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DOCTOR YOURSELF Newsletter (Vol. 3, No 20) September 5, 2003

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" Be sure you are right, then go ahead. " (Daniel Boone)

 

The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol. 3, No 20) September 5, 2003

 

" Free of charge, free of advertising, and free of the A.M.A. "

 

Written and copyright 2003 by Andrew Saul, PhD, of

http://www.doctoryourself.com , a free online library of over 350 natural

healing articles with nearly 4,000 scientific references.

 

IT WAS A BIG SOCIETY LUNCHEON and I was speaking to a large roomful of

elderly folks on the benefits of natural healing. Apparently they'd really

loved my talk: lots of bifocaled eye contact and positive nods from many a

gray-haired head. So after I'd finished my presentation, I invited those

that wished to come up if they had a question or two. The response to this

quite normal offer was catastrophic. The grannys stormed the stage. They

were all over me. They actually stole my lecture notes right off the podium.

Really. It was like being an orthomolecular rock star. I guess I'm lucky my

clothes stayed on.

 

But this natural lifestyle stuff really works, and people can instinctively

sense it. Then they try it; they feel better; they tell others. That's the

fun part. I recently received a couple of delightful phone calls. One was

from a lady, now 88, who said that she's been following the natural foods

and supplements way for nearly 30 years. She'd previously had an assortment

of health problems, until she totally reformed her diet and started taking

vitamins. Now, she said, " I take no medicines at all, and I feel wonderful. "

Another lady, now 93, phoned and said that, way back in 1970, her husband

had a severe heart attack and his prospects were not great. Dr. Evan Shute

placed him on 1,600 IU of vitamin E, daily. Did it work? Looks like it might

have: her husband is now 92, and still takes 1,200 IU every day. A third of

a century on megadoses of vitamin E, and no side effects but success.

 

Shh! Don't let word of this get out! Do NOT read the articles about

megadoses of vitamin E that a site search from the main page of the

http://www.doctoryourself.com website will bring up! WARNING: Doing so may

be helpful to your health. If you are healthy, and if your family and

friends get wind of what you are doing, it could undermine our medical and

pharmaceutical industries!

 

Of course, if you are bound and determined to get well and stay well, well

then, I guess you'll likely want to go ahead and email me your story at

drsaul .

 

I love this job.

 

 

MEGADOSES OF VITAMIN C: A GREAT IDEA BUT NOT A NEW ONE

 

(This paper originally was published as " The Pioneering Work of William J.

McCormick, MD " in my column, Taking the Cure, appearing in the Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2003, p 93-96. It is reprinted here

with permission.)

 

Darwin had a far easier time with the acceptance of evolution than

orthomolecular physicians have had gaining acceptance of the therapeutic use

of ascorbic acid.

 

 

It takes vitamin C to make collagen and strong connective tissue. That fact

is in every nutrition textbook ever written. It has also been shown that

vitamin C supplementation enhances collagen synthesis. (1) And does so

rapidly, too. (2) But few know that, some 50 years ago, it was Toronto

physician William J. McCormick, M.D., who pioneered the idea that poor

collagen formation, due to vitamin C deficiency, was a principal cause of

diverse conditions ranging from stretch marks to cardiovascular disease and

cancer.

 

 

STRETCH MARKS

 

 

In 1948, Dr. McCormick (3) wrote:

 

 

" [T]hese disfiguring subdermal lesions, which for centuries were regarded as

a natural sequence of pregnancy, are the result of increased fragility of

the involved abdominal connective tissue, secondary to deficiency of vitamin

C. "

 

 

The strength of a brick wall is not truly in the bricks, for a stack of

bricks can easily be pushed apart. Collagen is the " mortar " that binds your

cells together, just as mortar binds bricks together. If collagen is

abundant and strong, body cells hold together well. It is possible to see

how this property would prevent stretch marks.

 

CANCER

 

It is a logical but large step to propose that, if cells stick together,

tumors would have a tough time spreading through them. Irwin Stone (4)

credited McCormick with taking that very step:

 

 

" In cancer, the maintenance of collagen synthesis at optimal levels, may

provide such tough and strong tissue ground substance around any growing

cancer cells so that they would be firmly anchored and could not break away

and metastasize. "

 

 

This simple theory would be the foundation for Linus Pauling and Ewan

Cameron's decision to employ large doses of vitamin C to fight cancer. After

all, if cancer cells are going to try to metastasize, it makes sense to

provide abundant vitamin C to strengthen collagen to keep them from doing

so.

 

 

Dr. McCormick was among the first to comment that persons with cancer

typically have exceptionally low levels of vitamin C in their tissues, a

deficiency of approximately 4,500 mg. This could help explain why a cancer

patient's collagen is generally not tough enough to be able to prevent

cancer from spreading.

 

 

McCormick also thought that the symptoms of classic vitamin C deficiency

disease, scurvy, closely resemble the symptoms of some types of leukemia and

other forms cancer. Today, although scurvy is generally considered to be

virtually extinct, cancer is all too prevalent. If the signs of development

of cancer and scurvy are similar, could they be fundamentally the same

disease under different names? In his 1962 paper " Have We Forgotten the

Lesson of Scurvy " (5) Dr. McCormick writes:

 

" As long ago as 1609, Martini cited by (scurvy research pioneer Dr. James)

Lind stated that scurvy is nearly allied to the plague, as it occasions

carbuncles, buboes and cancer. In an effort to clarify this relationship we

published two papers (6,7) in which we advanced the hypothesis that

deficiency of vitamin C, by bringing about disintegration of epithelial and

connective tissue relationships, owing to liquefaction of the intercellular

cement substance collagen) and disintegration of the connective tissue of

the basement membrane, results in breakdown of orderly cellular arrangement,

thus acting as a prelude to cancer. "

 

He also cites this obscure but interesting reference in the 1905 edition of

Northnagel's Encyclopedia of Practical Medicine (8) which describes the

scorbutic aspects of acute lymphatic leukemia: " The most striking clinical

symptoms of this disease are the hemorrhages and their sequelae. . . Every

touch produces hemmorhage, making a condition completely identical with that

of scurvy. "

 

Dr. McCormick's conclusion is that

 

" Our major effort (against cancer) should be directed toward prevention of

the cause of the cellular disarrangement - collagenous breakdown of

epithelial and subepithelial connective tissues - as manifested in open

sores or fissures that fail to heal readily, and unusual or easily produced

hemorrhage. Such lesions may be early warning signs of future cancer. They

likewise are early signs of scurvy. " (p. 10)

 

If our civilization is suffering from a scurvy epidemic under the current

name of cancer, then the symptoms, progress and results of the two diseases

may have a common cause (vitamin C deficiency) and a common treatment:

vitamin C in large quantity. If this is even partially true, then all cancer

patients should receive large doses of ascorbic acid as a matter of routine.

 

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

 

As scorbutic gum tissue spontaneously hemorrhages, so also a scorbutic

artery can literally " bleed " into itself. McCormick, over twenty years

before Linus Pauling, reviewed the nutritional causes of heart disease and

noted that four out of five coronary cases in hospital show vitamin C

deficiency. In one paper (9) he wrote that, as early as 1941,

 

" Paterson (10) called attention to the low vitamin-C status of coronary

thrombosis cases. He found that 81 per cent of such cases in hospital practi

ce had a subnormal blood-plasma level as compared to 55.8 per cent in a

corresponding group of general public ward patients. He attributes the

precipitation of thrombosis to a prior subintimal capillary hemorrhage at

the site of the lesion, which he has verified at autopsy. He regards this

hemorrhagic prelude as due to C-avitaminosis and suggests that patients with

this disease be assured of an adequate intake of this vitamin. "

 

And while the exact meaning of the word " adequate " has been at the heart of

nutrition controversy ever since, supplementation with even a moderate

quantity of vitamin C has been shown to prevent disease and save lives. Just

500 mg daily results in a 42 percent lower risk of death from heart disease

and a 35 percent lower risk of death from any cause. (11)

 

VITAMIN C AS ANTIBIOTIC AND ANTIVIRAL

 

Dr. McCormick proposed vitamin C deficiency as the essential cause of, and

an effective cure for, numerous communicable illnesses. In " The Changing

Incidence and Mortality of Infectious Disease in Relation to Changed Trends

in Nutrition " (12) McCormick cited mortality tables as early as 1840, and

suggested that tuberculosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough,

rheumatic fever and typhoid fever are primarily due to inadequate dietary

vitamin C. It remains as novel an idea today as it was nearly 60 years ago

to say that disease trends in history might be understood as waves of lack

of vitamin C intake.

 

Dr. McCormick considered vitamin C to be the pivotal therapeutic nutrient

" by reason of its chemical action as a reducing agent, and sometimes as an

oxidizing agent, vitamin C is also a specific antagonist of chemical and

bacterial toxins. " Furthermore, in " Ascorbic Acid as a Chemotherapeutic

Agent " (13) he stated:

 

" Vitamin C is known to play an essential part in the oxidation-reduction

system of tissue respiration and to contribute to the development of

antibodies and the neutralization of toxins in the building of natural

immunity to infectious diseases. There is a very potent chemotherapeutic

action of ascorbic acid when given in massive repeated doses, 500 to 1,000

mg. (hourly), preferably intravenously or intramuscularly. When thus

administered the effect in acute infectious processes is favorably

comparable to that of the sulfonamides or the mycelial antibiotics, but with

the great advantage of complete freedom from toxic or allergic reactions. "

(p. 151)

 

There is considerable evidence that vitamin C in large, frequent doses can

cure what are usually called infectious diseases. To establish that these

diseases are actually vitamin C deficiency diseases, we should be able to

prevent them by regular, abundant supply of the vitamin. This is exactly

what can be done, McCormick said:

 

" Once the acute febrile or toxic stage of an infectious disease is brought

under control by massive ascorbic acid administration, a relatively small

maintenance dose of the vitamin will be adequate in most cases to prevent

relapses, just as in fire protection small chemical extinguishers may be

adequate to prevent fires in their incipiency, whereas when large fires have

developed, water from large high-pressure fire hoses becomes necessary. " (p.

152)

 

 

Along with his contemporary, Frederick R. Klenner, M.D., McCormick was an

early advocate of using vitamin C as an antiviral and an antibiotic. Klenner

would go on to use much larger quantities (350-700 mg per kg body weight per

day). In the 1950's, even McCormick's relatively modest four or five daily

1,000-2,000 mg doses were perceived as astronomically high, and something to

be feared.

 

 

In some minds, this remains the case today.

 

 

KIDNEY STONES

 

Ever since Linus Pauling began publicizing the value of megadoses of vitamin

C in the early 1970's, it has been a cornerstone of medical mythology that

vitamin C can cause kidney stones. The accusation is false. (14) Everybody

has heard about unicorns and can describe one in detail. You could probably

draw a unicorn. You can see one in your mind right now. Yet unicorns do not

exist. They are imaginary, without substance or proof. Just like a vitamin C

kidney stone. The vitamin C kidney stone myth is the best known non-fact in

non-existence. Every physician has heard of one, but not one of them has

ever seen one. That is because they simply do not exist.

 

 

As Dr Abram Hoffer has said, " Contrary to popular medical belief, vitamin C

does not cause kidney stones; at least it never has so far. Maybe in it will

in the next 1000 years. "

 

Writers often pass by the fact that Dr. McCormick actually advocated vitamin

C to prevent and cure the formation of some kidney stones as far back as

1946 (15), when he wrote:

 

" I have observed that a cloudy urine, heavy with phosphates and epithelium,

is generally associated with a low vitamin C status. . . and that as soon as

corrective administration of the vitamin effects a normal ascorbic acid

(vitamin C) level the crystalline and organic sediment disappears like magic

from the urine. I have found that this change can usually be brought about

in a matter of hours by large doses of the vitamin, 500 to 2,000 mg, oral or

parenteral. " (p. 411)

 

In what might be seen as a display of almost too much therapeutic

versatility, Dr. McCormick affirmed that calculi in other parts of the body

could be cleared up by plenty of vitamin C, including stones in the biliary

tract, the pancreas, tonsils, appendix, mammary glands, uterus, ovaries,

prostate and " even the calcareous deposits in arteriosclerosis. " He said

that calcareous deposits in the eye " may be cleared away in a few days by

correction of vitamin C status, and I find also that dental calculus (tartar

on the teeth), which lays the foundation for so much dental havoc, can be

quickly suppressed and prevented by an adequate intake of vitamin C. "

 

Odd though this final statement may seem, " there appears to be a very real

correlation between vitamin C state (as a possible nonmechanical

contributor) and debris irrespective of tooth cleansing habits, " wrote

Professor of Oral Medicine Emanuel Cheraskin, M.D., D.M.D., in 1993. (16)

Dr. Cheraskin cited a clinical trial that " reported a resolution of materia

alba, calculus, and stain when 500 mg of ascorbic acid was daily

administered for 90 days. "

 

CIGARETTE SMOKING

 

Fifty years ago, McCormick (17) wrote:

 

" The writer has found, in clinical and laboratory research, that the smoking

of one cigarette neutralizes in the body approximately 25 mg of ascorbic

acid, or the equivalent of the vitamin C content of one average-size orange.

On this basis, the ability of the heavy smoker to maintain normal vitamin C

status from dietary sources is obviously questionable, and this alone may

account for the prevalence of vitamin C deficiency in our modern adult

population. "

 

This was quite a statement in 1954, at a time when physicians were literally

endorsing their favorite cigarette in magazines and on television

commercials.

 

No doubt it is purely coincidental that calculii, cigarettes, cancer,

cardiovascular disease, connective tissue, and collagen all have the letter

" C " in common. William J. McCormick's lifetime of work helped establish that

these words also have a vitamin in common. Dr. McCormick fought vitamin C

deficiency wherever his clinical experience found it. His early use of

gram-sized doses to combat what then and now are usually regarded as

non-deficiency-related illnesses set the stage for today's 100,000 mg/day

antiviral/anticancer vitamin C IV's. For such a good idea, the spread of

this knowledge to date has been exceptionally slow. Without McCormick's

published work, it might never have spread at all.

 

(All 17 footnoted references for this paper are posted in their entirety at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/mccormick.html )

 

Locating William J. McCormick's papers is now somewhat easier than it used

to be because a number of them have been posted on the Internet. at

http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/ .

 

 

READERS SAY

 

(Here's a letter from a teacher I received back in December of 1988. It a

beautiful example of how Dr. Hoffer's niacin protocol can profoundly help

people.)

 

" I'm writing to thank you for changing my life. You may remember that I was

in despair: I thought I'd have to quit my job, and most days were pretty

miserable for me. The niacin changed everything. It enables me to enjoy my

teaching once more, to be able to relate to the students and anyone else, to

think and communicate clearly, and just to be a " normal " person.

 

" Like you said, it's not perfect, but the improvement has been incredibly

great. I also take the other vitamins and follow the other suggestions you

made to me, but the niacin is at the heart of it all. If only I had called

you years ago. But at least I was able to get help when things were at their

worst.

 

 

" Thank you again. Your knowledge has meant everything to me.

 

 

" Sincerely,

 

" L. S. "

 

 

The knowledge is, of course, not mine. Lots of niacin dosage information is

posted at

 

the http://www.doctoryourself.com website, and a search from the top of the

main page for " Hoffer " or for " niacin " will bring it all forward quickly and

easily.

 

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:

 

There are 72 feet of nerves and 9 feet of blood vessels for every square

inch of your skin. Each individual cell in your body contains 6 feet of DNA,

which, if unraveled, would stretch 11 billion miles. If there were ever an

argument for large vitamin doses, this is it.

 

VITAMIN C, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, AND TOXINS

 

The effectiveness and safety of megadose vitamin C therapy should, by now,

be yesterday's news. Yet I never cease to be amazed at the number of persons

who remain unaware that vitamin C is the best broad-spectrum antibiotic,

antihistamine, antitoxic and antiviral substance there is. Equally

surprising is the ease with which some people, most of the medical

profession, and virtually all of the media have been convinced that,

somehow, vitamin C is not only ineffective but is also downright dangerous.

 

Therefore I am always glad to find yet another impeccably qualified

physician who publishes to set things straight. Thomas E. Levy, a practicing

physician for 25 years, is a board-certified internist and a fellow of the

American College of Cardiology. He is also an attorney. What's more, he's a

really fine writer. Dr. Levy's new book, Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and

Toxins: Curing the Incurable has immediately made my most select list of

absolutely required reading.

 

That list is rather short, and here's why. When you pick up a health or

nutrition book and need to know really fast if it is any good or not, just

look for these three key words: Klenner, Stone, and Pauling. If a book has

negative things to say about Linus Pauling, you are not likely to find a

fair hearing for vitamins. Irwin Stone, the biochemist who first put Dr.

Pauling onto vitamin C, is the author of The Healing Factor: Vitamin C

Against Disease (1972). Pauling cites Stone thirteen times in his landmark

How to Live Longer and Feel Better (1986), a recommendation if there ever

was one. But the key figure, chest specialist and ascorbic acid megadose

pioneer Frederick R. Klenner, M.D. is usually omitted entirely from most

orthodox nutrition, health or medical texts. To me, that is tantamount to

deleting all the Shakespeare from an English Lit course. The importance of

Klenner's clinical observations showing vitamin C's power against infectious

and chronic disease is extraordinary. Dr. Levy intends that you become

familiar with Klenner's work, and Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins

accomplishes this purpose with distinction.

 

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)

 

Knowing full well how the medical profession will react to such statements,

Dr. Levy writes:

 

" Unquestioning faith in the " established " medical knowledge is so deeply

ingrained that many doctors simply will not even consider reading something

that comes from sources that they do not consider worthy of producing new

medical concepts. And if they do.they quickly dismiss it as just being

ridiculous if it conflicts with too many of the concepts that most of their

colleagues and textbooks embrace. " (p 22)

 

Aside from personally conducing their own mostly pre-Medline journal search,

the primary way patients (and through them, their physicians) have been

exposed to Dr. Klenner's work has been through Lendon Smith's 68-page

Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C. (Vitamin C as a Fundamental

Medicine: Abstracts of Dr. Frederick R. Klenner, M.D.'s Published and

Unpublished Work. (1988) Tacoma, WA: Life Sciences Press. ISBN

0-943685-01-X. Renamed in 1991: Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C: The

Clinical Experiences of Frederick R. Klenner, M.D. ISBN 0-943685-13-3.)

 

My college students' avoidance response when I trot out " old " megavitamin

studies is nothing compared to the sheer hostility I have received from

academic colleagues. Once one of my undergraduates submitted a paper in

another class discussing some 20 fairly old medical references she had found

on vitamin C as a cure for polio. That course's instructor told me privately

that the student's work was absurd, and he literally described her a " dial

tone. " I recall a nutritional presentation I made to a hospital staff. All

was going well until I mentioned using vitamin C as an antibiotic, as Dr.

Klenner did. The mood changed quickly. And how many of us have heard this

old saw: " If vitamin C was so good, every doctor would be prescribing it! "

 

Acceptance is not helped by the fact that most of Dr. Klenner's papers were

published between 25 and 55 years ago. Says Dr. Levy:

 

" Many physicians have outright disdain for any medical literature that is

more than a few years old. It almost seems that even the best scientific

data is considered to have a " shelf life, " and . . . will never be

appreciated unless a " modern " researcher decides to repeat the study and

" rediscover " the information. " (p 27)

 

And when such modern " reproductions " are done, they commonly use far too

little vitamin C:

 

" I could find no mainstream medical researcher who has performed ANY

clinical studies on ANY infectious disease with vitamin C does that

approached those used by Klenner. Using a small enough dose of any

therapeutic agent will demonstrate little or no effect on an infection or

disease process. Klenner would often use daily doses of vitamin C on a

patient that would be as much as 10,000 times more than the daily doses used

in some of the many clinical studies in the literature. " (p 28-29)

 

Because there are few families that will not be affected by serious

infectious illness, the individual topics Dr. Levy addresses (in Chapter 2,

constituting 130 pages) are especially important. These include measles,

mumps, viral encephalitis, herpes, mononucleosis, viral pneumonia,

chickenpox, Ebola, and of course influenza. He has included a fairly lengthy

section on AIDS. Rabies is an intriguing entry, even to those already

willing to concede that vitamin C is an effective antiviral.

 

Non-viral diseases discussed include diphtheria, tuberculosis (in

considerable detail), strep, brucellosis, typhoid, dysentery, malaria,

trichinosis, and the always-controversial subjects of tetanus and pertussis.

Not unexpectedly, Dr. Levy seems to incline towards the non-traditional

viewpoint on vaccination, although since the book lacks an index, his

statements on this specific subject take a moment to locate. As vitamin C is

such a good antibiotic and antiviral, a deemphasis on vaccination can be

seen to make sense.

 

Ascorbic acid, that Swiss Army knife among nutrients, has been unjustly

dismissed in part because of the implausibility of such very great utility.

A human body of tens of trillions of cells operates thousands of biochemical

reactions on less than a dozen vitamins. Is it so very surprising that one

nutrient would have so many benefits?

 

 

" The Ultimate Antidote " (Chapter 3, 103 pages) considers vitamin C as an

antitoxin. This chapter will, as Mark Twain put it, gratify some and

astonish the rest. The effects of alcohol, the barbiturates, carbon

monoxide, cyanide, aflatoxin, a variety of environmental poisons including

pesticides, even acetaminophen poisoning in cats, mushroom poisoning, and

snake venoms are all shown to respond to vitamin C megadose therapy.

Mercury, lead, and the effects of radiation receive special and really

eye-opening attention.

 

If there is a greater calling than healing the sick, it is teaching people

how to do it themselves. Abram Hoffer and Lendon H. Smith are perhaps the

two foremost examples of physician-authors who have focused on directly

instructing their readers how to use megavitamins correctly and directly. I

think Dr. Levy is another of these natural born teachers, and this may be

most apparent in the book's section of " Practical Suggestions " (Chapter 5).

General readers, having just learned that high oral doses of ascorbate are

effective for self-medication, will appreciate receiving the benefits of Dr.

Levy's professional experience. Physician readers will especially welcome

his injection instructions. I would like to see this important chapter

greatly expanded.

 

A book this good deserves a more eye-catching, upscale cover to attract

bookshelf attention and get to those who most need it. I hope the next

edition will also add some visual aids. Opponents to medical use of vitamin

C will almost certainly demand expansion of Chapter 4 ( " The Safety of High

Doses of Vitamin C " ) to include more negative studies and more commentary on

possible negative effects of massive doses of ascorbate. Dr. Levy does in

fact devote considerable attention to hemochromatosis, immune system

concerns, G6PD deficiency, allegations of DNA damage and kidney stone

formation, the rebound effect, and vitamin C's prooxidant characteristics. I

doubt if any chapter of any length would satisfy vitamin therapy's harshest

critics. Furthermore, they can always find abundant (if mostly unfounded)

ammunition in practically any medical or nutrition textbook in print. In

Levy's book, there is a welcome emphasis on the positive side of vitamin C

megadoses, and that is their power to cure the sick.

 

Cure is by far the best word there is in medicine. It would seem that you

cannot spell " cure " without " C. " I do not think Dr. Klenner would dispute

that. And there is no doubt whatsoever that Dr. Klenner would wholeheartedly

approve of Dr. Levy stating this (p 36):

 

" The three most important considerations in effective vitamin C therapy are

" dose, dose, and dose. If you don't take enough, you won't get the desired

effects. Period! "

 

Dr. Levy's book presents clear evidence that vitamin C cures disease. It

contains over 1,200 scientific references, presented chapter by chapter. It

does not mince words. It is disease specific. It is dose specific. It is

practical. It is readable. It is excellent.

 

Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins: Curing the Incurable, by Thomas

E. Levy, M.D., J.D. http://www.tomlevymd.com

 

[Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris Corporation. 2002. www.Xlibris.com

1-888-795-4274.

 

451 pages. ISBN: 1-4010-6964-9 (Hardcover); 1-4010-6963-0 (Softcover)]

 

(This review was originally was published in the Journal of Orthomolecular

Medicine, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2003, pages 117-118. It is reprinted here with

permission.)

 

DIAGNOSTIC DEPARTMENT: THE NAME GAME

 

Arachibutyrophobia is the technical name for the fear of having peanut

butter stick to the roof of your mouth.

 

And remember this about kleptomania: If you've got it, you can always take

something for it.

 

 

 

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