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IV vitamin C therapy is safe, nontoxic, and well-tolerated. In addition to attacking cancer cells, it reduces drug side effects when used in conjunction with chemotherapy.
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) was first discovered in the 1700s by Dr. James Lind, a Scottish naval surgeon when he discovered that lemons and limes cured scurvy in British seamen. The chemical composition of this vitamin, though, wasn't discovered until almost 200 years later by Albert Szent-Györgyi, a Hungarian-American biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1937 for his work with ascorbic acid. Linus Pauling, PhD, also became a strong advocate of vitamin C In the 1960's, utilizing it as a therapy for many illnesses, including the common cold. Pauling's peers, however, found it difficult to believe that such a cheap vitamin could treat anything, and Pauling's findings were scoffed at by the medical establishment and conventional physicians, and ultimately this two-time Nobel Laureate was ostracized just for having suggested what was then a radical idea. Much more criticism followed Dr. Pauling's advocacy of vitamin C as a cancer therapy. Along with Ewan Cameron, MD, Pauling conducted a number of trials showing that high-dose vitamin C resulted in remarkable improvements in quality of life and survival time of cancer patients. The two monitored the cases of hundreds of advanced cancer patients taking IV and oral vitamin C, and tracked them against similar cancer cases in which the patients were not receiving supplements. They found that those obtaining vitamin C lived up to six times longer than the patients in the control group. The National Institutes of Health subsequently funded what they said were "similar" studies at the Mayo Clinic. They used these studies to refute Dr. Pauling's results. Critics of the NIH trial results contend that they were flawed from the outset because the protocols used were designed to create a failure. First, only vitamin C tablets were instead of IV vitamin C treatments, and the dosage was far smaller than the therapeutic dosages previously established by Pauling and Cameron. The length of treatment was also shortened to be less than the length of time necessary to obtain positive results. The negative results of those trials satisfied the status quo, and Vitamin C as a cancer therapy never got off the ground. 
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Are the National Institutes of Health finally seeing the light?
A team of NIH researchers led by Mark Levine, MD, PhD, recently published a study on the effects of very high-dose vitamin C on cancer cells. They found that exposure to high concentrations of vitamin C kills cancer cells, decreasing their survival rates by 50 percent. Tested on nine different cancer cell lines, vitamin C was highly toxic to five of them, and it eliminated lymphoma cells completely. Not only did high-dose vitamin C enhance the chemosensitivity of cancer cells, but it also reduced the toxicity of chemotherapy. Meanwhile, normal cells were not adversely affected. Their paper described how vitamin C in high doses kills cancer cells by producing hydrogen peroxide which is toxic to cancer cells. White blood cells naturally produce hydrogen peroxide to destroy cancer, bacteria, viruses, and other microbes, which explains why IV vitamin C is also useful in the treatment of polio, hepatitis, HIV, herpes, tuberculosis, mononucleosis, Lyme disease and many other infectious diseases. The only way to achieve the concentrations necessary to kill cancer cells and microbes is to give vitamin C intravenously. Just 10g of IV vitamin C, for example, raises blood levels of vitamin C higher than 250g taken orally. Even the NIH researchers conceded this, concluding in their study, "These findings give plausibility to IV ascorbic acid in cancer treatment." Vitamin C Pioneers and Innovators Even though conventional medicine turned its back on vitamin C decades ago, a handful of innovative and dedicated physicians have quietly continued to conduct research and treat their patients with IV vitamin C. In addition to Dr. Linus Pauling and Dr. Ewan Cameron, some of these innovators include the late Dr. Hugh Riordan, Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD; Robert Cathcart, MD; Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD. We owe these doctor-innovators a huge debt of gratitude. |
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