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Vitamin C Treatment for COVID-19 Being Silenced

• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Joseph Mercola

His Tokyo presentation, "Orthomolecular Medicine and Coronavirus Disease: Historical Basis for Nutritional Treatment," highlights the fact that when used as a treatment, high doses of vitamin C — often 1,000 times more than the U.S. Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) — are needed.

It's a cornerstone of medical science that dose affects treatment outcome, but this premise isn't accepted when it comes to vitamin therapy the way it is with drug therapy. Most vitamin C research has used inadequate, low doses, which don't lead to clinical results.

"The medical literature has ignored over 80 years of laboratory and clinical studies on high-dose ascorbate (vitamin C) therapy," Saul notes, adding that while it's widely accepted that vitamin C is beneficial in fighting illness, controversy exists over to what extent. "Moderate quantities provide effective prevention," he says, while "large quantities are therapeutic."

Three Pioneers of High-Dose Vitamin C Therapy

Vitamin C is perhaps most well-known for its antioxidant properties — properties it maintains because of an ability to donate electrons to oxidized molecules. Even in small quantities, vitamin C helps protect proteins, lipids and DNA and RNA in your body from reactive oxygen species that are generated during normal metabolism as well as due to toxin exposure (such as to cigarette smoke and air pollution).

Vitamin C is also involved in the biosynthesis of collagen, carnitine and catecholamines, according to Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D., and as such, "vitamin C participates in immune function, wound healing, fatty acid metabolism, neurotransmitter production and blood vessel formation, as well as other key processes and pathways."2


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