancer) and Esophageal Cancer in Half.

"Gastric cancer or esophageal cancer patients who took vitamin C, E and antioxidative selenium supplements during a 15-year study were 50 percent less likely to die from the cancers."

Report: I Refused Drugs and Chemo to Battle my Breast Cancer With Fresh Veg

She refused not only chemo, but also a mastectomy and radiotherapy advised by doctors.

Instead, the 55-year-old former model decided that what she needed was a complete diet overhaul.

Jessica, from Bedfordshire, England, who now works as a leadership mentor, cut out dairy, upped her vegetable intake and took high doses of vitamin C.

Within three weeks of starting her intensive regime, a scan showed her tumour had gone to sleep and her latest blood tests came back normal.

Previously: Vitamin C Cancer

21 Free Video Lectures On-line: INTRAVENOUS VITAMIN C AS CANCER THERAPY:

Peer Reviewed Publication Supporting Intravenous Vitamin C for Cancer Patients

New Cancer Imaging Technique uses Vitamin C to Detect More Aggressive Ttumours

Increased Intakes of Omega-3 Fatty Acids, and Vitamins C and E Reduce the Risk of Pancreatic Cancer by Over 30 Percent

Vitamin C, E, Omega 3-fatty Acids Prevents Pancreatic Cancer

More Coverage of Cancer Breakthrough from NaturalNews.com

Mesothelioma Study Finds High Dose of Vitamin C Induces Cancer Cell Death In Test Tubes and Mice

Non-Toxic Vitamin C Inhibits Formation of New Blood Vessel Growth to Tumors

Vitamin C Stops the Growth of Cancerous Tumors in Mice

The Real Story of Vitamin C and Cancer

Anti-cancer Effect of Pharmacologic Vitamin C/Ascorbate (AA) and its Interaction with Supplementary Parenteral Glutathione (GSH) in Preclinical Cancer Models

Findings:

1. The results showed that pharmacologic AA (vitamin C) induced cytotoxicity in all tested cancer cells,
2. Although all treatments (AA (vitamin C), GSH, and AA (vitamin C) + GSH) improved survival rate, AA + GSH inhibited the cytotoxic effect of AA alone and failed to provide further survival benefit.
3. There is an antagonism between ascorbate (vitamin c) and glutathione (GSH) in treating cancer, and therefore iv AA and iv GSH should not be coadministered to cancer patients on the same day.

Vitamin C and Vitamin K3 Alone or in Combination Induces Cancer Cell Death in Leukemia Cells

Cell death was more prominent when Jurkat and K562 cells are exposed to VC and VK3 in a ratio 1000:1 (10 mM: 10 microM) or 100:1 (300 microM: 3 microM), respectively.

Conclusion: We provide for the first time in vitro evidence supporting a causative role for oxidative stress in VK3- and VC-induced apoptosis in Jurkat and K562 cells in a domino-like mechanism. Altogether these data suggest that VK3 and VC should be useful in the treatment of leukemia.

Study: Vitamin E (Alpha-Tocopheryl Succinate) Promotes Selective Cancer Cell Death Induced by Vitamin K3 in Combination with Vitamin C

Mayo to Study Vitamin C and Vitamin K3 "Drug" for Cancer

Intravenous Ascorbic Acid to Prevent and Treat Cancer-associated Sepsis? (Published March 2011)



Read more Vitamin C and Cancer

New Books and Videos

Friends with Children w/ Brain Cancer? Burzsynki Documentary Now on DVD




- New Levy book "Primal Panacea" about vitamin C. PRIMAL PANACEA

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Dr. Chris Shade's (Quicksilver Scientific) Mercury Detox Lecture at the Diane Meyers 2009 Mercury Symposium as PDF or larger (Powerpoint)

Mercury Poisoning: IV/C Case Report (pdf) This article published in the July 2011 Townsend Letter supports our contention that Cathcart's method of mixing sodium ascorbate is superior to the commercial IV/C products, esp. for brain related issues; e.g., higher pH, gentler on veins, no preservatives, more stable and thus more powerful, etc. Forum Mercury Case Archive

Infections

The effectiveness of vitamin C in preventing and relieving the symptoms of virus-induced respiratory infections.

RESULTS: Overall, reported flu and cold symptoms in the test group decreased 85% compared with the control group after the administration of megadose Vitamin C. CONCLUSION: Vitamin C in megadoses administered before or after the appearance of cold and flu symptoms relieved and prevented the symptoms in the test population compared with the control group.

The Use of Vitamin C as an Antibiotic By Dr. Fred Klenner


The Vitamin C Treatment of Whooping Cough


Pharmacokinetics of vitamin C: Insights into the Oral and Intravenous Administration of Ascorbate.

There is a strong advocacy movement for large doses of vitamin C. Some authors argue that the biological half-life for vitamin C at high plasma levels is about 30 minutes, but these reports are the subject of some controversy. NIH researchers established the current RDA based upon tests conducted 12 hours (24 half lives) after consumption. The dynamic flow model refutes the current low-dose recommendations for dietary intakes and links Pauling's mega-dose suggestions with other reported effects of massive doses of ascorbate for the treatment of disease.

Efficacy of Vitamin C Vaginal Tablets in the Treatment of Bacterial Vaginosis: a Randomised, Double Blind, Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial.


Rationale and impact of vitamin C in clinical nutrition...

"In critically ill patients and after severe burns, the rapid restoration of depleted ascorbate levels with high-dose parenteral vitamin C may reduce circulatory shock, fluid requirements and oedema."

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Nutritional Supplementation During Acute Illness...

Oral nutritional supplementation of acutely ill patients improved nutritional status and led to a statistically significant reduction in the number of non-elective readmissions

Video: Vitamin C Cures New Zealander's Swine Flu Just As Life Support Was to be Terminated.

Intravenous Vitamin C Saves New Zealand Man with H1N1 Flu Damaged Lung (Story we posted last January)

Vitamin C: 'Miracle Nutrient' That Cured Man on the Brink of Death...

Dr. Thomas Levy Lectures at 'Vitamin C Can Cure' Coalition in New Zealand (Video)

Segment 3: Levy's Discusson of Vitamin C Toxicity and Kidney Stones (Video)

PUTTING THE "C" IN CURE: Quantity and Frequency are the Keys to Ascorbate Therapy

VITAMINC AS AN ANTIVIRAL: It's All About Dose

VITAMIN C AND ACIDITY What Form is Best?

Vitamin C Improves Resistant Anemia in hemodialysis (HD) Patients

Vitamin C: A Life-saving Treatment for Sepsis

Doctor's Report: VITAMIN C CURES SHINGLES [Herpes Zoster]

Moderate Vitamin C Dose Enhances H. Pylori Eradication

Intravenous Vitamin C Therapy Excellent technical reference on IVC.

Ascorbic Acid Orally - Not for IV Sodium Ascorbate Only for IV Infusions.

Great Article on "Swine Flu", Why We Are Hearing About it Now, and How to Protect Against it

Dr. Cathcart on Great Value of High Vitamin C (ascorbate effect) Fighting Viral Infections

Vitamin C deficiency increases the lung pathology of influenza virus-infected gulo-/- mice.

Elevated levels of dietary ascorbic acid increase immune responses in channel catfish

Vitamin C and immunity: an assessment of the evidence. (Mainstream Review)

"The high concentration of ascorbate in leucocytes and its rapid expenditure during infection and phagocytosis suggests a role for the vitamin in the immune process. Evidence published to date shows an involvement in the migration and phagocytosis by macrophages and leucocytes, as well as the induction and expression of delayed hypersensitivity."

Interview with Dr. Kalokerinos..< Argument Against Vaccinations

"Dr. Kalokerinos thought differently. He pinpointed the increase in vaccination campaigns as the reason why, at a certain point, up to half of the vaccinated Aboriginal infants died, obviously from an acute vitamin C deficiency provoked by the vaccination."

Hot Topics

Vitamin C Helps Prevent Gout

Recently, study was published that assessed the relationship between vitamin C intake and risk of gout in almost 47,000 men. All the men had no history of gout when they entered the study. Their intakes of vitamin C (via diet and supplements) were assessed every 4 years over a 20-year period.

Risk of gout was found to be lower in individuals with higher vitamin C intake. Compared to individuals with a total vitamin C intake of less than 250 mg per day, those with total intakes of 500 - 999 mg per day had a 17 percent reduced risk of gout. For intakes of 1,000 - 1,499 mg and 1,500 mg or more per day, the risk of getting gout was down by 34 and 45 percent, respectively.

The authors of this study also looked at the relationship between amounts of vitamin C ingested in supplement form only and risk of gout. Here again, higher supplemental levels were associated with a reduced risk of gout. Compared to those who did not supplement with vitamin C, those supplementing with 1,000 - 1,499 mg and 1,500 mg or more of vitamin C per day were found to be at 34 and 45 percent reduced risk of gout, respectively.

These results suggest that vitamin C, either from diet or supplements, is associated with a reduced risk of gout.

Vitamin C protects, maintains healthy bone mass

1 in 5 Canadian not getting the RDA of Vitamin C from diet

Canada: Government Healthcare Drives People to Intravenous Vitamin C and Myers Cocktails

Vitamin E intake significantly improve liver disease, Nonaloholic Steatohepatits (NASH), says study

Adding Vitamin E to Contact Lenses "hundred times" more effective" treating glaucoma

Study: Prenatal Vitamins Cut Risk of Low-Birthweight Baby

Vitamin C in the News Published by townsendletter.com

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Ascorbate Calibration as measure of ReDox, methylation efficiency, and inflammation or repair deficit (PDF) See Appendix I, Page 32 (Originally published in the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients.)

"Based on ascorbate calibration, it is evident from Figure 3 that 80% of people require at least 10 g of ascorbate (vitamin C) daily for optimum physiological function, and this amount can be as high as 130g/day." - Russell Jaffe, MD, PhD
Figure 3:

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Babies deficient in vitamin C may be at an elevated risk for mental development and memory problems

Professor Jens Lykkesfeldt, who led the research group, said that the research suggests children may also be at risk of learning disabilities if they receive insufficient levels of vitamin C in early life."

Vitamin C required to burn fat

Vitamin C good for healthy heart and eyes

New Role Of Vitamin C In Skin Protection Revealed By Study

No Deaths From Vitamins or Minerals

(OMNS, October 14, 2009) There was not even one death caused by a vitamin or dietary mineral in 2007, according to the most recent statistics available from the U.S. National Poison Data System. The 132-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers published in the journal Clinical Toxicology 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. (1)

Furthermore, there were zero deaths in 2007 from any dietary mineral supplement. This means there were no fatalities from calcium, chromium, zinc, colloidal silver, selenium, iron, or multimineral supplements. There was one death from chronic overdose of magnesium hydroxide, commonly known as the laxative/antacid milk of magnesia, and it was inappropriately listed in the "dietary supplement" reporting category. Nutritional supplements do not contain magnesium hydroxide.

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 154,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 56 billion doses annually. Since many persons take more than just one vitamin or mineral tablet, the numbers are considerably higher, and the safety of nutritional supplements is all the more remarkable

1918 Spanish Flu Deaths and Aspirin-Induced Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency)

Antioxidants Lower Risk of Preterm Birth

Vitamin C deficiency may impair brain development

A new study suggests that pregnant women need to have sufficient intake of vitamin C or L-ascorbic acid to prevent their fetuses from becoming victims of brain impairment that is associated with memory and learning capability later in their childhood.

Asthma Caused by Deficiency in Vitamins C and A

Antioxidant diet supplementation enhances aerobic performance in amateur sportsmen....

Topical Vitamin C- The Wonder Medicine For Skin...

A new way of looking at scurvy we are not all alike and our requirements for vitamin C may differ...

Good vitamin C reference of the disease conditions related to vitamin C from diagnose-me.com

Chinese make vitamin C Breakthrough that reportedly provides hope in preventing the onset of CVD and Type 2 diabetes.

Study Shows Vitamin "Pill-Poppers" Are Healthier

Omega-3 Fish Oils: The Greatest Nutritional Health Discovery Since Vitamins, Part 4: The Major Studies

Video: Canadians Praise Intravenous Vitamin Treatments

Bad News

Pharma's Don't-Take-Vitamins Study Diametrically Opposed by Valid Study

"Have you not asked yourself why vitamins (!) are suddenly an issue and who is behind it? As food is increasingly degraded, are you not aware how crucial supplementation for vital nutrients is? Are you aware that disease is an investment industry and this is in the service of it?

Huffington Post just published Women Who Take Vitamin Supplements May Have Increased Death Risk, at precisely the moment that the pharmaceutical industry is in health attack mode to limit access to nutritional supplements in the US. How coincidental!

The AMA, which is heavily funded by Pharma, put out a study purporting to show that vitamins are a threat to people.s lives..."

Help Fight Absurd FDA Action - Protect Your Access to Nutritional Supplements - Tell Congress to Call for Withdrawal of FDA NDI Guidance

FDA and Senator Dick Durbin(D)'s schemes to outlaw nearly all nutritional supplements created after 1994 would destroy millions of jobs and devastate economy

More:

• Tell Your Senators: Vote "NO" on the Dietary Supplement Labeling Act
• FDA Guidelines a Perversion of Congressional Intent
• Dietary Supplement Labeling Act. a Huge Smokescreen
• Disastrous Durbin Bill Finally Online.Help Us Get It Stopped!
• The FDA didn.t want us to notice, so they issued a new decree on July 1, just before the July 4th holiday
• NYT/Coordinated Attack Against Supplments

Medical Science for Sale.

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found over 40 percent of the best designed, peer-reviewed scientific papers published in the world's top medical journals misrepresented the actual findings of the research. The "spin doctors" writing the papers found a way to show treatments worked, when in fact, they didn't.

Vitamin C Mega Dosing - Big Pharma suppresses an inexpensive powerful curea

Amazing Summary of Recent Vitamin E Research Ignored by the Media

Vitamin C research called "hog wash"

Torrential Feedback To Reader's Digest Anti-Vitamin Article

More Absurd FDA Action Against Vitamin C

In a time of budget cutting and deficits, the FDA somehow has the capacity to go after one of the safest substances known!

FDA also noted packaging materials place product names in close proximity to the words .Cold Remedy." Further, website claims at issue include .Extra boost of Vitamin C in every RapidMelt,".Extra boost of Vitamin C and Echinacea in every RapidMelt," .Reduces the duration of cold symptoms when taken at the first sign of a cold." FDA said these statements about the RapidMelts Vitamin C products are intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in violation of section 201(g)(1)(B) of the Act (21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(1)(B)). Also, the statements say the products are intended to affect the structure or function of the body of man in violation of section 201(g)(1)(C) of the Act (21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(1)(C))

No Deaths from Vitamins - None at All in 27 Years Orthomolecular News Service

ACTION ALERT: The United States FDA versus Vitamin C

Deja vu at the FDA

"Now I find myself at odds once again with that underfunded, overworked and under appreciated defender of public safety responsible for protecting Americans from dangerous drugs. Despite all of these limitations, the FDA has somehow managed to find the resources to clamp down on. vitamin C! Yes, ascorbic acid. Bottled sunshine. Probably the best studied, most researched and commonly used, plant based nutritional supplement known."
- Jonathan Barnet@resistanceisfruitful.com

FDA Position on Intravenous Vitamin C Limits Access, But Does Not Render Vitamin C-IV Unlawful Legal Opinion by Emord and Associates.

FDA Action Has Halted Trials of Vitamin C and Cancer!

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The Vitamin A and Vitamin D Controversy

The Cod Liver Oil Debate (from Weston-Price) Vitamin A is not a Vitamin D Antagonist.

Contrary to information from the Vitamin D Council, and most recently, from the Life Extension Foundation," Vitamins A and D cooperate with one another. They are not antagonists, but large doses of one may cause harm when not accompanied by the other."

Since vitamin A is required as a signaling partner with vitamin D, vitamin D will increase the turnover of vitamin A. If vitamin A is provided in excess, the results are generally beneficial. Excess vitamin A is stored in the liver. However, when the liver's storage capacity is exceeded, the overload of vitamin A causes the cells to burst, damaging the liver and releasing storage forms of vitamin A into the systemic circulation that do not belong there. By increasing the utilization of vitamin A, vitamin D can help prevent vitamin A toxicity.

If vitamin A is in short supply, on the other hand, the results can be detrimental. By .stealing. all of the vitamin A needed to use for vitamin Dspecific functions, the body will not have enough vitamin A left to support the many other functions for which it is needed.this may partially explain the toxic effects of excess vitamin D.

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Is patent 5,336,499 the general antidote for all bio warfare weapons? i.e. is it the cure for Lyme?

United States Patent 	5,336,499
Antelman 	August 9, 1994
Molecular crystal device for pharmaceuticals

Abstract

A novel molecular scale device is described which is bactericidal, 
fungicidal, viricidal and algicidal. The anti-pathogenic properties 
of the device are attributed to electron activity indigenous to 
diamagnetic semiconducting crystals of tetrasilver tetroxide (Ag.sub.4 
O.sub.4) which contains two monovalent and two trivalent silver ions 
in each molecular crystal. When the crystals are activated with an 
oxidizing agent, they release electrons equivalent to 6.4.times.10.
sup.-19 watts per molecule which in effect electrocute pathogens. 
A multitude of these devices are effective at such low concentrations 
as 0.3 PPM used as preservatives in a variety of formulations ranging 
from cosmetics to pharmaceuticals. Indeed, they are intended as active 
ingredients for pharmaceuticals formulated to destroy such pathogens 
as Staphylococcus aureus, and epidermidis, the latter of which it 
completely destroys in a nutrient broth culture of about 1 million 
organisms at 0.6 PPM, or Candida albercans, the vaginal yeast infection 
at 2.5 PPM, and the AIDS virus at 18 PPM.
Inventors: 	Antelman; Marvin S. (Rehovot, IL)
Assignee: 	Antelman Technologies, Ltd. (Providence, RI)
Appl. No.: 	07/971,933
Filed: 	November 5, 1992

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Product sales are made by the Texas corporation Intelisoft Multimedia, Inc. DBA Vitamin C FDN. Intelisoft donates a percentage of every sale to the Vitamin C Foundation.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.