Good evening. I am quite intrigued by your book. I wanted to know if you know of any doctors in the New York area that I could contact to monitor me while taking the vitamin protocol.
Also, I read on line a comment that the amount needed should be calculated based on weight. Is that correct and what would be the calculation?
I read that after 2000 mg of vitamin c it just passes out of the system through urine. Is this a concern?
Is Tower the best place to buy these supplements? How do I know exactly what to buy?
Looking forward to hearing from you soon as I am eager to begin.
Thank you.
Howard
The way to begin is to go to a drug store and purchase a good vitamin C and lysine, e.g. Nature's Made, as 500 mg pills. You will need to work up to 10 pills of each daily (if you have a therapeutic need according to Linus Pauling). Here is a link to help people get started on the protocol: http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=11577
johnwen (long ago) noticed that the anti-cardio vascular disease effect, was based on dosage, as he himself regressed on his wife's dosage (if memory serves). So he created a calculation and table to provide the MINIMUM target. Table and calculations in this post
http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7593
As far as passing vitamin C out in the urine. The answer is that you hope this happens when you take vitamin C.! A lot of people cannot absorb it into the blood stream as it passes through the digestive tract, so it moves down uselessly to the rectum and causes diarrhea. (The vitamin C must enter the blood stream in order to be expelled in the urine.)
For vitamin C that enters the blood stream, yes we are designed to expel vitamin C as its half life in the blood is 30 minutes. Linus Pauling and Steve Hickey have written books about how this works, but I think it is instructive to think of most other animals that make vitamin C 24/7 in their livers (or kidneys). Their blood is flooded with the vitamin all day long, and they are constantly expelling it.
And they do not get heart disease. We on the other hand, must eat it, and our authorities tell us we only need a ridiculously low amount.
The doctor question is sensitive. A doctor may wish to help you, but with the forces there are "protecting" the medical profession, unless he/she is a tenured medical school professor, he is likely to lose his job, hospital privileges or be taken to a state medical board.