Vitamin C Successfully Used as an IV Drip - cured Swine Flu

The story of Allan Smith is a powerful example of why blindly following the advice of the medical profession can be fatal. As you can see in this video, numerous specialists had declared the 56-year old New Zealander beyond hope. Struck with a bad case of the swine flu, doctors put Mr. Smith on life support. After 9 weeks in an induced coma, they said he should be allowed to die.

Allan Smith’s sons, all farmers themselves, insisted the hospital try intravenous vitamin C. The specialists refused, saying it wouldn’t help. The family eventually brought in a lawyer to get their dying loved one on a vitamin C drip. Smith’s infection immediately began to clear. He was taken off life support and brought out of the coma. He eventually walked out of the hospital (10 weeks earlier than rehab expected).

Cured. With nothing more than vitamin C.

How to Get Intravenous Vitamin C Given to a Hospitalized Patient: A Checklist

1) Know before you go. It is immeasurably easier to get what you want if you contract for it beforehand. Prenuptial agreements, new car deals, roofing and siding estimates, and hospital care need to be negotiated in advance. When the tow truck comes, it is too late to complain about who’s driving. Same with an ambulance, or a hasty hospital admission. You have to pre-plan, and here’s how:

2) Get a letter. Yes, a “note from the doctor” still carries clout. Have your general practitioner, today if possible, sign a letter stating that he backs your request for a vitamin C I.V. drip, 10 grams per 12 hours, should you (or your designated loved one) require hospitalization. Have copies made and keep them handy. Update the letter annually. You now have your G.P.’s permission. Good start, but not enough.

3) Get some more letters. Obtain a similar letter form every specialist that you have used, are using, or may use in the foreseeable future. This sounds cumbersome, but is no more unmanageable than most people’s grocery lists. Keep it in perspective: this is just as important as wearing a medical alert bracelet or keeping a fresh battery in Grandpa’s pacemaker.

4) Make some calls. Telephone a representative or two from every hospital within one hundred miles of your home. Find out which wants your business the most. When you find a “live one” on the phone, write down their name and title, and follow up with a letter.

5) Write for your rights. In your letter, ask for the hospital’s permission to have a vitamin C IV drip, infusion, push or injection, as well as oral vitamin C, should you or your designated family member(s) come in to that hospital. YOU MUST GET THIS IN WRITING. Now, do NOT say, “I want that in writing,” because people do not like that. But if you WRITE to them, they will naturally write back to you. Bingo.

Helpful hint: Do NOT correspond by email; you want a real signature on hospital letterhead. (And no, don’t ask for that either! It will happen automatically if you write first.)


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It's important to note that we're referring to intravenous (IV) Vitamin C, not oral vitamin C that you would normally take in pill or powder form. Those forms have their place in a daily maintenance protocol. However, oral dosage can never yield the desired effects on plasma levels that IV dosing can.

Why is making that distinction important? Because up until recently achieving plasma concentrations needed to affect significant mortality benefit was only accessible by a few. Intravenous vitamin C is very effective in many morbidity cases but is very expensive, most doctors/hospitals are resistant to its use, usually not covered by insurance and you are probably gravely ill by the time you need it.

Now, however, the cutting edge liposomal encapsulation is revolutionizing the way drugs are administered to the human body. If you notice later in the video where Alan Smith's wife describes how doctors "mucked about" with the dosing of Alan's vitamin C IV, she quietly began feeding him a high-bioavailable oral version of vitamin C which he quickly responded to. That product is a liposomal vitamin C made by LiVon Labs called Lypo-spheric Vitamin C.

It is readily available now to anyone.

The top antioxidants that should be in anyone's survival kit are..

Liposomal Vitamin C
Lipoic Acid
Glutathione

Dr. Bert Berkson saved the lives of two patients who were in renal failure by administering intravenous alpha lipoic acid and turning the medical establishment on its head.

Nutrionist Adelle Davis ad a very simple regeime=

VIT C
balanced Bcomplex
pantothenic acid
brewer yeast or torula yeast
cod liver oil
dALPHA form of vit E in some cases

to maintain ones health

and also reported on the miracle of Vitamin C and of course the problem with the medical establishment.

One idea - taken orally or even using the ascorbic acid preperation and even with small kids or geriatricor those very very ill making a semi-frozen high potency"slush" and persistently giving it until the symptoms lessened then halving the dosage, etc

and her claims WERE TRUE that most illnesses were stopped or their duration time cut way down

and to even give a dose of vitC to the children prior to any immunizations to lessen the chance of reactions-

now one can simply take 5grams of ascorbic acid powder and combine it with 1/4 TEASPOON baking soda
and one has sodium ascorbate another form of vitamin C plus it's buffered and less chance of getting diarrhea from this dosage if ones system is not used to it.

Ascorbic acid is the preferred form of vitamin C to take if you want to minimize gastroentestinal problems. But there will always be the problem of bowel tolerance when using oral forms that don't use the liposomal process. Oral administration of plain vitamin C, even of very large doses, can raise plasma vitamin C concentrations to a maximum of only 220 micromol/L. Whereas IV administration can produce plasma concentrations as high as 26,000 micromol/L. Liposomal vitamin C has been shown to consistently achieve plasma concentrations on par with intravenous vitamin C, and sometimes surpass it.

As I said, oral use of plain vitamin C has its place in a daily maintenance regimen. However, if one were getting sick one would turn to the liposomal form.


Excerpts from a book by Dr. Robert D. Milne "PC Liposomal Encapsulation Technology" (Life’s Fountain Books, 2004):

“The human digestive system was never designed to digest and distribute large doses of vitamin C in any form. Many researchers, including myself believe that humans used to manufacture their own Vitamin C in the liver…


· Most mammals still produce Vitamin C—some (like goats) up to 100,000 mg per day.

· All humans have all the necessary enzymes and raw materials to make Vitamin C in the liver except one, gulonolactone oxidase (GLO). The gene that manufactures GLO has been located in the human genome but in most humans, this gene is defective.

· In the days of Ponce de Leon and Magellan, when sailors on prolonged journeys were dying of scurvy—a lack of Vitamin C—not all died or even got sick.

· Many prestigious medical research hospitals—like the Cleveland Clinic, the Mayo Clinic and others—routinely bypass the digestive system altogether when they use Vitamin C. They inject it right into the bloodstream. The dramatic improvement in effectiveness gained by introducing Vitamin C directly into the bloodstream is well-documented.


What if there was an oral delivery system for Vitamin C that could bypass the digestive system and take it directly to the liver where it could be disbursed directly into the bloodstream? Modern medical science has found a way... By encapsulating Vitamin C in nano-scopic liposomes, a natural, perfectly sealed bubble is created that shields Vitamin C from the degrading elements in the environment and the digestive system… and also protects the digestive system from Vitamin C… Once in the liver the liposomes are digested and the Vitamin C is released — just as if the Vitamin C were manufactured there!”


Finally he concludes:


“The theory is this: flood your system with a massive amount of Vitamin C so that an adequate amount will actually get into your bloodstream. This approach does work but it taxes the G.I. System and a great deal of Vitamin C is eliminated through diarrheal flushing and in the urine before it ever does one bit of good. It’s true! Your heart, your brain, brain, your liver, your circulatory system, your eyes, your skin, your bones, your joints, your immune system—are all greatly strengthened with large doses of non-degraded Vitamin C. There is almost no system, organ gland, or cell in your body does not derive great benefit from a massive supply of Vitamin C. A basic component of many enzyme reactions throughout the body, it has natural anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-viral properties that still amaze medical researchers (see the electron theory described in the previous article as a possible explanation). Vitamin C is still one of the most powerful free-radical fighters known to man.

Liposomal Vitamin C is not fazed by the myriad of obstacles and gauntlets of resistance thrown up by the human digestive system in reaction to Vitamin C tablets. The Vitamin C filled nano-spheres slip right by the enzyme in your saliva, your digestive juices, the bile salts, and other elements that breakdown unprotected Vitamin C. Your body recognizes the liposomes as essential phospholipids and sends them straight to the liver for normal processing. The sub-microscopic size of liposomes assures almost complete assimilation rather than elimination… Plus liposomal Vitamin C also avoids binders and filters required by tableted Vitamin C which have no nutritional or health value…

The liposomes used in the best encapsulated supplements are made from phosphatidylcholine or “essential” phospholipids. These substances—usually extracted from soy lecithin—are necessary for life. In fact, every one of the trillions of cells of your body would instantly disintegrate if it were not for phospholipids. It’s the stuff all cell membranes are made of. They are called “essential” phospholipids because the body needs them but cannot synthesize them”.


According to Dr. Milne, the major observed health and anti-aging benefits of essential phospholipids are: Reduction in total serum lipids (fat in the blood); reduction of LDL (bad cholesterol) and increase in HDL (good cholesterol); reduction in triglycerides; reduction in blood platelet aggregation; increase in anti-oxidant in lipids, in red blood cell fluidity, and in exercise tolerance; improved coronary and peripheral circulation and cell repair; liver protection and rejuvenation; improved immunity, memory and prevention of excess collagen.


Again, according to Dr. Milne, the major benefits of oral LET (liposomal encapsulation technology) are the following: Vitamin C becomes 10-20 times more bio-available and is protected from endogenous and exogenous degrading agents; Vitamin C is targeted to the liver and brings no gastric distress or increase in urine output; Brings no extra load on kidneys because of no urine output increase; finally it brings all the benefits from Vitamin C available from any oral source for health and longevity and all the benefits of the essential phospholipids.

http://www.vitaminc.co.nz/pdf/LIPOSOMAL-ENCAPSULATION-ROBERT-D.-MILNE-MD.pdf

and then there is Grape seed extract -

A very powerful antioxidant that is claimed to prevent cancer, and also reduce inflammation. It also gets rid of the free radicals in our bodies so well that it can reverse and prevent the vascular breakdown and damage that high blood sugars cause in diabetics, causing conditions such as blindness, unhealing wounds, and eventual amputations or crippled feet. This can be purchased via www.vitacost.com or www.swansonvitamins.com

The dose recommended is 1mg per lb of body weight, as tolerated. If it is not tolerated, such as in instances of severe tissue or vascular damage which takes longer to heal and needs to go slower than normal, reduce dosage to a comfort level.

The following is taken from a discussion with Dr. Brooks Bradley on the Silver forum:

This recipe will give you a product between 7.0 and 7.5 (measured with Alkalive pH Stix) or similar pH to human blood so there is no risk of over acidifying your blood should you take significant amounts of your homemade Liposomal Vitamin C Ascorbate.

(Blood pH is tightly controlled by the body at near 7.35 pH. If your blood pH were much above or below that number you would be a very sick person.)

Creating an identical pH in your liposomal brew is simply a matter of carefully adjusting the level of bicarbonate of soda.

Using a small (2 cup) Ultrasonic cleaner, (Item #03305, obtainable from Harbor Freight @ about $30.00), we performed the following:

1. In qt mixing jar pour 1 cup of distilled water. Add 3 level Tablespoons of granular soy lecithin (NOW has non-genetically modified soy lecithin) and agitate vigorously for 3 - 5 minutes.

Then place the lecithin mixture in the refrigerator for two or more hours. (You can leave in refrigerator overnight if you prefer.) This allows lecithin granules to soak up water for easy mixing into solution.

Note: Mixing can be accomplished easier if you raise the temperature of the distilled water being used to 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). I have found this unnecessary in getting high quality mixtures but others have found this warmer temperature helpful.

After 2 hour soaking period vigorously agitate the mixture for another 3 - 5 minutes. At the conclusion there should be no lecithin granules visible. Set this smooth lecithin mixture aside.

2. Dissolved 1 level Tablespoon of Pharmaceutical grade Vitamin C powder in 2 oz. of distilled water. We recommend you use a 6 oz. or larger screw lid jar so you can shake vigorously.


Vitamin C Foundation
3. Dissolve heaping Tablespoon of Bob’s Red Mill Bicarbonate of Soda (Bob’s is Aluminum free) in 2 oz. of distilled water using a separate 6 oz. or larger screw lid jar. Shake or agitate the mixture 3 minutes or until soda dissolved.

*One mole of sodium bicarbonate is 84 grams, and one mole of ascorbic acid is 176 grams. So, the correct (stoichiometric) ratio of sodium bicarbonate to ascorbic acid is 84/176 = 0.477. For example, it would take 477 milligrams of sodium bicarbonate to neutralize 1000 milligrams of ascorbic acid.

**What follows is often the most difficult part of the process for those new to making homemade liposomal Vitamin C Ascorbate.

While stirring the Vitamin C / distilled water solution very slowly pour/dribble the dissolved bicarbonate of soda/water mixture into the Vitamin C / distilled water solution. (Pour soda solution very slowly as the resulting mixture will bubble. By pouring slowing and constantly stirring you will be able to mix the two without bubbling over.)

At the conclusion of mixing the bicarbonate of soda mixture into the Vitamin C mixture all bubbling will cease. If you have any soda settled in the jar pour the resulting total mix together into that jar, swirl and pour the resulting Vitamin C / Bicarbonate of Soda mixture into the Ultrasonic Cleaner.

4. Pour the Lecithin solution into ultrasonic cleaner bowl with the Vitamin C / Bicarbonate of Soda mixture and stir the contents together.

5. Turn the ultrasonic cleaner on and using a plastic straw (leaving the top of the cleaner opened), gently, slowly, stirred the contents.

Note: The cleaner will, automatically, self-stop about every 2 minutes. Just push ON button to continue. Repeat for a total of 6 series (12 - 18 minutes). By that time the entire solution should be blended into a cloudy, homogeneous, milk-like mixture. The LET solution is now well formed.

You can raise the level of encapsulation by continuing several more ultrasonic cycles if desired.

This protocol furnishes 12 grams (12000mg.) of Vitamin C Ascorbate. At 70% - 90% encapsulation efficiency, 8400 mg would be of the LET type. This solution will keep, acceptably, at room temperature for 3 to 4 days. Refrigerated, it will keep much longer.

Note: A larger, more powerful, ultrasonic cleaner is available at Harbor Freight. Item number 91593. 2+ liters, for about $80.00. Both units perform well. The larger unit will allow you to make higher quality liposomal or more encapsulated supplement at one time, depending on the amount you mix.


Since Encapsulated Vitamin C Ascorbate is reportedly more efficient then intravenous Vitamin C make dosing increases and adjustments slowly paying close attention to your body.

2 oz. of Encapsulated Vitamin C Ascorbate is equals 16 - 20 oz. of intravenous Vitamin C so when you take a couple of 2 oz. doses in a day it’s like taking 16 - 20 oz. in your veins twice during the day.

Vitamin C has no known toxic dosage in patients without preexisting kidney disease.
“…194,054 g, or 427 lbs of IV vitamin C” were “administered to 275 patients with no sign of kidney disease, or any other significant side effects over a 16-year period.”
(2002) Jackson et al. Full article available at:

www.riordanclinic.org

In a Harvard study on 85,557 women with no history of kidney stones, vitamin C intake was not associated with risk of developing kidney stones. The Harvard researchers advised that “routine restriction of vitamin C to prevent stone formation appears unwarranted.”
(1999) Curhan 10 840

Another large study, the Harvard Prospective Health Professional Follow-Up Study:
“The intake of high doses of vitamin C does not increase the risk of calcium oxalate kidney stones…” The members of the group with the highestvitamin C intake “had a lower risk of kidney stones” than those with the lowestintake.
(1997) Gerster41 269

Continuous vitamin C infusions of 50 grams daily were given over an eight-week period in terminal cancer patients with no definable negative side effects.
(2001) Casciari 84 1544 (abstract and full article available)

Serum vitamin C levels were examined in relation to the history of kidney stones in over 10,000 subjects, and no evidence was found to indicate that high vitamin C levels increased the prevalence of kidney stones. Conversely, the higherthe vitamin C levels in the blood, the lowerthe incidence of kidney stones.
(1999) Simon 159 619 (abstract and full article available)

Over 55 other factors, in addition to vitamin C, can raise urinary oxalate levels and increase the risk of stone formation, in patients with preexisting kidney disease. In pregnancy, for example, the urine becomes as supersaturated with calcium oxalate as in patients with established stone disease, but there is noincreased risk of stones associated with pregnancy. Elevated urine oxalate is a risk factor for stone disease in patients with preexisting kidney disease only.
(1989) Maikranz36 108

Even though it is not used in most hospitals currently, high dose intravenous vitamin C is used widely around the world now in doctors’ clinics and offices, with no definable evidence of harm in patients without preexisting kidney disease
(2010) Padayatty 5 e11414 (abstract and full article available)

A person with normal kidney function can successfully kill himself with excess water ingestion. There is no established dosage at or beyond which such a person can reliably kill himself with vitamin C. Is water more toxic than vitamin C?
(2005) Hayashi T 12 157

Humans must get their vitamin C from the diet or as supplements. Millions of years ago humans lost the enzyme L-gulono-g-lactone oxidase, a key in the con-version of glucose to vitamin C. If the above theory of vitamin C causing kidney stones is correct, why is it that animals are not suffering an epidemic of kidney stones? Based on body weight, the small-est to the biggest animal can manufacture a daily amount of vitamin C that can vary from 1 gram to over 20 g (about 12.5 to 250 times the RDA for humans)!

Vitamin C for those with Hepatitis C
http://www.healthyhepper.com/sample4vitamin.htm


Vitamin C is a very important and powerful antioxidant and great for those with Hepatitis C Virus(HCV). According to James Balch, MD., is a more potent free-radical scavenger when used in conjunction with the bioflavanoid hesperidin.

Michael Murray, N.D. writes about vitamin C and bioflavanoids, “Taking vitamin C with bioflavanoids may offer benefits in absorption, but only if the product contains bioflavanoids at a meaningful level. When the amount of citrus bioflavanoids is just window dressing, there is no real increase in absorption. However, if the level of bioflavanoids is equal to or greater than the level of vitamin C, then absorption is enhanced.”

Vitamin C assumes a critical role in the body’s defense against free-radicals. Put simply free-radicals are what causes damage to our cells and body tissues, causing us to age or causing degenerative diseases. Vitamins C and E and glutathione are what our body uses to fight off free radical damage.

Deficiency of intracellular glutathione has been identified in a number of clinical conditions: cancer, AIDS and alcohol induced liver disease, and sometimes in those with Hepatitis C. (1) Murray writes about several studies on this topic and concludes, “The results indicate that vitamin C can decrease cellular damage in patients with hereditary glutathione deficiency and is more effective and less expensive than NAC (a supplement precursor to glutathione).”

Vitamin C is generally considered by most doctors to be beneficial to hepatitis C. Just about every protocol for Hepatitis C that I have ever seen involves taking significant amounts of vitamin C. The doses range from 13 grams a day (taken orally) down to about 3 grams. 1 gram is equal to 1000 milligrams. I have read in Lloyd Wright’s book, Triumph Over Hepatitis C of doctors treating hepatitis C with 50,000 milligram injections in combination with alpha lipoic acid.

Acute viral Hepatitis C can be treated with vitamin C. I had the acute hepatitis C- only about 15% of those with HCV get the acute illness which involves jaundice, gray stools, dark urine, intense itching, etc. I agree with this from experience; vitamin C brought my Hepatitis C symptoms under control.


On this topic of vitamin C and the acute hepatitis, The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine writes, “ According to Robert Cathcart, M.D., acute hepatitis is one of the easiest diseases to cure using vitamin C. Dr. Cathcart demonstrated that high doses of vitamin C (40 to 100 grams orally or intravenously) were able to greatly diminish acute hepatitis in two to four days. He showed clearing of jaundice within six days.

Here is one more piece of GOOD NEWS for those with acute hepatitis C,"Symptomatic Hepatitis C patients with jaundice have a higher likelihood of spontaneous viral clearance than do asymptomatic patients, and thus should be monitored for at least 12 weeks before initiating antiviral therapy. By contrast, asymptomatic patients have a much lower chance of spontaneous clearance, and might benefit from early antiviral therapy."(Lancet. 2008 Jul 26;372(9635):321-32.)

Another study showed that two grams or more of vitamin C per day was able to prevent hepatitis B in hospitalized patients.” There are many reports on vitamin C’s ability as an immune stimulant and as an anti-viral agent. Consider the following interesting statements by various experts in the field:

Two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, Ph.D. showed “conclusively” that vitamin C stimulates the immune system and offers great protection against many illnesses.(7) “Supplementation with vitamin C has been shown to help fight infections from virtually all pathogens,” writes Dr. Pizzorno in his book, Total Wellness. “Researchers have discovered that macrophages(impotent components of the immune system, large cells that circulate throughout the body ‘eating’ viruses and bacteria)utilize a large amount of vitamin C to accomplish their many responsibilities.

The vitamin C content in a macrophage cell can reach 40 times higher than the vitamin C content in blood... Researchers believe this might lead to an exhaustion of their free-radical-scavenging capacity.”(7)

The claim is the vitamin C helps the macrophage. “Vitamin C cools Toxic heat... vitamin C appears to work as an immune enhancer and an antioxidant which fights the ravages of free radical that have been linked with heart disease and cancer.(6) “In addition to its role as an anti-oxidant, vitamin c detoxifies many harmful substances and plays a key role in immunity. It increases the synthesis of interferon, a natural antiviral substance produced by the body, and stimulates the activity of certain key immune cells.” (3) “Some doctors, notably Linus Pauling and Robert Cathcart, have advocated vitamin C as a powerful therapy in itself, as well as being an essential nutrient for good health (megadoses of vitamin C has previously been used to treat seriously ill cancer patients with variable results). Cathcart has suggested the megadoses of vitamin C could have powerful antiviral qualities that might be sufficient help HIV patients... It is advocated by nutritionists aiming for an elimination effect (with hepatitis C).” (5)

Vitamin C increases the production of infection-fighting white blood cells and antibodies and increases levels of interferon, the antibody that coats cell surfaces, preventing the entry of viruses. Additionally, studies show those whose diets are higher in vitamin C have lower rates of colon, prostate, and breast cancer.

List of cautions and advise for those with HCV when taking vitamin C:

Because the human body can neither manufacture nor store vitamin C, our requirements must be met daily from dietary sources (fruit, vegetables, supplements). In order to achieve an anti-viral effect, it is necessary to take other nutrients, such as zinc, manganese, selenium, and vitamins A, B, and E. Some sources believe that magnesium ascorbate or calcium ascorbate, rather than ascorbic acid, are advisable because these forms are more easily assimilated and that chelated forms are better absorbed.

Many experts also believe that it is best taken in a “buffered” pH neutral form with bioflavanoids.


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