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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lays out the evidence for some remarkable claims, 11 Feb 2003
This book lays out clearly the evidence that Vitamin C, when consumed in huge doses (tens to hundreds of GRAMS a day) can protect against an almost embarrassingly large range of maladies. If you take too much Vitamin C you get diarrhea. Take just enough not to get it and the huge concentration of Vitamin C can act as an antioxidant, and help cure the disease you are suffering from, or help the body's natural defenses to be more efficient. If you are so ill that you cannot take enough Vitamin C by mouth, then it should be administered intravenously as Sodium Absorbate. The more ill you are the, larger the amount you can tolerate (and need to make it work).
Dr Levy's book goes through a long list of Diseases Toxins etc., and puts forward the scientific evidence that Vitamin C, when used as described above, can cure, prevent or reverse this. For example:
Tuberculosis
(Reversible and Preventable; Curable-?)
This means that the damage done by TB can be reversed by Vitamin C, that TB can be prevented by Vitamin C and that there is some evidence that TB can be cured by Vitamin C. The scientific evidence that this occurs is then laid out in the rest of the section, and lots of references cited.
There are many others such as:
Tetanus (Curable and Preventable)
Chickenpox and Herpes (Curable and Preventable)
Leprosy (Reversible and Preventable: Curable?)
etc etc
The theory is that Vitamin C works as a general anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-toxin agent, and that if it seems to work in virtually every tested case then it can be safely inferred that it ought to work for diseases as yet untested. (e.g. Ebola, Smallpox).
Note that to work in this manner Vitamin C must be taken in really high doses. Studies that have not shown Vitamin C to be effective always use a much lower dose (e.g between the RDA of 60mg and 1 or 2 grams a day).
Unfortunately, most of the medical profession does not accept this theory. Dr Levy attempts to explain why this is, blaming their tribalism and culture, which perhaps rejects too easily everything that isn't surgery or the use of patent medicines.
Personally, I think there is a lot of alternative medicine theories around, some of which have no evidence to support them, and constitute mere "quackery". Given this I can understand it when the medical profession rejects everything that sounds like "alternative medicine" outright. It has had too many bad experiences. However, this case may be different, the evidence is there and is presented by Dr Levy in such a way as to give even the most hardened traditionalist pause for thought.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Timely Publication, 24 April 2003
At a time when there is great fear of chemical and bio terrorism and of infectious naturally occurring diseases like SARS the publication of this book is timely.Written by a medical doctor and siting extensive references in the scientific literature, it explains to both professional and lay person: - - How there exists a cheap, available and safe way to treat and minimise casualties from micro-organisms, viruses and toxins. - Why the knowledge of this treatment has been described in scientific literature for 50 years but has not been taken up by the medical profession. This book should also be read by student of the philosophy of science as a study in how well conducted scientific studies are brushed aside if the results do not conform with an established opinion. As someone who has taken large doses of Vitamin C since reading Linus Pauling's 1986 book 'How to Live Longer and Feel Better' (available on amazon) I have been puzzled and struggled to comprehend why this major advance in healthcare has not been taken up by the mainstream. It is my hope that this book will start to redress this. I find the cover design a little poor and old fashioned for such an important book
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A revelation, 24 Dec 2005
This book was both a shock and a revelation to me. In the limited time since reading this book, I have put into practice giving Vitamin C in large doses to people who have colds, flu and fevers. Without exception it has cured them. No cure for the common cold? Read this book. The only thing I don´t like is the fact that due to the format of the book, the author didn´t feel it necessary to include an index. If you are unaware of the benefits of vitamin C in large quantities this book will change (and probably prolong) your life
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