I hope it's all true

Interesting book, majority of the text is composed of accounts of two MDs, Klenner and Cathcart, who spent their careers reversing and curing several infectious diseases considered 'incurable' such as polio and hepititis with high dose intravenous administration of vitmain c, coupled with bowel tolerance oral dosing.

The amounts of vitamin c these MDs used was astronomical. We are talking about 100-30g per day IV coupled with upto hundreds of grams per day orally.

The premise behind it is that humans are one of only a few species on earth that don't manufacture vitamin c endogenously (most animals radically increase the amount of vitamin c their bodies produce in response to a stressor (intrusion by a pathogen, injury etc), and that supplying huge amounts of vitamin c during infection can basically eliminate most infectous pathogens, most of the time.

While Levy asserts that the book has 1200 scientific references throughout the book, none of them support the practises in the book, rather, they indicate that vitamin c improves health parameters in conditions of disease at moderate doses (~500mg-3g/day) and that higher doses may have a larger effect. Of course, none of the studies actually use oral bowel tolerance dosing (what Levy terms 'optidosing') or the amounts of vitamin c intravenously that he says will cure incurable disease states, so we are left to base our beliefs on the accounts of Klenner and Cathcart's practice.

I should add, that if Klenner and Cathcart's beliefs about vitamin c can be validated by studies that duplicate their dosing parameters, the implications are outstanding. Vitamin c could potentially have the power to replace antibiotics and antivirals (insert consipracy theory of this being the reason the medical establishment hasn't looked at work by MD's such as Klenner and Cathcart).


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An exceptional book on Vitamin C

Dr. Levy did his undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins, studied medicine at Tulane and wound up teaching cardiology at Tulane. Then, to paraphrase his words, he began to think about what he was doing, and has written some truly exceptional books about medicine, which I have seen leave a DDS in awe.

One of the controversies in medicine is what use(s) Vitamin C is good for. Hardly any general practicioners use it, and many people in the realm of "alternative medicine" who talk about unknown therapies are flakes. Dr. Levy has brought light into this matter by painstakingly compiling a summary of all the studies published on its use.

I heartily recommend this book to anyone who feels he or she may become sick in the next 10 years.



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This is not what I thought

This is basically Levy's "term paper" on Vitamin C.

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