Posted February 15, 2021: by Bill Sardi
Aw, another vitamin study fizzles. Just when almost-everybody is taking vitamin pills in hopes of staving off a COVID-19 infection, a study concludes two mainstays of dietary supplementation, mega-dose vitamin C and high-dose zinc, failed to shorten the number of days of symptomatic infection among 214 adult outpatients freshly diagnosed with COVID-19. Investigators concluded “these supplements cannot be recommended to reduce symptom morbidity in such patients.” Or can they?
A pretty hefty dose of vitamin C (8000 milligrams in divided doses) was given to these COVID-19 patients, diagnosed by the notoriously inaccurate PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test that yields many false positives. Given that vitamin C is rapidly excreted, doses spread out over time achieve higher blood serum concentrations than a single mega-dose. According to one study, the optimal vitamin C frequency is 4 times a day.
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Posted May 25, 2020: by Bill Sardi
sdAlmost 8 in 10 Americans rate the quality of their personal health care as “excellent or good.” But compared to what? Most Americans only hear that America spends more on healthcare than any other country and that it has the most advanced healthcare in the world. Yet for all the money spent, the US ranks 38th in life expectancy.
How would patients know how to measure the quality of care they receive unless they have something to compare it against?
Japan, with the highest overall life expectancy from birth of 84.5 years, compared to 78.9 years in the U.S., has a completely voluntary vaccination program and according to the Japanese Society for Orthomolecular Medicine, has over 400 trained practitioners at “vitamin C clinics” dotted across Japan’s five main islands. This author can only count 1 vitamin C clinic in the U.S. (Riordan Clinic, Wichita, Kansas)
For the want of a single vitamin, Americans may be losing out on the best healthcare in the world. While American physicians continue to embrace the cholesterol paradigm of health, Japan has turned to vitamin C.
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Posted May 3, 2020: by Bill Sardi
La Verne, CA (May 1, 2020): With no approved drugs or vaccines available from modern medicine’s vast pharmaceutical armamentarium, the public, hearing news reports of successful use of vitamins and minerals to treat and prevent COVID-19 coronavirus infection, have literally emptied store shelves of vitamin C dietary supplements.
A similar run on vitamin C pills occurred in 1970 when Dr. two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling wrote a book entitled VITAMIN C AND THE COMMON COLD. And apparently both produced a similar result: a dramatic drop in coronary artery disease mortality.
Unexpectedly, cardiologists are asking where have all the heart attacks gone? A 40-60 percent reduction in hospital admissions for heart attack is being reported by cardiologists in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown.
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Posted March 6, 2020: by Bill Sardi
Physicians in Wuhan, China, the epicenter for COVID-19 coronavirus that is now infecting human populations around the globe, report a shortage of test kits for this infectious pathogen. But maybe doctors rather than test for a virus ought to be testing for a viral vulnerability factor – an unstable form of haptoglobin (HAPTO-G), genetically prevalent in Asian populations. Then they wouldn’t be likely to run out of test kits as they are manufactured, in of all places, right there in Wuhan.
What is haptoglobin? (hap-tow-glow-bin) This blood protein binds to hemoglobin, the red protein in red blood cells that carries both oxygen and iron. By virtue of its binding power, haptoglobin mops up hemoglobin and loose iron when red blood cells die off so as to limit the availability of potentially destructive unbound iron. Haptoglobin also reduces the amount of iron lost in the kidneys and recycles it.
Out of three types of haptoglobin (HAPTO-G), one type doesn’t bind as well to hemoglobin, releases excess iron which then increases iron-induced oxidation (rusting), and increases oxidation (hardening) of cholesterol and degradation of vitamin C.
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Posted December 2, 2019: by Bill Sardi
While modern medicine casts a blind eye towards vitamin therapy and even exhibits open disdain for health practitioners and patients who incorporate vitamins into daily health regimens, it now appears a half-million Americans are losing their lives to a mortal bloodstream infection called sepsis that is induced by a deficiency of vitamin C.
After three decades, and more than one-hundred failed clinical trials of synthetic drugs to quell the most common cause of death in American hospitals, modern medicine is dragging its feet over what has now been demonstrated to be obvious — intravenous vitamin C demonstrably reduces death from sepsis. Sepsis patients are being brought back from the precipice of death, enough to make ICU nurses cry tears of joy. But medical overseers have attempted to obscure this fact.
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Posted August 31, 2019: by Bill Sardi
Bile is of one of the humors (fluids) that the Greek physician Hippocrates noted was important to maintain health. Bile, produced in the liver and stored in the gall bladder, facilitates the digestion of fats and oils and the absorption and transport of fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E & K. Modern medicine may have better fulfilled its mission to educate the public about bile rather than cholesterol. Given that as many people have a heart attack with low cholesterol as they do high cholesterol, one wonders how cholesterol became the central paradigm of modern medicine. People over 60 years old who have high “bad” LDL cholesterol live as long or longer than people with low LDL cholesterol. As an aside, calcium pills, antacids, even aspirin, mainstays of medicine, fit into the same category – misdirections in the practice of medicine.
Both cholesterol and bile are secreted from the liver. Bile actually facilitates the degradation (catabolism) and disposal of cholesterol. Bile is described as a “detergent” that enables the excretion of cholesterol. Bile is actually comprised of cholesterol and controls circulating cholesterol levels. A backup of bile in the liver is problematic. A reduction in bile flow due to sludgy, thick viscous bile, can result in abnormally high cholesterol levels.
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Posted July 30, 2019: by Bill Sardi
It’s worth clicking through to look at Dr. Paul Merik as he speaks at NPR.org about saving thousands of lives with vitamin C therapy and see the medical student in the background wiping back her tears….. For the first time, after hundreds of failed drug trials, patients are rapidly recovering from blood poisoning (aka sepsis) and leaving the hospital three days later. And this discovery doesn’t come from Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Harvard Medical School or the Mayo Clinic. How about Eastern Virginia Medical School!
Click to hear a nurse speak: “We would just go day and after day, they (the patients) just weren’t getting any better… it (vitamin therapy) just seemed too simple…. We thought it had to be a fluke, but we had patients getting better. Patients were turning around quickly, within 12 hours. They would be at death’s door, and 12 hours later they were 50% better… we have seen patients walk out of here that we didn’t think would leave alive. I have goose bumps now.”
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Posted July 26, 2019: by Bill Sardi
Researchers claim they have found why humans, but not other animals, are prone to heart attacks. News reports of this discovery are confusing because they errantly infer a gene mutation (CMAH gene), which eliminates internal synthesis of a sugar-like molecule called Neu5Gc (aka sialic acid), is what makes humans vulnerable to chronic inflammation that can lead to cancer and heart attacks.
Actually the inactivation of the CMAH gene via a gene mutation, which occurred long ago in human history, eliminated endogenous production of this toxic Neu5Gc molecule in humans. That would represent a health-positive gene mutation, not a negative health mutation as some confused news reports maintain. The initial scientific discovery is published in the July 22, 2019 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
However, humans may eat meat from animals that do produce Neu5Gc and this is at least a partial reason why red meat consumption has been repeatedly linked to heart attacks. Caviar (fish eggs) has the highest amount of Neu5Gc but is not consumed as often as red meat. According to one study, red meat contains 25-231 micrograms of Neu5Gc per gram of meat; caviar 445-530 micrograms per gram. If mice are fed Neu5Gc they develop 2.4 times more plaque in their arteries.
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Posted July 3, 2019: by Bill Sardi
A quick read of recent news headlines suggest most Americans must be dumb and dumber for taking dietary supplements.
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Posted June 20, 2019: by Bill Sardi
If you want to avert the development of a sight-robbing disease called macular degeneration you are going to have to step outside modern medicine. Eye doctors only have treatment but no prevention for this dastardly eye disease that robs senior adults of their central vision for reading, driving and watching TV.
Don’t both your eye doctor about this proposed vitamin cure for macular degeneration. Your eye doctor will demand a controlled human study before he/she prescribes a vitamin. There are no published human studies to confirm its safety and effectiveness and none are planned. So, it is unproven (but not disproven). You will just have to endure slow progressive loss of vision (dry macular degeneration) and hope you don’t develop the fast-progressive form (wet macular degeneration), which requires monthly needle injections directly into your eye(s) to avoid permanent loss of vision.
The National Eye Institute promotes a multi-nutrient formula called the AREDS formula (Age-Related Eye Disease) that barely slows the progression of this disease (you still are losing your sight). The AREDS formula does not benefit patients with early macular degeneration.
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