IV vitamin C found to protect against metabolic syndrome
Score another one for intravenous vitamin C!
I recently told you about some amazing research finding (again) how high-dose IV C is an extraordinary cancer treatment.
Now, a new study has discovered that this therapy can also protect against a condition that millions of Americans suffer from — metabolic syndrome.
Metabolic syndrome puts you right in the crosshairs for diabetes, fatty liver disease, obesity and cancer. And while Big Pharma would love everyone to step right up and start popping its risky drugs, it looks like Mother Nature has a better idea!
Metabolic syndrome isn’t actually a disease itself, but a collection of symptoms that can put your risk of heart disease, diabetes and scores of other illnesses off the charts.
To diagnose you with this condition (which also goes by other names such as syndrome X), your doctor will look for at least three of the following risk factors:
- Excess belly fat,
- Fasting blood glucose over 100 mg/dL,
- High blood pressure,
- High triglycerides, and,
- Low levels of HDL cholesterol (the so-called “good” kind).
As you might have guessed, a lot of people fall under the metabolic syndrome umbrella — around 30 percent of the U.S. population! Plus that, seniors tend to bundle these risk factors at a greater rate — in fact, around four out of ten are expected to be diagnosed with the condition.
Now, for some people, those “lifestyle changes” will be enough. I’m talking about the typical suggestions such as dropping some pounds, getting more exercise, not smoking and, of course, eating better.
But obviously, there’s more to solving this risky riddle than just telling people to lose weight. And that’s where a new study out of the Riordan Clinic in Wichita, Kansas could be a game changer.
Researchers there found that high-dose, IV vitamin C was able to both protect against metabolic syndrome and fight chronic, low-grade inflammation.
While inflammation often stems from an injury or infection, this chronic, low-grade kind can be a killer. And it’s now being recognized as the stepping-stone to many of today’s deadly diseases.
The Riordan researchers pretty much describe vitamin C as the Swiss Army Knife for achieving good health. For example, along with boosting the immune system, lowering histamine in the blood, being antiviral and helping fight diabetes and high blood pressure, in high intravenous doses vitamin C can kill cancer cells.
And now, as they discovered, it also treats metabolic syndrome and inflammation.
Seriously, is there anything vitamin C can’t do?
There’s no doubt that IV C is the most promising treatment around for some very serious ailments. Now, whether it will be “allowed” to make its move into mainstream treatments or not remains to be seen. As I said last month when I told you about how it’s being used to destroy certain cancers, conventional medicine has been attacking it ever since Linus Pauling first told the world about the power of C.
Although IV C is not available everywhere, you can find alternative health clinics that are offering it. And while the doses of vitamin C that have been found to treat cancer and that were used in this new study aren’t effective when given orally, that doesn’t mean taking a vitamin C supplement isn’t a good idea.
Research done a couple of years ago found that simply two 500 mg doses of vitamin C taken daily can significantly cut inflammation in people with diabetes and high blood pressure.
I think it’s high time that vitamin C got the respect it deserves.
And thank goodness, there are now plenty of doctors and scientists who are starting to “C” the light!
“Intravenous high-dose ascorbic acid reduces the expression of inflammatory markers in peripheral mononuclear cells of subjects with metabolic syndrome” Nina Mikirova and Ruth C Scimeca, Journal of Translational Science, oatext.com
