Vitamin C Protects Against Coronavirus

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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Jan 26, 2020

Vitamin C Protects Against Coronavirus
by Andrew W. Saul, Editor
(OMNS January 26, 2020) The coronavirus pandemic can be dramatically slowed, or stopped, with the immediate widespread use of high doses of vitamin C. Physicians have demonstrated the powerful antiviral action of vitamin C for decades. There has been a lack of media coverage of this effective and successful approach against viruses in general, and coronavirus in particular.

It is very important to maximize the body's anti-oxidative capacity and natural immunity to prevent and minimize symptoms when a virus attacks the human body. The host environment is crucial. Preventing is obviously easier than treating severe illness. But treat serious illness seriously. Do not hesitate to seek medical attention. It is not an either-or choice. Vitamin C can be used right along with medicines when they are indicated.

"I have not seen any flu yet that was not cured or markedly ameliorated by massive doses of vitamin C."

(Robert F. Cathcart, MD)

The physicians of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service and the International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine urge a nutrient-based method to prevent or minimize symptoms for future viral infection. The following inexpensive supplemental levels are recommended for adults; for children reduce these in proportion to body weight:

Vitamin C: 3,000 milligrams (or more) daily, in divided doses.

Vitamin D3: 2,000 International Units daily. (Start with 5,000 IU/day for two weeks, then reduce to 2,000)

Magnesium: 400 mg daily (in citrate, malate, chelate, or chloride form)

Zinc: 20 mg daily

Selenium: 100 mcg (micrograms) daily

Vitamin C [1], Vitamin D [2], magnesium [3], zinc [4], and selenium [5] have been shown to strengthen the immune system against viruses.

The basis for using high doses of vitamin C to prevent and combat virus-caused illness may be traced back to vitamin C's early success against polio, first reported in the late 1940s.[6] Many people are unaware, even surprised, to learn this. Further clinical evidence built up over the decades, leading to an anti-virus protocol published in 1980.[7]

It is important to remember that preventing and treating respiratory infections with large amounts of vitamin C is well established. Those who believe that vitamin C generally has merit, but massive doses are ineffective or somehow harmful, will do well to read the original papers for themselves. To dismiss the work of these doctors simply because they had success so long ago sidesteps a more important question: Why has the benefit of their clinical experience not been presented to the public by responsible governmental authorities, especially in the face of a viral pandemic?


References:
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2. Vitamin D:

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von Essen MR, Kongsbak M, Schjerling P et al. (2010) Vitamin D controls T cell antigen receptor signaling and activation of human T cells. Nat Immunol. 11:344-349. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20208539.

3. Magnesium:

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4. Zinc:

Fraker PJ, King LE, Laakko T, Vollmer TL. (2000) The dynamic link between the integrity of the immune system and zinc status. J Nutr. 130:1399S-406S. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10801951.

Liu MJ, Bao S, Gálvez-Peralta M, et al. (2013) ZIP8 regulates host defense through zinc-mediated inhibition of NF-кB. Cell Rep. 3:386-400. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23403290.

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5. Selenium:

Beck MA, Levander OA, Handy J. (2003) Selenium deficiency and viral infection. J Nutr. 133:1463S-1467S. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12730444.

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6. Klenner FR. The treatment of poliomyelitis and other virus diseases with vitamin C. J South Med Surg 1949, 111:210-214. http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html.

7. Cathcart RF. The method of determining proper doses of vitamin C for treatment of diseases by titrating to bowel tolerance. Australian Nurses J 1980, 9(4):9-13. http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html


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Damien Downing, M.D. (United Kingdom)
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Just something to think about. As China's people have become wealthier they have adopted many Western habits. One of them is a huge increase in pet ownership, particularly dogs and cats. Nothing wrong with that. I love animals. BUT do not under any circumstances kiss your pet and allow them to lick your face and mouth. I don't care what anyone says but I'm certain various pathogens between humans and animals are transferred this way. I've noticed that Western people have no qualms about kissing their pets, getting licked by them, sleeping in the same bed and they have probably built up some kind of resistance but as pet ownership is a relatively new phenomenon in China, the people there haven't built up a natural immunity to these bugs etc. Perhaps this virus has originated from a simple reason such as this. Who knows? Even various Native American tribes have believed that dogs can pass on cancer and therefore should be kept outside. By all means keep and respect pets but remember there needs to be distinction between us and them. I repeat, don't kiss them, don't let them lick your face, wash your hands after touching them, don't let them eat from plates you eat from, and preferably keep them outside with adequate shelter.

Fwiw, I know from years ago, china and other countries didn’t have huge pharmaceutical presence so they relied on their natural approach... traditional chinese medicine.  Vitamin c has been mentioned for viruses like flu there previously.   I’m not sure how they are treating people in China but I saw a paper yesterday saying they recommend vitamin c for treatment.  

They also said in the paper that what was happening was one comes down with mild symptoms but if the mouth or respiratory tract or whatever is dry, that is spreads to the body in 10 minutes.  Therefore, they are recommending not large amounts of water at once to be drank but constant drinking to keep throat hydrated.  To kerp it from invading the body.  

I assume this is why you see people who are walking or standing still feeling fine, looking normal, although probably with a sniffle, and then they collapse or collapse and die.

My “wild guess” is it is dose dependant.  Which is good for those outside of china.  As by the time it makes it way to other parts of the world, it will be so diluted that it’s nothing.  But those in Wuhan will be devastated.  And probably why the large initial mortality where it originated was something like 30%.  Infected 72% men vs 28% women.  But as other parts of China get infected mortality as bad as regular flu.  

I saw two smuggled videos from the treatment area.  Appears the breathing rate is “very” hard and fast.  The virus infects the lung and brain.  I assume, “wild guess” those who passed away received a high dose of it and their body just couldn’t keep the marathon running of the lungs going.  

In fact, I don’t believe many people in the US could do that marathon running withtheir lungs.  The past few decades, most in the US, people do zero exercise.  Zero cardio.  All they do is sit all day and if they exercise it’s weight lifting or yoga for women.  

I suspect if it keeps the intensity up and it’s not dose dependant and I’m wrong, if it hits the US, mortality would be high because of the out of shape population.  Most millennials and gen z have been living on packaged foods their whole life.  Exercise was removed from schools.  Many are allergic to exercise or walking any length.  And many women so out of shape they can’t even wash dishes or laundry because they only do yoga.

One of reasons it’s said for spanish flu was because canned foods came out in popularity shortly before.  Vitamin deficiencies.  The young generations are definetely vitamin deficient and by the time they get to 40, they develop a serious health problem.  

Sorry for lengthy post.  Thought someone might be interested.  What those in wuhan should do is stay at home and turn off their ventilation system to the outside.  I see people on the streets and I’m thinking of 9/11.  All those at ground zero on 9/11 being told the air is fine so they stay outside. Most at the time said it was crazy to be at ground zero with the dust.  The outside air at Wuhan is probably not fine.  Even with a mask.  

The people who survived ebola had health problems.  Those who survive may have something similar  Like gulf war illness.  Depending on the dose they got, I’m guessing.

Biowarfare weapons use to be heavily focused as a incompacitating agent.  To get them sick but not kill.  Kinda like how smart bomb were developed instead of bombing large areas.  Don’t kill them woth the bioweapon but get them sick so they can’t fight.  But the thing with these biowarfare agents is if you give them a large dose it kills them.  And any dose makes them chronically ill and can develop serious health issues.  If you want to kill
The population there was VX like North Korea has stockpiles of.  Which is what’s in the movie The Rock.  But they’ve focused on incapiciting agents for decades as the world already knows how to kill with bio chemical weapons.

Seems they are also worried about water supply.  Many days ago, I read a message from a regular person that the water was extremely heavily chlorinated.  Undrinkeable.  They gave the water to the dog to drink it and it died.  The water authority folks told them it was an accident and they would fix it but they never did.  Maybe the dog didn’t die from chlorine but because received extreme dose of the virus or whatever it is as the dog died during the beginning of the outbreak.  

I’ve heard of extreme doses of chlorine used in like Korea war.  They had hard time drinking it and if they were able to drink it, they later developed heart disease but they didn’y die right away.

I can only assume a large amount of the bioweapon iwas purged from the lab at wuhan.  Same has happened at other bio labs such as what happened at lyme conneticut US.  Maybe a cannister broke.  Purged it tooutside air and maybe got in the water.  Who knows.  But I personally don’t think it’s like the movie Contagion or Resident Evil.  But more like a purge thathappened at the lab which has happened at other labs in the past.

These incapacitating agents are still contagious person to person but depends on dose. Which is probably why you hear in China how a family member is dying in their home, another family member sick but not dying and someone else just has snifles.

Not sure if vit C can protect you from a virus infection...but I've heard that large doses of injected vit C can help against sepsis if your body reacts badly to the infection. There's a Canadian study that used large infusions of intravenous vit C to prove that recently. But it's a little contradictory since other studies saw no benefit in vit C therapy if you go into septic shock. But there can't be any harm in taking mega vit C doses by mouth you'd think. I'm taking chewable vit C this winter along with chaga mushroom pills just in case. I think there's something about chaga mushroom helping your immune system. I used to come down with bronchitis every winter before I discovered chaga. Now it's 3 yrs and counting no colds or bronchitis or flu since I started taking chaga.

Depending on where we look for Vitamin C evidence, it will reveal the truth.

If we search the NIH, it will be politically slanted. What I mean is intentional low-doses will be used to prevent substantial recovery, and many myths persist in the conventional journals, thus perpetuating falsehoods about vitamin C's benefits and "risks."

For example we have an NIH study here that is not complete.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6201324/

On the other hand there is over 80 years research on Vitamin C that is mostly unknown to the academic blow hards.

To the point it is anti-viral and anti-septic. Just depends on the dose. How it is administered.

https://issuu.com/orthomolecular

FWIW, looks like they’l get this under control. IMO.

“The doctors combined the anti-flu drug oseltamivir with lopinavir and ritonavir, antivirals used to treat HIV,”

From being exhausted before, she could sit up in bed 12 hours later.”

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3048629/coronavirus-thailand-has-apparent-treatment-success

Again, the initial people, they would be fine and literally fall over not moving any longer (dead?).

For instance at beginning of outbreak, a person in china was doing something similar to a purse snatching. He then fell over and stopped moving... I guess died. He must’ve felt fine enough to try and rob someone but then just fell over.

Plenty of videos at beginning of outbreak of people just falling over and then no longer moving.

But again, as it progressed it appears to become less and less. I’m personally not worried unless you live around the epicenter of Wuhan.

There is so much to say and my posts are already very long but more wild guess why I say it was bioweapon that a canister broke or lab purged it into surrounding area and not like in the movie contagion or resident evil is cities that have zero reported cases are evacuated.  Places are evacuated rather than telling them to stay inside. I can only guess downstream or downwind of the contagion.  There are hospitals being built at wuhan by workers their was an uprising.  Now the military personnel are behind glass booths.  

Those in wuhan are heavily quarantinned to point of tracking people through phone for those that are suppose to live in wuhan but left.  Again, they are contagious but as each new person develops probably less and less potent.  Unless you live in the epicenter.  

So again, very possible wuhan city is contaminated but rest of world generally will be fine.  That’s my wild guess.  Looked through 20 hours worth of videos in china past couple days. People thinking it’s like resident evil movie when it’s more like ground zero on 9/11 or chernobyl.

Lost my post...

Chinese officials now believe also transmitted through water.  

Official numbers are not accurate.  Much higher in China.

15% who recover have heart damage.

Smokers affected more.  

Pneumonia develops out of the blue with noorior symotoms in I believe 20% if I remember correctly.  

Those who fallover and die where they stand, walk or talk, appears to be due to virus disrupting blood pressure regulation causing people to die with no orior symptoms in some.

Years ago, I published DIY negative static electricity gdnerator instructions. DIY pyroenergen. Do a search for info. Most powerful antiviral method known. Have tested it multiple times on colds and two cases of probable norovirus (cruise ship illnesses are known for outbreaks). It works.

Three Intravenous Vitamin C Research Studies Approved for Treating COVID-19
by Andrew W. Saul, Editor
(OMNS February 21, 2020) Intravenous vitamin C is already being employed in China against COVID-19 coronavirus.

I am receiving regular updates because I am part of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board to the International Intravenous Vitamin C China Epidemic Medical Support Team. Its director is Richard Z. Cheng, MD, PhD; associate director is Hong Zhang, PhD. Among other team members are Qi Chen, PhD (Associate Professor, Kansas University Medical School); Jeanne Drisko, MD (Professor, University of Kansas Medical School); Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD; and Atsuo Yanagisawa, MD, PhD. (Professor, Kyorin University, Tokyo). To read the treatment protocol information in English: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n07.shtml

(Protocol in Chinese at http://www.doctoryourself.com/Coronavirus_Chinese_IV_C_Protocol.pdf

Direct report from China
OMNS Chinese edition editor Dr. Richard Cheng is reporting from China about the first approved study of 12,000 to 24,000 mg/day of vitamin C by IV. The doctor also specifically calls for immediate use of vitamin C for prevention of coronavirus (COVID-19). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC0SO9KDG7U

A second clinical trial of intravenous vitamin C was announced in China on Feb. 13th. In this second study, says Dr. Cheng, "They plan to give 6,000 mg/day and 12,000 mg/day per day for moderate and severe cases. We are also communicating with other hospitals about starting more intravenous vitamin C clinical studies. We would like to see oral vitamin C included in these studies, as the oral forms can be applied to more patients and at home." Additional information at http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n11.shtml

And on Feb 21, 2020, announcement has been made of a third research trial now approved for intravenous vitamin C for COVID-19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMDX0RSDp1k&feature=youtu.be

Dr. Cheng, who is a US board-certified specialist in anti-aging medicine, adds: "Vitamin C is very promising for prevention, and especially important to treat dying patients when there is no better treatment. Over 2,000 people have died of the COIV-19 outbreak and yet I have not seen or heard large dose intravenous vitamin C being used in any of the cases. The current sole focus on vaccine and specific antiviral drugs for epidemics is misplaced."

He adds that: "Early and sufficiently large doses of intravenous vitamin C are critical. Vitamin C is not only a prototypical antioxidant, but also involved in virus killing and prevention of viral replication. The significance of large dose intravenous vitamin C is not just at antiviral level. It is acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) that kills most people from coronaviral pandemics (SARS, MERS and now NCP). ARDS is a common final pathway leading to death.

"We therefore call for a worldwide discussion and debate on this topic."

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.

To read all Orthomolecular Medicine News Service Reports on COVID coronavirus and intravenous vitamin C:

Vol. 16, No. 04 January 26, 2020 Vitamin C Protects Against Coronavirus
Vol. 16, No. 06 January 30, 2020 Nutritional Treatment of Coronavirus
Vol. 16, No. 07 February 2, 2020 Hospital-based Intravenous Vitamin C Treatment for Coronavirus and Related Illnesses
Vol. 16, No. 09 February 10, 2020 VITAMIN C AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE TREATMENT OF nCoV CORONAVIRUS: How Vitamin C Reduces Severity and Deaths from Serious Viral Respiratory Diseases
Vol. 16, No. 10 February 13, 2020 Coronavirus Patients in China to be Treated with High-Dose Vitamin C
Vol. 16, No. 11 February 16, 2020 Early Large Dose Intravenous Vitamin C is the Treatment of Choice for 2019-nCov Pneumonia


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Ilyès Baghli, M.D. (Algeria)
Ian Brighthope, M.D. (Australia)
Prof. Gilbert Henri Crussol (Spain)
Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D. (USA)
Damien Downing, M.D. (United Kingdom)
Michael Ellis, M.D. (Australia)
Martin P. Gallagher, M.D., D.C. (USA)
Michael J. Gonzalez, N.M.D., D.Sc., Ph.D. (Puerto Rico)
William B. Grant, Ph.D. (USA)
Tonya S. Heyman, M.D. (USA)
Suzanne Humphries, M.D. (USA)
Ron Hunninghake, M.D. (USA)
Michael Janson, M.D. (USA)
Robert E. Jenkins, D.C. (USA)
Bo H. Jonsson, M.D., Ph.D. (Sweden)
Jeffrey J. Kotulski, D.O. (USA)
Peter H. Lauda, M.D. (Austria)
Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D. (USA)
Homer Lim, M.D. (Philippines)
Stuart Lindsey, Pharm.D. (USA)
Victor A. Marcial-Vega, M.D. (Puerto Rico)
Charles C. Mary, Jr., M.D. (USA)
Mignonne Mary, M.D. (USA)
Jun Matsuyama, M.D., Ph.D. (Japan)
Dave McCarthy, M.D. (USA)
Joseph Mercola, D.O. (USA)
Jorge R. Miranda-Massari, Pharm.D. (Puerto Rico)
Karin Munsterhjelm-Ahumada, M.D. (Finland)
Tahar Naili, M.D. (Algeria)
W. Todd Penberthy, Ph.D. (USA)
Dag Viljen Poleszynski, Ph.D. (Norway)
Datuk Selvam Rengasamy, MBBS (Malaysia)
Jeffrey A. Ruterbusch, D.O. (USA)
Gert E. Schuitemaker, Ph.D. (Netherlands)
Thomas L. Taxman, M.D. (USA)
Jagan Nathan Vamanan, M.D. (India)
Garry Vickar, MD (USA)
Ken Walker, M.D. (Canada)
Anne Zauderer, D.C. (USA)

Andrew W. Saul, Ph.D. (USA), Editor-In-Chief
Editor, Japanese Edition: Atsuo Yanagisawa, M.D., Ph.D. (Japan)
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FWIW - my personal experience is that a large dose of vitamin C + a large dose of raw garlic effectively reduce severity of cold & flu symptoms. Needs to be taken at an early stage. Not a cure but like 50-70% improvement. Been doing this for 7 or 8 years. Whether it will help with this new virus I don't know. But I'll probably be giving it a try.

In my experience the large dose of garlic is essential, unfortunately. Which means nobody I've told has ever tried for themselves. But maybe not needed if you have access to intravenous C.

Again, just personal experience, not medical advice etc.

A larger portion than usual have a cold in my city. Sneezing, watery nose, eye issues. Nothing serious. Very minor. Thought it was odd that many people here have this.

Who knows, chemtrails with the cold virus to combat coronavirus. Viruses are used to combat and prevent another virus from taking hold.

I know it was commonly reported the swine flu was spread intentionally with chemtrails over at least a city or two 10 years ago. Scientific testing I think.

Shukov,

Here is a post from someone else that may help

I think that the number for critical people is low because they are testing everyone. I think if other countries tested everyone, they too would have higher numbers and less serious cases relative to the number of infections. The other factor could be diet. I was watching a youtube video on how doctors were finding out that there was a relationship to gut biome health and viral lung infections. And South Koreans, who eat Kimchi, which is full of probiotics, with just about every meal, probably have some of the best gut health in the world. Also, Koreans eat lots of veggies in terms of both volume and variety, which are prebiotic and further benefit gut biome health. During the SARS outbreak, not a single Korean was diagnosed with SARS. Koreans largely attributed it to eating Kimchi. I though that was all nationalist pride. But, tests that were conducted, showed that the Lactobacilli in Kimchi, actually caused the SARS virus to regress. So perhaps there is a bit of truth to that belief.


Anyways, since it's looking like our best defense against this virus is clearly not our medical systems or our governments, but our own immune systems. Best to boost it up by eating a healthy diet full of cruciferous vegetables, fermented veggies if possible, and avoiding sugar as sugar feeds the bad biomes. Also, refined carbohydrates should be kept to a minimum. Make sure you get sun or take vitamin d supplements, and try to get good quality sleep. I struggle with the later in general, and even more so in these uncertain times.

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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Mar 1, 2020

News Media Attacks Vitamin C Treatment of COVID-19 Coronavirus
Yet Ascorbate is a Proven, Powerful Antiviral
by Andrew W. Saul, Editor-in-Chief
(OMNS Mar 1, 2020) First of all, the naysayers are too late. Vitamin C is already being used to prevent and treat COVID-19 in China and in Korea. And it is working.

Here is a verified official statement from China's Xi'an Jiaotong University Second Hospital:

"On the afternoon of February 20, 2020, another 4 patients with severe coronavirus pneumonia recovered from the C10 West Ward of Tongji Hospital. In the past 8 patients have been discharged from hospital. . . [H]igh-dose vitamin C achieved good results in clinical applications. We believe that for patients with severe neonatal pneumonia, and for critically ill patients, vitamin C treatment should be initiated as soon as possible after admission. Numerous studies have shown that the dose of vitamin C has a lot to do with the effect of treatment. High-dose vitamin C can not only improve antiviral levels, but more importantly, can prevent and treat acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress (ARDS)."

Here is a report from Korea:

"At my hospital in Daegu, South Korea, all inpatients and all staff members have been using vitamin C orally since last week. Some people this week had a mild fever, headaches and coughs, and those who had symptoms got 30,000 mg intravenous vitamin C. Some people got better after about two days, and most had symptoms go away after one injection." (Hyoungjoo Shin, M.D.)

There are at least three high-dose intravenous vitamin C studies underway in China. Literally by the truckload, tons of vitamin C has been sent into Wuhan.

Here is a report from a physician in China:

"We need to broadcast a message worldwide very quickly: Vitamin C (small or large dose) does no harm to people and is the one of the few, if not the only, agent that has a chance to prevent us from getting, and can treat, COVID-19 infection. When can we, medical doctors and scientists, put patients' lives first?" (Richard Z. Cheng, MD, PhD, International Vitamin C China Epidemic Medical Support Team Leader)

News media attacks on vitamin C are centered on false allegations of dangers with megadoses. This tactic lets the media ignore the truth that even LOW doses of vitamin C reduce symptoms and death rates. Do not let the media spin this issue. Advocates of vitamin C are medical doctors, not spin doctors. They are experienced, credentialed clinicians who have read the science, a small sample of which follows:

Even small supplemental amounts of vitamin C can keep severely ill patients from dying.
[Hunt C et al. Int J Vitam Nutr Res 1994;64:212-19.]

Infants with viral pneumonia treated with vitamin C had reduced mortality.
[Ren Shiguang et al. Hebei Medicine 1978,4:1-3]

Moderate doses of vitamin C shortened ICU stay by 97% in a subgroup of 1,766 patients
[Hemilä H, Chalker E. Nutrients. 2019 Mar 27;11:4.]

200 mg of vitamin C reduced duration of severe pneumonia in children. Oxygen saturation was improved in less than one day.
[Khan IM et al. J Rawalpindi Med Coll (JRMC); 2014;18(1):55-57]

The Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, and its editorial board of nearly four dozen physicians, academics and health professionals (listed below) feel it is necessary to report on what the advertiser-supported, corporate-controlled commercial media refuses to acknowledge: even small amounts of vitamin C dramatically decrease severity of symptoms, and increase survival rates, among severely ill viral patients. Large doses work better. Intravenous large doses work better still.

OMNS has been relentlessly reporting on this for weeks:

Feb 28, 2020 Vitamin C and COVID-19 Coronavirus
Feb 23, 2020 TONS OF VITAMIN C TO WUHAN: China Using Vitamin C against COVID
Feb 21, 2020 Three Intravenous Vitamin C Research Studies Approved for Treating COVID-19
Feb 16, 2020 Early Large Dose Intravenous Vitamin C is the Treatment of Choice for 2019-nCov Pneumonia
Feb 13, 2020 Coronavirus Patients in China to be Treated with High-Dose Vitamin C
Feb 10, 2020 VITAMIN C AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE TREATMENT OF nCoV CORONAVIRUS: How Vitamin C Reduces Severity and Deaths from Serious Viral Respiratory Diseases
Feb 2, 2020 Hospital-based Intravenous Vitamin C Treatment for Coronavirus and Related Illnesses
Jan 30, 2020 Nutritional Treatment of Coronavirus
Jan 26, 2020 Vitamin C Protects Against Coronavirus
The greatest danger with COVID-19 coronavirus is illness progression to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) and pneumonia. Physicians have successfully used vitamin C against viral pneumonia since the 1940s. That's the point made in a 10-minute video that was abruptly removed from YouTube, supposedly for being a violation of their "community standards": https://www.brighteon.com/646ad120-775a-4464-a0d1-609be7a0a9dc

OMNS favors a community of people of all nations dedicated to immediately employing all existing, science-based measures to stop a dreaded disease for which there is no conventional cure. Vitamin C is available now. It is not new. And it is not "unproven." Vitamin C has been used as an antiviral since the 1930s. (1) It has been used in very high injected doses since the 1940s. (2) In the decades since, vitamin C has been used for influenza, SARS and viral pneumonia. (3)

"Vitamin C can truthfully be designated as the antitoxic and antiviral vitamin."
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We accuse the media of negligence. They can correct this any time.

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References
(1) Jungeblut CW. Inactivation of poliomyelitis virus by crystalline vitamin C (ascorbic acid). J Exper Med 1935. 62:317-321.

Jungeblut CW. Vitamin C therapy and prophylaxis in experimental poliomyelitis. J Exp Med, 1937. 65: 127-146.

Jungeblut CW. Further observations on vitamin C therapy in experimental poliomyelitis. J Exper Med, 1937. 66: 459-477.

Jungeblut CW, Feiner RR. Vitamin C content of monkey tissues in experimental poliomyelitis. J Exper Med, 1937. 66: 479-491.

Jungeblut CW. A further contribution to vitamin C therapy in experimental poliomyelitis. J Exper Med, 1939. 70:315-332.

Saul AW. Taking the cure: Claus Washington Jungeblut, M.D.: Polio pioneer; ascorbate advocate. J Orthomolecular Med, 2006. Vol 21, No 2, p 102-106. http://www.doctoryourself.com/jungeblut.html and http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom

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Cathcart RF. (1993) The third face of vitamin C. J Orthomolecular Med, 7:197-200. Free access at http://www.doctoryourself.com/cathcart_thirdface.html

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CS, is it possible that high dose endovenous vitamin C induces stomach distress? Following the treatment the first hours I get light headed and the following hours have pretty bad gastrointestinal bloating.

Brooke90 wrote:CS, is it possible that high dose endogenous vitamin C induces stomach distress? Following the treatment the first hours I get light headed and the following hours have pretty bad gastrointestinal bloating.

Usually, and there are a few ways to avoid it. However, dosing is everything and early gastro distress is a positive sign. For example let's say if you have a sinus headache, once you start to notice a peroxide reaction essentially killing off pathogens in the gut, it starts to alleviate pressure.

The more sick we feel, the more C we can handle and need.

To prevent some of the gastro effects, a Lipo-C could be used for there's also the trouble of taking IV-C.

https://amzn.to/2v0wILl

or

https://amzn.to/2IrV9EA

These are pricier, but then again much more efficacious per dose. It's estimated this form is at least 8 time more effective and it glides through the GI-tract.

Brooke90 wrote:CS, is it possible that high dose endovenous vitamin C induces stomach distress? Following the treatment the first hours I get light headed and the following hours have pretty bad gastrointestinal bloating.

did administer the IV on your own?

NYJets wrote:

Brooke90 wrote:CS, is it possible that high dose endovenous vitamin C induces stomach distress? Following the treatment the first hours I get light headed and the following hours have pretty bad gastrointestinal bloating.

did administer the IV on your own?

Stomach distress from taking lots of oral C, but it's not that bad really.

Hi, the only Magnesium I could find is Magnesium citrate 250 mg.
Should I take 1 daily or 2 to go to 400mg range?

Or is it possible to cut the pill in half and take 1.5 ?

edit :
I also have 5000ui vit D(doctors best), is it ok to take it one day on and one day off ?
year ago I took it like 4 months straigth daily and I think I got intoxicated, didn't see a doctor about it but I was feeling muscle aches and dizzyness and weakness and they went away after I stopped taking vit D.

Nuada wrote:Hi, the only Magnesium I could find is Magnesium citrate 250 mg.
Should I take 1 daily or 2 to go to 400mg range?

Or is it possible to cut the pill in half and take 1.5 ?

edit :
I also have 5000ui vit D(doctors  best), is it ok to take it one day on and one day off ?
year ago I took it like 4 months straigth daily and I think I got intoxicated, didn't see a doctor about it but I was feeling muscle aches and dizzyness and weakness and they went away after I stopped taking vit D.

No idea, something else could be happening.

Mainstream recently admitted that health care workers seem to be the one's most susceptible to illness.

Could it be that many of them are mandated to take the flu-shot?

CausticSymmetry wrote:

Nuada wrote:Hi, the only Magnesium I could find is Magnesium citrate 250 mg.
Should I take 1 daily or 2 to go to 400mg range?

Or is it possible to cut the pill in half and take 1.5 ?

edit :
I also have 5000ui vit D(doctors  best), is it ok to take it one day on and one day off ?
year ago I took it like 4 months straigth daily and I think I got intoxicated, didn't see a doctor about it but I was feeling muscle aches and dizzyness and weakness and they went away after I stopped taking vit D.

No idea, something else could be happening.

What about the magnesium bit I was talking about ?

Probably one of the worst types of magnesium. But in any case, try to go for 400 to 600 mgs daily.

Hi CS ,

What are the must need supplements to keep us safe from this corona virus ?

Beside those mentioned in the OP .

Thanks

Is there any proposed mechanism for the antiviral behavior or vitamin C?

There are several, actually so many I will probably miss a few important:


It will stimulate the immune system through activation of NK and T cells and monocytes.

Ascorbic acid is able to decrease activity (degrade) Hypoxia Inducible Factor -1 alpha activity which is how the cell is being starved from oxygen,

oxidised form (dehydroascorbate) have easy way entering the cell through GLUT channels (glucose pathway), modulating the ATP production,

Ascorbic acid assists in the production of the nitric oxide, which is toxic to the virus,

It will reduce oxidative stress,

It can improve mitochondrial function, with improving membrane potential,

Modulate cytokine storms, which if not mitigate would lead to pulmonary fibrosis. This was shown also in the younger population.