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(Note: Vitamin C news posted and discussed daily at our Forum)

Garlic puts a stake in cancer Experiment credits garlic with even more power than vitamin C neutralizing carcinogenic effects of nitrates.

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.

Vitamin C in the News Published by townsendletter.com

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

Bio-Communications Research Institute's (BCRI's) recent research study has found that high levels of vitamin C (ascorbate) inhibit the formation of new blood vessel growth to tumors. To grow, tumors rely on a high level of nutrients to flow to the tumor site. This nutrient flow is critical to tumor growth and is facilitated in the host body by the growth of new blood vessels. The new blood vessel growth process is known as angiogenesis. In tumor angiogenesis, the blood vessels grow to support the growth of the tumor. This groundbreaking BCRI study has shown that angiogenesis or the proliferation of new blood vessels, in support of tumor growth, is retarded when high levels of vitamin C are present in the blood. High levels of vitamin C saturation necessary for angiogenesis to occur are obtainable with the intravenous infusion of vitamin C (ascorbate). In the study published in the February 2010 issue of Journal of Angiogenesis Research, two assays were used to evaluate the effect of high-doses of vitamin C on the inhibition of new blood vessel growth. One was ex vivo and one in vivo and both illustrated the inhibition characteristics vitamin C has on new tumor blood vessel growth. The in vivo assay treated with vitamin C indicated 30% less blood vessel growth than untreated tissue.

Curing Heart Disease Before X-Rays Can Show It

Senator McCain Files New Bill That Attacks Your Access to Supplements and Repeals Key Sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act

Vitamin C Improves Myocardial Perfusion in Elective PCI

Vitamin C, E, Omega 3-fatty acids prevents pancreatic cancer

Vitamin C research called "hog wash"

Scientists show Vitamin C Protects Against Hypertension-Induced DNA Damage

Vitamin C Fights Heart Disease

Dr David Ayoub proves mercury causes autism

This is the most heavily suppressed video on Youtube. In it, Dr David Ayoub provides mountains of factual medical evidence to prove autism is caused by mercury poisoning, usually thimerosal mercury in the baby/flu vaccine...

Intravenous Vitamin C Saves New Zealand Man with H1N1 Flu Damaged Lung

High-Dose Vitamin C Therapy Proven Effective Forum discussion of the 75-years of research.

Clinical results require large dosages, but medicine today refuses to study large dosages.

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.

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

Researchers found that patients with higher levels of vitamin C in their bodies had a less chance of developing DR.

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.

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

What is it about a little left-handed molecule of six carbons, six oxygens, and eight hydrogens that ticks off so many in the medical community?

VITAMIN C AND ACIDITY What Form is Best?

VITAMINC AS AN ANTIVIRAL: It's All About Dose

News From Seventy Years Ago

from Google

• Polio Cases Improved by Vitamin C

  "Medical Journal Reports Success With 60 Patients" (Los Angeles Times, 1949 newspaper account of Fred Klenner's paper and talk at AMA.)

• VITAMIN C CALLED KILLER OF GERMS; Causes White Blood Cells to 'Strangle' Microbes, Bacteriologists Are Informed

  New York Times, May 14, 1947

• VITAMIN C LINKED TO REPRODUCTION; Wisconsin Biochemists Report to Symposium That It Acts to Postpone Senescence EFFECTIVE UPON CATTLE Preliminary Tests on Human Beings Show Results Except in Pathological Sterility

  The discovery that Vitamin C, essential for the prevention of scurvy and for the maintenance of healthy gums, teeth and capillaries, also plays a vital role in reproduction was announced today at the University of Wisconsin, following a three-day symposium on the respiratory enzymes. (New York Times, Sep 15, 1941)

• REVEAL SKINFUL OF VITAMIN C IS A FAST HEALER

  A literal skinful of vitamin C strengthens healing wounds by 400 per cent and speeds their recovery, the American College of Surgeons was told today. This skinful is easily obtained by feeding extra amounts of the vitamin to the skin and the tissues under-... (Chicago Tribune Nov 6, 1941:)

• MEDICINE: C FOR ASTHMA

  Hay-fever sufferers, most skeptical of patients, were last fortnight again offered a new hope. In Science Chemists Harry N. Holmes and Wyvona Alexander, of Oberlin College, recommended vitamin C (ascorbic acid) for relieving the complaint.

  An asthma invalid became "astonishingly vigorous and healthy after one week." (Time Mag. Dec 14, 1942)

• SURGERY RAISES VITAMIN C NEEDS

  Major Operations Found to Increase Requirement by as Much as 100 Times (New York Times Oct 9, 1960)

  VITAMIN C NEEDS ARE SAID TO VARY

  Tests on Guinea Pigs Note Very Wide Differences (New York Times, April 27, 1967)

  
  

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Intravenous Vitamin C can save your cat's life too!

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UPDATE: FDA: Procter & Gamble Unlawfully Marketing Two Vicks Cold and Flu Medicines Containing Vitamin C

What!? The Obama administration has accused a private company of acting "unlawfully" by combining vitamin C with cold medications!?

This action by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is not in the public interest. The Foundation wonders, on whose behalf is the FDA acting? If this outrageous move wasn't enough, after first denying (FDA) that it was capable of acting so stupidly, (after a draft letter was inadvertantly published) the real letter was published Friday ( news reports)

The FDA has previously warned that colds meds are dangerous and should not be given to children! Rather than banning vitamin C, Federal law should stipulate that vitamin C be added to make cold meds safer! (Remember: You can avoid meds altogether by giving your children vitamins C and D3 when they get sick!).

Perhaps the FDA hasn't seen this study: 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.

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

Ascorbate Calibration as measure of ReDox, methylation efficiency, and inflammation or repair deficit (PDF) from 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
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Breaking News

China Sees Vitamin C Overproduction

Statinator Paradox

Heart disease in ancient mummies creates another paradox for the lipid/cholesterol theory of heart disease.

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 quickly boosts smokers. blood circulation

Sunday, November 01, 2009 A dose of vitamin C may give a quick boost to the poorer-than-average blood circulation seen in healthy young smokers, a Japanese study suggests.

The study of 25 healthy men found that although smokers initially showed poorer results on a test of blood flow to the heart, that changed after they took a large dose . 2 grams . of vitamin C.

Shortly after taking the vitamin, the 13 smokers showed blood circulation on par with that of the 12 non-smokers, according to findings published in the American Heart Journal.

Plagued with H1N1? Forget the Flu Vaccine, Try Vitamin C

In any case, no matter you have received flu vaccines for seasonal flu and or H1N1, make sure that you take high doses of vitamin C and vitamin D because these health supplements have proved effective in preventing and treating colds and flu.

The following is an article about a study showing that high doses of vitamin C help colds and flu.

One study suggests that you may be better off taking mega doses of vitamin C during the winter to prevent and even treat flu, including h1n1 flu regardless of your immunization status.

The study published in Oct 1999 in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, found that taking 1000 milligrams of vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, reduced flu and cold symptoms compared to use of pain relievers and decongestants.

Gorton HC and Jarvis K, whose affiliation was unknown (from the abstract of the report) enlisted 463 students, aged 18 and 30, as controls and 252 students in the same age group as test subjects.

They tracked the number of reports of cold and flu symptoms among the test subjects in 1991 and reports of similar symptoms among the controls in 1990. The controls were treated with pain relievers and decongestants while the test subjects were given 1000 mg each hour for the first six hours of reporting symptoms; then three times each day for the next three days. The researchers found that reported flu and cold symptoms in the test group decreased 85 percent, compared with the control group.

They concluded that mega doses of vitamin C administered before and after the appearance of cold and flu symptoms relieved and prevented said symptoms.

This is not the only study that has concluded that taking high doses of vitamin C prevents and helps victims of the flu and colds. Vitamin C has been known to boost one's immunity against these illnesses.

Those who bet their winter on the seasonal flu and or h1n1 flu vaccine need to remember that these vaccines are often not as effective as thought. Chances are very good that if you get the vaccine you will still get the flu. So do not forget to take high doses of vitamin C in the winter. Another, possibly more effective, supplement you can enlist to protect against flu is Vitamin D, in high doses.

Vitamin C required to burn fat

Research shows that your body needs sufficient vitamin C to burn fat. In one study, people who had low blood concentrations of vitamin C and walked on a treadmill for an hour burned 25 percent less fat than people with adequate C. But a dose of C brought fat-burning levels back up to par. Why? Seems C is essential for creating carnitine, a substance that turns fat into fuel.

To keep your fat-burning abilities high, we recommend taking 1,200 milligrams of C per day.

Vitamin C good for healthy heart and eyes

"I had the chance to spend a week studying with Dr. Sydney Bush, a distinguished English professor of optometry. This week, why I believe his research on the cause of coronary artery disease deserves a Nobel Prize, and how you can benefit from his research."

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

Asthma Caused by Deficiency in Vitamins C and A

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.

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.

Vitamin C Forum discussion

How much vitamin C do you take each day? None     5%  316 The RDA (less then 100 mg)     4%  249 Less than 500 mg     6%  407 Less than 1001 mg     16%  1053 Less than 5001 mg     34%  2188 Less than or equal 10000 mg     17%  1109 More than 10000 mg     17%  1096 Total: 6420 Comment: the more i read about vitamin c the more i believe this world is based on lies deceit & money - Debra Solomon more

Vitamin C regulates blood pressure

Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia found that 67 men and women with high levels of vitamin C in their blood had an average blood pressure reading of 104/65. Even those with only 1/5 of vitamin C level showed a reading of 111/73. The higher the vitamin C dosage, the lower the blood pressure.

Vitamin C has crucial anti-ageing properties: Study

Vitamin C Stops the Growth of Cancerous Tumors in Mice

Low Vitamins C, A, and E Intake Tied to Asthma Risk

Why aren't doctors recommending safe and effective ACE supplements?

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.

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Swine Flu Alert

Protect your family with adequate supplies of vitamin C.

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.

"These data suggest that vitamin C is required for an adequate immune response in limiting lung pathology after influenza virus infection."

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

"There were no differences in antibody production, complement activity, or phagocytic activities among fish fed diets containing 30-300 mg ascorbic acid/kg of diet. However, the dose level of 3000 mg ascorbic acid/kg significantly enhanced antibody production and complement activity."

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."

Argument Against Vaccinations

Interview with Dr. Kalokerinos..

"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."

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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


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.

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

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