Hi Owen,
For a diabetic, would liposomal vitamin C would be more effective? and is there an upper limit for liposomal Vitamin C?
Why does Dr Sydney Bush only recommend Sodium ascorbate?
Thanks in advance!
What kind of diabetic? Type I or Type 2?
See http://whale.to/a/smith.htmlType 2 diabetic.
The Our Diabetes Deception paper provides the information you need to understand that fats, and in particular, trans fats, ultimately "clog" glucose entry into cells. Eating fats leaves high sugar levels in the bloodstream, which is diagnosed as "diabetes."
When sugars cannot enter your cells, vitamin C suffers the same fate and cannot enter cells.
The problem is that cells need glucose for energy, healing and growth. So cutting back on sugar hides the symptom of elevated blood sugar, but does nothing to get glucose and vitamin C into cells.
Type 2 is an "insulin disturbance" and both Smith and Medical Medium explain that fats are the ultimate culprit that keeps sugar (and thus vitamin C) from entering cells.
So following Smith's fat abstinence protocol that he provides in DIABETES DECEPTION will slowly improve the cell membrane issue that is blocking glucose (and vitamin C) from entering cells.
Also when you are again taking "healthy fats," do so at one meal of the day, usually dinner. That way the fats should be out of the bloodstream by the morning when you can take in your glucose; e.g., from fruit in a healthy fruit smoothie.
I'd recommend adding our new Cardio-C XM (w/glucose) to the morning smoothies.
Any form of vitamin C should be fine, once your cells open up to absorbing glucose again. However, if you are married to eating lots of fat, and still suffering an insulin "disturbance" then, yes, in theory, a liposomal form might be able to enter the cells without the help of insulin. Upper limit is not known, at least by me.
It turns out that while ascorbic acid was used and recommended by Pauling, Linus did add some sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) to his daily 18,000 mg of ascorbic acid. We discovered that ascorbic acid enters the blood stream rapidly, in as little as 3 minutes, at least on an empty stomach. But apparently there are a sufficient number of people who have stomach trouble with ascorbic acid, that have a better experience taking vitamin C as sodium ascorbate.