IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT VITAMINS ARE HARMFUL, PLEASE READ THIS.

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IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT VITAMINS ARE HARMFUL, PLEASE READ THIS.

 

Copyright 2003 by Andrew W. Saul. Reproduction prohibited without the author's

advance permission in writing.

 

There is not even one death per year from vitamin supplements.

 

However, there are over 100,000 deaths from pharmaceutical drugs each year in

the USA, even when taken as prescribed. (Lucian Leape, Error in medicine.

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1994, 272:23, p 1851. Also: Leape

LL. Institute of Medicine medical error figures are not exaggerated. JAMA. 2000

Jul 5;284(1):95-7.)

 

Do not be buffaloed and do not be bullied. If someone tries to scare you from

taking vitamins, ask to see the scientific papers that they base such a warning

on. Assuming that the vitamin critic actually respects you enough to honor your

request and produce such documents, here's how to spot bias in a scientific

study:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/antivitamin.html

 

IF YOU ARE ASKED FOR YOUR REASONS FOR TAKING VITAMINS, here are references that

will support you:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/bibliography.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_dishinger.html

 

Scroll further down this page for a lengthy list of physicians whose writings

will back you up.

 

IF YOU ARE TAKING MEDICATION:

 

It is rare that a vitamin will negatively interact with a medication.

 

On the other hand, it is common for a medication to create an actual vitamin

deficiency. To find out, check in the Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR), which is

freely available at any library. Read up on your medication, paying special

attention to any drug-nutrient interactions. Base you decision on facts, not a

person's opinion or belief.

 

IF YOU ARE ON CHEMOTHERAPY:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/chemo.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/riordan2.html

 

IF YOU ARE HOSPITALIZED:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hospitals.html

 

IF YOU NEED INTRAVENOUS VITAMIN C:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/strategies.html

 

IF YOU NEED HELP NEGOTIATING WITH YOUR DOCTOR:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/naturedoc.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/fire.html

 

IF YOU NEED HELP FINDING A DOCTOR:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/subcontractor.html

 

PHYSICIAN AUTHORS THAT CLEARLY STATE, " VITAMINS ARE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE " :

 

Here's what highly qualified and experienced medical doctors, that have used

megavitamins for decades, have to say about the safety of vitamin megadoses:

 

Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_factoids.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_editorial.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_cancer_2.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/cancer_hoffer.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_vitc_can.html

 

Ewan Cameron, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/cameron.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_cameron.html

 

Robert F. Cathcart, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/cathcart_thirdface.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_cathcart.html

 

Emannuel Cheraskin, M.D., D.M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/books_cheraskin.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_cheraskin.html

 

Frederick R. Klenner, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klenner_table.html

 

William Kaufman, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/kaufman2.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/kaufman3.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/JOM1.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_kaufman.html

 

Thomas Levy, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/levy.html

 

William J. McCormick, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/mccormick.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/mccormick1951.html

 

Hugh D. Riordan, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/riordan1.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_riordan.html

 

Wilfrid Shute, M.D. and Evan Shute, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_shute.html

 

Lendon Smith, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/smith1.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_lsmith.html

 

Walt Stoll, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/stoll.html

 

Carl C. Pfeiffer, M.D., Ph.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_pfeiffer_ed.html

 

Hans A. Nieper, M.D.:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_nieper.html

 

You will likely discover that very few vitamin naysayers " have the time " to

discuss the work of the physicians listed above. That is precisely why you have

the responsibility to read it. Be prepared.

 

IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD NOT TO TAKE VITAMIN A, please read this:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/fatigue.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/antioxidants.html

 

IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD NOT TO TAKE NIACIN OR NIACINAMIDE (Vitamin B-3), please

read this:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/niacin.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_niacin.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_cardio.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/review_hoffer_B3.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_psychosis.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/psychiatry.html

 

IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD NOT TO TAKE ANY OF THE OTHER B-VITAMINS, please read this:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_paradigm.html

 

IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD NOT TO TAKE VITAMIN C, please read this:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitaminc.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitaminc2.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/ortho_c.html

 

ABOUT " OBJECTIONS " TO VITAMIN C MEGADOSES

 

In massive doses, vitamin C (ascorbic acid) stops a cold within hours, stops

bronchitis in a day, and stops viral pneumonia (pain, fever, cough and the lot)

in two days. It is a highly effective antihistamine, antiviral and antibiotic.

It is an antitoxin and it reduces inflammation and lowers fever. Your doctor may

not believe this, but it is not a matter of belief. It is a matter of

experience. Once you see it happen repeatedly, you know it to be true.

 

Many people therefore wonder, in the face of statements like these, why the

medical professions have not embraced vitamin C therapy with open and grateful

arms. The reason is this: Many studies that claimed to " test " vitamin

effectiveness were designed to disprove it.

 

You can set up any experiment to fail.

 

One way to ensure failure is to make a meaningless test. A meaningless test is

assured if you make the choice to use inappropriate administration of

insufficient quantities of the substance to be investigated.

 

If you shoot beans at a charging rhinoceros, you are not likely to influence the

outcome. If I were to give every homeless person I met on the street 25 cents, I

could easily prove that money will not help poverty. If a nutrition study uses

less than 20,000 or 30,000 milligrams of vitamin C, it is unlikely to show any

antihistamine, antibiotic and antiviral benefit whatsoever.

 

That is because you have to give enough to get the job done.

 

The public and their doctors look to scientific researchers to test and confirm

the efficacy of any nutritional therapy. As long as such research as is done

uses piddling little doses of vitamins, doses that are invariably too small to

work, megavitamin therapy will be touted as " unproven. "

 

" As evidence of the value of nutrients, especially vitamin C... becomes more and

more evident to the public, researchers produce a mass of articles on minute

aspects of vitamin C. I have been consulted by many researchers who proposed

bold studies of the effects of massive doses of ascorbate. Every time the

university center, the ethics committee, the pharmacy committee, etc. deny

permission for the use of massive doses of ascorbate and render the study almost

useless. Seasoned researchers depending upon government grants do not even try

to study adequate doses. All of this results in a massive accumulation of

knowledge about very little which gives the impression that there is no more of

real importance to be learned. This accumulation of minutia hides the great

effects of ascorbate already known by some... As you read these learned papers,

you will realize that they seem to be completely unaware of the uses of massive

doses of ascorbate. One of the most amusing aspects of this

research are the speculations and research into the toxicity and other adverse

reactions of tiny doses of ascorbate when many have used for years 20 to 100

times the amounts being discussed. " (from " Delay by Intellectualization, " by

Robert Cathcart, M.D. http://www.orthomed.com Reprinted with permission.)

 

Probably the main roadblock to widespread examination and utilization of this

all-too-simple technology is the equally widespread belief that there MUST be

unknown dangers to tens of thousands of milligrams of ascorbic acid. Yet, since

the time megascorbate therapy was introduced in the late 1940's by Fred R.

Klenner, M.D. (links to his work are posted above), and right up to today as

used by physicians such as Dr. Cathcart, there has been a surprisingly safe

track record and an even more surprisingly effective track record to follow.

 

Several mistakenly-believed " side effects " of vitamin C have been found to be

completely mythical. According to a NIH report published in the Journal of the

American Medical Association (April 21, 1999), NONE of the following problems

are caused by taking " too much vitamin C " :

 

Allegations of Hypoglycemia

 

Allegations of Rebound scurvy

 

Allegations of Infertility

 

Allegations of Destruction of vitamin B-12

 

Safety and effectiveness have always been and should always be the benchmark for

any therapeutic program. When one considers that even the AMA admits to over

100,000 Americans dying annually from routine administration of prescription

drugs, I think we need to consider anew the merits of truly large doses of

vitamin C.

 

IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD NOT TO TAKE VITAMIN D, please read this:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/werbach.html

 

IF YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD NOT TO TAKE VITAMIN E, please read this:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/estory.htm

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitamin_e.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/shute_protocol.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_shute.html

 

" There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof

against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting

ignorance. That principle is condemnation without investigation. " (Herbert

Spencer)

 

Copyright C 2003 and prior years Andrew W. Saul, Number 8 Van Buren Street,

Holley, New York 14470 USA.

 

 

 

 

Andrew Saul, PhD

 

 

 

 

 

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