I am very concerned that no one is talking publicly about the potentials for using high dose intravenous Vitamin C for the serious acute respiratory syndrome phase of Covid-19. Last night I spoke with my son who is about to leave for Afghanistan for months. He told me Google is blocking You-Tube videos about Chinese research on using high dosage Vitamin C to save people from the acute respiratory distress of serious Covid-19 infection. I thought he must be wrong, even though being in Special Forces he has access to information I do not. So, today I checked and found that indeed his information appears to be correct. This link provides information and links for further exploring the Covid-19 research efforts. However, I am quoting this article below the link for the critical censorship issue.
“News of vitamin C research for COVID-19 is being actively suppressed
Anyone saying that vitamin therapy can stop coronavirus is already being labeled as “promoting false information” and promulgating “fake news.” Even the sharing of verifiable news, and direct quotes from credentialed medical professionals, is being restricted or blocked on social media. You can see sequential examples of this phenomenon at my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/themegavitaminman .
Indeed, the World Health Organization (WHO) has, literally, met with Google and Facebook and other media giants to stop the spread of what they declare to be wrong information. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/02/14/facebook-google-amazon-met-with-who-to-talk-coronavirus-misinformation.html?__twitter_impression=true
Physician-directed, hospital-based administration of intravenous vitamin C has been marginalized or discredited. Scientific debate over COVID-19 appears to not be allowed.
Ironically, Facebook, blocking any significant users’ sharing of the news of approved vitamin therapy research, is itself blocked in China by the Chinese government. As for the internet, yes, China has it. And yes, it is censored. But, significantly, the Chinese government has not blocked this real news on how intravenous vitamin C will save lives in the COVID-19 epidemic. Here is the protocol as published in Chinese: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n11-chi.shtml
Medical orthodoxy obsessively focuses on searching for a vaccine and/or drug for coronavirus COVID-19). While they are looking for what would be fabulously profitable approaches, we have with vitamin C an existing, plausible, clinically demonstrated method to treat what coronavirus patients die from: severe acute respiratory syndrome, or pneumonia.
And it is available right now.”
One article downgrading the possible value of high Vitamin C treatment spoke of potentially “fatal” doses of C. The only info I could find on that was for rats. It said 50% (LD50) of rats were killed by almost 1/2 ounce of C for a 2 pound rat. Multiplied to human terms, that means 2 pounds of Vitamin C for a large woman or small man would kill 1/2 the group. Can you imagine even swallowing 2 pounds of Vitamin C??? A poison control group said they know of NO deaths caused by C.
I don’t think anyone denies to the beneficial effects of vitamin c in immune health. The Human body has a certain absorption capacity for vitamins as needed. It will take what is needed and discard the rest. Now humans often may be in short supply of various nutrients and it certainly is helpful during the stress of illness to “beef up” one’s nutrients to optimum levels. Yet megadoses beyond the RDA’s are what is in question, whether or not there is a true efficacy or not. Some vitamins can be toxic at high levels beyond what is needed.
So I’m in favor of simply supplementing if possible during illnesses and stress. I don’t think a large dose of ascorbic acid iv hurts anything but the body will discard what it doesn’t need anyway!
I don’t think anyone denies to the beneficial effects of vitamin c in immune health. The Human body has a certain absorption capacity for vitamins as needed. It will take what is needed and discard the rest. Now humans often may be in short supply of various nutrients and it certainly is helpful during the stress of illness to “beef up” one’s nutrients to optimum levels. Yet megadoses beyond the RDA’s are what is in question, whether or not there is a true efficacy or not. Some vitamins can be toxic at high levels beyond what is needed.
So I’m in favor of simply supplementing if possible during illnesses and stress. I don’t think a large dose of ascorbic acid iv hurts anything but the body will discard what it doesn’t need anyway!