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Vitamin C – so necessary and so dangerous; Everyone needs it, yet they still try to scare us with it…
How is it that for 100 years there has been a war in the medical world between supporters of vitamin C and those who claim it is just a placebo to be combated?
Let’s start with what vitamin C is not, and what, according to medical mythology, we should believe:
1. “The only function of vitamin C is to prevent scurvy.”
And yet we know that vitamin C is essential for collagen production, neurotransmitter synthesis, amino acid metabolism, white blood cell production, fighting free radicals, and general detoxification.
This means it is essential for cell protection, fighting pathogens, regenerating all body tissues, iron absorption, hormone production, regulating cholesterol levels, supporting the circulatory system, and metabolism. It also affects the brain, nervous system, well being, and more. The list is endless.
2. The body is saturated with 150 mg of vitamin C per day, which means the entire requirement is covered by a balanced diet”.
And yet none of us live in an ecological paradise, nor can we escape environmental pollution or live without stress. These are all factors that significantly increase the need for an antioxidant, which is vitamin C.
One cigarette smoked consumes 25 mg of vitamin C.
3. “Natural vitamin C from food is always best and sufficient.”
And yet during an infection, it is not possible to consume a sufficiently high dose from food:
the average lemon contains 60 mg of vitamin C! Our vegetables and fruits do not come straight from the garden. With each day of storage, and under the influence of higher temperatures and light, the ascorbic acid content in food products decreases.
4. “Daily doses above 1000 mg are unnecessary; they only produce expensive pee and dangerous kidney stones.”
And yet there is no evidence of a link between vitamin C use and kidney stones.
In fact, studies have shown that men taking 1 gram per day had a reduced risk of stones, while women had no risk at all.
5. “There is no point in taking vitamin C beyond the recommendations, because absorption decreases as the dose increases.”
And yet there is a difference, for example, between absorbing 80 mg from 100 mg taken versus 500 mg from 1200 mg taken.
Is there something wrong with my math?
6. “High doses have no proven efficacy.”
And yet the evidence is not only available, but overwhelming.
It is worth mentioning the phenomenal results of Dr. Marik in sepsis or Dr. Nishigaki in COVID-19 – PubMed is teeming with reports of clinician successes. You just have to be willing to read and test them.
7. “Vitamin C causes miscarriages”.
And yet it is clear from Dr. Klenner’s reports from the 1940s that vitamin C not only fails to cause miscarriages
but, when taken in doses of 5 to 15 grams a day even before conception, has an extremely strong protective function for the mother and child against any complications in fertilization, pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation.
How can vitamin C be harmful during pregnancy? It reduces oxidative stress, relieves the mother’s body, is crucial in collagen synthesis, participates in every process of building the baby’s body, protects against toxins, accelerates healing, improves iron absorption and the functions of the entire circulatory system, and improves the functioning of the nervous system, which may even help prevent postpartum depression.
8. “It’s easy to overdose on vitamin C; you have to be very careful with it. Diarrhoea is incredibly dangerous, you can cause intestinal necrosis, and in children it can even end in death.
And yet there is no scientific evidence for this.
Each child can calibrate their vitamin C intake depending on the state of the body and the virulence of the infection, and after the first stomach gurgle, they will recognize the point of saturation. Even if diarrhoea occurs, it passes quickly. It is enough to take care of hydration, as in any infection.
9. “It makes no sense to use vitamin C for a cold, because scientific studies show that it does not shorten its course.”
And yet the doses used in these so called studies were ridiculously low and did not correspond in any way to the doses published by practitioners and clinicians such as Nobel Prize winner Pauling, or Drs. Klenner, Cathcart, Humphries, Saul, Marik, and others.
From the experience of hundreds of thousands of users, we know that none of these terrible myths are true.
There is also not a single piece of scientific or clinical evidence to confirm them.
So why scare with something that is common, cheap, and safe? Intriguing…
So what is vitamin C?
First of all – an antioxidant.
Animals and plants produce vitamin C from glucose on their own. But humans, guinea pigs, several species of monkeys, and one frugivorous bat lack a single liver enzyme, so they literally have to eat all the vitamin C they need.
To avoid scurvy, a daily dose of about 80 mg is necessary. But there are no studies determining how much vitamin C provides well being, not just the absence of a fatal disease.
So let’s take a look at how much vitamin C animals need:
– a cow produces 18 mg per kilogram per day, i.e. approx. 12,000 mg;
– a cat produces 20 40 mg per kilogram per day, i.e. approx. 180 mg per day;
– a gorilla eats 4500 mg/d;
– a guinea pig needs 30 mg/d;
Yet according to the medical consensus, just 80 mg/d is supposedly enough for a person.
Intriguing.
To thicken the intrigue a bit, let’s look at the goat, known for its iron immunity.
A healthy goat produces 185 mg/kg/d, which is about 13,000 mg per day. When it is sick or stressed, it can produce up to 1,400 mg/kg/d, or 100,000 mg per day.
For the sake of complete clarity, I will remind you of the FDA’s recommendations for humans:
• Children: 40 mg/d
• Women: 75 mg/d
• Pregnant women: 85 mg/d
• Nursing women: 120 mg/d
• Men: 90 mg/d
• Smokers: +35 mg/d
However, let’s assume the official recommendations are correct and that this is all we need for optimal well being.
What do we do with the knowledge that one cigarette causes oxidative stress requiring 25 mg of vitamin C to be neutralized? And active smoking is not significantly different from passive smoking
After smoking 5 cigarettes, how much of the recommended daily intake of vitamin C remains in a smoker’s body?
And in the body of a smoker’s child?
And is cigarette smoke the only factor in our lives causing an increased need for antioxidants?
Free radicals and oxidative stress
The immune system uses free radicals to destroy pathogens in the bloodstream (bacteria, viruses, fungi). But an excess of these free radicals can turn into an uncontrollable fire, leading to a very serious condition or even death.
What is a free radical?
It is a molecule that aggressively searches for an electron. By tearing it out of any structure, tissue, cell, or fluid, it disrupts their function and literally robs the organizm of its health.
This is also the definition of a toxin.
In the same way, the water molecule we are made of can be depleted of an electron, turn into a toxin, and wander the body in search of electrons from other molecules to appropriate..
Vitamin C, on the other hand, is an ideal donor of electrons, because after donating it, it does not steal from other molecules. On the contrary, it can recycle, becoming ready to donate again.
Oxidative stress is a type of chain reaction where damaged molecules in the body try to steal electrons from other molecules to repair themselves. The robbed molecules become free radicals that roam the body in search of electrons to repair their own damage, setting off a progressive relay race of repair and damage that seems to have no end.
As an electron donor, vitamin C can stop this cascade of destruction and even repair already damaged molecules.
The greater the damage, the more vitamin C with its generous electrons is needed to restore homeostasis.
It is therefore logical to conclude that optimal doses, i.e. those that promote health, are not necessarily the same as minimum doses, i.e. those that prevent disease.
Okay, theory is theory, but in life, facts matter.
Facts about the use of vitamin C:
1. At the right dose, vitamin C is extremely effective in fighting infections. However, it is not possible to predict what dose will be necessary in a given case. However, you can very easily calibrate the dose necessary for a specific situation.
The famous Dr. Cathcart coined phrases like ‘twenty grams of runny nose,’ ‘one hundred grams of flu,’ and ‘three hundred grams of pneumonia’ to indicate the expected vitamin C dose for a given infection.
His predecessor, Dr. Klenner, used infusions and injections of vitamin C and achieved phenomenal results, usually within 3 days, across a wide spectrum of diseases: hepatitis, pneumonia, polio, mononucleosis, measles, smallpox, shingles. He also succeeded in cases of tetanus, pesticide poisoning, and venomous animal bites.
At home, the saturation point (the current maximum oral dose of vitamin C) is recognized literally by the gurgling in the stomach. This dose is used until the symptoms disappear, and then gradually decreased.
The more serious the condition, the higher the tolerance. Therefore, it is not uncommon for oncology patients to eat several hundred grams of ascorbic acid per day without the slightest discomfort from the digestive system.
To sum up, vitamin C cannot be overdosed orally. At most, you can get temporary diarrhea, which is easy to stop with proper hydration or activated charcoal. Activated charcoal has the additional advantage of binding pathogens removed from the body.
So vitamin C is not dangerous or toxic and should certainly always be at hand because…
2. The sooner you take your dose, the sooner your sickenss goes. In addition, the course of the disease is milder and complications are much rarer.
It only works if you take the right dose (see point 1 above).
3. An effective fight against infection has 3 stages: quick reaction/fight, regeneration, and necessary replenishment.
If you stop taking vitamin C too soon after symptoms subside, you may soon get sick again.
After the fight, the body again needs to saturate tissues, fluids and regenerate the entire immune system.
4. Scurvy is not a mythical disease of eighteenth century sailors, but a reality today.
Subclinical scurvy is indicated by symptoms such as bleeding gums, flabby skin, stretch marks, and premature wrinkles. Other signs include bursting capillaries, a tendency to bruise, inflammation of the joints, and frequent infections.
Doctors who seriously study vitamin C have shown that patients admitted to the hospital due to illness, poisoning, or accident arrive in a state of depleted antioxidant reserves. The hospital stay, treatments, and administered medications deplete these reserves even further. As a result, many patients are discharged home in a state of advanced scurvy.
Hospital treatment and convalescence would be more efficient, with fewer infections and complications, if patients received appropriate ascorbate doses by injection or infusion from the moment of admission.
Dr. Klenner is credited with saying, “Some doctors would rather watch their patients die than use ascorbic acid, because in their limited minds it exists only as a vitamin. We, as doctors, have to think independently and, when treatment requires it, first administer vitamin C, even in high doses, and only then make a diagnosis.”
From the experience of millions of vitamin C users around the world, this claim is all too true. Changing the behavior of medical staff, especially in serious situations, could make a huge difference.
And the first symptom of scurvy is a decrease in vital energy.
5. Any blood loss starts an inflammatory process.
The right doses of vitamin C can phenomenally accelerate healing of wounds, burns, and any damage to the skin or mucous membranes.
The risk of superinfections is minimized, and the levels of exudates, swelling, and petechiae are reduced, which shortens recovery and improves the patient’s comfort.
For this reason, many complementary medicine clinics use intravenous vitamin C infusions before, during, and after surgical procedures (including implantology). They report dramatically reduced recovery time, fewer complications, and no need for antibiotics.
This principle obviously also applies to all injuries, such as sprains, tears, and fractures because providing a powerful antioxidant to interrupt inflammation and repair tissues is simply a recipe for success.
Additionally, taking large doses of vitamin C quickly and applying it directly to the wound can reduce the risk of tetanus.
6. Sepsis is an extreme example of the antioxidant efficacy of intravenous vitamin C,
and Dr. Paul Marik deserves the Nobel Prize for the therapy he developed.
7. Vitamin C is excellent at neutralizing wildlife venoms, environmental toxins, and industrial poisons such as glyphosate.
It also serves as a protective shield during the removal of amalgam fillings.
8. When protected by vitamin C, chemotherapy has a milder course and far fewer side effects, especially when it comes to nausea.
9. For many years, I have observed women using vitamin C during pregnancy at doses based on Dr. Klenner’s reports (5-15 g per day). I can’t help but wonder what a huge difference it makes in the entire course of pregnancy and childbirth.
Women are more resilient, less prone to anemia, varicose veins, bleeding, and stretch marks.
Furthermore, their childbirth experience is faster and less painful.
Uterine contraction is not a horror story, and healing — even after a caesarean section — is shockingly uncomplicated and efficient.
Newborns are healthy, calm, resolute and at most with minimal jaundice.
I very rarely hear stories that deviate from this standard, and they usually have some hasty medical intervention in the background.
The vast majority of reports I receive end with a summary that giving birth with vitamin C is a fairy tale, especially compared to previous births without such supplementation.
The data also helps explain why vitamin babies are healthier. Vitamin C levels are twice as high in the placenta and umbilical cord as in the mother’s blood, and three times higher in the amniotic fluid. So for nine months, the baby swims in a vitamin C concentrate essential for cell division and the development of the brain, bones, and tissues. If the mother lacks excess, the baby will take her last supplies.
Natural childbirth consumes about 5 times more vitamin C in the baby than a caesarean section, and its stress and effort exceed those of a heart attack.
It is therefore not surprising that after taking the first breath, it is time for efficient cleaning after all the oxidative stress of childbirth.
If the mother is deficient in vitamin C, the umbilical cord is cut too early, or medications and traumatic procedures are used during childbirth, the mother’s antioxidant stores will be severely disrupted or even depleted. Then, to save its life, the baby can produce its own powerful antioxidant: bilirubin.
10. Decades ago, Dr. Kalikaneros showed that the ‘epidemic’ of SIDS among Aboriginal infants can be linked to several factors: the introduction of an early vaccination calendar, low hygiene in villages, and widespread malnutrition. But above all, he pointed to the common and profound vitamin C deficiencies in this population.
The introduction of vitamin C supplementation reduced sudden infant death cases from 50% to nearly zero. Kalikaneros also started routine vitamin C administration to infants before and after vaccinations. Crucially, he recorded no cases indicating any danger from this practice.
11. Vitamin C is present at every stage of glycemic control, and its deficiency is associated with the deterioration of diabetic patients. This is especially critical because insulin is a powerful oxidant that consumes vitamin C stores and further increases inflammation.
Chronic oxidative stress worsens the condition of blood vessels, especially the capillaries in the extremities. This can result in diabetic foot and gangrene, as well as deterioration of vision due to damage to the retina and optic nerve. Vitamin C improves insulin production and sensitivity. In diabetics, it competes with sugar for the same cell receptors, and it does so more intensely than in people with lower blood sugar levels.
12. Cardiovascular diseases are the result of toxins, oxidative stress and mental stress, and each of these risk factors can be reduced with vitamin C.
Blood vessels are made of multi layered collagen tissue that delaminates under vitamin C deficiency, leading to arteriosclerosis. It is worth noting that cholesterol is wrongly blamed for atherosclerotic processes. Although it is present at the sites of damage, it appears there not as the cause, but as a repair mechanism. Studies conducted by pathologists since the 1940s have shown a consistent pattern. In areas of blood vessel damage (such as the heart, arteries, brain, or liver), there is local scurvy linked to local vitamin C deficiency. This leads to local weakening of the affected tissue or structure, resulting in deformation or injury, such as varicose veins or heart attack.
In addition, vitamin C supplementation lowers blood pressure, which is an important element of heart disease prevention.
13. Vitamin C is a natural histamine antagonist.
When vitamin C levels are high, histamine levels are low, and vice versa. Thus it plays a key role in relieving allergy and asthma symptoms
After taking vitamin C (about 6 g per hour), histamine levels drop sharply, leading to a reduction or cessation of asthma attacks.
Vitamin C plays a key role in capillary function. Therefore, in cases of lymphatic system problems or capillary leaks, supplementation can quickly bring relief, reduce swelling, relieve inflammation, and speed up repair processes.
14. Vitamin C is a key antioxidant for the brain and the entire nervous system:
it supports the production of neurotransmitters, protects brain cells from oxidative stress, regulates blood circulation in the brain, improves cognitive function, and supports mood regulation.
It also prevents visual disturbances by protecting eye cells from oxidative stress, supports the maintenance of retinal health, and reduces the risk of developing cataracts and macular degeneration.
It is worth remembering that the eyeball consists of almost 100% collagen, so it is not surprising that many people who use vitamin C improve their eyesight.
“L ascorbic acid (the natural, right rotating form of vitamin C) in the form of an isolated powder has much lower bioavailability than vitamin C surrounded by cofactors (bioflavonoids, polyphenols, minerals) that protect it, preserve it, bind toxins and heavy metals, and facilitate and accelerate transport to cells (mitochondria have their own reserves of vitamin C).
1000 mg of white powder is said to have effects comparable to 60 mg of vitamin C contained in lemon.
For this reason, I created a syrup packed with vitamin C cofactors all the way to the cap, so that the megadose of ascorbic acid contained in it can reach cells most effectively and support the health of those who drink it.
Additionally, Anna’s Bee C is raw and bioactive, so its effectiveness is further enhanced by the presence of bacteria and enzymes contained in live honey.
After reading this article, does anyone still think that fearing vitamin C and not keeping it handy for sudden injuries or infections is worth it?
“If you encounter a disease that affects only humans, monkeys, and guinea pigs, you can safely assume that vitamin C will cure it.” Robert F. Cathcart, Ph.D.