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Comments by Dr. Robert Cathcart.

 

 

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Study: Vitamin C Pills Linked To Artery Clogging

These are ultrasound studies that show, if we can believe it,

thickening of the walls of the carotid arteries. Maybe this is the

muscle layer around the artery. Arteries carry blood at high

pressures and thin some as we age. Maybe, this thickening as a sign

of the strengthening of the artery wall. I will have to see more

details of this study to know. There has been absolutely no clinical

evidence of this. I have put over 25,000 patients on high doses

(2,000 to 300,000 mg/day) of C since 1969 and there has been no sign

of increasing arteriosclerosis is any of them as far as I know. If

this report is true as headlined, my practice should be full of

patients with arteriosclerosis of the brain. Remember that the drug

companies want to put a bad rap on vitamin C. As the public accepts

vitamin C more and more, there will have to be more scare stories put

out to prevent the decrease in sales of DRUGS.

One very subtile fact is that by scare tactics arguing over 500 mg

doses of vitamin C, they completely hide the fact that to get

dramatic cures of some diseases it takes 50 to 200 grams or more

(50,000 to 200,000 mg or more) of vitamin C. The amazing thing is

that these huge doses do not cause these troubles but they keep us

worrying about a pitiful 1/2 gram or 500 mg. Really.