Vitamin C: The Real Story : the Remarkable and Controversial Healing FactorResearch into the clinical applications of Vitamin C is progressing despite a lack of funding from conventional medicine.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 even as 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 and 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. |
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... animals that make their own vitamin C , those deprived of glutathione compensate by synthesizing additional vitamin C. Feeding animals vitamin C can increase their glutathione levels and high levels of glutathione can prevent loss of ...
... animals that make their own vitamin C , those deprived of glutathione compensate by synthesizing additional vitamin C. Feeding animals vitamin C can increase their glutathione levels and high levels of glutathione can prevent loss of ...
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... animals ' stomachs consisting of mosses , lichens , and the available tundra plants . But Inuits were not subject to high levels of heart disease , despite this diet high in saturated fat and low in fruits and vegetables . Similarly ...
... animals ' stomachs consisting of mosses , lichens , and the available tundra plants . But Inuits were not subject to high levels of heart disease , despite this diet high in saturated fat and low in fruits and vegetables . Similarly ...
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... animals do not need to con- sume it because they manufacture it within their bodies . However , some animals , including humans , have lost the ability to synthesize vitamin C. They have become , in effect , ascorbate mutants , reliant ...
... animals do not need to con- sume it because they manufacture it within their bodies . However , some animals , including humans , have lost the ability to synthesize vitamin C. They have become , in effect , ascorbate mutants , reliant ...
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... animals have all evolved successfully , surviving in the struggle for exis- tence for millions of years . If the ability to manufacture vitamin C was lost only once during evolution , we might conclude it was an interesting odd- ity ...
... animals have all evolved successfully , surviving in the struggle for exis- tence for millions of years . If the ability to manufacture vitamin C was lost only once during evolution , we might conclude it was an interesting odd- ity ...
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... animals without the vitamin C gene could predominate to the point that those with the gene became extinct . An Evolutionary Advantage Several lines of evidence suggest that the human population has crashed in the past . For many species ...
... animals without the vitamin C gene could predominate to the point that those with the gene became extinct . An Evolutionary Advantage Several lines of evidence suggest that the human population has crashed in the past . For many species ...
Contents
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Taking Vitamin C | 41 |
Conventional Medicine vs Vitamin C | 63 |
The Need for Antioxidants | 91 |
Infectious Diseases | 103 |
Cancer and Vitamin C | 109 |
Heart Disease | 123 |
Conclusion | 143 |
References | 147 |
Index | 185 |
About the Authors | |
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