Curing the Incurable: Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins

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Curing the Incurable: Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins

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Brilliant 5 star+, 2008-01-14
Brilliant book on a few levels--one, it completely kills the lie, stone dead, that all alternative medicine is quackery, and exposes the allopaths suppression of this life saving medicine for over 50 years, and secondly it kills the fear of infectious disease, and leads on to the vitamin C cure for heart disease, cot-death prevention and treatment of numerous other diseases.

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A Remarkable Medicine Has Been Overlooked, 2007-12-16
Curing the Incurable, Vitamin C, Infectious Disease and Toxins by Thomas E Levy MD JD

Written with an eloquent flowing style, this book makes the case for Vitamin C as a remarkable medicine that has been overlooked by the medical establishment. Although the crowning achievement of modern medical science is the invention of antibiotics which cures bacterial infections, we have no antibiotics effective for acute viral illness.

Dr. Levy says this is incorrect because Vitamin C is a curative "antibiotic" for viral diseases when used properly in high enough dosage by IM or IV route.

Dr. Levy's book makes a number of points:

1) Vitamin C is not really a vitamin needed in trace amounts, it is needed in large amounts as a co-factor in oxidation-reduction reactions in the cellular biochemistry.

2) All animals, with the exception of primates, have the enzymes to make their own vitamin C. They do not need to consume Vitamin C in their diet, they make their own.

3) All humans (and primates) lack this final enzyme for the manufacture of vitamin C, and therefore we must consume Vit C in our diet. We have a genetic deficiency in GLO gulano-lactone-oxidase, the final step for the manufacture of vitamin C.

4) Because of this genetic defect, we all have a subclinical Vitamin C deficiency making us more susceptible to infectious diseases.

5) The 60 mg dosage RDA for vitamin C is adequate to prevent scurvy but is insufficient for optimal health.

6) Adequate human "Opti-Doses" of vitamin C based on animal studies is in the range of 3-5 grams per day, and this requirement increases during periods of stress or infection.

7) IV or IM Vitamin C in the appropriate dosage ranges has been clinically proven to cure acute viral diseases such as polio, acute hepatitis, measles, mumps, chickenpox, shingles, viral encephalitis.

The most amazing evidence presented in the book is the work of Frederick R Klenner, a doctor in North Carolina who cured 60 of 60 acute polio cases with IM or IV vitamin C and published his findings in Southern Medicine & Surgery, Volume 103, Number 4, April, 1951, pp. 101-107. Klenner wrote more than 20 other publications. Polio vaccine was introduced shortly afterwards, and Klenner's work with Vitamin C was simply ignored.

Because of the unconstitutional FDA ruling which prohibits Vitamin C manufacturers from informing the public, very few people are aware of this research showing the incredible benefits of vitamin C.

Missing from the book is the fact that most commercially available Vitamin C products contain a mixture of unbuffered L and R isomers of vitamin C, an inferior product. The buffered 100% L-ascorbate version of Vitamin C is vastly superior. Also missing from the book is a discussion of the Linus Pauling protocol for prevention of heart disease with Vitamin C, proline and lysine.

I have had numerous conversations about vitamin C with other doctor friends, and colleagues I have known for 25 years, and invariably any comment about Vitamin C is met with ridicule, laughter, and disbelief. Sadly, that is the current state of the medical establishment. Perhaps Dr. Thomas Levy's book will serve to change this, and one day soon, mainstream medicine will embrace a remarkable medicine that has been overlooked.

Jeffrey Dach MD

6 of 6 found this review helpful:

Levy - time for book 2, 2007-05-22
Tons of research on C since this book that has validated many of the claims - especially with regards to serious things like Aids. No studies to date that contradict any of the claims in this book. Now the Codex is trying to require a perscription for large doses of Vit C, simply because it causes diahrea (so they say). We all know the real reason. Levy - put it into words.

6 of 7 found this review helpful:

I hope it's all true, 2007-03-10
Interesting book, majority of the text is composed of accounts of two MDs, Klenner and Cathcart, who spent their careers reversing and curing several infectious diseases considered 'incurable' such as polio and hepititis with high dose intravenous administration of vitmain c, coupled with bowel tolerance oral dosing.

The amounts of vitamin c these MDs used was astronomical. We are talking about 100-30g per day IV coupled with upto hundreds of grams per day orally.

The premise behind it is that humans are one of only a few species on earth that don't manufacture vitamin c endogenously (most animals radically increase the amount of vitamin c their bodies produce in response to a stressor (intrusion by a pathogen, injury etc), and that supplying huge amounts of vitamin c during infection can basically eliminate most infectous pathogens, most of the time.

While Levy asserts that the book has 1200 scientific references throughout the book, none of them support the practises in the book, rather, they indicate that vitamin c improves health parameters in conditions of disease at moderate doses (~500mg-3g/day) and that higher doses may have a larger effect. Of course, none of the studies actually use oral bowel tolerance dosing (what Levy terms 'optidosing') or the amounts of vitamin c intravenously that he says will cure incurable disease states, so we are left to base our beliefs on the accounts of Klenner and Cathcart's practice.

I should add, that if Klenner and Cathcart's beliefs about vitamin c can be validated by studies that duplicate their dosing parameters, the implications are outstanding. Vitamin c could potentially have the power to replace antibiotics and antivirals (insert consipracy theory of this being the reason the medical establishment hasn't looked at work by MD's such as Klenner and Cathcart).

15 of 15 found this review helpful:

An exceptional book on Vitamin C, 2006-06-19
Dr. Levy did his undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins, studied medicine at Tulane and wound up teaching cardiology at Tulane. Then, to paraphrase his words, he began to think about what he was doing, and has written some truly exceptional books about medicine, which I have seen leave a DDS in awe.

One of the controversies in medicine is what use(s) Vitamin C is good for. Hardly any general practicioners use it, and many people in the realm of "alternative medicine" who talk about unknown therapies are flakes. Dr. Levy has brought light into this matter by painstakingly compiling a summary of all the studies published on its use.

I heartily recommend this book to anyone who feels he or she may become sick in the next 10 years.

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