@DrSyedHaider - Dr. Syed Haider
New Year new Vitamin C post.
Everyone has something like echinacea or zinc that they swear by when they get sick, but I’ve tried all that stuff and they don’t work for me so I assume they can’t work for everyone.
However there is one thing I’ve seen work on myself, many family members, friends and patients every time.
In fact I don’t think anything, even antibiotics, works as well for any infection as this:
Very high dose oral vitamin C, ie 30,000-50,000 mg (yes I mean 30-50 capsules of 1 gram/1000mg each) taken all in one go.
Antibiotics can work in 24 hours but they often don’t, but I’ve never been sick 24 hours after taking high dose vitamin C, if I took it the first 1-3 days of symptoms.
My kids need much less to bounce back within 24 hours, my 12 year old only needed 5,000mg, so the right dose does vary. For me 40,000 works perfectly and 30,000 doesn’t work quite as well, though it still works way better than anything else short of the right antibiotic (which can be hit or miss, but vitamin C isn’t!).
It will usually cause diarrhea and maybe some gas and bloating. Those with chronic kidney disease should probably avoid. Common warnings are for kidney stones and G6PD deficiency but I don’t think those are real contraindications based on close literature reviews.
Thomas Levy wrote a heavily referenced book on vitamin C use in dozens of diseases from HIV to cancer, but didn’t focus much on very high oral doses.
Getting that many pills down in one sitting can be a challenge of course, and sometimes my wife does half her dose, and still feels much better but just can’t bring herself to take the whole amount.
Anyway it’s a good option to be aware of to minimize antibiotic side effects on the microbiome. And something that for some people is an easy just in case measure in early stages when they aren’t quite willing to pull the trigger on ivermectin (the hoarders!) because they’re still wondering is it just allergies? Am I really sick? People are great at denial until it’s kinda late and then sometimes too late - I do telemedicine so I know this better than anyone.
Vitamin C apparently isn’t absorbed very well (but I’m not aware that anyone has checked at such high oral doses), so it may not be blood levels so much as stool levels that give the effect (high dose IV also works very well it’s just not as easy to access or as cheap).
In the gut C boosts bifidobacteria which then boost immunity within 24 hours. Low bifidobacteria are associated with worse outcomes in COVID and found at higher rates in long haulers and vax injured, so higher levels must be good for something and it’s probably super immunity.
The upshot is that I never go anywhere without a giant bottle of Doctor’s Best 1000mg Vitamin C capsules (they are just the vitamin in a veggie cap with no fillers, which isn’t that common).
If you think this can help people spread it.
@DrSyedHaider - Dr. Syed Haider
Vitamin C even works for detoxing from venoms, pesticides, heavy metals, forever chemicals, you name it.
@DrSyedHaider - Dr. Syed Haider
But the trick is dosing. If you’re not feeling better you probably just under-dosed it. Same goes for ivermectin.
