@Wayne - Thank you for posting information about Facebook posts regarding Vitamin C because otherwise I would have missed what has happening on this topic. I rarely log into Facebook anymore because of my dislike of some of their corporate policies re data collection, advertisement, and censorship of user content.
For the ME/CFS community, I thought Dr. Cathcart’s connection to treating patients in the Lake Tahoe area with high doses of Vitamin C, in the 1970’s just ahead of the 1984 outbreak, might be worth taking another look at to see what his experiences might bring to the discussion around Vitamin C being trialed as an anti-viral treatment for COVID-19.. Here are two articles that Dr. Carthart wrote about Vitamin C -
http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html. and
https://vitamincfoundation.org/www.orthomed.com/auto.htm
(Note - Youtube videos with recordings of Dr. Cathcart’s lectures and interviews also contain little gems of information about his clinical observations when treating patients with Vitamin C.)
I also think watching the New Zealand 60 minutes Segment about a farmer who became gravely ill after contracting Swine Flu is worth reviewing. His family fought for intravenous Vitamin C treatment and he believes that this treatment changed the course of his illness and saved his life. I realize that many people have probably watched this video in years past, but it seemed like a good time to resurrect it because the Youtube police may discover it and deem it to be “misinformation” that needs to be censored.
@Wayne - Not sure if you have seen my posts about the W.H.O. talking to Facebook, Google, Youtube etc... to take down “misinformation” about the coronavirus? But when I learned back in January that they were testing intravenous Vitamin C as a possible treatment for some of the severe respiratory problems that can develop from the illness, I figured that censorship of any discussion about this type of “unproven” natural treatment might be on the hit list for “misinformation”. Here is the thread that I am referring to -
https://forums.phoenixrising.me/thr...vid-19-and-misinformation.79199/#post-2260736
I also have spent some time looking at prior Vitamin C studies and it is very interesting to look at the dosing schedule in those studies. It seems to be a common theme that if the study did not produce a positive outcome that the dosing levels were much lower and/or for shorter time periods than what has been reported in individual case studies. This new clinical trial in China might be a game changer, if the higher intravenous dose of 24 grams is given and it is successful in treating the illness. Even though 24 grams per day of intravenous Vitamin C is a large dose, anecdotal evidence re positive treatment outcome of “severely” ill patients is often in the range of 50 to 200 grams per day. So, it will be important to understand the criteria used to select patients for this study.
Here is a study about Liposomal Vitamin C comparing this form of Vitamin C to others forms. There is a disclosed potential conflict of interest because the entity who sponsored the study is also the entity that developed the liposomal Vitamin C used in the study.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4915787/#!po=40.3846
I imagine if intravenous Vitamin C trials in China are successful, other trials for liposomal Vitamin C and powdered or tablet forms of Vitamin C might result in looking at whether lower doses of these forms of Vitamin C could be effective before a patient’s symptoms become severe.
Here is a blog entry, from one of the companies that has a liposomal Vitamin C product, which discusses the hypothesis that aspirin may effect the efficacy of Vitamin C by competing for the same active transporters,.
https://blog.livonlabs.com/wellness/nutrient-and-aspirin-interactions/.
