Vitamin Safety

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Vitamin Safety

 

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.