Explanation of how Massive Doses of Ascorbate Cures Acute Viral Diseases

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Explanation of how Massive Doses of Ascorbate Cures Acute Viral Diseases from

Colds to Polio and Lassa Fever, Etc., Distemper and Kennel Fever

 

 

-- ----- Robert F. Cathcart,M.D. ----- ---

Allergy, Environmental, and --- ----- Orthomolecular Medicine ----- -------

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Explanation of how Massive Doses of Ascorbate Cures Acute Viral Diseases from

Colds to Polio and Lassa Fever, EBOLA. Etc., Distemper and Kennel Fever

Robert F. Cathcart, III, M.D. Allergy, Environmental, and Orthomolecular

Medicine 127 Second Street, Los Altos, California 94022, USA Telephone

650-949-2822

 

It is necessary first to understand a few facts:

Free radicals are molecules that have lost an electron and they are very

reactive because they want an electron in the worst way

When ascorbate gives up 2 electrons to neutralize 2 free radicals, it becomes

dehydroascorbate.

Dehydroascorbate has a half-life in the body of only a few minutes.

If the dehydroascorbate is not rereduced (given back its electrons) back to

ascorbate by the mitochondria in a few minutes, it is irreversibly lost.

White cells need a little ascorbate in order to kill viruses, bacteria,

parasites, fungi, cancer cells, etc.

When mitochondria are damaged, they are unable to provide the electrons to

rereduce the dehydroascorbate back to ascorbate.

These damaged mitochondria produce free radicals.

Free radicals turn on antibodies.

 

Almost everyone has had the experience of feeling like they were catching a cold

in the evening but then woke up the next morning feeling fine. What has

happened here is that the white cells have primarily killed all the viruses.

 

However, if you wake up the next morning and realize you will be sick with a

cold for the next week to 10 days, what has happened is that the viruses have

damaged enough mitochondria that have produced enough free radicals to oxidize

all the vitamin C in the nose and throat. This complete oxidation of all of the

vitamin C in these tissues I named " acute induced scurvy. " This does not mean

that you have scurvy all over the body but you do have it in the nose and

throat. Therefore, the white cells cannot kill the viruses in the nose and

throat and you will be ill until the antibodies get their act together and that

usually takes a week to 10 days. However, in the meantime, this acute induced

scurvy may spread into the bronchial tubes, sinuses, ears, etc., and result in

some bacteria taking advantage of the situation and cause bronchitis, sinusitis,

or otitis media or even worse like pneumonia, etc.

 

The antibodies are our backup system. Without them we would probably die of

even a cold.

 

If a person takes moderate doses of vitamin C, they may prevent the acute

induced scurvy from spreading into the lungs, sinuses, or ears but usually these

lower doses will not bring the cold to a sudden end. However, if massive doses

of ascorbic acid by mouth or sodium ascorbate by vein are used and this forces a

reducing redox potential (forces a high concentration of electrons) onto the

diseased tissue in the nose and throat, the white cells come out fighting mad

and destroy the viruses. It does not matter that the disease is moderately

advanced, if sufficient C is used to force that reducing redox potential onto

the diseased tissues, the cold will be shortly terminated.

 

 

Polio

Fred Klenner, M.D., in 1949, described curing 60 cases of polio in the epidemic

of 1948. There was no paralysis.

 

Polio is a brief viral disease just like the common cold except that it puts out

a free radical toxin that destroys anterior horn cells in the spinal canal.

This causes paralysis. This will not happen if enough ascorbate is forced into

the diseased tissues sufficient to destroy all the free radicals. Meanwhile,

the ascorbate carries enough electrons all over the body to neutralize all the

free radicals, restore the vitamin C to the primarily affected tissues so that

the white cells come out fighting mad and destroy all the viruses.

 

 

Lassa Fever

Imagine a disease toxic enough to destroy 500 grams/24 hours of ascorbate.

This would result in acute induced scurvy all over the body. There would be

bleeding from every orifice, The gums would bleed; all the internal organs

would bleed; and death would shortly result. Except, if intravenous sodium

ascorbate saturated all the affected tissues with C, neutralizing all the acute

induced scurvy, the white cells would come out fighting mad and destroy all the

viruses.

 

 

Etc.

Any disease that damages mitochondria causes the release of massive amounts of

free radicals. These result in acute induced scurvy in the affected tissues.

Etc. ..............enough ascorbate to restore a reducing redox potential,

etc..................white cells come out fighting mad....etc.

 

 

Kennel Fever and Distemper

There is a brilliant veterinarian in San Jose, CA, Wendell Belfield, D.V.M., who

for years has been curing kennel fever and distemper in dogs with intravenous

sodium ascorbate. Imagine a 500 gram disease which destroys far more vitamin C

than the dog can produce. This puts him in the same position as humans who

cannot produce vitamin C as most other animals can. (Man, monkeys, guinea pigs,

African fruit eating bats and a few birds do not make ascorbate.) Belfield just

hocks them up to intravenous sodium ascorbate and they are well in a few days.

He forces enough ascorbate to restore a reducing redox potential,

etc..................white cells come out fighting mad....etc.

 

 

Summary

In all these cases, the vitamin C is primarily being thrown away for the

electrons it carries. We are saturating the tissues involved in the disease

with electrons, forcing a reducing redox potential on those tissues. This

threshold dosing destroys all the free radicals in the affected tissues.

 

These doses are far in excess of anything that has been imagined for vitamin C

in the past. The usual doses of vitamin C rely upon the mitochondria providing

the electrons to rereduce the dehydroascorbate back to ascorbate.

Unfortunately, when a patient is sick, the free radicals produced by the disease

damaging mitochondria in the affected tissues, use up the electrons provided by

all the free radical scavenging nutrients (vitamin C, vitamin E, beta carotene,

etc.) in the body in a few minutes. These electrons must be continuously

provided by the mitochondria. When the mitochondria are damaged, they not only

cannot supply the electrons but become the source of large amounts of free

radicals.

 

The doses necessary for this purpose of curing acute diseases have nothing to do

with how much vitamin C other animals make. It certainly has nothing to do with

the so-called RDA. We can make more vitamin C in our chemical plants than a dog

can in his liver. We just have to have the intelligence to know how to use

these massive doses.