The Vitamin C Experts

Linus Pauling

Robert Cathcart, III

Steve Hickey and Hiliary Roberts

Thomas Levy

John Ely

Sherry Lewin

Fred Klenner

Irwin Stone

Sydney Bush

Bill Sardi




Linus Pauling

"For three days I have been listening to talks about the value of large intakes of vitamin C and other natural substances, and I have not heard a single mention of the name Linus Pauling. Has not the time come when we should admit that Pauling was right all along?" -- Carlos Krumdieck MD to standing ovation at 1992 New York Academy of Sciences symposium in Arlington, VA



Ten Years Since the Death of Linus Pauling

A Tribute to Linus Pauling: Vitamin C, he was right all along...


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LINUS PAULING AND THE RACE FOR DNA - 50-YEARS LATER...

 

The LINUS PAULING PAPERS from the National Library of Medicine

 


WHY LINUS PAULING IS SMILING

Low Blood Vitamin C Concentrations in the Older British Population Strongly Predict Mortality...

UK STUDY: ANTIOXIDANT VITAMINS AND MORTALITY IN OLDER PERSONS...

RESULTS: Strong inverse relationship for blood ascorbate (vitamin C) concentrations with all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality, which were only marginally reduced after adjustment for confounders or supplement use. Those in the lowest fifth (< 17 micromol/L) had the highest mortality, whereas those in the highest fifth (> 66 micromol/L) had a mortality risk nearly half that (hazard ratio = 0.54; 95% CI: 0.34, 0.84). Similar results were found after the exclusion of those subjects with cardiovascular disease or cancer at baseline (hazard ratio = 0.51; 0.28, 0.93). In fully adjusted models, there was no evidence for an influence of alpha-tocopherol (vitamin-E), beta-carotene, or retinol (vitamin-A) on total mortality. Dietary antioxidants measured by the food-frequency questionnaire were not associated with all-cause or cardiovascular disease mortality


Dr Linus Pauling's Unified Theory of Cardiovascular Disease



 

Nov 8, 2004

My name is Pauline (Sarah) Sowders. I am 62 years old and had quadruple heart bypass surgery March 2002. Had incredibly difficult time recuperating. Disagreed with my doctor on treatment regarding statin drugs. My problems with statins were muscle cramps, severe joint pain, stomach pain, depression and nerve problems which finally caused me to take a medical leave from my job this past March. Some time ago a friend recommended taking the following supplements instead of prescription drugs:

 Fish Oil Pills 1,000 mg - 6/day
 Red Yeast Rice 600 mg - 4/day
 Vitamin E 400 mg - 1/day
 Folic Acid 400 mg  - 2/day

I felt no significant change.

Sept 1st of this year I found the following statement on a web site (can't remember where but thank GOD!). "Try this - guaranteed to lower cholesterol at least 18% in six weeks." 6000 mg. Vitamin C, 6000 mg L-Lysine, 200 mg CoQ10.

I began taking this combo in addition to the Fish Oil etc. on Sept 12 of this year. I'm not sure if the fish oil regimen in combination with the vit. C made a difference or if it was just the Vitamin C regimen. But, after only two weeks I began feeling like a new person. For the first time in years I wanted to do things that I had to force myself to do only a few days before. I began cleaning, cooking, sewing, working in the yard - just could not figure out how to work everything into each short day. I actually enjoy getting up in the morning.

I found the Heart Technology web site a few days after I discovered this vitamin C stuff works. Really was having trouble swallowing 24 vitamin pills per a plus a blood thinner and baby aspirin. My regimin is now as follows: (so simple)

  • Two scoops Heart Tech in A.M., 2 fish oil capsules, 1 CoQ10,
  • Two scoops Heart Tech in P.M., 2 fish oil capsules.

Have stopped the blood thinner and baby aspirin. (NO MORE BRUISES! THANK YOU LORD!)

My blood test results from May 2004 and October 2004 follow. (LDL dropped from 203 to 161 and total cholesterol dropped from 290 to 248).

I had been off statin drugs for approximately 3 months before each test. The October test was done after being on vitamin C for one month. Both my doctor and I were thrilled about the latest test results, until he discovered that I was not taking any prescription drugs, at which time he said, "You're playing Russian roulette you know." Maybe so, but I doubt it. I feel wonderful and the proof is in the puddin.

More Testimonials...

SUPPLEMENTS SLOW AGING IN RATS...
" Ames et. al. want to help us remain as healthy and as young as possible, right up until the end. That goal fits nicely with the vision of the man whose name hangs over the door of the institute where Hagen now works. Two-time Nobel prize-winner Linus Pauling predicted decades ago that free radicals, or other oxidants, were causing many of our problems, including age-related declines. That's why he vociferously pushed for vitamin C, a natural antioxidant.

But like most of us, he hated the thought of getting old. I know that because a number of years ago I celebrated his 90th birthday with him. I followed him around for three days, from his fabulous estate on California's Big Sur coastline to Stanford University, where he taught a graduate seminar on chemistry.

While delivering his lecture, the 90-year-old Pauling forgot something he was about to say. That happens to all of us from time to time, but the grand old man of science looked terrified as he stood speechless in front of his young audience. They probably figured he was getting senile.

Pulling himself together, he finally said, "I guess you're all wondering what we're doing over at the institute."

He picked up a piece of chalk and wrote a formula on one of three huge blackboards that blanketed three walls in the lecture hall. For nearly an hour, he expanded on the formula until it filled all three walls. Then he turned to the students, who sat with their mouths hanging open in absolute awe.

"Any questions?" he asked.

Not a one.

Now there's a man who knew how to stay young.

Lee Dyes column appears weekly on ABCNEWS.com. A former science writer for the Los Angeles Times, he now lives in Juneau, Alaska.


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Antioxidant vitamins and coronary heart disease risk: a pooled analysis of 9 Cohorts...
CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest a reduced incidence of major CHD events at high supplemental vitamin C intakes. The risk reductions at high vitamin E or carotenoid intakes appear small.

"This pooled study shows health benefits at >700 mg vitamin C from supplements compared to no supplementation. This ABSOLUTELY disproves the RDA and the false idea that there is a 200 mg daily limit on health benefits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" - B Sardi


Urgent Bill Sardi Vitamin C RDA Letter to USA Food and Nutrition Board ...


Over 100 MEDLINE Abstracts That Relate Antioxidant Intake to Heart Disease...




10-YEARS AGO: THE LINUS PAULING LECTURES ON VITAMIN C AND HEART DISEASE... Buy Video of the Pauling Lecture...


Linus Pauling, PhD, A Decade After His Last Interview, His Reputation Continues to Grow...

" On August 19, 1994, Linus Pauling, PhD died of cancer at age 93 at his home in Big Sur, California. The only person to win two unshared Nobel prizes (for Chemistry in 1954 and Peace in 1962), Pauling, during the last 25 years of his life, became a vocal and uniquely effective advocate for vitamin C and nutritional medicine. He has been given credit by many people for almost single handedly making vitamin C the most popular and widely used nutritional supplement in the world and for helping to significantly advance the fields of clinical nutrition, primary prevention, and "orthomolecular" medicine (a term he coined)." -- Peter Barry Chowka




 

High Vitamin-C Linked to Reduced Stroke Risk...
 
"The risk of stroke was 70% higher among those in the lowest quartile for serum vitamin C than among those in the highest."





Steve Hickey and Hiliary Roberts
World's Leading Vitamin C Scientists Blast the Puny Vitamin C RDA...
This book presents an open challenge to the government “experts”, who support the out-of-date RDA approach to nutrition and thereby endanger the health of the entire population.

Download 'Ridiculous Dietary Allowance'
The printed version is in press and will be available shortly for about $15.00.


Professors Hickey and Roberts Rebut Misleading Information on the Properties of Vitamin C...
The Cochrane review by Douglas et al. [1], which is referenced in the Best Practice article by Douglas and Hemilä [2], covers 60 years of research into vitamin C and the common cold. However, the review omits pharmacokinetic data that invalidate the conclusion that vitamin C is ineffective. This conclusion is not derivable from the data presented.

The dual-phase pharmacokinetics of vitamin C are described by the dynamic flow model [3,4]. Low gram-level intakes of ascorbate, leading to blood plasma levels below 70 μM/l, have a half-life of 840 days. Higher gram-level intakes have a plasma half-life of 30 minutes [3]. A large oral dose raises blood plasma levels briefly: they reach a peak after two to three hours, before decaying back to baseline. Frequent repeated doses allow sustained high plasma levels of about 250 μM/l [4,5].

Douglas and Hemilä reviewed intakes that transiently raise plasma ascorbate levels above 70 μM/l. A single dose does not raise the median level [6,7]. Daily supplements would, thus, not increase disease resistance to any great degree [3,4]. Single or double doses daily will not increase background plasma levels, regardless of the magnitude of the dose [6,7]. Since plasma ascorbate is at background level for the majority of the day, effects will be minimal.

There is widespread confusion about nutritional and pharmacological levels of supplementation [3]. Linus Pauling, typically, described nutritional gram-level doses able to provide a degree of disease prevention [8]. By contrast, pharmacological doses used for treatment are, at minimum, an order of magnitude larger and involve frequent doses. The doses should be at intervals of three hours or less [3]. Treatment doses are described by Cathcart's paper on titration to bowel tolerance [9]. To treat the onset of a cold, the therapy is perhaps a minimum of 10 g of oral ascorbic acid, followed by at least 2 g each hour [3,4].

Douglas and Hemilä give a misleading impression by not making it clear that the doses they consider are not pharmacological. They claim that the results of one study, giving an 8-g dose at the start of symptoms, are tantalising and deserve further assessment. However, once this single dose has been excreted, the protective effects will be lost. During illness, ascorbate is depleted rapidly and higher oral intakes are toleratedup to 200 g per day [9]. It would be surprising if this 8-g dose had a large effect.

Studies on ascorbate require appropriate doses. Douglas and Hemilä have only confirmed that 60 years of vitamin C research has largely been wasted because of confusion between nutritional and pharmacological intakes, and because of a misunderstanding of the pharmacokinetics. It is essential that high-dose studies take into account ascorbate's dual-phase pharmacokinetics. The dosing regime should allow sustained high plasma levels to be achieved. The claim that vitamin C cannot prevent or cure the common cold is both premature and unwarranted.

Steve Hickey
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester, United Kingdom
E-mail: radicalascorbate@yahoo.com



THE VITAMIN C CONTROVERSY IS RESOLVED...


ASCORBATE...
"The most important development in the history of vitamin C." - Owen Fonorow

This new book presents a new model, describing the action of vitamin C in health and disease. It demonstrates conclusively that the establishment has misinterpreted the evidence, potentially resulting in epidemic levels of avoidable disease. [More]




GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS NO LONGER DEFEND THEIR DATA, NOW THEY VIOLATE SCIENTIFIC PROTOCOL

YOUR PERSONAL ACTION PLAN...
Please Get Involved!

Letter to Congress(Road map for letters to your local newspaper editors)


Is the Recommended Dietary Allowance for Vitamin C Too Low?...

THE HICKEY LETTERS TO AUTHORITIES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE U.S. RDA




ASCORBATE: The Science of Vitamin C



To be blunt -- the NIH gave a dose of vitamin C, waited until it had been excreted, and then measured blood levels.
NEW BOOK by Dr. Steve Hickey and Hilary Roberts
This book presents a new model, describing the action of vitamin C in health and disease. It demonstrates conclusively that the establishment has misinterpreted the evidence, potentially resulting in epidemic levels of avoidable disease. The dynamic flow model explains the current results and points the way for future experiments.

The failure of the medical establishment to perform critical follow-up experiments may have resulted in much suffering and countless deaths. As Dr Hickey says, "If this book doesn't shock you, you haven't understood it". For this reason, the book ASCORBATE lists the essential experiments necessary to restore respectability to the scientific evaluation of vitamin C. If even a few of the hypotheses are confirmed, readers will understand why double Nobel Prize winner Dr Linus Pauling was prepared to stake his scientific reputation on ascorbate.

Excerpt:

"A large result was observed in a small group, indicating the possibility of a strong effect. Conversely, if you need a large group to demonstrate the effect, the result is probably less important, as it affects a small proportion of subjects or the consequence is weak. It is easy to see that an experiment with ten subjects is unlikely to give a positive result for a treatment that will cure only one patient in one hundred. With a small group of subjects, you will generally find only the larger effects. "

"Large-scale double-blind mega-studies are the current fashion in medicine. The assumption is made that by increasing the number of subjects, the work somehow becomes more valid. Regrettably, these studies are borderline science, as a large-scale study is difficult to repeat and replication is at the core of the scientific method. Of particular concern are those studies that are so expensive that only pharmaceutical companies are ever likely to perform them. The way studies are financed and the potential source of any experimental bias or error become more important with larger studies, as they are more difficult to replicate. Replication reduces the possibility of bias. A large-scale study giving positive results is less convincing than, say, three smaller, equally positive studies by independent researchers, in different institutions, separately funded and using dissimilar methods."




Hickey is now challenging authorities to explain or stand behind their previous work. The Hickey findings are surprising, and so far his effort is being ignored by the National Institutes of Health and the Linus Pauling Institute, and of course, the Media.

THE HICKEY LETTERS TO AUTHORITIES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE U.S. RDA







Klenner



Observations On the Dose and Administration of Ascorbic Acid When Employed Beyond the Range Of A Vitamin In Human Pathology By Fred Klenner, MD.

1949 - A YEAR IN MEDICINE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY....

During the 1950s isolated doctors around the world tried Klenners cure. Those who used vitamin C at doses below those recommended by Klenner reported no benefit; those who followed his dosages reported good results... Klenner: "To those who say that Polio is without cure, I say that they lie. Polio in the acute form can be cured in 96 hours or less. I beg of someone in authority to try it." - Robert Landwehr

 

The Treatment of Poliomyelitis and Other Virus Diseases with Vitamin C

 







Robert Cathcart, III, MD


Ascorbic Acid Orally - NOT for IV!


Dr. Cathcart's





Tom Levy

Interview with Dr. Thomas Levy...

Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins

 
Vitamin C Book Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins
by Thomas Levy (Paperback - September 2002)

DOSE DEPENDENT, VITAMIN C CURES DEADLY INFECTIONS, NEUTRALIZES TOXINS...
 

Citing over 1,200 articles from scientific and medical journals around the world, Levy shows that many viral diseases such as polio, hepatitis, and encephalitis have been consistently cured by high doses of vitamin C given intravenously. While maintaining that lower doses of vitamin C taken by mouth may have little or no effect on many infections, Dr. Levy adds that high enough doses administered directly into the blood can demonstrate clinical effects that border on the unbelievable. He notes that large enough oral doses of vitamin C can prevent many infections, but intravenous dosing is often needed to cure infections already contracted.

READ LEVY VITAMIN C BOOK REVIEW BY A. SAUL
Without hedging, Dr. Levy explains why, even in his subtitle, he uses the word "cure" as boldly as Dr. Klenner ever did:
"It is completely appropriate to use the term "cure" when, in fact, the evidence demonstrates that a given medical condition has clearly and repeatedly been cured by a specific therapy. . . Avoiding the use of a term such as "cure" when it is absolutely appropriate does as much harm as using it inappropriately. Not realizing the incredible ability of vitamin C to cure a given infectious disease just perpetuates the usage of so many other needlessly applied toxic drugs and clinical protocols. If the shoe fits, wear it, and if the treatment works, proclaim it." (p 15)
And this is precisely what Dr. Levy does.
"Properly dosed vitamin C will reliably and quickly cure nearly all cases of acute polio and acute hepatitis. Polio babies are completely well in less than a week and hepatitis patients are sick for only a few days, not several months." (p 19)



WATCH DR. LEVY'S AMAZING VITAMIN C PRESENTATION [Part 1] and [Part 2]

 


THE SAFETY OF HIGH DOSES OF VITAMIN C...






John Ely and the Glucose-Ascorbate Antagonism Theory
 
Ascorbic Acid and Glucose
"This man Ely is brilliant. After thirty years of trying, I finally get it."


Vitamin C and Some Other Modern Analogs of the Germ Theory...


On the Science of Essential Nutrients...


 

The (western diet) meals competitively inhibit insulin-mediated active transport of A A into these cells, resulting in low intracellular AA levels, low HMP shunt, and cell dysfunction (i.e., leukocytes don't attack tumors or pathogens, fetal cells divide too slowly, etc.); this is the "Antagonism"...

The GAA theory gives rise naturally to "Aggressive Glycemic Control" (AGC) as a modality that, properly used, appears to have much value against many disorders as stated above ." - Ralph Lotz

Vitamin C is transported into the cell by insulin. Vitamin C is a carbohydrate-like substance and is the missing stress hormone as explained by Stone. Below, BG = blood glucose: Glycemic Control.

Almost 2000 years ago in the time of Galen, it was observed that tumors grew poorly or not at all in underfed (i.e., low BG) animals. In 1972, Ely deduced and related to Linus Pauling a theoretical reason why clinical trials of AA against colds and cancer might fail because of the high BG levels in the affluent nations. The theory is relevant to aging, birth defects, cancer, cardiovascular disease (cvd), infections, etc.

It is called the "Glucose Ascorbate Antagonism" (GAA) and is important in the "small" dose range (AA~10g/d or less). It says that certain cell types such as leukocyte and fetal have intracellular AA levels that are "pumped up" largely by insulin ~50 times higher than serum AA levels in the surrounding blood. This occurs if BG is in the low range that was normal until the 1900's and is still seen today where the primitive (unrefined) diet prevails, i.e., 50-90 mg% two hours postprandial (Ely 1996; Chatterjee and Bannerjee, 1979, Table1). ...



Ely/Krone Essential Nutrient Theory (ENT) of Aging..




Irwin Stone's Entire Book Now Posted
Now Posted: Irwin Stone's 1972 book: The Healing Factor


Forewords by Linus Pauling and Albert Szent-Gyorgyi...

 

Excerpts

 

 


 
IS VITAMIN C REALLY A VITAMIN?
IRWIN STONE SAYS NO!

After 40 years research, Irwin Stone unfolds his startling conclusion that an ancient genetic mutation has left the primate virtually alone among animals in not producing ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) in his own body. By treating it as a "minimum daily requirement" instead of the missing metabolite it really is, we are living in a state of sub-clinical scurvy whose symptoms have been attributed to other ailments. The answer is to change our thinking about Vitamin C and consume enough to replenish this long lost "healing factor." Stone illustrates, with massive documentation, Vitamin C's remarkable ability to fight disease, counteract the ill effects of pollution and prolong healthy life -- easily and inexpensively!
 


"Roots" cover SCURVY, THE COSMIC CONNECTION


"The atmosphere in those days was quite different from what it is today. The living process developed in an essentially oxygen-free atmosphere. Today the atmosphere contains about 20 percent oxygen, which is a by-product of the chemical reactions of photosynthesis. Early life forms produced so much oxygen that the atmosphere gradually changed from a reducing to an oxidizing one. This oxygen was toxic to living cells, creating the planet's first air-pollution crisis. The situation threatened to kill the living cells that had been so successful up to that point.

Nature developed ascorbic acid to save the living process from extinction. This same procedure occurred many times in subsequent evolutionary crises, so that ascorbic acid became, in a sense, the favorite evolutionary life saver. "


Eight Decades of Scurvy. The Case History of a Misleading Dietary Hypothesis...





Sherry Lewin

Sherry Lewin's Molecular Models

As you look at these pictures of vitamin C models from the Sherry Lewin 1976 book Vitamin C: Its Molecular Biology and Medical Potential, note how the ascorbate is the "hat" that fits on many different organic molecular "heads."

For example, when ascorbate (vitamin C) binds with adrenaline (noradrenaline) it prevents what would otherwise be a rapid breakdown of this hormone. When it binds with a cation of histamine, it fits like a glove, and this may explain why a nasal drip can be stopped within five minutes of ingesting high-dose ascorbic acid.

There is a picture of the arginine "guanidinium group" bound with ascorbate.









Sydney Bush

Dr. Sydney J Bush. PhD. DOpt. (IOSc. London)

The New Definition of Scurvy...


BREAKTHROUGH: RETINAL PHOTOS CONFIRM VITAMIN C PILLS CAN REVERSE ARTERY DISEASE...


CardioRetinometry at the Hull Clinic (UK)...




Bill Sardi




Press Release: National Institutes of Health Sent Letter Pleading For Removal of Misinformation Concerning Vitamin C...



Vivid Online Slide Show Reveals Conspiracy Against Vitamin C... [Press Release]
For the first time the public will view what happens inside arteries when vitamin C levels are low. Viewers will learn that most sudden-death heart attacks are not caused by cholesterol but a type of arterial plaque induced by a shortage of vitamin C. Turn up your PC speakers and visit VitaminCProject.com


Sardi Letter to the National Institutes of Health Re: Vitamin C Misinformation...

No More War Against Vitamin C...
"There is a renaissance in vitamin C supplementation underway. A series of events is unfolding so fast it is difficult to stay current on this topic. " - Bill Sardi


Predicted collapse of conventional medicine now underway – one vitamin could save Medicare from bankruptcy ...
Guess which one...


Premature Birth, Life-long Developmental Problems, Linked to Low Vitamin C Levels During Pregnancy...


The Vitamin C Fanatics Were Right All Along...
"According to newly revealed science, the belittled mega-dose vitamin C users may be purchasing the cheapest and most effective health insurance one can buy."


Diagnosis: Corruption...


Campaign Launched Against Dietary Supplements...




The Vitamin C Calamity
The Massive Failure of the Multi-Billion Dollar Taxpayer Funded National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Protect the Public Interest...



Recently published scientific studies now confirm that high-dose vitamin C taken throughout the day may dramatically reduce major health risks. But funny thing, nobody noticed. Even though the data was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in the early months of 2004, doctors paid no attention. [Annals Internal Medicine, April 6, 140: 533-37, 2004] The news media also appears to be oblivious to the report. It should have been a major headline. But worse yet, government researchers who conducted the study failed to alert the public or the news media. Countless millions of Americans could avoid cataracts, aneurysms, gallstones, cancer and heart disease with this knowledge.





"The genetic mutation that deleted the capacity to manufacture vitamin C in the primate line presents one vivid example of the countless genetic variations from which natural selection produced the diversity of biological organisms we know in the world today" - Linus Pauling (Pg 103, HOW TO LIVE LONGER AND FEEL BETTER, 1986, Paperback)

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Cardio-C

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