After everything, it seems that its the best for woman to start megadosing after she conceived, not after a delivery. The woman might have some metal toxicity and other forms of toxic stuff and C might start release of it. However, things appear not to be so simple...
Levy states:
Curing the incurable wrote:Part of vitamin C's effective clinical neutralization of mercury may well involve mercury's storage in a much less toxic form due to its interaction with vitamin C. Indeed, this is one very good reason why a great deal of caution must be exerted when embarking upon a brisk detoxification program. Mercury and a host of other stored toxins can be readily mobilized from storage sites with a number of different detoxification agents. A significant deterioration in one's clinical status can result if there is no protection against the reappearance of highly potent toxins in the lymph and bloodstream as they proceed on their way to excretion. Safe detoxificationmust generally be slow and controlled, and nontoxic chelators and toxin neutralizers must be intelligently used while the process takes place.
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Both mercuric ion (inorganic mercury) and methylmercury (organic mercury) are
excreted preferentially into the bile rather than the urine (Gregus and Klaassen, 1986), and a significant portion of bile excretion eventually ends up in the feces.
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antioxidant properties of vitamin C were responsible for the reduction of organic mercury forms to inorganic and elemental forms. Thismechanism represents a relative detoxification of mercury since organic mercury forms are much more clinically toxic than the reduced forms
Here,
scurvyencounters claims:
mercury readily transfers across the placenta membrane before birth and in the milk after birth. Therefore, the research they site in which MS relapse rates are reduced during pregnancy and during exclusive breast feedings are due to the fact of mercury is being eliminated from the mother's body and is transferred to the baby.
With all this info it seems that in some cases its better to use low megadoses (1-2g) for the mom with mercury toxicity during breastfeeding then letting the mercury transfer to child and create potential neurodegenerative process. A bit more of C will also be transfered to child in the process, which will help reduce eventual mercury toxicity if it leaked trough the milk. Indeed, its reported (Pauling?) that children high on C seem to be more intelligent because of reduced lead build up in the brain.
So, given all previous info, its uncertain to know what will be effects on the infant if woman starts megadosing during breastfeeding given that she didn't do it before. There might be both positive and negative effects. Its therefore best to avoid the dilemma an use Klenner "vitamin c babies" approach from the beginning.
Happily, I just found out that my woman was taking 2g C for years and I didn't even know that (she did it cuz she knew that smoking reduces C in the body).
2 JohnwenThanks man
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Thx for the notes about sodium too
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