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Curing the Incurable: Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins
Several years ago the author, cardiologist Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD was asked to assist Hal Huggins, DDS, with a number of Dr. Huggins' dental patients. Each of the patients was quite ill and obviously suffering with one or more very serious medical conditions. Prior to sedating each patient Dr. Huggins asked Dr. Levy to administer a specific protocol of vitamin C. Dr. Levy had never performed or even heard of such a practice, but was greatly impressed as each patient left the dental office markedly improved — many were asymptomatic. As a result, his interest in vitamin C was greatly aroused and he began a search through all the medical literature for any studies concerning this vitamin therapy and the miraculous results he had witnessed time and time again. He quickly found the medical journals were filled with thousands of studies and articles about vitamin C. Many of them reported similarly dramatic results with a myriad of diseases and other difficult medical conditions. Dr. Levy knew that this was information that all his colleagues needed. Consequently, he was compelled to spend the next four years researching and writing Curing the Incurable . Because this book was written especially for his medical colleagues, Dr. Levy has taken great care to research, document, and report the vital truths about vitamin C — he cites over 1,200 scientific references. Curing the Incurable provides the information you need to most effectively use vitamin C to:
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March 10, 2012
This book is ESSENTIAL for all doctors and for anyone with a serious health issue or that wants to avoid having one in the future.
It is very detailed and yet easy to read for patients and for doctors, it contains excellent historical and up-to-date information, has over 1200 scientific references and is also the only vitamin C book I am aware of that talks in depth about the new liposomal vitamin C products as well as all the other forms.
This last point is key, as Dr Levy explains that the best option for acute infections is a combination of liposomal vitamin C and vitamin C by IV and that given a choice of only one or the other, the better choice is liposomal vitamin C. The fourth best option is ascorbic acid taken orally and the fifth best option is sodium ascorbate taken orally.
I recommend this book, and saturation dose vitamin C by liposomal or IV delivery, or both, very highly.
I'm immensely grateful to Dr Levy (and all the other world leading vitamin C experts, past and present) for his work in this area and for this book - and to the very kind John Appleton of New Zealand who sent me a copy of this book with my recent Lypo-C order!
(Patients with M.E. that would like more information are also directed to read the 'High-dose vitamin C and M.E. article on HFME.)
Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E.
It is very detailed and yet easy to read for patients and for doctors, it contains excellent historical and up-to-date information, has over 1200 scientific references and is also the only vitamin C book I am aware of that talks in depth about the new liposomal vitamin C products as well as all the other forms.
This last point is key, as Dr Levy explains that the best option for acute infections is a combination of liposomal vitamin C and vitamin C by IV and that given a choice of only one or the other, the better choice is liposomal vitamin C. The fourth best option is ascorbic acid taken orally and the fifth best option is sodium ascorbate taken orally.
I recommend this book, and saturation dose vitamin C by liposomal or IV delivery, or both, very highly.
I'm immensely grateful to Dr Levy (and all the other world leading vitamin C experts, past and present) for his work in this area and for this book - and to the very kind John Appleton of New Zealand who sent me a copy of this book with my recent Lypo-C order!
(Patients with M.E. that would like more information are also directed to read the 'High-dose vitamin C and M.E. article on HFME.)
Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E.
December 9, 2020
An average book in terms of science. Full of papers (great), but super biased and apologist in one direction - i.e. "vitamin C is the best thing ever". Which is kind of is, but still, the book could be a bit more nuanced. On the other hand, given how egregiously little vitamin C is used in medicine, and the potential it has, the tone of the book is almost justified. We do need to kick the system and increase the use of this amazing micronutrient instead of pushing the current hottest new drug.
The book in three bullets:
* Vitamin C helps in every disease and intoxication state, period.
* To have a beneficial effect, you must take large enough doses for long enough.
* There is no known toxicity, so even if it doesn't help, it won't hurt you. (But be careful if you are prone to kidney stones, or if you have hemochromatosis).
Takeaways from the book off the top of my head:
* Vitamin C is required for redox homeostasis of the body.
* Most mammals produce it endogenously (= internally), but humans, along with guinea pigs, some apes, and fruit bats, need to get it from food.
* The mammals that do produce it do so in enormous quantities: e.g. 13g a day for a goat.
* When sick, this production increases up to ten-fold, to 100g a day for a goat.
* Animals that produce more (goats) tend to get sick more rarely than animals that produce less (e.g. cats and dogs). Humans and guinea pigs get sick the most. This is why guinea pigs are such good test animals for the lab.
* Humans have a natural bowel tolerance level for vitamin C depending on their utilization rate. When healthy, it's 2-10g (or 6-18g depending on who you ask) per day. Beyond this, you get a crazy watery diarrhea.
* When sick, humans can ingest up to 50g for a flu, 100g for a crazier infection, and up to 200g for something like AIDS or Ebola.
* Signs that a disease is causing vitamin C depletion is if you get any sort of bleeding anywhere: e.g. nosebleeds, coughing up blood, or bleeding gums when you brush your teeth.
* Clinical vitamin C deficiency is called scurvy, and it can easily kill you. Lots of diseases end up killing you with symptoms consistent with scurvy, e.g. hemorrhagic fever.
* All disease states and all intoxications create varying degrees of oxidative stress. Vitamin C is the universal exogenous (= external) antioxidant, so it helps with any and all unhealthy states, no matter the disease type and causing agent.
* The only question is whether you're getting enough, and taking it for long enough. If not, vitamin C won't have much effect. This is the universal argument against studies that claim vitamin C doesn't help with some disease: they didn't use a high enough dose, or not for long enough. Or it should've been intravenous, but was ingested instead.
* The recommendation is to remain near your bowel tolerance level at all times. If your tolerance rises sharply, you're getting sick, so adjust your dose up.
* To achieve this, you can recalibrate using a "vitamin C flush" periodically: while fasted in the morning, take vitamin C with enough water until you get watery diarrhea. Then take ~75% of this amount every day, in 3 doses.
* Don't take large amounts of ascorbic acid, because it'll irritate your stomach. Take a "buffered" vitamin C, like sodium ascorbate, which has neutral pH.
* Don't take calcium ascorbate, because it's likely to cause kidney stones. Also don't take large amounts of magnesium ascorbate, since you'll get diarrhea because of the magnesium, not the vitamin C.
* Make sure your sodium ascorbate is not oxidized. If it sits for a while on your shelf, just buy a new one. Liposomal vitamin C is encapsulated, so it doesn't get oxidized?
* When taking large amounts, don't stop supplementation at once, but do it progressively. This is because the enzymes metabolizing vitamin C get ramped up, and if you stop supplementation, you run through your reserves very quickly and get "rebound scurvy".
* One case where large amounts of vitamin C are not recommended are if you have kidney disease. Vitamin C is partially metabolized as oxalate, which is the main ingredient in calcium oxalate stones. However, the book does make a rather convincing case that this has been blown out of proportion, and large enough amounts of vitamin C may even help dissolve kidney stones. Also, most vitamin C is not excreted as oxalate.
* Also, don't take large amounts of vitamin C if you have hemochromatosis: inherited increased absorption of iron. Vit C makes you absorb even more iron (which is good for most people).
* The book shows some evidence that liposomal vitamin C is absorbed better, and even more importantly, it gets to the inside of cells and mitochondria, where it can have a strong effect even in much smaller doses. The case it makes is not terribly convincing, but it's a start.
I've personally tested vitamin C in high doses, and they kicked my butt. I felt terrible for a few days, but then I felt better than ever. It seemed to help me get over some infection that no one knew I had. I'm currently taking 10g of sodium ascorbate per day. I did get some kidney pain, but it went away. Vitamin C stimulates your adrenal system, so I'm personally not a fan of taking it late in the evening, but Linus Pauling apparently took it at dinner, too.
Overall I wish I'd find a better book on vitamin C. But this will do for now.
The book in three bullets:
* Vitamin C helps in every disease and intoxication state, period.
* To have a beneficial effect, you must take large enough doses for long enough.
* There is no known toxicity, so even if it doesn't help, it won't hurt you. (But be careful if you are prone to kidney stones, or if you have hemochromatosis).
Takeaways from the book off the top of my head:
* Vitamin C is required for redox homeostasis of the body.
* Most mammals produce it endogenously (= internally), but humans, along with guinea pigs, some apes, and fruit bats, need to get it from food.
* The mammals that do produce it do so in enormous quantities: e.g. 13g a day for a goat.
* When sick, this production increases up to ten-fold, to 100g a day for a goat.
* Animals that produce more (goats) tend to get sick more rarely than animals that produce less (e.g. cats and dogs). Humans and guinea pigs get sick the most. This is why guinea pigs are such good test animals for the lab.
* Humans have a natural bowel tolerance level for vitamin C depending on their utilization rate. When healthy, it's 2-10g (or 6-18g depending on who you ask) per day. Beyond this, you get a crazy watery diarrhea.
* When sick, humans can ingest up to 50g for a flu, 100g for a crazier infection, and up to 200g for something like AIDS or Ebola.
* Signs that a disease is causing vitamin C depletion is if you get any sort of bleeding anywhere: e.g. nosebleeds, coughing up blood, or bleeding gums when you brush your teeth.
* Clinical vitamin C deficiency is called scurvy, and it can easily kill you. Lots of diseases end up killing you with symptoms consistent with scurvy, e.g. hemorrhagic fever.
* All disease states and all intoxications create varying degrees of oxidative stress. Vitamin C is the universal exogenous (= external) antioxidant, so it helps with any and all unhealthy states, no matter the disease type and causing agent.
* The only question is whether you're getting enough, and taking it for long enough. If not, vitamin C won't have much effect. This is the universal argument against studies that claim vitamin C doesn't help with some disease: they didn't use a high enough dose, or not for long enough. Or it should've been intravenous, but was ingested instead.
* The recommendation is to remain near your bowel tolerance level at all times. If your tolerance rises sharply, you're getting sick, so adjust your dose up.
* To achieve this, you can recalibrate using a "vitamin C flush" periodically: while fasted in the morning, take vitamin C with enough water until you get watery diarrhea. Then take ~75% of this amount every day, in 3 doses.
* Don't take large amounts of ascorbic acid, because it'll irritate your stomach. Take a "buffered" vitamin C, like sodium ascorbate, which has neutral pH.
* Don't take calcium ascorbate, because it's likely to cause kidney stones. Also don't take large amounts of magnesium ascorbate, since you'll get diarrhea because of the magnesium, not the vitamin C.
* Make sure your sodium ascorbate is not oxidized. If it sits for a while on your shelf, just buy a new one. Liposomal vitamin C is encapsulated, so it doesn't get oxidized?
* When taking large amounts, don't stop supplementation at once, but do it progressively. This is because the enzymes metabolizing vitamin C get ramped up, and if you stop supplementation, you run through your reserves very quickly and get "rebound scurvy".
* One case where large amounts of vitamin C are not recommended are if you have kidney disease. Vitamin C is partially metabolized as oxalate, which is the main ingredient in calcium oxalate stones. However, the book does make a rather convincing case that this has been blown out of proportion, and large enough amounts of vitamin C may even help dissolve kidney stones. Also, most vitamin C is not excreted as oxalate.
* Also, don't take large amounts of vitamin C if you have hemochromatosis: inherited increased absorption of iron. Vit C makes you absorb even more iron (which is good for most people).
* The book shows some evidence that liposomal vitamin C is absorbed better, and even more importantly, it gets to the inside of cells and mitochondria, where it can have a strong effect even in much smaller doses. The case it makes is not terribly convincing, but it's a start.
I've personally tested vitamin C in high doses, and they kicked my butt. I felt terrible for a few days, but then I felt better than ever. It seemed to help me get over some infection that no one knew I had. I'm currently taking 10g of sodium ascorbate per day. I did get some kidney pain, but it went away. Vitamin C stimulates your adrenal system, so I'm personally not a fan of taking it late in the evening, but Linus Pauling apparently took it at dinner, too.
Overall I wish I'd find a better book on vitamin C. But this will do for now.
December 5, 2021
This is a vastly comprehensive, scientific book, more suitable as a reference book than for reading cover to cover. It goes into detail about the many various infectious diseases that can be cured and prevented by Vitamin C.
For each disease the author specifies whether it is reversible, preventable or/and curable.
He acknowledges the groundbreaking work of Frederick R. Klenner, M.D., Linus Pauling, Ph.D and Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, M.D., Ph.D. in educating the world on the many benefits of Vitamin C.
It was Pauling who influenced most people in taking a good daily dose of Vitamin C though he earned his two Nobel Pries for other things; it was Szent-Gyorgyi who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927 for the discovery of Vitamin C.
We are shown how Vitamin C both treats infectious diseases and neutralizes toxins.
Vitamin C is still “greatly underutilized” today.
Diseases such as acute polio and acute hepatitis, considered by modern medicine as incurable, have been “readily and consistently cured”. “Polio babies are completely well in less than a week, and hepatitis patients are sick for only a few days.”
Moreover, “properly dosed Vitamin C can reverse and almost always prevent other significant medical conditions such as cancer and heart disease”.
Vitamin C needs to be applied in frequent enough doses, in high enough doses and for a long enough period of time.
Most animals with the exception of primates, fruit bats and guinea pigs, can themselves synthesize Vitamin C. Humans cannot.
For each disease the author cites previous research in absolute detail.
Some of the infectious diseases examined in relation to the effects of Vitamin C are scurvy, polio, viral hepatitis, measles, mumps, viral encephalitis, chickenpox and herpes infections, viral pneumonia, influenza, rabies and leprosy.
There is also a chapter examining the curative effects of Vitamin C on specific toxins such as alcohol, barbiturates, carbon monoxide, pesticides, radiation, etc, etc.
I know from personal experience the value of Vitamin C since I have not had a cold or the flu for 44 years after I began taking Vitamin C. Unfortunately, I can’t remember how much I took at the beginning. At present I’m taking large quantities since I have a lung complaint that my doctor can’t diagnose which gives great discomfort necessitating frequent doses of 2g of Vitamin C, after which I have no symptoms.
Also, as young adult I was very ill with whooping-cough. The American nutritionist Adelle Davis advised the taking of a certain amount of Vitamin C to cure infectious diseases. I took that amount to no avail, but I believed that the vitamin would help me so I began to take a large amount of chewable Vitamin C pills until suddenly the coughing stopped. I found that I needed then to take an amount every 15 minutes to prevent further coughing; I don’t recall if this was 1 or 2 grammes.
Then I could get up from my bed and lead a normal life. The only time I coughed was when absorbed in a chess game at the chess club when I forgot to take my dose, and also in the morning when I needed to take a large dose again, After several months I was cured. (Yes, it takes a long time.)
Also my 1 or 2 year-old daughter and myself were cured of mumps. I gave my daughter a bottle of Vitamin C pills and told her to take as many as she could, She did so. Her face was swollen on both sides. I gave her a bottle of chewable Vitamin C pills and told her to take as many as she could. She did so and then slept for 14 hours. When she awoke the swellings had disappeared and she was completely healed. It took longer for me to be healed but then I don’t think I took as much as she did. I was healed after a few weeks or so.
I am sure that in the present epidemic we would all be protected from the Corona virus (some say it is a bacterium) if we took a daily dose of C-vitamin though I can’t say how much. (I would suggest at least 2 grammes, preferably more.)
And since Vitamin C also neutralizes toxins, and vaxxed people are filled with toxins I will also suggest that they take it.
If anyone is in doubt about the efficacy of Vitamin C, I would recommend that they peruse this book. It is an immensely valuable, informative and enlightening book. I would advise that all doctors read it.
For each disease the author specifies whether it is reversible, preventable or/and curable.
He acknowledges the groundbreaking work of Frederick R. Klenner, M.D., Linus Pauling, Ph.D and Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, M.D., Ph.D. in educating the world on the many benefits of Vitamin C.
It was Pauling who influenced most people in taking a good daily dose of Vitamin C though he earned his two Nobel Pries for other things; it was Szent-Gyorgyi who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927 for the discovery of Vitamin C.
We are shown how Vitamin C both treats infectious diseases and neutralizes toxins.
Vitamin C is still “greatly underutilized” today.
Diseases such as acute polio and acute hepatitis, considered by modern medicine as incurable, have been “readily and consistently cured”. “Polio babies are completely well in less than a week, and hepatitis patients are sick for only a few days.”
Moreover, “properly dosed Vitamin C can reverse and almost always prevent other significant medical conditions such as cancer and heart disease”.
Vitamin C needs to be applied in frequent enough doses, in high enough doses and for a long enough period of time.
Most animals with the exception of primates, fruit bats and guinea pigs, can themselves synthesize Vitamin C. Humans cannot.
For each disease the author cites previous research in absolute detail.
Some of the infectious diseases examined in relation to the effects of Vitamin C are scurvy, polio, viral hepatitis, measles, mumps, viral encephalitis, chickenpox and herpes infections, viral pneumonia, influenza, rabies and leprosy.
There is also a chapter examining the curative effects of Vitamin C on specific toxins such as alcohol, barbiturates, carbon monoxide, pesticides, radiation, etc, etc.
I know from personal experience the value of Vitamin C since I have not had a cold or the flu for 44 years after I began taking Vitamin C. Unfortunately, I can’t remember how much I took at the beginning. At present I’m taking large quantities since I have a lung complaint that my doctor can’t diagnose which gives great discomfort necessitating frequent doses of 2g of Vitamin C, after which I have no symptoms.
Also, as young adult I was very ill with whooping-cough. The American nutritionist Adelle Davis advised the taking of a certain amount of Vitamin C to cure infectious diseases. I took that amount to no avail, but I believed that the vitamin would help me so I began to take a large amount of chewable Vitamin C pills until suddenly the coughing stopped. I found that I needed then to take an amount every 15 minutes to prevent further coughing; I don’t recall if this was 1 or 2 grammes.
Then I could get up from my bed and lead a normal life. The only time I coughed was when absorbed in a chess game at the chess club when I forgot to take my dose, and also in the morning when I needed to take a large dose again, After several months I was cured. (Yes, it takes a long time.)
Also my 1 or 2 year-old daughter and myself were cured of mumps. I gave my daughter a bottle of Vitamin C pills and told her to take as many as she could, She did so. Her face was swollen on both sides. I gave her a bottle of chewable Vitamin C pills and told her to take as many as she could. She did so and then slept for 14 hours. When she awoke the swellings had disappeared and she was completely healed. It took longer for me to be healed but then I don’t think I took as much as she did. I was healed after a few weeks or so.
I am sure that in the present epidemic we would all be protected from the Corona virus (some say it is a bacterium) if we took a daily dose of C-vitamin though I can’t say how much. (I would suggest at least 2 grammes, preferably more.)
And since Vitamin C also neutralizes toxins, and vaxxed people are filled with toxins I will also suggest that they take it.
If anyone is in doubt about the efficacy of Vitamin C, I would recommend that they peruse this book. It is an immensely valuable, informative and enlightening book. I would advise that all doctors read it.
June 11, 2013
Just learning that humans and pigs were about the only animals that don't make their own vitamin C (and all of the implications of this) would have been worth reading this book. Most of the book deals with experiences of MD's who have used vitamin C to vastly improve or cure medical ailments related to disease or venoms since the early 20th century in mostly humans.
Though somewhat tedious reading for the laywoman, I have lots of new questions for Big Pharmacy. Also, given that the ability to make vitamin C is registered in our genes but merely not "turned on" gives me hope for us, who have poisoned ourselves with man made toxins, etc.
Though somewhat tedious reading for the laywoman, I have lots of new questions for Big Pharmacy. Also, given that the ability to make vitamin C is registered in our genes but merely not "turned on" gives me hope for us, who have poisoned ourselves with man made toxins, etc.
May 4, 2015
This very well referenced and documented book is a must read for all. I had been a big proponent of Vitamin C before but after reading the various case studies from physician after physician it has reinforced my belief that Vitamin C is powerful and not used enough by conventional medical doctors but then are we to be surprised? It's inexpensive and can't be patented so the huge pharmaceutical companies can't be bothered.
October 1, 2019
Very difficult read since it really is mostly addressed to the medical professional. Lots of references for everything he writes.
April 24, 2021
This is a useful read, with many research studies cited. My key takeaways are that vitamin c is a very important antioxidant to take, and that it is okay to take in huge doses, and that there is little fear of problems such as kidney stones unless you have other pre-existing conditions, since many factors contribute to kidney stones - not vitamin c alone.
For those who fear stomach upset, you can take sodium ascorbate. Liposomal vitamin c apparently delivers vitamin c very well, if not better than intravenous vitamin c and also have fewer side effects.
As for how much vitamin c to take, the author said we can use our stomach tolerance as a gauge.
The author is a cardiologist and trained lawyer.
For those who fear stomach upset, you can take sodium ascorbate. Liposomal vitamin c apparently delivers vitamin c very well, if not better than intravenous vitamin c and also have fewer side effects.
As for how much vitamin c to take, the author said we can use our stomach tolerance as a gauge.
The author is a cardiologist and trained lawyer.
June 28, 2024
This book is truly state of the art essential information for anyone seriously interested in staying healthy as you get older. It is one of two topics you must know about if you want to hang onto your health (this reviewer is now 79). The chicanery resorted to in order to keep it from being known is beyond belief. The other topic, which Levy apparently is not as much into, is gluten, which I feel has a definite relationship. It was my contention in a recent book (which no one read), that gluten has been the cause of the inactivation of the gene which enabled humans to produce vitamin C without having to get it from food. I gladly give this a top rating, while wishing he would take a serious look at the major problems associated with the development of agriculture and the resulting human consumption of grains.
Congratulations and thanks to Dr. Levy for this and his other books.
Congratulations and thanks to Dr. Levy for this and his other books.
December 30, 2019
You must have a really strong need/desire to read this book. It is very technical and would appear monotonous for the uninitiated lay person. If you are researching for yourself/family or client then take your time. It appears to be a series of medical articles and reports to show the efficacy of Vitamin C for various medical maladies.
June 3, 2023
Mostly a repetitious review of the benefits of applying massive doses of Vitamin C to various disease conditions. The last couple of chapters talk about how to administer the vitamin via various chemical forms.
A good backgrounder for those looking to conduct a research project. Not recommended for the casual reader.
A good backgrounder for those looking to conduct a research project. Not recommended for the casual reader.
May 15, 2020
Good science
July 18, 2022
Anyone interested in curing a disease.. or maintaining their health.. should read it. Lots of eye opening stuff
May 7, 2025
Learned the magic of Vitamin C, a supplement that will save you from disease
December 29, 2016
Review:
Book extremely medical with a lot of reference. Very little practical application for average user. Does not tell you what dosage for normal use. Not worth the money!
Book extremely medical with a lot of reference. Very little practical application for average user. Does not tell you what dosage for normal use. Not worth the money!
August 24, 2019
Lots of studies of why it's a good idea to increase vitamin C in your body as much as possible.
I've been tracking my vitamin C levels over the past 6 years. Only when I dropped meat and dairy from my diet, my Vitamin C levels sky-rocketed. That without supplementation!
The reason is that Vitamin C is water soluble, and a supplement will only spike your levels, and within an hour or so it will be flushed out of your system. But if you eat a cabbage for example, the fiber will make sure to only release it gradually, thereby increasing your levels sustainably over a longer period.
There's no chance that evolution will switch off the Vitamin C gene in carnivorous animals. It's absolutely essential for their survival. On the other hand the reason why the Vitamin C gene had been inactivated in humans is because of the abundance of Vitamin C in plant based diet, which humans must have been consuming throughout much of evolution. So evolution figured that it doesn't need the genetic burden of producing something which is in abundance in the diet anyway. Only in recent times have we started consuming perverse amount of meats, that we're seeing a range of medical problems, the cause of some are insufficient levels of Vitamin C.
I'm so happy of this low tech and natural solution. No need for IV unless it's a medical procedure.
I've been tracking my vitamin C levels over the past 6 years. Only when I dropped meat and dairy from my diet, my Vitamin C levels sky-rocketed. That without supplementation!
The reason is that Vitamin C is water soluble, and a supplement will only spike your levels, and within an hour or so it will be flushed out of your system. But if you eat a cabbage for example, the fiber will make sure to only release it gradually, thereby increasing your levels sustainably over a longer period.
There's no chance that evolution will switch off the Vitamin C gene in carnivorous animals. It's absolutely essential for their survival. On the other hand the reason why the Vitamin C gene had been inactivated in humans is because of the abundance of Vitamin C in plant based diet, which humans must have been consuming throughout much of evolution. So evolution figured that it doesn't need the genetic burden of producing something which is in abundance in the diet anyway. Only in recent times have we started consuming perverse amount of meats, that we're seeing a range of medical problems, the cause of some are insufficient levels of Vitamin C.
I'm so happy of this low tech and natural solution. No need for IV unless it's a medical procedure.
August 10, 2016
This book is fascinating! Especially the idea that as diseases (both viral and bacterial) or toxins deplete the body's stores of Vitamin C, it basically creates a scurvy-like state in the body. Scurvy is a condition that comes from 0 vitamin C in the body's plasma and cells over a period of months. It is a hemolytic condition in which the body starts to bleed, starting with the capillaries. As scurvy advances, it can turn into hemorrhaging, which, interestingly, is a symptom of advanced stages of many diseases, suggesting that the body is simply extremely Vitamin C deficient.
A Main Point of the Book: Adding enough Vitamin C over a long enough period of time can basically cure any disease and neutralize almost every toxin.
This book presents a good case with good evidence.
I am completely on board with Vitamin C. I ordered both some Sodium Ascorbate and Liposomal to be kept with Emergency Preparedness stuff, and some to be taken orally on a daily basis.
A Main Point of the Book: Adding enough Vitamin C over a long enough period of time can basically cure any disease and neutralize almost every toxin.
This book presents a good case with good evidence.
I am completely on board with Vitamin C. I ordered both some Sodium Ascorbate and Liposomal to be kept with Emergency Preparedness stuff, and some to be taken orally on a daily basis.
October 11, 2015
This book is a must read for anyone interested in their health. Thomas Levy has done an excellent job of reviewing over 1200 research papers and the actual utilization of vitamin C to cure diseases by doctors over the past 60 years. He translates all this medical and scientific language into lay terms that makes it easy to understand.
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June 18, 2009This book gives you the real juice on Vitamin C and why it is good for you.
December 19, 2015
Great reference book of the benefits of Vitamin C. on many diseases and as an antitoxin.
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