July 2, 2005

*Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.*
Director, NIAID; Chief, Laboratory of Immunoregulation

Dear Sirs who read emails for Dr. Fauci,
and then hopefully,
Dear Dr. Fauco.

I hope that you will at least bring this to the attention of Dr Fauci.  I think he probably knows of me. As I recall, I talked with Dr. Fauci about AIDS in the early the 1980s.  I am the one who uses massive doses of ascorbic acid by mouth and massive doses of intravenous sodium ascorbate.  In 2002 the Society for Orthomolecular-Health Medicine awarded me the Linus Pauling Award for my work with vitamin C.  This is an organization of several hundred physicians who actually use massive doses of vitamin C in the treatment of various diseases.

I have prescribed "bowel tolerance" doses of ascorbic acid by mouth to about 30,000 patients and given massive doses of intravenous sodium ascorbate to at least 2,000 patients since 1969.

While I was able to ameliorate AIDS with massive doses of ascorbate somewhat, the benefits were not as dramatic as I had hoped.  Probably this was because it was a chronic infection and there are other factors too lengthy to discuss here.  The effects on acute viral infections are entirely different however.  I have never seen a case of influenza that was not markedly ameliorated or cured with massive doses of ascorbate.  The doses I use are far above those who were first advocated by Linus Pauling; however. Pauling had 7 pages on my work with vitamin C in his last book, How to Live Longer and Feel Better.

I think that the reason these more massive doses of ascorbate work is by neutralizing free radicals.  We are actually throwing away the vitamin C for the extra electrons carried.  We, at massive threshold doses, are forcing a reducing redox potential onto the oxidative free radical loaded inflamed tissues.  Lower doses of ascorbate, even those considered heretofore as being megadoses, are not large enough to accomplish this forcing a reducing redox potential onto the diseased tissues.  This is the paradigm shift that works.  Apparently the acute viral infections cannot maintain themselves when the free radicals are neutralized and the major damage done by the infections are by way of free radicals.

If you are indeed worried about epidemics that may kill millions of patients, I hope you will provide me the opportunity to speak with you and your associates.  If what I say can be proven to be essentially untrue, you may have my medical license.

I want to apologize for the tone of my website but I have pretty much given up hope that the medical profession will listen.  The website is designed more to educate the public and finally force the issue.  I would hope to restore a more professional tone if the medical profession will listen.  I am especially concerned that my work has been picked up mostly by alternative healers but this will continue if the medical profession will not listen..

Sincerely,

Robert F. Cathcart, M.D.
127 Second Street, #4
Los Altos, CA 94022
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