Posted on 03/31/2017 5:41:49 AM PDT by upchuck
High doses of vitamin C injected into the blood stream could help treat cancer, new research from scientists suggests.
Injecting patients with a dose 1,000 times higher than the recommended level could target tumour cells and make radiation and chemotherapy more effective.
Scientists gave eleven brain cancer sufferers regular dosages of vitamin C every week for nine months while receiving typical radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Tests showed the extra vitamin – usually found in oranges, green vegetables, broccoli and strawberries – made cancer cells more susceptible to treatment.
It also appeared to be safe, producing mild side effects such as frequent bathroom trips and a dry mouth.
The research, published in the journal Cancer Cell, showed that iron in the tumours reacted with the vitamin to form destructive “free radical” molecules which selectively caused only cancerous cells to die.
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Unfortunately, he got cancer but his doctors told him he probably extended his life considerably by taking the C.
maybe, could be, possibly- sounds very scientific
Linus Pauling vindicated!!??
Yes I have hared of mega doses of Vitamin C helps slow it down big time. The following below have read about works well.
Lemon and Baking Soda go a long way too.
Raw Bitter Apricot Seeds
Flaxseed Oil with Cottage Cheese or skim milk
Drops of Food-grade Hydrogen Peroxide with Distilled Water
Spirulina
Chlorella
Barleygrass
Wheatgrass
Ozone
A high alkaline diet
Ozone
Coconut Oil
Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar
Exactly! Never quibble with a two times Nobel laureate.
(Actually, a number of years ago the mother of a friend of mine had been mismanaged by her doctors and they had missed a large tumour. She was beyond rescue, but my friend asked me if I knew anything that might help. That caused me to have a look at Pauling’s old papers, and as a matter of fact they are quite noteworthy. Glad to see that someone has revisited his research.)
Coconut oil. We have a tub of it in the pantry and my wife hands me a spoon of it whenever I start getting the sniffles. So far it has worked really well — a whole season of not getting the flu for the both of us. If it can prevent the flu, then it can probably prevent cancer.
I remember Michael Landon taking high doses of Vitamin C.
So Linus was correct after all
Or have good genes
This is ridiculous. Cancer is analogous to dry rot, the difference being that the human body repairs itself.
If you don’t remove the conditions causing the dry rot, it returns
All C does is reduce present inflammation and permits the body to heal the cancer itself. Once the C stops - absent other inflammation mitigation - the cancer returns.
Wake up, people: There is no magic bullet for good health sans personal responsibility.
Not quite. The effect on cancer cells is due to iron in cancer cells reacting with injected Vitamin C to generate oxidation that makes those cells especially vulnerable to radiation therapy. Critics of Pauling and his work — including his former research director — long ago pointed out that high oral doses of Vitamin C also generate excessive oxidation in normal cells, a process that damages those cells and is known to be a cause of cancer.
I’ve always considered some of this stuff quackery but I have painful nerve condition and have been loading up on b-12 and it’s helped somewhat. I also take tons of vitamin c and I’m the only one of the house who never catches a cold. So there’s that.
You probably do catch the virus, but they either dies fast or you just heal fast.
Taking lots of vitamin c does help a lot.
I had this growth ( wart? ) one time and I remember I ate a box of blueberries ( about 12 pints ) in two days. That growth just disappeared. I have no idea why. Those were the only things I ate that was different from the junk food I usually eat.
That is not a good analogy. Dry rot would be analogous to cells ceasing to replicate and just dying.
With cancer, cells continue to replicate, it is just that the replication process has an error resulting in bad copies.
Now you could be right in that the C only minimizes the replication errors and they will return with the reduction in C.
Do you take pills or the b-12 shot?
For those with an interest in high doses of Vitamin C, a few notes.
1) Typically, Vitamin C is too acidic for many, but this can be overcome by consuming pH neutral versions of vitamin C, or “buffered” versions with other ingredients.
2) Vitamin C is a water soluble vitamin, which means it can be absorbed and excreted too fast to be effective at the cellular level. The way to overcome this is a “Liposomal” Vitamin C. It involves mixing the vitamin C with lecithin.
Lecithin is a generic term to designate any group of yellow-brownish fatty substances occurring in animal and plant tissues, which are amphiphilic - they attract both water and fatty substances (and so are both hydrophilic and lipophilic), and are used for smoothing food textures, dissolving powders (emulsifying), homogenizing liquid mixtures, and repelling sticking materials.
While there are recipes for DIY Liposomal Vitamin C on the Internet, they are not as good or effective as *some* of the commercial Liposomal Vitamin C out there.
Ironically, because fats like lecithin are not directly absorbed into the blood, but the lymphatic system, Liposomal Vitamin C will likely never reach the peak levels of Vitamin C in the blood that water soluble does. But much higher doses will remain in the body for much longer.
This means that Liposomal vitamin C may actually be more effective than IV Vitamin C.
Thank you for posting that info. Now I remember, my friend said he was taking the “Liposomal” Vitamin C. I heard him say Vitamin C, which I recognized, and forgot the Liposomal part.
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