Linus Pauling Vitamin C Symposium, Feb, 2021

I enjoyed a Linus Pauling Institute Webcast on Vitamin C 2/27/21  – 120th birthday of Linus Pauling; he coined the term orthomolecular medicine;

Anitra Carr, NZ prof, Univ of Otago, [she takes 500mg vitamin C twice a day!] spoke on vit C and cardiovascular disease; VIT C is essential for proper epigenetic markings; an infusion bag for cancer treatment has 70g vitamin C; under 10g is not sufficient; much better survival from cancer when given IV vit C; pneumonia is deadly unless people get lots of vitamin C; VIT C also reduces sepsis; critically ill sepsis patients require 3g vit C per day; WHO says high Vit C may be used to treat COVID; People with 500mg twice a day serum levels reduce mortality from infections like COVID and sepsis by 50%; stroke reduced 50%, colon cancer reduced 50%, diabetes occurs 80% less, heart disease 60% less; iv vit C reduces pain and fatigue from fibromyalgia; Jeanne Drisko, U Kansas is doing a clinical trial on bladder cancer trial; vit C at high levels such as TRIUMPH produces in the bladder is a prodrug; it turns into the end drug hydrogen peroxide, which kills cancer; higher doses are anti-infective as well as anti-cancer;  Alpha Fowler III VA commonwealth Univ, spoke on sepsis and vit C; see Fowler, 2019 JAMA; 50mg/kg every 6 hrs for 96hrs, death reduced to just 3% vs 23% in those not treated; iv patients had 6mM vit C in serum vs 1microM in controls; Maret Traber, of LPI, spoke about VIT C and metabolic syndrome; metabolic syndrome correlates with low vit C; low vitamin C primes people to develop metabolic syndrome, which primes people to develop sepsis and for COVID. How vitamin C works – inflammation from aging and infection generates free radicals. If well nourished, those radicals go to vit E, then to vit C, then to glutathione, and then are harmlessly removed.  Without good nutrition, those radicals cause cancer, heart disease, decline.

Fibromyalgia: https://nutritioninvestigator.org/fibromyalgia

Disease index: https://nutritioninvestigator.org/indexdisease