Can vitamin C cure cancer?
Quick Summary
High-dose vitamin C is administered orally as a helper-therapy that can be incorporated safely into certain cancer protocols such as the Binzel Diet and The China Study Diet. There is a limit to how much vitamin C the digestive system can absorb when it is taken orally which is why many patients supplement with intravenous vitamin C to glean the most benefits from this particular therapy. People who wish to treat cancer at home and stay away from clinics and doctors can administer vitamin C in combination with dimethylsulfoxide / DMSO rather than seeking out intravenous vitamin C. While in many big cities there are IV boutique spas where people can choose which IV therapies they want from a menu of options without having to deal with the sterile, judgmental experience of a doctor’s office, taking vitamin C in combination with DMSO can significantly increase the amount of vitamin C that can be absorbed by the body cheaply and without having to leave home.
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Detailed Introduction
Vitamin C is a naturally occurring substance that’s found in food. It’s an antioxidant that plays an important role in making collagen and keeping tissues healthy and strong. When vitamin C is given intravenously it’s possible for it to reach higher concentrations than what’s possible when vitamin C is taken by mouth, however recently, many patients have begun combining vitamin C with pharmaceutical grade dimethylsulfoxide to increase the body’s natural ability to absorb and use this nutrient [1].Click here to read more about intravenous vitamin C for cancer.
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Intravenous vitamin C is a therapy that’s typically used in conjunction with other cancer treatments, but vitamin C, when administered in very high doses by IV infusion, can kill cancer cells by itself. So while vitamin C can be helpful as a so-called “adjunct therapy” for cancer, in fact, it can also be administered as one of the primary medicines in at-home cancer treatment protocols to kill cancer cells.
In low doses, vitamin C acts as an antioxidant that can repair tissues. In very high doses though (between 10,000-18,000 mg daily), vitamin C is converted into reactive oxygen species similar to chlorine dioxide solution / miracle mineral supplement (CDS / MMS) or food grade hydrogen peroxide. There are a number of reactive oxygen species medicines including food grade hydrogen peroxide, ozone therapy, certain herbs like Artemisia annua, and more, but vitamin C is one of the most well-known substances that most people take every day in low doses that converts into reactive oxygen species at high doses.
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Cancer cells differ metabolically from normal cells in that their mitochondria produce high levels of redox-active iron molecules. These molecules react with vitamin C to produce a natural form of endogenous hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide, in turn, damages the DNA of the cancer cells and their mitochondria which ultimately kills the cancer. The high-dose vitamin C treatment and subsequent hydrogen peroxide molecules that are produced are selectively toxic against only the unhealthy cancer cells [2][3]. Reactive oxygen species medicines like food grade hydrogen peroxide 3% or chlorine dioxide solution / miracle mineral solution are able to seek out cancer cells while leaving healthy human cells intact through their magnetic attraction to positively charged cells. Cancer cells have a more positive charge while healthy cells have a more negative charge. As a result, negatively charged molecules like the superoxide ion that are released by chlorine dioxide solution / miracle mineral solution, ozone ions, and hydrogen peroxide ions are magnetically attracted to unhealthy cancer cells that are positively charged.Again, in low doses, vitamin C will NOT have the same medicinal effects against cancer. It’s important to receive very high doses of vitamin C for it to have the intended curative effect. Vitamin C cannot be administered orally at very high doses. It is only possible to administer about 6000 mg of vitamin C daily by mouth. To increase the vitamin C dose that your digestive system can absorb, take vitamin C with DMSO.
Vitamin C should not be a stand-alone therapy for cancer, even at-home treatment. Always administer the Lugol’s Iodine Protocol along with high-dose vitamin C to ensure that you get the cancer-curing nutrients like Lugol’s iodine and vitamin B17.
High dose vitamin C can also be administered with baking soda therapy for cancer. Click here to learn more about how to cure cancer with baking soda. Baking soda alkalizes the healthy cells in the body which makes those healthy cells have a more negative magnetic charge. The more negatively charged the healthy cells become, the more invisible they are to reactive oxygen species like hydrogen peroxide which is attracted only to positively charged cells and molecules. Meanwhile, as the healthy cells become more negatively charged, cancer cells (which are positively charged with an acidic pH) become more visible to hydrogen peroxide and the other reactive oxygen species medicines. As such, the baking soda protocol works very well with vitamin C therapy. Using them together enhances the effects of both medicines.
Intravenous treatment should be administered in a clinic, hospital, or at a boutique spa under the direction of experienced health practitioners.Some boutique spas offer at-home intravenous vitamin C.
High doses of intravenous vitamin C in cancer patients generally produces few side effects. Ideally, patients should either do coffee enemas for cancer to detoxify the liver and prevent detoxification symptoms as the body removes cancer cells and begins to rebuild itself and become healthy again.
In conventional medicine, cancer patients who are given high doses of IV vitamin C in conjunction with chemo and radiation experience an improved quality of life and fewer side effects from the chemotherapy. Studies have shown that IV therapy with high-doses of vitamin C can improve the effectiveness of standard chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The high dose vitamin C slows the progression of the disease, but chemotherapy medications likely cancel out and neutralize the fragile hydrogen peroxide molecules before they can kill cancer cells [1][2].
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Politics
Intravenous vitamin C has not been demonized to the same extent as certain other no-chemo cancer treatments in part because it can be used in tandem with standard treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation. Vitamin C is unlikely to cure cancer when used with chemotherapy, especially when timed appropriately so that hydrogen peroxide molecules are neutralized by the chemo medication. As such, high-dose vitamin C is not as big of a threat to pharmaceutical companies and instead, research funding has been made available to demonstrate its efficacy in prolonging the life of patients with glioblastoma and Stage IV lung cancer [2]. Vitamin C would still be beneficial to cancer patients who receive this medicine along with chemotherapy, but it won’t be able to cure cancer in most cases when these two medicines are used together. The effectiveness at prolonging lifespan even among patients who followed the standard medical model supports the effectiveness of high-dose vitamin C as a cancer treatment that works despite the presence of the highly toxic biological environment produced by chemo and radiation. Two studies done by scientists Creagan and Moertel in 1979 at the Mayo Clinic put a spin on high-dose vitamin C treatment, claiming that it was nearly impossible to produce therapeutic concentration levels. In both of these studies, vitamin C was administered orally, but the medical community was confused by these results so doctors today rarely prescribe intravenous vitamin C to cancer patients thinking that there are few, if any therapeutic benefits to patients [6][8][9]. The reason why intravenous vitamin C is used to treat cancer rather than orally administered vitamin C is because vitamin C concentrations can be raised safely to high levels using intravenous administration. It’s difficult to raise the concentration levels to the same extent of by taking vitamin C orally unless you administer the vitamin C with an equivalent dose of DMSO. At high concentration levels, vitamin C is toxic to cancer cells, but beneficial to healthy cells. Vitamin C at high concentrations prevents angiogenesis (or the development of a tumor’s blood supply). As the vitamin accumulates in cancer cells, tumor cells stop growing and inflammation is reduced in the body. Further, patients experience few side effects and adverse events when vitamin C is administered intravenously [3].
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Safety and Effectiveness
Research has shown that intravenous vitamin C is effective against a variety of cancer types including:Clinical studies have shown that oral administration of vitamin C at the maximum tolerated dose (18grams/day), produces only a peak plasma concentration of 220 micromoles/Liter. Intravenous administration of the same dose of vitamin C (18 grams/day) can increase plasma concentration by 25 times more. Even larger doses (50-100 grams/day) can increase the plasma concentration levels to 14,000 micromoles/Liter. At 1,000 micromoles/Liter, vitamin C is toxic to cancer cells, but not toxic to normal, healthy cells [5][6].
Vitamin C treatment was first suggested as a cancer treatment in the 1950’s because of its role in collagen production. Since cancer patients are often depleted of vitamin C, scientists believed that vitamin C would protect normal tissues and by replenishing vitamin C levels. Also the immune system function of cancer patients would be enhanced [3][7].
In one study, scientists observed a four-fold survival rate in terminal cancer patients who were treated with high-dose vitamin C IV’s. The researchers who conducted the study observed a survival rate one-third higher for the patients who were given high-dose vitamin C. For the patients who died during the study, their average survival time was more than 20 times longer than it was for terminal cancer patients who did not receive vitamin C treatments [7].
There are rare instances that have been reported where patients with multiple, rapidly proliferating tumors were given high-dose vitamin C, which caused widespread tumor hemorrhage and necrosis that ultimately caused the patient to die. Deaths like these from high-dose vitamin C are rare, but despite their tragic nature, they demonstrate the power of vitamin C to cause cancer cells to die as well as the importance of detoxifying the body thoroughly as part of a treatment protocol [3]. Click here to read more about detoxification reactions and how to improve the body’s natural ability to detoxify itself while healing from cancer.
Intravenous vitamin C treatments are generally well tolerated, but some patients may experience side effects such as brief episodes of high blood pressure or dry mouth [2].
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How Intravenous Vitamin C Is Administered
The half-life of vitamin C is only 2 hours which is why it has to be administered in high doses via IV, otherwise, when administering vitamin C by mouth, the blood concentration never reaches a high enough level to be beneficial in terms of cancer cells. Clinical trials at the University of Iowa in Iowa City have examined the effect of giving 800 to 1,000 times the daily recommended dose of vitamin C to brain cancer and lung cancer patients. The research has shown that vitamin C at 20,000 micromoles disrupts cancer cell metabolism in glioblastoma and non-small-cell lung cancer. Most normal adults have about 70 micromoles of circulating vitamin C in the body at any given time [4].
Again, remember that you can improve absorption rates of vitamin C by taking it orally with dimethylsulfoxide / DMSO. If you’ve never heard of DMSO, click here to read about this FDA approved medicine that has the broadest medicinal action of any other medicine currently approved by this organization. Also, click here to read about how DMSO is used by clinics to administer low-dose chemotherapy.Possible Negative Effects
Possible Negative Effects
Intravenous vitamin C treatments are generally well tolerated. However, some patients may experience side effects such as brief episodes of high blood pressure or dry mouth [2].Other Important information
The Nobel Prize winner, Linus Pauling and Dr. Ewen Cameron did a study that showed that 10 grams of vitamin C administered via IV could extend the life of cancer patients six-fold [3]. Also of interest is the fact that nine months of high-dose vitamin C treatment via IV costs less than one dose of chemotherapy [2].Clinics That Offer Intravenous High-Dose Vitamin C
The Riordan Clinic offers high-dose, intravenous vitamin C treatments in three locations in the United States, but a number of boutique IV spas throughout the U.S. today also offer high-dose IV vitamin C:The Riordan Clinic -- Kansas
https://riordanclinic.org/ 3100 N. Hillside Ave. Wichita, KS 67219 316-682-3100 1010 E 17th Street Hays, KS 67601 785-628-3215 6300 W 143rd Street, Suite #205 Overland Park, KS 66223 913-745-4757New Hope Medical Center - Integrative Cancer Center - Tel Aviv, Israel
hei-beyar 62 st Kikar Hamedina Tel Aviv, Israel Dr. Joseph Brenner, M. D. 972-3-5467733 or 972-3-5467739. http://www.hyperthermia.net/en/intravenous-vitamins/FINAL NOTE: Most of the cancer patients that we work with through health coaching require trauma-informed therapies to release trauma and overcome cancer permanently. One of the root causes of cancer is trauma. Most of the patients that we work with are aware of the trauma that caused them to develop cancer, but most people don't realize that trauma can be released. Click here to read about German New Medicine as a trauma-informed cure for cancer. Click here to read about Ayahuasca, an herbal cure for cancer that involves the release of trauma as well as healing the organs that are most impacted by trauma (according to Traditional Chinese Medicine). If you've never heard of trauma-informed therapies, consider working at home with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing / EMDR as a simple, effective tool to release trauma. Click here to do a free trial with EMDR at home.
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