Given this fact, if you ever bump your head, know that it can compromise the network of capillaries in your brain. So what strengthens capillaries--before and after a concussion? You've got it, vitamin C. Bill Sardi pointed out that this fact has been known since 1940.
But even if you don't bump your head, you will need a constant supply of vitamin C throughout your life to avoid dementia, a form of dementia caused by weakened capillaries. Vitamin C strengthens capillaries. So take 500mgs every few hours.
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from NCBI:
The highest concentrations of ascorbate in the body are found in the brain and neuroendocrine tissues such as adrenal, although the brain is the most difficult organ to deplete of ascorbate. Combined with regional asymmetry in ascorbate distribution within different brain areas, these facts suggest an important role for ascorbate in the brain.Did you get that? Where is the largest concentrations of vitamin C in your body? That's right--your brain. What do you think happens to that vitamin C when we're stressed or we drink regular alcohol or develop brain disorders? We lose some of that vitamin C, which is so important for vision, you know, those oracular orbs located in your brain!
This is backed up by nutritional researcher, author, and nutritional formulator, Bill Sardi, who reminds us that
Brain levels of vitamin C are higher [there] than in [any] other organs.
Blood plasma levels of vitamin C are lower in Alzheimer’s patients than in healthy individuals.
Deficiencies in vitamin C are associated with mental decline. Don’t want to be forgetful or slow down as you age? Then upload more vitamin C.
Smoking tobacco, which depletes vitamin C, increases the risk for Alzheimer’s dementia. Not good. If you smoke, if you must smoke, then you must supplement with vitamin C.
Supplemental vitamin C improves the behavior of laboratory animals genetically engineered to develop Alzheimer’s. Did you hear that, parents? Don’t want your baby to be causing problems at school? Make sure they get a daily of 500mgs of C.
Alzheimer’s patients have lower blood plasma and cerebrospinal fluid vitamin C levels despite adequate dietary intake.
Repeated consumption of high-dose vitamin C to laboratory animals reduced beta-amyloid plaque levels in the brain by 40.2% (in the hippocampus) to 57.9% (in the cortex) in the brains of laboratory animals. Low-dose vitamin C (just enough to prevent scurvy symptoms) was almost ineffective at preventing mental decline whereas doses 10-fold higher than the minimum requirement were demonstrably effective. However, it doesn’t matter whether people have a buildup of plaque in their brain or not, they still [acquire] mental decline says a recent study.
Measurement of beta-amyloid plaque should be abandoned in favor of vitamin C blood and cerebrospinal fluid levels to predict risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
Vitamin C-nourished capillaries are stronger and less likely to leak into surrounding brain tissues. It has been known since the 1940s that vitamin C strengthens blood capillaries. Capillaries are connectors between the red hoses (arteries) that carry oxygenated blood and nutrients to tissues and the blue hoses (veins) used to dispose of deoxygenated blood.
For more than two decades it has been known in humans that vitamin C is superior to other supplemental antioxidants (vitamin E, coenzyme Q10) in antioxidant protection in cerebrospinal fluid and it takes greater than dietary intake amounts of vitamin C (~110 milligrams/day) to elevate vitamin C levels in cerebrospinal fluid. Researchers have been calling for oral antioxidant supplementation to protect the human brain since 1997.
Given that vitamin C is a water-soluble nutrient that is rapidly excreted in urine flow, repeated doses (500mgs) every 4-6 hours are required to effectively prevent this devastating disease. Levels of vitamin C in the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the brain need to be much higher than in blood plasma to maintain brain health.
Other accompanying nutrients such as zinc, resveratrol, and rice bran IP6 may synergistically reduce toxic metals (aluminum, copper) that also play a destructive role in Alzheimer’s disease.
The following video does a good job explaining both what the blood-brain barrier IS and its function. About the drugs it recommends for treating certain brain disease, I have no idea. Well, actually, I do. The best treatment is high-dose vitamin C.
In another report, Sardi explains that
Important to know that nutrients donate electrons, the fuel that runs your body. Contrary, at the molecular level, anything that takes electrons away, it is toxic.
Dr. Thomas Levy, MD, says, in conversation with Desiree Rover, that [vitamin C] "is the therapeutic tool of choice, if you will, for most infections and nearly all toxin exposures."
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"What causes disease is, of course, invariably unneutralized toxicity, which is oxidant stress, which is invariably relieved by antioxidants such as vitamin C. A tremendous amount of coalescence, if you will, of what causes diseases and what remedies diseases, but modern medicine prefers to look upon a hundred different medical diseases as a hundred different totally unrelated entities each of which has [its] own pathophysiology, each of which has [its] own treatment, but when you come to understand oxidation and oxidative stress and what antioxidants do, it turns out that really most diseases start for the same reason and it's just your unique toxin or environmental or genetic predisposition that determines what you suffer."
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Dr. Kellner cured polio patients who were already on life-support. He had a series of 60 polio patients, infants and young children, in the middle of a polio epidemic so even with nearly half of them DID NOT get spinal taps there was little doubt that all 60 had polio, and he was able to show that with only 3 days of injectable vitamin C, either by muscle or by veins, in only 3 days was able to cure 57 out of 60. And the remaining 3 required an extra 2 days, of peripheral vitamin C that they were cured as well. But he was able to very conclusively show that he could cure within a total of 5 days 100%, or 60 out of 60, polio patients. 22:49
Desiree Rover retorts, "Vitamin C has 325 functions: 300 enzymatic ones, and 25 hormonal functions." Wow.
With vitamin C every two to three hours, Dr. F. Klenner asserted that he could dry up measles and chicken pox.
Klenner administered ascorbate by injection, and, as Lendon H. Smith describes in great detail in the Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C: The Clinical Experiences of Frederick R. Klenner, M.D., Klenner found that “the most effective route was intravenous, but the intramuscular route was satisfactory. He gave at least 350 mg per kilogram of body weight.” That quantity per day is a dose of 25,000-30,000 mg or so for an adult. Yet, Smith adds, “With 350 mg per kilogram of body weight every two hours, he could stop measles and dry up chicken pox.”This was a compelling vitamin C story.
In 1951, “In an especially incredible case,” Levy says, “Klenner (9) described a five-year-old girl stricken with polio. This child had already been paralyzed in both her lower legs for over four days! The right leg was completely limp, and the left leg was determined to be 85% flaccid. Pain was noticed especially in the knee and lumbar areas. Four consulting physicians confirmed the diagnosis of polio. Other than massage, vitamin C was the only therapy initiated. After four days of vitamin C injections the child was again moving both legs, but with only very slow and deliberate movement. Klenner also noted that there was a “definite response” after only the first injection of vitamin C. The child was discharged from the hospital after four days, and 1,000 mg of oral vitamin C was continued every two hours with fruit juice for seven days. The child was walking about, although slowly, on the 11th day of treatment. By the 19th day of treatment there was a “complete return of sensory and motor function,” and no long-term impairment ever resulted. Vitamin C not only completely cured this case of polio, it completely reversed what would undoubtedly have been a devastating, crippling result for the remainder of this girl’s life.” (4) For such elegant results, in the days before widespread use of either antibiotics or vaccination, one may wonder why Klenner was not awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.Okay, okay, okay, so now you know some of the terrific benefits of vitamin C. But which kind do I take and how much? First, you don't have to take a limousine brand or even the liposomal type of vitamin C. Basic vitamin C will do.
Okay, but how much? That depends. If you're healthy, it doesn't hurt to take 1,000mgs every three to four hours. That provides pretty good protection with all things being equal, which they never are. There are some days or parts of your day where you are stressed out. Maybe you bump a leg or stub a toe at work or step wrong, something, and you'll need some added protection. Same thing with eating. Maybe your diet isn't the best. Then take vitamin C with each meal to fight off problems stemming from your consumption. Bill Sardi suggests taking 500 mg every 4-6 hours.
Given that vitamin C is a water-soluble nutrient that is rapidly excreted in urine flow, repeated doses (500 mg) every 4-6 hours are required to effectively prevent [Alzheimer's] this devastating disease.
