Mega-Dose Vitamin C: Background

I got the idea for my Mega-Dose Vitamin C Recipe from a Palo Alto, California health-oriented group that meets monthly. The group is called the Smart Life Forum. One of the people who attends the monthly meetings is Robert Cathcart, a renown Vitamin C expert.

My Recipe -- which came from the group -- basically follows Cathcart's paper Vitamin C, Titrating to Tolerance. This paper says basically that the sicker you are, the more ascorbic acid that you can tolerate per day. My own experience corroborates that notion.

Personally, since 5 or 6 years ago, when I cleaned up my lifestyle, I have rarely gotten sick. A year can pass without me getting sick. And me getting sick more than once in a year pretty much doesn't happen anymore.

I think that is because of my healthy lifestyle, including the food I eat, how I supplement, my exercise regimen, how much time I spend in the sun, and so on.

When I do get sick, it starts in one of two ways. EIther I get a tickle at the base of my throat, or the lymph nodes under my jaw start to swell.

As soon as I notice these symptoms, I start the mega-dose Vitamin C protocol described in my Recipe. What happens thereafter is nothing much. That is, symtoms of my illness are so muted I can hardly tell I'm fighting anything off.

For example, if it's a cold I'm fighting off, I don't cough and my nose stays clear enough to breathe through. The way I can even tell I have a cold is that my body feels a little colder than normal.

The key to this is starting the Vitamin C protocol as soon as the early symptoms appear. What I gather from the Smart Life Forum group is that, when it comes to an infection, Vitamin C acts like ammunition for our immune system.

More specifically, ascorbic acid donates electrons. Infections are electron scavengers (like free radicals). Vitamin C holds them at bay giving our immune system time to kill them off.

If that describes the modality, that would help explain why you need to start the protocol early. Bacteria and viruses multiply rapidly. If your immune system is unable to hold them off, and they have a chance to multiply exponentially, then the job of getting rid of the infection is much harder.

It's possible then that this oral ascorbic acid crystal protocol may not be so effective for advanced infections. Maybe for those, protocols like intravenous sodium ascorbate, or rectal insufflation of ozone would be helpful.

But I'm not a doctor. And as I've mentioned, the few and far between illnesses I have experienced during this millenia have never advanced far enough for me to try these more advanced protocols.

Part of me hopes that I do get really sick sometime so I can try these out. I'm nervous about avian flu becoming human transmissible and remaining highly lethal. I'd hate to get bird flu and then have to rely on advanced protocols in which I haven't yet developed a confidence from personal experience.

Oh well. I'm not going to start complaining because I just don't get sick enough.