Mainstream cancer docs sing praises of high-dose C
Is the power to cure cancer not only within our reach, but here right now?
Just last month I told you about how a doctor in Virginia is using high-dose, intravenous vitamin C to cure devastating sepsis infections that would ordinarily be fatal.
But researchers at the University of Iowa’s Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, which uses conventional therapies to fight cancer, have now added IVC to their arsenal. And that’s begun to give the benefits of this often-ignored alternative treatment new recognition by mainstream medicine.
The treatments are part of carefully set up clinical trials involving patients suffering from a deadly type of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer. Both are cancers for which treatments have improved very little in the past 20 or 30 years.
The researchers have finished the first phase of the trials and published the results, saying that IVC may “change the landscape of how these diseases are treated.”
Could this age-old natural remedy actually turn out to be one of those “magic bullets” that Big Pharma has spent so much money, time and energy trying to create in its laboratories?
The life-saving powers of vitamin C were actually discovered three centuries ago, long before the era of modern medicine.
That was when a British doctor found that lime juice taken on a daily basis could prevent sailors on long voyages from developing scurvy, which was causing so many to suffer an agonizing death. (In fact, that’s where the nickname “limeys” originated.)
So it should perhaps come as no surprise that this vitamin might have other curative powers. Especially when given at high doses directly into the bloodstream.
When claims about the cancer-fighting ability of C were made by the late Nobel Laureate Dr. Linus Pauling a few decades ago, they were widely discredited. And to disprove his ideas, high oral doses of the vitamin were tested — and simply swallowing mega-amounts isn’t all that effective against cancer because the body’s metabolism only allows a limited amount of it to enter the blood.
When delivered intravenously, however, the effect is completely different.
Participants in the latest trial, while receiving both radiation and chemo, were also given three IV infusions of vitamin C a week for two months followed by two infusions each week for the next seven months. And all the while, they continued to get chemo.
The IVC therapy, noted assistant professor of radiation oncology Bryan Allen, who co-authored the study, was shown to be extremely well-tolerated and “may significantly improve patient outcomes.”
The researchers, however, didn’t stop there, but conducted experiments to help them understand the mechanism that makes high-dose vitamin C toxic to cancer cells. What they revealed is that the vitamin interacts with excess free iron generated in tumors, but which does not occur in healthy cells.
Those “flaws” in cancer cells, they found, are what make IVC so effective in zapping them!
As I mentioned at the beginning of this year when I told you about some earlier findings at the Holden Cancer Center, when vitamin C breaks down it produces hydrogen peroxide and other free radicals that can either kill the cancer cells outright or make them more vulnerable to the effects of radiation and chemo.
And, unlike cancer drugs, the side effects of the vitamin C infusions were minimal, consisting mainly of increased urination, dry mouth, and in some cases, a very temporary increase in blood pressure.
There’s no doubt that what these Holden researchers are finding may be the key to moving IVC into the mainstream of cancer care — despite how Big Pharma must be fuming about the respectability it gives this natural and relatively inexpensive treatment.
But in the meantime, many alternative practitioners are already administering the therapy to cancer patients all over the country.
To find a doctor who may be using IVC right now, go to our Find a Doc page (hsionline.com/findadoc) of alternative and natural practitioners and select your state from the list.
“High-dose vitamin C proves safe and well-tolerated in brain and lung cancer trials” Jennifer Brown, March 30, 2017, Iowa Now, now.uiowa.edu
