The FDA has decided to put countless lives at risk--a blind bureaucracy at work!

In memory of Lily

It was a beautiful summer afternoon here in Baltimore a couple years back. The kind of day you wouldn’t normally remember. But that day left an indelible mark on me.

You see, I was visiting a friend when her mother, Kathy, offered to give me a tour of her flower garden. When we rounded the corner of her house we came upon an area set apart from the rest of the garden. It was filled with lilies. While admiring the large blooms I noticed a small metal plaque almost hidden among the flowers. The inscription read: “In memory of Lily”

Who was Lily?

Kathy paused and looked down. When she looked up, tears were welling in her eyes. She cleared her throat and told me that Lily was her granddaughter who had died at age two.

Lily was a victim of sepsis, a condition that occurs when a blood borne bacterium overwhelms the immune system. In advanced cases, septic shock causes organ failure.

To this day, whenever I read research about sepsis, I think of Lily and her garden. Even though I never knew her, it’s heartbreaking to imagine this lovely, happy little girl, robbed of her life and the family that mourns her loss every day.

Sadly, sepsis is common among infants because their immune systems are still developing. The elderly are also at high risk.

Whenever sepsis is a suspected diagnosis, antibiotics are required immediately. But a new animal study from Canada shows that vitamin C is very effective in treating sepsis.

Dr. Spreen sent me the information about this study with a note: “Fred Klenner discovered (and used, and tried to publicize) the use of IVC for just this purpose 80 years ago, and it’s been used by Robert Cathcart, MD, R. Glenn Green, MD, Linus Pauling, PhD, and others ever since. Klenner found that a high enough dose of IVC will kill ANY pathogenic organism.”

IVC, of course, is intravenous vitamin C, also known as IAA (intravenous ascorbic acid).

One of the Canadian researchers summed up IAA’s key benefits for Life Extension Newsletter: “Vitamin C is cheap and safe. Previous studies have shown that it can be injected intravenously into patients with no side effects. It has the potential to significantly improve the outcome of sepsis patients world-wide. This could be especially beneficial in developing countries where sepsis is more common and expensive treatments are not affordable.”

Ironically, U.S. citizens may soon have to travel to a developing country to receive IAA treatments.

As I mentioned in my e-mail to you last week, simple-minded FDA bureaucrats have decided that IAA should be classified as a drug. Of course, it’s clearly NOT a drug, so no company has gone through the rigorous and expensive process of filing an IAA drug application with the agency.

In effect, the FDA is moving toward a complete ban of IAA in a completely misguided effort to “protect” you from this unproven “drug.”

We are at serious risk of losing a safe, natural, inexpensive treatment that’s been successfully used to cure cancer, encephalitis, measles, dangerously advanced cases of the flu, and other conditions.

As for sepsis, the widespread availability of IAA is critical right now because the number of deaths linked to septic shock has DOUBLED over the past 20 years. This is due, in part, to growing antibiotic resistance and immune systems that have been compromised by greater and greater use of powerful prescription drugs.

And while the very young and the elderly are most vulnerable, anyone at any age can fall victim.

Just when I finished reading about the Canadian study, a friend told me a heart-wrenching story about a young couple he knows. They recently adopted a three-month-old girl. Just two months after they took her home, the wife went into the hospital for a hip replacement surgery. As part of her regimen she was given steroids, a treatment that increases sepsis risk. She soon developed an infection that raged out of control. Twelve days after going into the hospital, she died. She was 41 years old.

And this is the sort of tragedy that will be allowed to happen again and again, thanks to a small bunch of goose-stepping FDA officials and their devotion to their clueless bureaucracy.

There’s still time to stop the FDA’s ban of IAA. Let them know we need access to this very safe and extremely effective treatment for sepsis — so that no other family has to bury a 2-year-old, and infants won’t have to grow up never knowing their moms.

Source:
“Vitamin C could improve sepsis outcome” Life Extension Foundation Newsletter, 11/23/10, lef.org