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Vitamin C, Titrating To Bowel Tolerance, Anascorbemia, And Acute Induced Scurvy
Medical Hypotheses 7:1359-1376 ^ | 1981 | Robert F. Cathcart, III, M.D.

Posted on 04/07/2021 12:44:43 AM PDT by SecAmndmt

(...) SUMMARY A method of utilizing vitamin C in amounts just short of the doses which produce diarrhea is described (TITRATING TO BOWEL TOLERANCE). The amount of oral ascorbic acid tolerated by a patient without producing diarrhea increases somewhat proportionately to the stress or toxicity of his disease. Bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid ameliorate the acute symptoms of many diseases. Lesser doses often have little effect on acute symptoms but assist the body in handling the stress of disease and may reduce the morbidity of the disease. However, if doses of ascorbate are not provided to satisfy this potential draw on the nutrient, first local tissues involved in the disease, then the blood, and then the body in general become deplete of ascorbate (ANASCORBEMIA and ACUTE INDUCED SCURVY). The patient is thereby put at risk for complications of metabolic processes known to be dependent upon ascorbate.

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(Excerpt) Read more at doctoryourself.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: health; scurvy; treatment; vitaminc
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1 posted on 04/07/2021 12:44:43 AM PDT by SecAmndmt
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To: Jane Long; metmom; ransomnote

Ping


2 posted on 04/07/2021 12:45:44 AM PDT by SecAmndmt (Aim small, miss small)
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To: SecAmndmt

Vitamin C is water-soluble, so consuming more than the body needs will result in it being excreted in urine.


3 posted on 04/07/2021 1:12:10 AM PDT by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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“Vitamin C is water-soluble, so consuming more than the body needs will result in it being excreted in urine.”

Did you read the paper? It speaks for itself.


4 posted on 04/07/2021 1:14:33 AM PDT by SecAmndmt (Aim small, miss small)
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To: SecAmndmt

Seems like good information to tuck away for when I decide to begin my career as a pirate.


5 posted on 04/07/2021 1:42:03 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: SecAmndmt

I will continue to only eat meat & drink water. Today is my 996th day utilizing this wonderful, ancestrally appropriate way of eating.

I take no supplements. Meat supplies all the nutrition I need to thrive!

https://youtu.be/Ez7_sKJTtQ4


6 posted on 04/07/2021 2:01:14 AM PDT by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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I read the paper and did the math. Taking 100 grams of Vitamin C is 100,000 milligram, which is 16,6666.6% of the daily rate. The central dogma of orthomolecular medicine seems to be that if some nutrient is good, megadoses of that nutrient are much better and can cure anything. Since Vitamin C is water-soluble, consuming more than the body needs will result in it being excreted in urine. That means it's not to stick around in the body to do much good, if it even does do good. That's going to make a lot of Vitamin C down the toilet.

Flushing sound . . .

7 posted on 04/07/2021 2:07:00 AM PDT by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: SecAmndmt
My plan is to Drink More Ovaltine.
8 posted on 04/07/2021 2:42:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: SecAmndmt
“Vitamin C is water-soluble, so consuming more than the body needs will result in it being excreted in urine.” Did you read the paper? It speaks for itself.

Partner, there is so much Bravo Sierra in this supposedly medical paper.

This sounds like it would come out of sorry 81 year old Speaker Nancy Pelousy's mouth. 81 year old Pelousy has got to be the worst Speaker of the House ever!!! I ain't lying either.

BTW, I take 7000 mg of vitamin C and I have not had the Flu in about 12 years now.

I overheard a person say that he had been taking Vitamin about 12 yrs. ago and he had not had a flu or cold symptom for over 15 years.

I started taking 7000 mg of vit. C and 100 mg of Zinc and Vitamin D exactly as he mentioned.

9 posted on 04/07/2021 3:12:46 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business...)
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To: SecAmndmt

Bkmk


10 posted on 04/07/2021 3:42:55 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: SecAmndmt

Fear of Scurvy is what kept me from joining the Merchant Marines.


11 posted on 04/07/2021 3:46:05 AM PDT by BusterDog
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My plan is to Drink More Ovaltine."

A crummy commercial?!

I wonder how many will get those references

12 posted on 04/07/2021 3:49:44 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: SecAmndmt

There is a ten minute video on YouTube of Cathcart describing how to prepare a solution of water and sodium ascorbate for use in an IV drip. Some believe this to be an effective cancer treatment when used in high doses. They recommend three days a week for several weeks. If done professionally, it could run $300 or more per application. My wife had cancer but we couldn’t afford it, so I was trying to learn how to administer an IV but it was too late. IV bags of sterile water for human use are about $100, vs $10 for veterinary use. Sterile water is sterile, right?


13 posted on 04/07/2021 4:02:37 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: jonrick46

Humans, du to a genetic mutation that occurred In primates long ago, do not naturally produce vitamin C like most other animals.

The amount of vitamin C that is considered the RDA is a joke.

For example, a healthy dog produces 18mg of vitamin C per day per pound of weight. A healthy goat produces 80 mg a day per lb of weight

Yet the RDA for an adult human is less than 1mg per lb per day.

Studies have shown again and again the benefits, even among animals that make it themselves that vitamin C supplements aid in their health and boost their immune systems. Not surprising since it’s an anti inflammatory.


14 posted on 04/07/2021 4:19:29 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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“SUMMARY A method of utilizing vitamin C in amounts just short of the doses which produce diarrhea...”

My hemorrhoids appreciate the diarrhea.


15 posted on 04/07/2021 5:30:05 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Solving the hidden codes in life. Well done!


16 posted on 04/07/2021 6:19:57 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: SecAmndmt

Ahem! High dose vitamin C can result in kidney stones (contrary to the article). Also, the body makes oxalate stones from exposure to mold (from fruit and cantaloupe), lack of Vitamin B-6, lack of a calcium binder, and high dose Vitamin C. The oxalate stones can cause breast cancer, heart attacks from blocked arteries, arthritis, dementia and autism. If you are going to take high dose Vitamin C, only do so when under extreme stress from flu, etc., otherwise high dose Vitamin C can be debilitating and even lethal.

Read: Family history of Kidney Stones? Watch Those Megadoses of Vitamin C.


17 posted on 04/07/2021 6:34:15 AM PDT by WLusvardi (Drudge Fudges)
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To: SecAmndmt

VERY interesting.


18 posted on 04/07/2021 8:04:55 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: JohnnyP

on another note, veterinary antibiotica ain’t just good for vets, eh? :-)


19 posted on 04/07/2021 8:19:13 AM PDT by Theophilus (Dems fear fear. Christians fear God. )
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To: TheStickman

Here here. If sailors had not eaten the grain products they would not have gotten the scurvy in the first place. The body takes Vitamin C to process the grains.

Those interested in the effects of grains on the body and health risks might also want to read “Undoctored.”


20 posted on 04/07/2021 8:19:59 AM PDT by esquirette ("Our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee." ~ Augustine)
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