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To her, illness is all about the immune system, no matter what you are sick with.
As far as the IV vitamin C and the blend that the gal puts in her mix, I have seen some wonderful healing going on. My fluoroquinolone friend is just about recovered from the toxicity syndrome. She was diagnosed with CFS just after. Her doctor at the time told her that cipro unleashes viruses in the body and makes them active again. She was homebound and partially bedridden for 4 years. Now she is about 80% recovered depending on remaining issues. It has taken a lot of time, doctors, and care to get where she is now. But the biggest thing that she said helped her was the high dose vitamin C with the cofactors in the mix. I also want to mention, she did NAD IV therapy which was a help too! They are using this a lot on many floxies with partial to full success.
Just a quick update, I had to temporarily stop taking the lipsomal C and IVC due to a gallbladder/liver problem I am being evaluated for.
Hi Shellbell, thanks for your reply. I recently read a comment on a website that proponents of liposomal C caution that if you've been chronically ill, you are much weaker and more toxic than most people, and so any lipo C protocol should be stretched out to accommodate what each person can handle.I think we just pushed my body a little too hard and should have started at lower doses and worked our way up. I have a very toxic liver and haven't been able to do much in cleaning it out since I have been so sensitive to supplements until now. My suggestion would be to keep at it for awhile and see where it takes you.
Having treated numerous patients over several decades and having been mentored by the grand daddies of Orthomolecular Medicine Linus Pauling, PhD and Abram Hoffer MD, PhD, I wish to point out emphatically that there is no more effective treatment regimen intended to eradicate viral presence in the body than megadoses of Vitamin C.
As to the comment above regarding an alleged absence of scientific evidence for megavitamin C therapy, I object your honour. There is tons of evidence published in peer-reviewed journals and available to anyone who would look. Vitamin C is a very potent antioxidant useful in many illnesses. Starting with Dr. Frederick Klenner in the 1930′s, who prevented the death of a small child from a snakebite (Mocassin viper, Kansas) with huge iv doses of sodium ascorbate, there have been many lives saved and fortunes changed.Read Norman Cousins The Anatomy Of An Illness and ask a recovered viral meningitis patient saved from certain death.