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Lyme disease and Vitamin C
In response to:
"http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/05/26/from-urine-therapy-to-vit_n_7443378.html"

This is outright medical fraud.

An American publication,using a local news broadcast from Oklahoma passed through a fake Toronto news agency suggests "vit" is fraudulent.

Notice nowhere in the video or text of the article do they use the word "vitamin", ever or reference these substances (which in homeopathic doses are "vitamins"; in larger does are therapeutic) in any way. If they did they'd be guilty of a crime under Canadian law where it's possible to take a three year $70,000 course from an accredited college that enabled you to put "ND" after your name which confers some specific legal rights when it comes to medical care and this college is in Toronto. I installed their Internet in the 90s.

What they this ad by big pharma is trying to get you to believe is you should look at some site that purports to be the truth because: evidence.

Well here's some evidence, 50%-90% of their evidence is false.

Like Ebola, the pathogen essentially "hides" in the collagen matrix which is why it's so hard to treat. Collagen is made primarily from L-Ascorbate - vitamin C.

Dr. Tom Levy is a board certified thoracic surgeon and an attorney and he's the reason intravenous vitamin C is now legal in New Zealand as a "registered drug" any doctor or patient can ask for in any hospital or clinic there because it saved a man's life who was in a coma from swine Flu and the doctors were about to pull the plug on life support. He's fine today.

These are his comments on the Riordan Clinic site, they have the greatest success with treating mental disease with these therapeutic agents.

    "Acute Lyme Disease

    A young woman in Pennsylvania was bitten by a pathogen-carrying tick, developed the classical Lyme-associated rash, and proceeded to get very ill over the next seven to ten days. She received several infusions of vitamin C at her house. The first infusion was 100 grams, and her caregiver reported that she seemed much improved upon the completion of that infusion. Five more infusions of 50 grams each were given over the next two days. By the time that 72 hours had passed, she was completely well, never having a clinical relapse or any chronic Lyme symptoms.

    Chronic Lyme Disease

    A woman with a 12-year history of chronic Lyme disease, documented by blood testing, desired having regular and prolonged high-dose intravenous vitamin C therapy for her condition. Under the aegis of a prescribing physician who had attended one of my presentations of vitamin C, a nurse practitioner was able to give the patient what she wished.

    This individual had already been taking liposome-encapsulated vitamin C and glutathione orally without a significant improvement in her condition. On four consecutive days, she received infusions of 25, 50, 75, and then 100 grams of vitamin C. Then, for 19 more days, she received 5 or 6 infusions weekly of 100 grams of vitamin C in each infusion. Until day 23, she felt no improvement. However, she was determined to continue in spite of the lack of improvement and the increasing expense of the whole process. On day 23, the nurse practitioner reported that she looked like a new person, and that it was like a “switch was flipped” and she was well. At her request, the patient received another week of 100 gram daily infusions to be sure her condition was truly resolved, a very good idea on her part. About a month later, her Lyme blood testing was completely negative.

    A physician reported to me similar experiences with a series of Lyme patients, who showed no positive clinical response after an extended number of vitamin C infusions, then had a dramatic, abrupt clinical resolution of their condition, very much as described above."

https://riordanclinic.org/2014/09/the-clinical-impact-of-vitamin-c-my-personal-experiences-as-a-physician-2/

Where you see clinical reports whee this is tried and didn't work understand the dose was too small and for not long enough. Keep in mind efficiency of absorption via the oral route is not good, 10-50%. Worse, absorption rate is a function of serum level of ascorbate, that' show the body regulates serum ascorbate level. THe closer to the ideal level the slower the and less efficient the rate of absorption. So if you have none and take 1000 mg you may get as much s 500mg into your blood (which will be used up in 20 minutes and gone) but the next day taking 1000mg may only put 250 mg of it in your blood because of reduced efficiency. A shot of 1000mg is 1000mg in the blood; measured 20 minutes later, there's little or no trace.

Dr. Thomas Levy, being both attorney and cardiologist, gives one of the better talks on the case in New Zealand and how the law got changed there in this superb one hour presentation that in a more perfect world, everybody would watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1kD3BolXnE