The High Dose Oral Vitamin C Protocol for Cancer (and Nearly Every Other
Ailment)
I’m really excited about this post
because I’m sharing some really cool stuff about Vitamin C that many people do
not know. Or maybe I’m wrong and everyone already knows this but me… We’ll see.
This is a powerful anti-cancer protocol
and even if you don’t have cancer, you can use this method to determine
how much toxic stress is going on inside your body and how high doses of
Vitamin C could dramatically improve your health.
Ok so we all now that Vitamin C
(ascorbic acid) is good for you right?
The body doesn’t produce it, so it has to come from food.
You’ve probably also heard that a severe Vitamin C deficiency leads to scurvy.
The body doesn’t produce it, so it has to come from food.
You’ve probably also heard that a severe Vitamin C deficiency leads to scurvy.
Early symptoms of scurvy
are malaise and lethargy. That’s basically a “general feeling of
being unwell” along with tiredness or exhaustion. (Does this sound like you?)
After a few months comes shortness of breath and bone pain. Further down the road is muscle pain, skin sores, gum disease, loose teeth, wounds not healing, dry mouth, dry eyes, and emotional problems. In the late stages comes jaundice, edema, fever, convulsions, and eventually death.
After a few months comes shortness of breath and bone pain. Further down the road is muscle pain, skin sores, gum disease, loose teeth, wounds not healing, dry mouth, dry eyes, and emotional problems. In the late stages comes jaundice, edema, fever, convulsions, and eventually death.
Sounds fun right?
Fortunately scurvy can be CURED with
lemons, limes, oranges, and any other Vitamin C containing food.
Here’s
where it gets interesting…
The cure for scurvy was first published
in 1617 in The Surgeon’s Mate by
English military surgeon John Woodall.
And it was completely ignored by the medical community.
In 1753 (136 years later) naval surgeon James Lind published his discovery in
In 1753 (136 years later) naval surgeon James Lind published his discovery in
A Treatise of The Scurvy, which was also ignored. The medical establishment insisted that the testimonials of eating citrus fruit to reverse scurvy were merely “anecdotal” and not based on “scientific evidence”. Sound familiar?
Fortunately James Lind persevered and
about 50 years later citrus fruit was finally accepted and used for the
prevention and treatment of scurvy on sailing vessels. So, in summary:
The
cure for scurvy was ignored for nearly 200 years after its discovery.
Nutrition and natural therapies are
still ignored modern medicine. In fact I’d be willing to bet that if you went
to see a doctor with some of the symptoms of scurvy that I listed above, you be
subjected to a barrage of expensive tests, misdiagnosed, prescribed pharmaceutical
drugs, and subjected to treatments for some other disease. This happens all the
time. Earlier this year my good friend Tony was told that he probably had
cancer or AIDS, turns out it was viral pneumonia. Can you imagine?
But I digress… Let’s get back to
Vitamin C.
Here
are some common whole food sources of Vitamin C:
Oranges, Kiwi, Canteloupe, Papaya,
Strawberries, Brussels Sprouts, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cabbage, Kale and
Peppers.
“Super foods” with the highest
concentration of Vitamin C on planet earth are
Camu Camu Fruit, Amla (Indian Gooseberry), and Acerola Cherries. In that order.
Camu Camu Fruit, Amla (Indian Gooseberry), and Acerola Cherries. In that order.
Vitamin C supports nearly every system
in your body: your adrenals, your immune system, your cardiovascular system,
and more. Perhaps the most important is that it is a neutralizer of free radicals.
There’s been tons of ground-breaking
research on high-dose Vitamin C’s powerful healing and anti-cancer effects by
the likes of Fred
Klenner MD, Irwin
Stone, Linus
Pauling, and Ewan
Cameron. I don’t have time to get into their stories but I wanted to a
least give credit where it’s due. Google them in your spare time.
There’s
a fascinating Vitamin C phenomenon that most of us don’t know about.
The sicker and/or more toxic you are,
the more free radicals you have in your body, and as a result, the more Vitamin
C your body will absorb and use.
The body keeps a small reserve of
Vitamin C available for use when there is increased internal demand, but when
you are sick this is quickly depleted.
You may have also heard (or
experienced) that if you take too much Vitamin C by mouth you get the runs, aka
“chach” which is our family’s abbreviation (and code word) for
“Diarrhea Cha Cha Cha”.
“Diarrhea Cha Cha Cha”.
A healthy person can take anywhere from
4-15 grams (4,000-15,000 mg) of Vitamin C in a 24 hour period without getting
the runs, but a sick person can tolerate anywhere from 10-20 times more. I’m talking even as much as 100-200 grams per day
by mouth.
Have you ever taken Vitamin C when you
had a cold and it didn’t help? This is probably because you didn’t take near
enough.
Here’s
where it gets ridiculous…
If you ate something that contained
“100% of the USRDA (Recommended Daily Allowance ) of Vitamin C” that seems
pretty good right?
It’s not.
The USRDA for Vitamin C is only 75 mg. That’s MILLIGRAMS. A normal healthy person can absorb and use between 4,000-15,000 milligrams per day. So the USRDA is way off on this one. 75 mg is basically what someone decided is the absolute minimum amount to keep you from getting scurvy. This is not an amount that promotes health and optimal body function.
It’s not.
The USRDA for Vitamin C is only 75 mg. That’s MILLIGRAMS. A normal healthy person can absorb and use between 4,000-15,000 milligrams per day. So the USRDA is way off on this one. 75 mg is basically what someone decided is the absolute minimum amount to keep you from getting scurvy. This is not an amount that promotes health and optimal body function.
One orange has about 150mg of Vitamin
C, about 2 times more than the USRDA.
And 1 teaspoon of Camu
Camu Powder has about 15 times the USRDA of Vitamin C!
Even though you may not have scurvy, I
think it’s safe to assume that many of us may not be getting enough Vitamin C
in our diets, the lack of which could be a contributor to
a) feeling lousy or b) serious disease.
a) feeling lousy or b) serious disease.
High
Dose Oral Vitamin C Therapy is taking the maximum dose your
body can tolerate before you get the runs. This requires finding your threshold
and then backing off a little bit for your daily dose. The clinical term is
“titrating to bowel tolerance”.
As some of you know, one of the
therapies I used to help my body heal from cancer was Vitamin C IV Therapy, which is a common practice in the
natural/alternative cancer treatment world. This involves sitting in chair in a
practitioner’s office for two hours with an IV drip containing 50 grams or more
of Vitamin C. And while this is a very effective method to get a massive dose
of Vitamin C without reaching bowel tolerance and to promote healing in the
body, it is time consuming and expensive. I was paying $120 a pop, cash money.
And in order for it to be the most effective you need to do it 2-3 times per
week for many weeks.
My friend Bill, who’s healing his
prostate cancer naturally, turned me on to a simple do-it-yourself Oral Vitamin
C Protocol that he was put on by an underground cancer treatment expert whose
name I cannot use publicly. Bill initially reached bowel tolerance taking 60
grams per day. After two months his tolerance was down to less than 30 grams
per day. That’s a very good sign.
The
Vitamin C Toxicity Test & Protocol
This is something everyone should do.
Now clearly no one wants diarrhea on purpose, but in this case it can give you
some immediate feedback about your internal condition. And it’s super cheap to
do!
The simple way to find your tolerance
is to take 2-3 grams of Vitamin C powder or crystals (ascorbic acid) every two
hours mixed in 8 oz of water. That will give you about 12-18 grams the first
day. Make sure you keep track of your doses.
Vitamin C powder is highly
concentrated. 1 teaspoon is usually about 5 grams of Vitamin C.
The
goal is to find your 24 hour limit, not your single dose limit.
The half-life of Vitamin C in the body
is about 30 minutes. That means about an hour after you take Vitamin C, your
body has used up most of it. So an important key to this protocol is to keep
your body saturated with C all day. Dosing every 1-2 hours is ideal.
If you reach bowel tolerance in the
first 24 hours, reduce the total dose by 20-25% and continue to take that
amount every day as a maintenance dose (this may be for several days or
weeks) until you reach bowel tolerance again at that level. Then reduce by
20% again and continue with that dose until you hit bowel tolerance, and so on.
It works the opposite of what you would
expect because you don’t build up a tolerance. The healthier you become, the
lower your bowel tolerance for Vitamin C will go.
If you reach bowel tolerance at 10-15
grams or less per day, you’re considered to be in very good shape health wise.
If you follow the steps above and do
not reach bowel tolerance the first day, continue to up the dose each day until
you get there. If you are seriously sick you may need to dose every hour or 1/2
hour as indicated in the chart below.
As you get close to bowel tolerance you
will get gassy and should have soft stool. That means you’re very close to your
body’s limit and should reduce your dosage a bit.
Here’s a dosage chart from the late and
legendary Dr. Robert Cathcart MD,
who treated 9000+ patients with Vitamin C!
who treated 9000+ patients with Vitamin C!
TABLE
I – USUAL BOWEL TOLERANCE DOSES
CONDITION
Grams Per 24 Hours Doses Per 24 Hours
normal
4 - 15
4 - 6 mild cold
30 - 60
6 - 10 severe cold
60 - 100+
8 - 15 influenza
100 - 150
8 - 20 ECHO,
coxsackievirus 100 - 150
8 - 20 mononucleosis
150 - 200+
12 - 25 viral
pneumonia
100 - 200+
12 - 25 hay fever,
asthma 15
- 50
4 - 8 environmental and
food allergy 0.5 - 50
4 - 8 burn, injury, surgery 25 -
150+
6 - 20 anxiety, exercise
and
other mild stresses 15 - 25
4 - 6 cancer
15 - 100 4 - 15 ankylosing spondylitis 15 - 100
4 - 15 Reiter's
syndrome 15 - 60
4 - 10 acute anterior
uveitis 30
- 100
4 - 15 rheumatoid
arthritis 15 - 100
4 - 15 bacterial infections 30
- 200+
10 - 25 infectious
hepatitis 30 - 100
6 - 15 candidiasis
15 - 200+
6 - 25
Something else worth noting in the
above chart: If you are under chronic stress or engage in athletic activities
like running, weight training, etc. you are likely to have an increased
need for Vitamin C and your tolerance will be higher. Even if you are healthy.
Dr. Cathcart also notes that low dose
vitamin c had basically no effect, but high dose vitamin c, when taken at
80-90% of bowel tolerance, produced a significant and dramatic reduction of
symptoms in his patients.
This next graph is his demonstration of
the relationship between dosage amount and symptom reduction. I had to stare at
the graph for a minute to get it. What it’s showing is that disease symptoms
severely drop off when near bowel tolerance is reached, but are not affected
until then.
My
Experiments
When I first tried this protocol a couple months ago I didn’t reach bowel tolerance until I got to around 34 grams. I worked my way up to taking 12 grams three times per day. I have no idea why my tolerance was that high. I workout 3-5 days per week which would increase my tolerance but perhaps I also had something going on internally… who knows?
When I first tried this protocol a couple months ago I didn’t reach bowel tolerance until I got to around 34 grams. I worked my way up to taking 12 grams three times per day. I have no idea why my tolerance was that high. I workout 3-5 days per week which would increase my tolerance but perhaps I also had something going on internally… who knows?
Earlier this morning I took 7.5 grams
and it produced bowel tolerance for me a couple hours later which actually
interrupted my work on this post. Clearly my tolerance is down and if Dr.
Cathcart is right, my internal health has improved.
Another one: My kids came home with
colds from school two weeks ago. Then my wife got it. One morning I started to
feel cold symptoms as well so I took 10 grams of Vitamin c. I felt great all
day. Then close to bedtime I started to feel the symptoms again so I took
another 10 grams. I did this every day for about a week. I would feel the
symptoms in the morning, but I quickly crushed them with 10 grams of vitamin c.
Some days I would take a dose around lunch time as well if I remembered.
I was taking 20-30 grams per day for most of the week, I felt good, I was close
to bowel tolerance, and the cold never developed. Since then, I’ve done this
more times than I can count. Works every time.
Vitamin C comes in several different
forms: pure ascorbic acid and buffered with minerals.
Buffered C contains mineral salts like
calcium ascorbate, magnesium ascorbate, and sodium ascorbate. Buffered C is
more alkaline but the excess minerals could be problematic if you are taking
mega doses.
I compared three different types
(buffered and pure ascorbic acid) to see if they had different effects but my
tolerance was basically the same for all three. Having said that…
Solaray Vitamin C Powder is 100% pure
ascorbic acid so it’s extremely tart and citric. Vitamin Shoppe
Buffered C-Complex tastes chalky, not citric.
Thompson
C Buffered Crystals is buffered with calcium ascorbate,
it’s citric but not as strong as the pure crystals.
Dr. Cathcart recommends taking pure
ascorbic acid for the high dose oral protocol. Dr. Thomas Levy recommends
sodium ascorbate. I think it makes sense to rotate between different types.
*After writing this post it was brought
to my attention that most of the ascorbic acid in vitamin C powder is made in
China from GMO corn. If that is a concern for you, there are several brands of non-GMO
vitamin C powders.
Recommended
Reading:
by Ewan Cameron by Thomas Levy M.D
and Linus Pauling
Curing
the Incurable: Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins by Thomas Levy
MD, JD
Weblinks:
Dr. Cathcart’s Instructions on Dosage
Dr. Cathcart’s Instructions on Dosage
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