Approximately 30 years ago, while at a Preventive Medicine meeting in Chicago, I found myself alone in a hospitality suite with Dr. Linus Pauling. Dr. Pauling had been one of my hero’s for a long time, a two time Nobel prize winner, and at that time, the foremost promoter of high dosage Vitamin C therapy. Our conversation changed the way I have practiced since that fateful meeting.

Dr. Pauling told me a lot that day that I really didn’t want to hear. First he said he thought that Chiropractors got a bad reputation for over treatment because they didn’t address the underlying reason for most spinal subluxations/misalignments. He told me that Connective tissue, ligament and tendon specifically, could not be adequately repaired without really sizeable amounts of Vitamin C being available, and if Vitamin C was administered in adequate amounts, multiple spinal manipulations would seldom be required.

Then Dr. Pauling went on to tell me that virtually all animals make copious amounts of Vitamin C and gave examples. One example sticks in my mind. He said that cats made hundreds of milligrams (mg) a day for every pound of body weight, and that was why they seldom experienced sprains and strains when they fell from high places. He also said that the animals that make the most Vitamin C were the healthiest in the animal kingdom, and those that make the least were among the sickest.

Additionally, he told me that Guinea Pigs, the South American Bubal Bat, some species of New World monkeys, and Humans had lost the ability to make Vitamin C. He claimed that a genetic flaw had apparently occurred millennia ago, and all the machinery to make Vitamin C was present in the Liver except the very last enzyme in the manufacturing chain. I wrote down the name, l-Galunolactone oxidase.

He claimed that one of the reasons that humans were susceptible to so many ills, compared to other animals, was this inability to manufacture Vitamin C. He pointed out that although primates that made Vitamin C didn’t make very much, they did make on the average of 1000 mg of Vitamin C every day for every 50 pounds of body weight. I find it to be amazing, that as the years have passed, the doctors that pursue what orthodoxy calls mega-scorbic practice continue to get the kind of results Dr. Pauling described as possible so many years ago, while the remainder continue to hide their heads in the sand.

He was particularly emphatic about the role Vitamin C played in potentizing the immune system response, and emphasized how it can be used to treat everything from the common cold to ear infections. He talked about how adequate Vitamin C slowed down the aging process, and how it works synergistically with other vitamins like Vitamin E so the body can use the Vitamin E over and over. Lastly, he mentioned the work of Dr. Frederick Klenner, of Reidsville, NC, and the scientific papers and books published on the subject that medicine chose to ignore.

Upon arriving back at my practice, I made it a priority to go to the old Clendenning Library at K.U. Medical Center, and after searching through the research literature I learned that Dr. Pauling was right on every single point. I had learned none of this in school, and to this day it isn’t taught in any medical or chiropractic curriculum that I am aware of. If people would take adequate Vitamin C, it would cost the disease care delivery system and the pharmaceutical industry a fortune, and I am convinced that is the reason why the information on Vitamin C isn’t common knowledge.

What can you do to verify this information?

There are still books in print by Frederick Klenner, M.D., in which he shares how he treated everything from poison snake bite to polio with Vitamin C, often by injection. Emanuel Cheraskin, M.D., D.M.D., wrote what some consider the benchmark book on Vitamin C over 15 years ago called The Vitamin C Connection, and it is still available. However, some of the most recent studies are even more amazing, so if you are a KS resident, you can go to the new Archie Dykes library at K.U. Medical Center, on 39^th Street, and ask a librarian for help researching Vitamin C for yourself. It’s a State library, so you pay for this service with your taxes.

What have I learned about Vitamin C over the last thirty plus years?

Dr. Pauling was right. A good rule of thumb for daily supplemental Vitamin C intake is 1000 mg for every 50 pounds of body weight. This is maintenance dosage, and when supplemental Vitamin C is taken daily, the number of colds and general infections experienced is greatly reduced. I have had numerous patients who said they would always get one or two colds a year, and then go eight or ten years without one once Vitamin C was begun at the recommended dosage level. Supplementing your child on Vitamin C will save a lot of missed school time, and make parenting much easier. It is also a smart habit to start when the children are in their formative years.

An orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Robert Cathcart, established that the safe upper limit for Vitamin C intake was consistent with diarrhea and/or painful abdominal gas. This he named the “Cathcart point” or “bowel recognition.” His protocol for ear infections, sore throats, etc., is:

• on day one, take 1000 mg of Vitamin C every hour while awake;
• on day two, take 2000 mg of Vitamin C every hour while awake; and
• on day three, take 3000 mg of Vitamin C every hour while awake.

You do this until the “Cathcart point,” or “bowel recognition” occurs. At this point you stop for the remainder of the day. The following day you reduce dosage to the previous day’s level. You continue that until “recognition” occurs again, and so on until the child’s condition is stable. If your child is having serious immune challenges, it is wise to call the health help hotline number on Tues., Wed., or Thurs. mornings and get specific advice from me. The only side effect established for Vitamin C is diarrhea. Naysayers have postulated a connection between Vitamin C and kidney stones, but I have found no citations in the literature verifying this hypothesis, in fact just the opposite.

It is my opinion that all humans should be supplementing with Vitamin C. Before we stopped making that last enzyme in the manufacturing cycle, humans, like other primates, made substantially larger amounts of Vitamin C than recommended by our present RDA.

Which product will be best for your needs

For the average adult, or child old enough to swallow a larger pill, I recommend Preventics Vitamin C-1000. If broken blood vessels have become a problem, which is often the case in old age when Vitamin C has not been regularly supplemented, I recommend Bio C, which has 50% bioflavonoid content to help stabilize those fragile capillaries. For the children, I like the Ascorbate C Powder. The Ascorbate C Powder can be mixed in juices and the children do not find it objectionable.

In Ester C’s advertising, they compare their product to ascorbic acid. Ester C always comes out looking vastly superior. It should. No quality vitamin manufacturer makes an ascorbic acid vitamin C. Even nature refuses to allow ascorbic acid without combining it with minerals (buffering), because it is too strong an acid.

All Preventics vitamin C products are buffered and contain natural levels of the other members of the vitamin C family, the Bioflavonoids. Especially during cold and flu season, you can trust Preventics Vitamin C products to provide your family with the best that technology can produce. It doesn’t hurt that they cost half of what you will pay for an Ester C.

The solution is prevention, and in that arena your nose mucous is your friend. Nose mucous is loaded with immune cells that protect us from inhaled pathogens, and the CDC says that 90% of all bacteria that invade the body do so through the nose. The advice here is that a runny nose is you friend. Drying up your nose mucous with spray decongestants and antihistamines makes the body much more susceptible to infection. So the latest words from authorities like the Mayo Clinic seem quite contrary to current media advertising and past medical information (misinformation?). To stay healthy, keep your nasal mucous healthy.

In recent tests, about 40% of all adults tested carried Methicillin resistant stapholococcus aureas (MRSA) in their noses. This is the “skin eating” super bug that also causes death by toxic shock and numerous non lethal but debilitating health challenges…and is antibiotic resistant. Many other antibiotic resistant bacteria are carried in the nose and sinuses, but MRSA at this time is the worst of the bunch.

This mess was created by the cavalier use of antibiotics. In a recent clinical study in Switzerland, it was shown that the same treatment we use to reestablish a healthy balanced gut flora after antibiotic use is the same treatment that helps clear these antibiotic resistant bacteria from the nose and sinuses. Probiotics, in our case that would be iFlora, work by triggering the immune cells in your gut to tell the immune cells in your nose to fight off staph, strep and other pathogens. It’s called “distant site effectiveness,” and it is a significant advance in knowledge about how our immune system works. Scientists now believe that the mucosal sites of the body are all connected, and the command center is in the mucous of your small intestine.

Taking antihistamines, decongestants, codeine, and inhaling pollutants can damage cilia, the little nose hairs that move the mucous, and stagnant mucous breeds disease.

Drinking lots of water keeps your nasal mucous fluid, which is what you want. Taking probiotics that help build a healthy gut and reduce “leaky gut syndrome” also help build a healthy nasal mucous. Rinsing your nasal passages with a saline solution by way of a Netti Pot is also very helpful in reestablishing a healthy nasal mucosa. Of course last, but not least, is the use of a superior grade probiotic like iFlora.

• Slows aging by repairing connective tissue;
• Speeds the healing of sprains and strains;
• Boosts immune system;
• Useful in treating colds, ear infections, infections in general;
• Relieves sore muscles and joints; and
• Good source of additional bioflavonoids which prevent tiny blood vessels from breaking easily.

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• Slows aging by repairing connective tissue, e.g., ligaments;
• Boosts immune system; useful as an antihistamine, also useful treating colds, ear infections, infections in general; and
• Relieves sore muscles and joints.

C-1000 is the Vitamin C supplement recommended in Dr. David’s Basic Self-Help Program for all of us who are older than age 11.

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For more on Vitamin C see:

• Why You Need To Supplement Your Diet
• Beating Colds And Flu
• How Much Vitamin C Is Enough For You And Your Child?
• Preventics C-1000 Versus Ester C
• Headline, Today’s Top Ten Stories From The 11/17/08 K.C. Star … More Bad News On Vitamins
• Dangers Of BBQ, What’s The Truth?
• Supplements Reduce The Risk Of Autism

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The news media seems to be captivated by the possibility of a new age viral epidemic. The proposed culprit is HN51, or the avian flu. The possibilities are frightening, given the recent, and hushed up, events in China regarding this deadly virus, and the not quite so recent reports on the Ebola virus.

Both of these viruses jumped species, were never before seen in humans, and produce a conservative fatality rate of 20%. That level of virulence puts the possible outcome expectations at about the level of the last great plague, which wiped out millions of people. Also of some concern, it seems that a great plague hits civilization every hundred years or so, and we’re already overdo. As if all this weren’t bad enough, modern medicine has yet to prove itself able to deal with virtually any new viral disorder.

As we continue to “stir the winds” from a media perspective over this new threat, a possible solution resides in the shadows, un-patentable, and therefore drawing no interest from the medical/pharmaceutical powers that be. That solution may be a blessing to all of us that are aware of it if a viral plague should arrive on wings from the west, as is expected. Let’s talk about colloidal silver.

Colloidal Silver – A Little History

Colloidal silver was a commonly used anti-microbial 100 years ago. Modern antibiotics became popular, in spite of their limited anti-bacterial activity, and because they were patentable, and huge profits possible, they were promoted to the forefront of infectious care. However, with the cavalier prescribing of these antibiotics, antibiotic resistant super germs have taken over many hospitals and present an ever present risk.

Effects and Side Effects

Colloidal silver, to the contrary, is cheap, gentle, and functions as an antibiotic, antiviral, and anti-fungal. It is being researched in depth by a number of medical equipment companies and pharmaceutical companies who are trying to come up with ways to patent its superior anti-microbial action.

Colloidal silver is considered to be non toxic at reasonable dosage. At over dose levels, the silver can accumulate in the skin and cause a permanent discoloration called argyria, and this was common decades ago before antibiotics, when people took huge amounts of colloidal silver, thousands of times stronger than anything available today. Nevertheless, when thinking of colloidal silver, one must always be respectful and aware of the fact that this is a potent, though gentle, antimicrobial. At recommended dosage levels colloidal silver has been proven to be perfectly safe. In my practice, I prefer to treat it as carefully as I would a patented antibiotic when recommending it to my patients, and when used internally I strongly recommend it be taken in conjunction with an effective pro-biotic to replace gut bacteria.

It can be taken internally to combat colds and conditions like Candida (gut yeast overgrowth) as well as other bacterial, viral, and fungal conditions, and at even double and triple recommended dosage it is unusually safe. I like it because it seldom creates any side effects (upset stomach for example), and is gentle enough to be used in a child’s eyes to treat pink eye, or ears to treat an earache. In these cases, one or two drops a couple of times a day is usually sufficient. On skin, for fungal infections, it often produces positive responses when everything else has failed.

Research and Industrial Utilization

Research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown that some resistant strains of bacteria can’t develop with ionic silver the way they do with antibiotics. Reports of any pathogens developing resistance to ionic silver are rare, and more reports keep reaching the literature that indicate that it is effective even against drug resistant strains of super bugs. In a recent report published in Chemical & Engineering News, Nexxion, a company producing silver ion coated catheters, IV needles, and other medical devices stated that, “To date, no pathogens have been able to survive contact with silver.” You read correctly, they said NO PATHOGENS WERE ABLE TO SURVIVE.

Another manufacturer, Covalon, has introduced a silver ion releasing collagen based sheet dressing for wound care. The president of the company is quoted as saying, “In the wound dressing market, silver dressings growth outperforms all others in the category.”

Curad and Johnson & Johnson now have ionic silver impregnated gauze bandages available to the public, and another company, AgION, has stated that today, high tech powder coated finishes are being used in hospitals and doctors offices on walls and counters and other germ-gathering surfaces.

Not Just An Anti-Bacterial

It is important to make the distinction that unlike anti-bacterials, colloidal silver is an anti-microbial. This is important because many diseases that affect us are not bacterial, but viral and fungal, avian flu is but one example.

The FDA and Silver

Don’t expect to hear great things from the FDA on silver. Regulations prohibit disease claims unless the product has been approved as a drug, and no drug company will do the necessary work to get approval for an un-patentable item. Nevertheless, when it comes to intelligent utilization, if you go to magazines like Acres USA, the foremost eco-agricultural magazine in the country, you’ll find many sources for the home manufacture of colloidal silver because organically oriented dairy farmers use it to keep infections down in their herds and cut the cost of expensive antibiotics.

Preventics Coloidal Silver

Our Colloidal Silver comes in a 4 oz. bottle, contains 8 ppm pure colloidal silver powder with 1/2 ounce of Echinacea purpura extract and 3.5 oz of distilled water. The Echinacea helps keep the silver in solution and acts as a soothing vehicle when taken internally. I keep mine refrigerated.

Dosage

I usually recommend one or two drops in infected eyes (for pink eye, etc.) or ears (for ear aches), two or three times a day. It is gentle and will not harm the delicate tissues. I often recommend more than the 1/2 teaspoon recommended on the bottle for internal use. I consider a 1/2 teaspoon three times a day to be well within safety limits, and can be used for Candida control, as well as general infection. I usually suggest putting it in a little water and gargling when taken for colds or flu. Always remember that Colloidal Silver is an anti-microbial and will kill good bacteria as well as bad, and therefore should be taken in conjunction with a good probiotic like i-Flora. For skin fungal problems, a dressing moistened in Colloidal Silver applied to the infected area usually produces excellent results. Additionally dressings that are silver ion impregnated are available at your local pharmacy.