Vitamin C: The Real Story, the Remarkable and Controversial Healing Factor
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Research into vitamin C is progressing rapidly despite a lack of funding from conventional medicine into its clinical applications. Orthomolecular medicine, which uses nutrients in large doses to treat disease, is regarded as highly controversial by the medical establishment. This rejection of the orthomolecular approach has little basis in science and reflects a bias at the heart of the status quo. This book tells the story of how the controversy about vitamin C has grown and continues while the increasing evidence demonstrates the value of the orthomolecular approach. The story of vitamin C is an exciting journey into the workings of science and medicine, the intrigues of political economic influences, and the evolutionary history of humankind. Someday, medicine without vitamin C therapy will be compared to childbirth without sanitation or surgery without anesthetic. In this book, - You will see that mega doses of vitamin C have proven to be an effective antibiotic, a nontoxic anticancer agent, and also a treatment for heart disease. - We explain the real reasons behind conventional medicine's rejection of vitamin C therapy. - You'll meet the pioneers of vitamin C research, who often faced great resistance in their advocacy for the health benefits of this nutrient. Vitamin C is a simple molecule with powerful effects. If you want to be healthy, you should take enough vitamin C. After reading this book, you will know why. . . and how much. Read more
Publisher : Basic Health Publications, Inc.
Publication date : October 23, 2015
Edition : 1st Editon
Language : English
Print length : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 159120223X
ISBN-13 : 33
Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #281,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #137 in Vitamins & Supplements (Books)
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Vitamin C: The Real Story The Remarkable and Controversial Story of Vitamin C by Steve Hickey, PhD and Andrew Saul, PhD, 2008, Basic Health Publications Inc., CA, 192 pages [...] A curious title. What could be remarkable or controversial about vitamin C? Thousands of children take Flintstone multis every day; don't they get enough vitamin C? Many adults take some C when they have a cold. Even without supplements, don't most people get enough vitamins and minerals in their fruits and veggies? Authors Hickey and Saul think we need to know the truth about vitamin C. Their fascinating book presents some truly remarkable vitamin C discoveries. They outline its health-maintaining functions, introduce its health-restoring capabilities and warn us about anti-vitamin-therapy factoids. Steven Hickey, PhD and Andrew Saul, PhD present the real story clearly and carefully. Readers will gradually realize that the vitamin C story has two dimensions. On the bright side, scientific and medical researchers have documented decades of vitamin research, clinical progress and success. Vital amines, and other nutritional substances, are essential for health and useful for healing. Over the past 100 years, a succession of scientific researchers studied the biochemistry of vitamin C and learned that vital amines sustain metabolism. Minimal doses of vitamin C can heal scurvy however optimum doses of vitamin C have remarkable health-restoring capabilities. Researchers carried out clinical trials, detailed patient recoveries, corroborated findings and wrote journal articles and reference books. The vitamin C story also has a disturbing dark side. Rather than telling the truth, certain health professionals dismiss the vitamin C research and disparage the clinical progress reports. They ignore vitamin C's health-maintaining functions and dispute its health-restoring capabilities. The anti-vitamin-therapy skeptics use factoids to support their denials, as outlined in this book. Like a Swiss-army knife, vitamin C has multiple capabilities. When we pick up a Swiss-army knife for the first time, we expect to find large and small blades but we may not inspect it carefully. In an emergency, we happily discover that a Swiss-army knife comes with a versatile set of built-in tools: a screwdriver, a tooth pick, a cork screw and a file. After these tiny tools save lives, the word gets out. Eventually the public learns that each Swiss army knife comes with life-saving tools. Consider the metabolic and healing capabilities of vitamins as tools for restoring health. In milligram doses, vitamin C enables essential metabolic pathways to sustain life. Small doses can heal scurvy. If taken in large enough doses when a patient has cancer or an infection or an overload of toxins, vitamin C can heal and restore health. The general public still does not know that vitamin C has a number of lifesaving capabilities. Meanwhile, certain experts, who should know better than to publish false information, scoff at vitamin C research, forget its biochemistry, ignore its metabolic functions and deny its therapeutic value. Why don't more scientific and medical professionals study the vitamin C research, review the clinical trials, interview recovered patients and learn that therapeutic doses of vitamin C really can restore health and save lives? Too busy. How can trusting patients know if our doctors understand and apply the healing capabilities of vitamin C or use false factoids to withhold vitamin treatments? Patients and families, caregivers and health professionals can read books and articles about vitamin C to learn the facts for ourselves. Vitamin C: The Real Story teaches us that a hundred years after the discovery of vitamin C, mankind is still researching the biochemistry of essential nutrients and developing medical applications. We learn that vital amines, trace minerals, amino and fatty acids, hormones and many other nutrients are essential for sustaining life. Optimum doses can restore health. Orthomolecular health professionals know that regimens of vitamin C and other nutritional supplements, if given in the right doses, can help patients recover and live well. They routinely prescribe supplements and adjust the doses to suit each patient's diagnosis and biochemical individuality. Readers of this book will learn to distinguish the facts about vitamin C from the anti-C factoids. Patients can ask their doctors about vitamin research, optimal doses and patient recoveries. Readers are cautioned to take care with their health. Anyone who reads this book will learn useful facts about vitamin C and its clinical applications: therapeutic doses of vitamin C can restore health when taken as recommended by qualified medical professionals who understand biochemistry and know when to prescribe vitamin C as a complementary and restorative treatment. review by Robert Sealey, BSc author of 90-Day Plan for Finding Quality Care [...]
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Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2009 by RS
This book will change your life if you are ill. Using a sub-laxative level of Vitamin C to fight of a Candida infection. The RDA doses are desperately too low. The doses needed for each individual fluctuates drastically depending on how ill the person is. Some individuals can take 200,000 mg a day without a laxative effect if they have a massive infection, however once they successfully treated using Vitamin C they may only need 4,000mg a day to maintain their levels of health. This book teaches you myths about of Vitamin C. Afraid of kidney stones? This book will explain why it may actually hinder kidney stones, not cause them. The medical profession wants to scare you from taking very high doses and perpetuates these myths. If you take too much Vitamin C your body has a very efficient way of dealing with it. It simply releases it through the bowels, just like with Epsom Salts (Magnesium Sulfate). Our bodies have been dealing with these substances for millions of years and recognizes these vitamins and minerals. Did you know most animals have the ability to synthesize Vitamin C from glucose, in their own bodies and adjust the levels daily bases on how stressed or ill they are. Their production levels are much higher than the RDA amounts. Humans lost this ability. Read the book and find out what this means and how it possibly occurred. It definitely indicates Vitamin C is much more than a Vitamin. Its just as or possibly more essential than Vitamin D ( a steroid hormone). If our bodies had the ability to produce it, it must be absolutely essential for survival. Vitamin C does so much more for us than just boosting our immune system it is an anti-histamine, electron donor to cells and more. Anyway their is much to this book than I can cover. Do yourself a favor, read this book and find the real truth of Vitamin C.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2014 by Gman
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This not a review as we usually understand it. This is the brief account of personal experience based on the actual use of the excellent and comprehensive information this book provides. Three years ago I had a heart attack. The stent was inserted into one of my heart arteries to remove the obstruction. The whole experience was a total shock, as I was always religiously following the life style guidelines ( right food, plenty of exercise ) that were supposed to remove the risk of getting my arteries damaged. Well, this event showed, that the guidelines, although good, were NOT SUFFICIENT. I obviously MISSED SOMETHING THAT WAS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT for maintaining the integrity of artery wall. So, I was very motivated to find that missing element;....and, discovered a huge amount of work on Vitamin C and its functions. Based on the understanding I gained, I started to use the Vitamin C BASED THERAPY detailed in this book. To check its effectiveness I have had ultrasonic test (UT) done every 6 months on my carotid artery, where the artery wall damage was present as well. I am very happy now, as I see the evidence of this wall damage healing and receding. Doctor who is doing this Test is absolutely amazed. And, if it was not for this evidence he would pay no attention.....BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT VITAMIN C CANNOT DO THIS... Well, do not believe what I am saying, do much better: Study, understand, use and TEST THE BENEFITS. I wish you presence of mind to do it.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2013 by Mirek Urednicek
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Apart from various websites, this is the first book I've read about Vitamin C and I found it immensely informative and very valuable. I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in achieving optimal health and avoiding as much disease as possible later in life. Saul & Hickey do a good job explaining the history, the science, methodology and reasoning behind large doses, the controversy, and the chemistry. All this is covered as you proceed through the book and sets you up well for their synthesis in the final chapters where they lay down a very detailed explanation of how the fundamental cause of atherosclerosis is highly likely to arise from less than optimal levels of antioxidants, particularly Vitamin C, in the body. This was the section I found the most interesting. The book also has a great section on cancer, how it develops, and how Vitamin C can play a role in prevention and treatment. Having done some internet research today since finishing the book I am a little surprised they never mention the role of the various genes that have arisen in animals that can't produce their own Vitamin C such as the one that produces Uric Acid (as wikipedia says it provides about half of the antioxidant capacity of the plasma), along with the ability to recycle ascorbate which is also seems unique to upper primates, guinea pigs and bats according to this recent article. [...] I think this is interesting too and could have been mentioned when comparing our vitamin C requirements to animals that make their own (hence the four stars). Nevertheless, this is minor, and gorillas eat 2-5g of ascorbate a day anyway which is way beyond what most people eat and about the range they recommend here for maintaining good health. I think they make a very strong argument for increasing intake for optimum health, so I know I will be doing just that. This is a great book, which is easy to read, concise and full of valuable information that could very well extend the length and quality of your life - and if you ever catch a lethal strain of legionnaires disease you'll know what to do!
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Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2009 by Damos11
Format: Paperback
Dr Saul studied with Abraham hoffer M. D. And Linus pauling. His books are always ground breaking. Is understanding of vitamin c is probably the most comprehensive any human being in the world. So if you're interested in vitamin c and you want to know more about the real truth about it this is the book to own.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2025 by Zardoz
Format: Paperback
This book changed my perspectives on health and illness and the role of vitamin c. I highly recommend this book. Although much of the book is anecdotal, there are many references to studies and scientific evidence, which I value. I've noticed that many other books in the health genre make claims that are unsubstantiated by proof. This book does a great job of explaining the history and science of vitamin c and offering research that shows why it works. I think everyone should take a look at this book for ideas about how to be healthy and how to heal yourself naturally.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2015 by Ani L.
Format: Paperback
Read and be amazed. My experience so far is that their information is accurate. For me the best part is the collagen building. My need for chiropractic adjustments has diminished greatly. I believe that is because the collagen is holding me together better. No colds. Stopped the flu dead in its tracks plus some help from colloidal silver. My dad had arthroscopic knee surgery. It didn't heal in 6 weeks. They took pictures all looked good. I got him to take about 3000mg per day. In 2 weeks it was better and he told mom they only thing different was the C. The research has been done. You just need to give it a good shot...safe, effective, and cost efficient...I was in love at safe!
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Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2015 by Cindy L.
Format: Paperback
This book is quite simply a revelation. It reminded me while reading of the Matrix when Neo is instructed to "open your mind" to see the "real" world. 1.It makes you realize just how the Pharmaceutical industry so fully compromises our health for profit and greed. 2. How Pharma studies are so full of crap and generally followed religiously by the medical establishment that you wonder why most of us aren't dead already - Oh, I forgot, they don't actually want to kill us lest they ruin their revenue source. 3. It shows how ascorbate as a very natural and very NON-toxic substance works as most likely one of the best healing sources around - IN APPROPRIATE DOSEAGE....4. and Finally how you can learn to nearly NEVER get a cold or flu again and help yourself combat some of the worst diseases and virus around with Vitamin C!....amazing book.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2011 by P. J. Russell