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IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD NOT TO TAKE VITAMIN A, - PLEASE READ THIS.

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IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT VITAMINS ARE HARMFUL, PLEASE READ THIS.

 

There is not even one death per year from vitamin supplements.

 

However, there are over 100,000 deaths from pharmaceutical drugs each

year in the USA, even when taken as prescribed. (Lucian Leape, Error in

medicine. Journal of the American Medical Association, 1994, 272:23, p

1851. Also: Leape LL.

 

Institute of Medicine medical error figures are not exaggerated. JAMA.

2000 Jul 5;284(1):95-7.)

 

Do not be buffaloed and do not be bullied. If someone tries to scare you

from taking vitamins, ask to see the scientific papers that they base

such a warning on.

 

Assuming that the vitamin critic actually respects you enough to honor

your request and produce such documents, here's how to spot bias in a

scientific study:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/antivitamin.html

 

IF YOU ARE ASKED FOR YOUR REASONS FOR TAKING VITAMINS, here are

references that will support you:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/bibliography.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_dishinger.html

 

Scroll further down this page for a lengthy list of physicians whose

writings will back you up.

 

IF YOU ARE TAKING MEDICATION:

 

It is rare that a vitamin will negatively interact with a medication.

 

On the other hand, it is common for a medication to create an actual

vitamin deficiency.

 

To find out, check in the Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR), which is

freely available at any library.

 

Read up on your medication, paying special attention to any

drug-nutrient interactions.

 

Base your decision on facts, not a person's opinion or belief.

 

IF YOU ARE ON CHEMOTHERAPY:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/chemo.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/riordan2.html

 

IF YOU ARE HOSPITALIZED:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hospitals.html

 

IF YOU NEED INTRAVENOUS VITAMIN C:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/strategies.html

 

IF YOU NEED HELP NEGOTIATING WITH YOUR DOCTOR:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/naturedoc.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/fire.html

 

IF YOU NEED HELP FINDING A DOCTOR:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/subcontractor.html

 

PHYSICIAN AUTHORS THAT CLEARLY STATE,

 

" VITAMINS ARE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE " :

 

Here's what highly qualified and experienced medical doctors, that have

used megavitamins for decades, have to say about the safety of vitamin

megadoses:

 

Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_factoids.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_editorial.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_cancer_2.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/cancer_hoffer.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_vitc_can.html

 

Ewan Cameron, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/cameron.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_cameron.html

 

Robert F. Cathcart, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/cathcart_thirdface.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_cathcart.html

 

Emannuel Cheraskin, M.D., D.M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/books_cheraskin.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_cheraskin.html

 

Frederick R. Klenner, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klenner_table.html

 

William Kaufman, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/kaufman2.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/kaufman3.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/JOM1.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_kaufman.html

 

Thomas Levy, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/levy.html

 

William J. McCormick, M.D.:

 

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

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/mccormick1951.html

 

Hugh D. Riordan, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/riordan1.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_riordan.html

 

Wilfrid Shute, M.D. and Evan Shute, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_shute.html

 

Lendon Smith, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/smith1.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_lsmith.html

 

Walt Stoll, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/stoll.html

 

Carl C. Pfeiffer, M.D., Ph.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_pfeiffer_ed.html

 

Hans A. Nieper, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_nieper.html

 

You will likely discover that very few vitamin naysayers " have the time "

to discuss the work of the physicians listed above. That is precisely

why you have the responsibility to read it. Be prepared.

 

 

 

 

IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD NOT TO TAKE VITAMIN A, please read this:

 

 

 

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/fatigue.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/antioxidants.html

 

 

 

IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD NOT TO TAKE NIACIN OR NIACINAMIDE (Vitamin B-3),

please read this:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/niacin.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_niacin.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_cardio.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/review_hoffer_B3.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_psychosis.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/psychiatry.html

 

IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD NOT TO TAKE ANY OF THE OTHER B-VITAMINS, please

read this:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_paradigm.html

 

IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD NOT TO TAKE VITAMIN C, please read this:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitaminc.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitaminc2.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/ortho_c.html

 

ABOUT " OBJECTIONS " TO VITAMIN C MEGADOSES

 

In massive doses, vitamin C (ascorbic acid) stops a cold within hours,

stops bronchitis in a day, and stops viral pneumonia (pain, fever, cough

and the lot) in two days. It is a highly effective antihistamine,

antiviral and antibiotic. It is an antitoxin and it reduces inflammation

and lowers fever. Your doctor may not believe this, but it is not a

matter of belief. It is a matter of experience. Once you see it happen

repeatedly, you know it to be true.

 

Many people therefore wonder, in the face of statements like these, why

the medical professions have not embraced vitamin C therapy with open

and grateful arms. The reason is this: Many studies that claimed to

" test " vitamin effectiveness were designed to disprove it.

 

You can set up any experiment to fail.

 

One way to ensure failure is to make a meaningless test. A meaningless

test is assured if you make the choice to use inappropriate

administration of insufficient quantities of the substance to be

investigated.

 

If you shoot beans at a charging rhinoceros, you are not likely to

influence the outcome. If I were to give every homeless person I met on

the street 25 cents, I could easily prove that money will not help

poverty. If a nutrition study uses less than 20,000 or 30,000 milligrams

of vitamin C, it is unlikely to show any antihistamine, antibiotic and

antiviral benefit whatsoever.

 

That is because you have to give enough to get the job done.

 

The public and their doctors look to scientific researchers to test and

confirm the efficacy of any nutritional therapy. As long as such

research as is done uses piddling little doses of vitamins, doses that

are invariably too small to work, megavitamin therapy will be touted as

" unproven. "

 

" As evidence of the value of nutrients, especially vitamin C... becomes

more and more evident to the public, researchers produce a mass of

articles on minute aspects of vitamin C. I have been consulted by many

researchers who proposed bold studies of the effects of massive doses of

ascorbate. Every time the university center, the ethics committee, the

pharmacy committee, etc. deny permission for the use of massive doses of

ascorbate and render the study almost useless. Seasoned researchers

depending upon government grants do not even try to study adequate

doses. All of this results in a massive accumulation of knowledge about

very little which gives the impression that there is no more of real

importance to be learned. This accumulation of minutia hides the great

effects of ascorbate already known by some... As you read these learned

papers, you will realize that they seem to be completely unaware of the

uses of massive doses of ascorbate. One of the most amusing aspects of

this

research are the speculations and research into the toxicity and other

adverse reactions of tiny doses of ascorbate when many have used for

years 20 to 100 times the amounts being discussed. " (from " Delay by

Intellectualization, " by Robert Cathcart, M.D. http://www.orthomed.com

Reprinted with permission.)

 

Probably the main roadblock to widespread examination and utilization of

this all-too-simple technology is the equally widespread belief that

there MUST be unknown dangers to tens of thousands of milligrams of

ascorbic acid. Yet, since the time megascorbate therapy was introduced

in the late 1940's by Fred R. Klenner, M.D. (links to his work are

posted above), and right up to today as used by physicians such as Dr.

Cathcart, there has been a surprisingly safe track record and an even

more surprisingly effective track record to follow.

 

Several mistakenly-believed " side effects " of vitamin C have been found

to be completely mythical. According to a NIH report published in the

Journal of the American Medical Association (April 21, 1999), NONE of

the following problems are caused by taking " too much vitamin C " :

 

Allegations of Hypoglycemia

 

Allegations of Rebound scurvy

 

Allegations of Infertility

 

Allegations of Destruction of vitamin B-12

 

Safety and effectiveness have always been and should always be the

benchmark for any therapeutic program. When one considers that even the

AMA admits to over 100,000 Americans dying annually from routine

administration of prescription drugs, I think we need to consider anew

the merits of truly large doses of vitamin C.

 

IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD NOT TO TAKE VITAMIN D, please read this:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/werbach.html

 

IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD NOT TO TAKE VITAMIN E, please read this:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/estory.htm

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitamin_e.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/shute_protocol.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_shute.html

 

" There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is

proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep man in

everlasting ignorance. That principle is condemnation without

investigation. " (Herbert Spencer)

 

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Joined: 08 Sep 2003

Posts: 73

Location: United Kingdom

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 2:51 am Post subject: VITAMINS AGAINST

DISEASE

 

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Vitamins Against Disease

 

VITAMINS AGAINST DISEASE

 

Many persons want to know what scientific

substantiation there is that vitamins and diet can be

as effective in treating illness as nature-cure

authorities maintain. In this article we will review

some classic research papers supporting vitamin

therapies for curing disease. There is nothing new

about vitamin treatments, as I wish to demonstrate by

including these decades-old studies. Still, this

information may be news to you, and almost certainly

will be news to most physicians.

 

Let's begin at the end, so to speak, and consider a

paper that was published in the Journal of the

American College of Proctology before the second world

war entitled " Vitamins and Their Relationship to

Deficiency Diseases of the Alimentary Tract. " The

author of this undated article, Edward A. Johnston,

M.D., says that vitamin deficiencies are usually

multiple deficiencies, which show up over a long

period of time. " These deficiencies occur despite a

balanced diet, " says Dr. Johnston, " the balance of

which is usually determined by older knowledge of

nutrition, and influenced by conditions in commercial

preparation and preservation. " This is what

naturopaths have been saying for years: we eat a

lopsided diet of way too many processed, cooked,

devitalized foods and we are not going to get our

vitamins from any balanced collection of such

imbalanced foods.

 

What does deficiency of this or that vitamin result

in? Dr. Johnston says that " Vitamin A deficiency, by

its action of increasing epithelial irritability and

infectibility, can be an important factor in the cause

of ulcers " and that " other instances of vitamin A

deficiency, are often found in conjunction with

infections of the intestinal tract, are infections of

the eyes, tonsils, sinuses, lungs, buccal and lingual

mucosa, and the skin. " The eye, ear, nose and throat

specialist, or the allergist, may be a professional

whose job can be eliminated. Do your part to put them

out of work by being sure you get plentiful vitamin A.

Fruits, salads, vegetables, and multiple vitamin

preparations will contain " A. "

 

As to the B-vitamins, the paper states: " Vitamin B

deficiency can be considered an important factor in

the cause of hemorrhoids... The enlarged flabby colon

and esophagus are due to deficiency of B by its

resulting loss of muscle tonicity, partial failure of

elimination, with obstipation as the end result. "

Loss of bowel action and the resulting constipation

caused by B-vitamin deficiency was also discussed by

Dr. Louis Gross in 1924 in the Journal of Pathology

and Bacteriology in his paper, " The Effects of Vitamin

Deficient Diets on Rats, With Special Reference to the

Motor Functions of the Intestinal Tract In Vivo and In

Vitro. " Dr. Gross noted that B-vitamin deficiency

also produces damage to kidneys, spleen, pancreas,

testes, ovaries and liver. Since so many persons have

health problems centered in these areas, we may

reasonably suspect population wide vitamin B

deficiency. Naturopathic authorities suspect exactly

this. B-vitamins are lost rapidly by the body when it

is under stress. Since most of us are indeed under

stress, B-vitamin deficiency is almost assured without

supplementation. Dr. Johnston says:

 

“Cancer having a particular affinity for the rectal

and intestinal tract may be caused by a systemic

deficiency, lowering the resistance to a point where

the degenerative process begins. Vitamin deficiencies

may be a factor worthy of consideration in infections,

degenerations, and malignancies...The diet should

contain quantities of fresh vegetables, eaten as

nearly in the natural state as possible and few

refined foods should be allowed in the regimen.

Concentrates of the vitamins are a valuable aid in

correcting the acute stage in which the patient is

found when symptoms develop...I have had very good

results in a number of patients on a group vitamin

concentrate tablet with all the vitamins present.

This is effective and is not too expensive to the

patient. It behooves every medical man to study and

observe the merits of vitamin therapy.” (p. 4

 

This is nature-cure. Here is a doctor who

researches vitamins, tries vitamins, and cures with

vitamins. Here's a doctor who prescribes whole, raw,

natural foods, and discourages refined foods. Yet

there are so few medical doctors who hear what he's

saying, and fewer still who try the effective, natural

approach with their patients. This is another reason

why you have to be your own doctor: to make sure you

and your family have the advantage of such knowledge,

you may have to apply it yourself. Then you decide.

 

B-complex vitamins and heart disease are discussed in

a 1934 paper entitled " Maintenance Nutrition in the

Pigeon and its Relation to Heart Block " by Cyril W.

Carter of Oxford University. The graphs shown are

particularly interesting. B-vitamin deficiency seems

to actually cause heart trouble, because B-vitamins

actually cured it. In one case, an eight-week long

heart block was cured in four days with B-vitamins;

this was with a person, not a pigeon. The same white

rice, white flour diet that made experimental pigeons

sick also makes people sick. Whole grain foods (and

not just naturally titled, dark colored white flour

breads and cereals) can reverse illnesses and prevent

illnesses.

 

Ever since Dr. Linus Pauling began publicizing the

value of megadoses of vitamin C in the early 1970's,

there has been an undertone of medical suspicion that

vitamin C may cause kidney stones. Kidney stones

(what doctors call " renal calculi " ) can be cured by

vitamin C, says Dr. William J. McCormick, M.D., of

Toronto, Canada. One among his many excellent papers

appeared way back in 1946 in Medical Record, stating

the following:

 

“I have observed that a cloudy urine, heavy with

phosphates and epithelium, is generally associated

with a low vitamin C status, as determined by

titration with dichlorophenal-indophenol

(Hoffmann-LaRoche); 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)

 

This sediment or crystalline matter in the urine is

what makes up kidney stones. Please also note that

500 to 2,000 mg is much more than the U.S. Recommended

Daily Allowance (RDA) for vitamin C of 60 mg/day. The

U.S. RDA is not enough vitamin C. Dr. McCormick

clearly indicates the need for large quantities of

this vitamin, not just a daily drink of orange juice.

 

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

therapeutic versatility, Dr. McCormick also found that

calcareous deposits of the eye and cornea " 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. "

 

With vitamin C, " adequate " means abundant. Americans

do not get abundant amounts of any vitamin in their

fast-food, convenience food, sugar-laden,

meat-and-starch, over-cooked diet. They certainly do

not get much, if any, vitamin C. Dr. McCormick

believed, and not alone, that nine out of ten people

in this country are vitamin C deficient. In a 1954

paper, " Intervertebral-Disc Lesions: A New Etiological

Concept " printed in Archives of Pediatrics, Dr.

McCormick says:

 

“It would seem almost unbelievable that in this day

and age, when fresh fruits and vegetables are so

plentiful, any of our population should be found

deficient in vitamin C; but during the last fifteen

years of the writer's practice as a nutritionist, more

than 5,000 qualitative chemical tests for vitamin C

status in clinical cases have been made, and less than

ten percent of adult subjects have been found to be at

optimal level in this respect. 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.” (p. 32-33)

 

Note that Dr. McCormick said this in 1954, at a time

when physicians were literally endorsing cigarettes in

magazines and on TV commercials.

 

It is important to keep in mind that non-smokers are

subjected to cigarette smoke also, in homes and public

places, and that air pollutants and stress also cause

the body to lose quantities of vitamin C.

 

Can this widespread deficiency of vitamin C be behind

more than just kidney stones? Dr. McCormick says yes,

for he thinks that calculi in other parts of the body

can be cleared up by plenty of vitamin C, including

those in the biliary tract (gallstones), the pancreas,

tonsils, appendix, mammary glands, uterus, ovaries,

prostate and " even the calcareous deposits in

arteriosclerosis. " Think of the surgery that could be

avoided here.

 

This is just the beginning. In his series of papers,

Dr. McCormick further demonstrated that vitamin C

deficiency is the essential cause of numerous

communicable illnesses. Let's consider " The Changing

Incidence and Mortality of Infectious Disease in

Relation to Changed Trends in Nutrition " from Medical

Record, September 1947. Citing mortality tables as

early as 1840, it is shown that tuberculosis,

pneumonia, diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough,

rheumatic fever, typhoid fever and more are due to

vitamin C deficiency brought about by poor nutrition.

It is shown in graphs that the mortality rate for

these diseases decreased over the years regardless of

immunization, inoculation or medication. The rate of

decline in death rate for almost every disease cited

was about as fast before immunization as it was after

immunization. Public health records show that by the

time inoculations became available, few people were

dying of these diseases anyway. Dr. Howard H.

Hillemann (1960) drew similar conclusions in " The

Illusion of American Health and Longevity " published

in Clinical Physiology. He showed that polio was

already almost eliminated before polio vaccine was

available.

 

Vitamin C seems to be especially important. Perhaps

we can see a lack of vitamin C as the basic cause of

kidney stones and such, but what of plentiful supply

of vitamin C as the basic cure for the named

infectious diseases? Can we say that disease trends

in history might be understood as waves of lack of, or

waves of abundant intake of vitamin C? Apparently we

can.

 

Dr. McCormick explains vitamin C's properties and

says that " 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 " (McCormick, 1952) he

states:

 

" 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 increasing evidence that vitamin C in large,

frequent doses can effect cure of what are usually

called infectious diseases. To establish that these

diseases are actually vitamin C deficiency diseases,

though, we should be able to prevent them by regular,

abundant supply of the vitamin. This is exactly what

can be done. Dr. McCormick states:

 

" 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)

 

Here is an excellent example of preventive health

care, and very powerful prevention at that, by using a

vitamin. Vitamin C isn't just for colds any more.

We're talking here of nothing less than the cure and

prevention of serious illness with a vitamin that

anyone can buy and take on their own.

 

And we're not going to stop there. We're going to

take on the biggest killers of modern times: heart

disease and cancer. Can they be conquered? Consider

this summary of facts brought out by Dr. McCormick in

the papers cited above, and from " Coronary Thrombosis:

A New Concept of Mechanism and Etiology " (McCormick,

1957):

 

1.) Four out of five coronary cases in hospitals show

vitamin C deficiency.

 

2.) Cancer patients have vitamin C deficiency

averaging 4,500 mg.

 

3.) Smoking is known to predispose a body for cancer

and heart disease; smoking is also known to rob the

body of its vitamin C.

 

4.) The symptoms of classic vitamin C deficiency

disease, called scurvy, are identical with the

symptoms of some types of leukemia and other forms

cancer.

 

Scurvy is generally supposed to be extinct. Yet

cancer is all too prevalent today, and the signs in

development of cancer and scurvy are similar. Can

they be the same disease under different names? In

" Have We Forgotten the Lesson of Scurvy " (1962), Dr.

McCormick reviews the literature in this regard:

 

" As long ago as 1609, Martini cited by (scurvy

research pioneer) 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 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. " (p. 5)

 

After citing the work of eleven more researchers, Dr.

McCormick says:

 

" Our major effort 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)

 

He also cites a description of leukemia from a 1905

edition of Northnagel's Encyclopedia of Practical

Medicine which, curiously enough, equated leukemia and

scurvy.

 

In short, we may be a nation suffering from a scurvy

epidemic under the current name of cancer. The

symptoms, progress and results of the two diseases are

the same: the cause is the same (vitamin C

deficiency); the treatment of each is the same:

vitamin C in large quantity. If all this is true,

then cancer patients should get better when treated

with large doses of " C. "

 

They do. Dr. Linus Pauling (1976, 1986), Nobel

prize-winning chemist, researcher, and author

collaborated with cancer surgeon Ewan Cameron, M.D.

(1973, 1993) in directing the treatment of patients

with very great quantities of vitamin C with very

great results. An undated letter in my possession

from the Linus Pauling Institute says:

 

" Our work on nutrition and cancer, in collaboration

with Vale of Leven Hospital in Scotland, is showing

significant promise. We recently reported that daily

ingestion of 10 grams (10,000 mg.) or more of vitamin

C extends and improves the quality of life of

patients with terminal cancer. These studies,

published in the October, 1976 issue of The

Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences, are

based on a comparison of 100 patients with advanced

cancer who received 10 grams of sodium ascorbate

(vitamin C) per day - and 1,000 other patients, ten

matched controls for each of the ascorbate-treated

patients (same kind of cancer, same age, same sex).

The 1,000 control patients were given the same

treatment as the ascorbate-treated patients except

they did not receive vitamin C. The ascorbate-treated

patients have lived, on the average, over five times

as long as the matched control patients. Although all

1,000 controls have died, thirteen of the 100

ascorbate-treated patients are still alive and seem to

be free of the disease. "

 

Thirteen out of one hundred may not seem like a

staggering number, but that would have been 130 out of

a thousand, or 130,000 out of a million. Also bear in

mind that Ivan Illich says in Medical Nemesis (1977)

that there is no significant increase in survival rate

for most cancer patients with conventional medical or

surgical treatment. The five year survival rate for

most cancer patients is unaffected by any medical

therapy; it is the same whether they are treated or

not. With vitamin C, we appear to have what may be,

statistically, the most effective known cure for

cancer. " Dr. Pauling believes that the death rate

from cancer in the United States can fall from twenty

per cent of all deaths to only two percent, " says the

Institute.

 

What vitamin researchers seem to keep finding is that

if a deficiency of one or more vitamins causes a

disease, the plentiful administration of that same

vitamin or vitamins will cure the disease. That makes

sense. More important, this theory is proven by its

clinical success. Surely that's the best part of any

research: when it works, when people get well.

 

One of the functions of vitamin C, in addition to

keeping your cells together, is to maximize " the

oxygen-carrying capacity of red (blood) cells so the

heart is called upon to do much less work, " says Dr.

Royal Lee in the undated pamphlet " Clinical

Nutrition: Food vs. Drugs. " It is interesting that

vitamin E has a similar effect: it increases oxygen

availability to the heart. If that's true, one might

expect vitamin E deficiency to cause heart trouble.

Evidently it does, and " 122 independent reports have

been published in the world's medical journals in

support of vitamin E " according to an uncredited

article in Popular Science Digest... from 1953!

 

Wilfrid and Evan Shute, both medical doctors, with

Dr. Arthur Vogelsang, traced a national vitamin E

deficiency back to the turn of the century when the

milling of flour and consumption of this and other

refined foods increased greatly. They saw an increase

of heart disease parallel the increase of refined

foods. In Coronet there appeared an article by J. D.

Ratcliff (1948) entitled " For Heart Disease: Vitamin

E " that described this work.

 

" The Shutes and Vogelsang note that heart disease is

almost unknown among primitive peoples - until they

start eating civilized man's food. Further, they

emphasize that in 1910 - before our national diet had

become too refined - heart disease was the fourth

cause of death instead of the first as it is today

(1948); and that the rate of heart deaths is up 250

per cent in this period. " (p. 31)

 

The Shutes described this phenomenon in their books,

particularly in Vitamin E for Ailing and Healthy

Hearts (1969). The more refined, de-natured foods

eaten, the more heart disease. And what is refined

out? Among other things, the vitamin E that helps

keep the heart prospering, and you alive.

 

Since the 1940's, cardiovascular disease has

continued to be our biggest killer disease. But also

since then, certain doctors have treated tens of

thousands of coronary patients with vitamin E. Drs.

Wilfrid and Evan Shute have personally supervised

vitamin E therapy for over 30,000 heart patients,

making them the world's most experienced

cardiologists. You would think that the medical

profession would be most enthusiastic about their

success with vitamin therapy.

 

That has not been the case. The Canadian, British,

and American Medical Associations have not voiced

serious support for vitamin E against heart disease.

Why not? " The Fight Over Vitamin E " (Hutton, 1953)

discusses the early stages of the controversy in

detail. The article also expands on vitamin E's

therapeutic uses:

 

" The Shutes' theory about vitamin E is this: it is not

specifically a heart medication... The chief effect of

vitamin E is to reduce the amount of oxygen which the

cells and tissues of the body and its organs require

for efficient, healthy functioning. Heart diseases

happen to be the most dramatic example of the result

of vitamin E deprivation, and vitamin E's effect,

simply stated, is to condition the tissues involved so

that they are able to function normally, or at any

rate to survive, on the greatly reduced amount of

oxygen available to them when a coronary clot cuts

down the oxygen-bearing blood supply reaching them.

The Shutes' and other investigators claim it is

effective in a wide variety of other conditions:

burns, wounds, radiation damage, gangrene, ulceration,

phlebitis... diabetes and its complications,

nephritis, eye diseases, psychoses, post-surgical

shock, plastic surgery and post-poliomyelitis. " (p. 4)

 

Much controversy comes out of the wide application

that these scientists claim for vitamin E. However:

A nutritional substance that cures many ills is a

substance whose deficiency causes many ills. This is

the case with any vitamin deficiency: the deficiency

of one vitamin may show up as many different disease

symptoms. One person lacking in vitamin E may develop

arteriosclerosis; another may develop diabetic

gangrene; another might just have poor skin; another

might drop dead of heart attack. This is because a

vitamin is important for the entire organism, in all

its organs and functions. No vitamin works just in or

for the heart or any one sector. Each vitamin is

essential to total body health, and all the vitamins

collectively are needed for freedom from disease.

 

Copyright C 1999 and prior years Andrew W. Saul.

From the books DOCTOR YOURSELF, QUACK DOCTOR and

PAPERBACK CLINIC, available from Dr. Andrew Saul,

Number 8 Van Buren Street, Holley, New York 14470.

 

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