GET LARGE DOSES OF C WHILE YOUR PHYSICIAN PONDERS YOUR DIAGNOSIS

Acerola cherries contain 30x the amount of Vitamin C that occurs in your average orange.

You've heard of it.  It's ubiquitous.  It's in our foods.  And you've seen and heard testimonials on its miraculous effects.  So you know it's good for you.   Well, you know it's even better for you in higher doses.  Hey, if you're a high-octane performer, then you'll really want to supplement with Vitamin C.

But what does Vitamin C do to our bodies?  I can't speak for everyone and their bodies, but when Dr. Klenner treated polio myelitis with Vitamin C he found that C's function on the body went something like this. He summarizes:

1. Virus destruction. 2. Dehydrates the brain and the spinal cord safely. 3. Supports and normalized the stressed adrenal glands. 4. It preserves the lining of the central canal and maintains more regular spacing and less crowding of ependymal cells (surface cells of the spinal cord).  

I spoke with a neurofeedback expert in Beverly Hills back around 1998 what the best medicine for injuries is?  Without hesitation or pause, she answered directly, "Vitamin C."  I didn't ask her how much or what kind, should it come in form of fruit or supplement. I guess I was stunned by its simplicity, since as I've stated above that Vitamin C is ubiquitous, we know about its miraculous effects. Yet, we experience no miracles.  Why?  It might be precisely because Vitamin C is so well-known; in other words, it's not the latest newfangled opioid or drug.  

Hippocrates said "Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.'  Vitamin C fills that criterion.

Is it a volume issue?  

Is it a kind issue?  Are we using the wrong kind of Vitamin C?  Yes, and no. In other words, it is a volume issue.  

There are maintenance doses, then there are therapeutic doses.  

A discussion on vitamins is often strange.  Healthier people or folks in control or grappling with control will often say that they don't like to take vitamin supplements.  And from that, you hear a sense of "I've got this," meaning I prefer healthier alternatives.  It depends.  And in part, this answer comes from the ubiquitous nature of recreational drugs that are made with all sorts of toxic substances.  Healthier folks believe, and for good reason, that the same is true for the nutritional supplement industry.  It is after an unregulated, of sorts, billion dollar market.  "Who is overseeing the quality?!?!" might come the demand.  The supplement industry has been lucrative for the entire 20th century.  Study of its products has been unrelenting.  Prior to these studies we had legend and folklore. All that means is that the insights are phrased lyrically or poetically to make remembering the insights and instructions easier.  Give this a gander:

In 1948, he published his first paper on the use of large doses of Vitamin C in the treatment of virus diseases. In 1960, he realized, “Every head cold must be considered as a probable source of brain pathology.” Hold on to this thought; it is significant for the understanding of diseases like multiple sclerosis. He also felt-as do Archie Kalikarinos and Glen Dettman of Australia-that the dreaded Sudden Infant Death Syndrome was basically a Vitamin C deficiency. His maxim: the patient should “get large doses of Vitamin C in all pathological conditions while the physician ponders the diagnosis.” 

I like that concept.  This should be the main protocol practiced by all doctors when confronted with every ailment.   

We have misled ourselves with the mistaken notion that all C was supposed to do was keep us from scurvy. If, however, we base our needs on the amounts other mammals manufacture with their intact enzyme it comes to 2-4 grams daily in the unstressed condition. Under stress 70 kg of rats make 15 grams of C. [Burns; Salomon; Conney].

True, true.  People have been trained to think of Vitamin C as over-the-counter anti-scurvy medication without really knowing what the symptoms of scurvy are.  As long as they don't get sea-sick, they must be just fine.  This is just one way that modern medicine and its industrialized complex choke valuable, life-saving, health-fortifying information.  Recommending that someone take Vitamin C they get all defensive because the recommendation alone makes them think that they are sick.  And because they don't have full-blown symptoms of a particular condition, they feel they are just fine and therefore don't bother them with sickly or anemic information.  Stress alone requires Vitamin C supplementation. That figure of 2 to 4 grams of Vitamin C in an unstressed environment just blows me away.  With FDA guidelines set at 60 mgs for Vitamin C is it no wonder that people have been fooled into ailing health?  And where does the medical-industrial-scientific complex want you to put your faith?  Ahem, in your doctor, doctors whose training only involves pharmaceuticals as healing agents. With this option, is it no wonder most people are in trouble and the solutions that keep being offered is more medicine, like "HEALTHCARE for EVERYONE" slogan that gave us the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or PPACA, or Obamacare.  Just as more and more people get healthcare, the quality of the care is the first casualty.  Doctors rushing to grab an ever-increasing number of patients.  

We are willing to accept the premise that some of us are born with genetic defects that lead to problems that can be somewhat controlled with diet and supplements (i.e. phenylketonuria, galactosemia, and alkaptonuria and pernicious anemia). Can’t we accept the fact that we all have a genetic deficiency of the enzyme, l-gulonolactone oxidase and have to take Vitamin C for health, even for life? [Burns, 1959] 

Irwin Stone calls this human genetic lack, this inability, hypoascorbemia. The point that Dr. Klenner is making: “The physiological requirements in man are no different from other mammals capable of carrying out this syntheses.” If one is anemic due to poor iron intake, is it cheating to swallow iron tablets for a while? If you are hypoascorbemic because you cannot manufacture Vitamin C from sugar, extra glucose in your diet will not help, you need to take Vitamin C. 

Loved the way the author set that up, "If you are hypoascorbemic because you cannot manufacture Vitamin C from sugar, extra glucose in your diet will not help, you need to take Vitamin C." And in some cases--what am I talking about, in many cases--Vitamin C is associated with candy or sugary foods that get labeled as "Vitamins added." 

He reports that one of the Pilgrim Fathers wrote to a friend in England in 1621: “Bring juice of lemon, and take it fasting. It is of good use.” 

One guy at a forum I frequent takes this every day.  If you've got kidney problems or a kidney stone, nothing better for it than a half cup of lemon juice, 2 teaspoons of olive oil, and maybe a squirt of honey. 

Folklore has revealed to us what natural remedies have been helpful and even curative. We have been lured into the trap of modern medicine which prescribed a drug for every condition. But consider acerola: Puerto Rican legend has it that if the tree bearing this fruit is in one’s backyard, colds will not enter the front door. This fruit bears 30 times the amount of C than oranges. Dr. Klenner credits Boneset with the health of the Klenner family during the great influenza pandemic of 1918. This plant was made into a tea, bitter but curative. He assayed the tea for Vitamin C; they were getting 10-30 grams at a time! 

Ah, there it is!  "We have been lured into the trap of modern medicine which prescribed a drug for every condition."  That's what I am referring to above.  Employers offer health insurance as part of the benefits package and the husband feels accomplished.  His work and thinking about health and remedies is done.  Only task now is to find a doctor "we like."  O, Fortune!  But check out that Puerto Rican folklore on acerola, ". . . this fruit is in one’s backyard, colds will not enter the front door."  The first time that I'd ever heard of acerolas was when I sold Amway vitamins in 1979 when I learned that acerola cherries contained an exponential amount of Vitamin C.  But as a young man the claims had no pull, no real meaning for me.  For oldsters, yes, and I remembered that point in my presentation.  Also, check out these concerns about acerola cherries, 

It’s rare to experience side effects from getting too much vitamin C, although common problems such as diarrhea, nausea and cramps may arise, according to the Office of Dietary Supplements. Taking large amounts in supplements may increase your risk of developing kidney stones. To avoid potential health problems, adults should not consume more than 2,000 milligrams daily, the Office of Dietary supplements cautions.

Contrast the worries and concerns of Vitamin C stated in that paragraph with the recommendations and healing influence of higher doses, of the virtues of Vitamin C going in the other direction, namely toward vibrant health. First, the author, Sandi Busch, says that it's "rare to experience side effects from . . . too much Vitamin C," but then recognizes common problems as though the side effects are more grave or outweigh the benefits of Vitamin C, ". . . such as diarrhea, nausea and cramps."  And where does Ms. Busch obtain her authoritative insights?  The Office of Dietary Supplements, ODS.  Had no idea such an office even existed but it does. It's a branch of National Institutes of Health, NIH.

But Pauling continues . . . 

The small amount of Vitamin C, recommended by the RDA (75 mg then and 60 mg now) is enough to protect the person from gross disease, but not the amount to maintain good health. Dr. Klenner quotes Kline and Eheart, who in 1944 realized there are wide variations in the need for Vitamin C, in otherwise “normal” individuals. In 1945 Jolliffe suggested that the optimum requirements might be more than 10 times the small doses recommended. 

For good health, individuals, according to Klenner, need about 1 gram of Vitamin C per day.  For therapeutic uses to correct or improve conditions, you'll need more . . . a lot more.   

Scurvy develops slowly. Crandon (in 1940) found that the Vitamin C level of the blood plasma fell to zero for 90 days before there was obvious clinical evidence and that this was as long as 132 days before the first signs appeared. 

Incredible, no?  So if we wait for scurvy symptoms to manifest themselves, it takes anywhere from 90 to 132 days to show up!!! Incredible.  Just incredible.  So we can go for 4 months without any Vitamin C supplements and can claim during that asymptomatic sequence that supplements are a waste of time and only produce expensive urine because we don't have the clinical signs of scurvy. I wonder what the repair time for scurvy is once on a regime of Vitamin C as well as what the prognosis is.