Mineral Ascorbate (Vitamin C) - How much is needed to be effective?

False Hypothesis (Propaganda) vs. Clinical Findings (Facts)*

We currently have the paradoxical situation of a basically inaccurate hypothesis dominating the thoughts of research in the use of Mineral Ascorbate (sodium ascorbate as Vitamin C) for over 60 to 80 years. No attempts have been made during this time to bring the theory into line with established facts. The false hypothesis is sustained by doubt as to the effectiveness of Mineral Ascorbates (sodium ascorbate as Vitamin C) in combating disease which has been demonstrated in several clinical studies.

Due to this misunderstanding, it's possible for a person to find them self facing a serious and potentially-fatal genetic liver-enzyme disease. It shows up as an "inborn error of carbohydrate metabolism" being investigated by nutritionist and home economists. This group (nutritionist and home economists) are under the mistaken impression that the disease is a simple dietary disorder. The lack of progress in improving human health in the past 80 years of clinical research can be attributed to the narrow outlook and low dosage orientation (of Mineral Ascorbate - Vitamin C) of the investigators due to the fact that they were neither qualified by training or competent by experience to be investigating a complicated problem in medical genetics.

The most unfortunate result of-this long exposure to in-accurate nutritional propaganda is that this hypothesis has become current medical dogma. It has prevented the easy and simple elimination of Chronic Subclinical Scurvy (the CSS Syndrome) in our population. It has now permitted this disease to reach epidemic proportions (Stone, 1977).

Because of this misleading hypothesis, the current (false) impression in the minds of a large segment of physicians is that:

1. scurvy is a rare disease in this country;

2. that if you take 45 mg of Mineral Ascorbate (Vitamin C) a day scurvy is "cured" and  there is nothing further to worry about;

3. the only disease that Mineral Ascorbate (Vitamin C) can treat is scurvy;

4. doses of 150 mg of ascorbate a day for a human adult are not only unnecessarily high, but may be toxic and are "wasteful".

The clinical research of the past decade has shown these impressions (as stated above) to be sheer nonsense. Here are the facts:

1. Chronic Sub clinical Scurvy (the CSS Syndrome) is our most widespread disease (Stone, 1972).

2. 45 mg of Mineral Ascorbate (sodium ascorbate as Vitamin C) daily will prevent the appearance of the terminal symptoms of the disease but will not do much else. To correct Chronic Sub clinical Scurvy requires at least 10 grams of Mineral Ascorbate (Vitmin C) a day depending upon the incident stresses (Stone, 1977). Under heavy stresses, the daily mineral ascorbate requirement may be 200 grams or 300 grams to keep ahead of the CSS Syndrome.

3. The long term biochemical results of Chronic Sub clinical Scurvy set the stage for the development of serious medical problems in later life; heart attacks, cancer, collagen diseases and many more. Preliminary clinical tests indicate that mega levels of mineral ascorbate are useful in the prevention and treatment of cancer (Stone, 1974, 1976), heart disease, and many others (Stone 1972). In the case of viral diseases (Pauling, 1978, Stone, 1972), research of the past 30 years indicates that no one should succumb to a viral infection any more. Ascorbate is a non-specific, non-toxic virucide and when used at the proper daily infection can be relieved within 96 hours (Klenner, 1974, Cathcart, 1978, Pauling, 1976).

4. The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) a.k.a. Crib Death, has been shown by the Australian researchers A. Kalokerinos and G. Dettman to be a manifestation of infantile scurvy. This is due to the fact that all infants, born of mothers who depended solely on their diet as their source of ascorbate, are born with the CSS Syndrome after nine months of intrauterine scurvy (Stone. 1978). SIDS can be prevented by increasing the infants intake of ascorbate (Cook, 1978). This information was published in 1974 (Kalokerinos, 1974). Yet 8,000 to 10,000 babies die of SIDS each year. Doctors and others involved with the management of these babies permit this annual slaughter to take place because they have become complacent with scurvy and refuse to even try this harmless treatment.

5. Mineral Ascorbate (sodium ascorbate as Vitamin C) is one of the least toxic substances known. Therapeutic doses up to 200 grams can be administered without unfavorable side reactions. The daily doses that we recommend for humans are based on amounts normally synthesized by the mammals and should not be regarded a"high"or "abnormal" amounts. We are using the "normal" mammalian levels. It is the "micro" daily amounts recommended under the "Vitamin C-Dietary Deficiency Disease" theory that are the inadequate abnormally low levels.

Over the past eight decades the use of these "micro" daily levels of mineral ascorbate (vitamin C) intake, much below the levels needed to overcome our current daily stresses of living, has served to wipe out acute Frank Clinical Scurvy as a common disease but has preserved the epidemic incidence of the CSS Syndrome, the more insidious and more dangerous, relatively asymptomatic form of scurvy. The full correction of the CSS Syndrome is the first step in any Preventative Medicine procedure.

As soon as the term "Vitamin C" is discarded in favor of "Ascorbate" when speaking of this missing Human Liver Metabolite, we shall know that some progress has been made in understanding this killer disease.

Editors note: For more information on this subject, I encourage you to visit:

Vitamin C Foundation : MEGASCORBATE THERAPIES http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/

Theses facts are just a sample of the findings from studies done by dedicated doctors searching for the real truth about Mineral Ascorbate (sodium ascorbate as Vitamin C), I encourage you to read as much as you can on this subject.

References:

Stone, The Healing Factor: Vitamin C Against Disease, New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1972

L. Pauling, Cancer and Vitamin C, Menlo Pa rk, Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, 1979

Cathkart, R.F., III, Vitamin C, The Nontoxic, Nonrate Limited, Anti-oxident Free Radical Scavenger, Medical Hypothesis 18: 61-77, 1985