Hi Owen
Looks like I am going to give it a go also. I seldom fail and the chalange is certainly obvious. Time will tell.
In the meantime please assist me with the following question:
Personally I very much believe in Pauling's recommendations. In particular in regard to prevention of heart disease.
As we do live in 2007 and a very new world, I have been asked to explain or comment regarding the difference between potential benefits of receiving oral Vit C by direct drip or straight push infusion of Vit c solution against the Pauling's oral recommendation. In particular I am talking here about existing heart disease patients.
Here is the description for Vit C in solution option available here in Sydney and about which I have been asked to compare and comment. I am sure this question has come up many time before."Vitamin C in a solution (made up of saline or glucose or a combination of both) can be injected either quickly using straight pushes, or more slowly using a drip. With an infusion lasting 5-20 minutes, you can inject doses ranging from 6.25g to 22.5g, while the drips could potentially transfuse up to 100g of Vitamin C in a 30-minute to 2-hour session. The body will not actually hold onto such large doses of Vitamin C; however the goal is to super-saturate tissues with high levels. The excess is excreted in our urine, so it's important to drink water. Tissue saturation cannot be achieved without intravenous dosage.
thanks
G.
Sydney
Australia
This is an excellent question. (If you want to join the forum, you must register, but then you also must send me email with the forum user id you chose. I must activate all new accounts.)
At a high level, we don't consider either the "push" or "slow drip IV" vitamin C to be a viable option for cardiovascular disease, which (remember) is a chronic or low-grade form of scurvy. Providing an ultra-high concentration, e.g. from a Push or Slow Driv IV, is not all that effective for cardiovascular disease because while intense, it is too short lived. We need continuous vitamin C, which mimics ascorbate levels in most other animals.
The best explanation is the Dynamic Flow theory provided by Drs. Hickey/Roberts in their excellent (and must read) book ASCORBATE: The Science of VItamin C (http://www.lulu.com/ascorbate).
Read to understand that vitamin C is continually produced in the livers of other animals, and "flows" through the body continually, much like water. This is called dynamic flow, and we humans can approach this condition with as little as 500 mg every 4 hours.
Now, intense elevated levels of vitamin C may be required to fight cancer. This is explained in another excellent Hickey/Roberts book CANCER: Survival and Nutrition (http://www.lulu.com)
Owen