Could it be B12? An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses, 02 Sep 2007
When I was diagnosed with this illness, I was disappointed to find that there was not many books available on this subject.

I found this book by accident on Amazon and it has been a tremendous help to me.There are medical sections in the book however most of the explanations are in language which is easy to understand.

This book was very helpful to me as it explained the seriousness of the illness.It is a silent illness which is understated by the Medical profession.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is suffering from a B12 deficiency or who suspects this may be an underlying condition.

Could it be B12? An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses, 02 Sep 2007
When I was diagnosed with this illness, I was disappointed to find that there was not many books available on this subject.

I found this book by accident on Amazon and it has been a tremendous help to me.There are medical sections in the book however most of the explanations are in language which is easy to understand.

This book was very helpful to me as it explained the seriousness of the illness.It is a silent illness which is understated by the Medical profession.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is suffering from a B12 deficiency or who suspects this may be an underlying condition.






A must, 20 Jul 2006
An excellent read . A must for everybody interested in diet and health . full of facts , proofs and everything you need to know about vitamin C .

Ascorbate: The Science Of Vitimin C, 30 Jan 2005
:-"Review by Dr Andrew Saul."

"It's not what we don't know that harms us, but what we do know that ain't so." (Eubie blake, 1883-1983)

What is it about a little left-handed molecule of six carbons, six oxygens, and eight hydrogens that ticks off so many in the medical community? Maybe it's cases like this one: Ray, a health professional I know, had an 11-month old son who was very sick for over a week. No one and I mean no one, in their family had had any sleep in a long time. They were up night after night with this child, who had a high fever, glazed watery eyes, tons of thick watery mucus and labored breathing. The child would not sleep, and did little else but cry. The baby was under the care of a pediatrician, who, in the infant's eleven months on earth, had already prescribed twelve rounds of some very serious antibiotics. That they clearly were not working was all too apparent to Ray, who out of desperation decided to try something he previously had been taught to not try: bowel tolerance quantities of oral ascorbate. Ray and his wife gave their baby some vitimin C about every 15 minutes. As a result, the baby was noticeably improved in a matter of hours, and slept through the night. With frequent doses continuing, the child was completely well in 48 hours. Ray calculated that the baby had received just over 2,000 mg vitimin C per kilogram body weight per day. This is even more than what Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner customarily ordered for sick patients. Remarkably, at 20,000 milligrams of vitimin C/day, that 20-pound baby never had diarrhea.

With such a little body, you have to marvel at where all of it was going. Of course, it is the opinion of those who promulgate the US RDA and related nutritional mythology that almost all of that baby's vitimin C went uselessly into the toilet. Ray and his wife would tell you differently. They would say that their sick child soaked it up like a sponge, and then promptly got better.

For the layman unable to obtain intravenous vitimin C, one of the most important parts of Hickey and Roberts'new book, Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C, is its attention to oral administration, divided dosing, absorption, and vitimin C retention time in the bloodstream. With simple graphs and uncomplicated language, the authors illustrate
1) How high oral doses of vitimin C yeild higher blood levels of the vitimin, and
2) How dividing the oral doses maintains those higher levels.
Although initially seeming almost too obvious to mention, these are not self-evident concepts.

Government-based intake standards such as the RDA hinge on ignoring them.

Hickey and Roberts zero in on this serious public health error. Their critical analysis of research studies purporting to justify a mere 100 or 200 mg/day ascorbate dose is worthy of Linus Pauling himself. Dr. Roberts

says: "stressed and even mildly ill people can tolerate 1,000 times more vitimin C, implying a change in biochemistry that was ignored in creating the RDA. The RDA concept does not differentiate between short and long-term effects of deprivation. The possibility that sub-clinical scurvy causes chronic disease has enormous implications for health. In setting the RDA,unsubstantiated risks of taking too much vitimin C have been accorded great importance, whereas the risks of not taking enough have been ignored. Real scientists understand that 'no scientific proof' is a fancy way of saying 'we don't like this idea.' Furthermore, there is no clear mechanism for the RDA to be modified when new scientific evidence emerges."

Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C is a compellingly written, fast-paced inspection of belief-based bias that permeates the scientific method. It is not a tirade; Hickey and Roberts simply tell it the way it is. They are well qualified to do so. Steve Hickey has a PhD in Medical biophysics from the University of Manchester, and spent about ten years in research at the Manchester Medical School and associated hospitals.

Interestingly, he had initially trained as a biologist specializing in pharmacology, later switching to biomechanics and medical physics. In addition to degrees in physiology and computer science, Hilary Roberts' University of Manchester PhD was on the effects of early life malnutrition. She spent ten years in research and teaching at the University.

When asked how he and his coauthor came to write the book, Dr Hickey said:
"Since Linus Pauling's death, there seemed to be a great deal of misinformation. The NIH had performed some questionable experiments and were making the apparently ridiculous statement that blood plasma and tissues became saturated with low doses of vitimin C. There was no mainstream research on high doses and the establishment was making wild extrapolations from their low dose data. We could not see how a clinical trial with 200 mg of vitimin C, for example, could be used to suggest that higher doses were not effective. The work of physicians like Robert Cathcart, Archie Kalokerinos and Abram Hoffer intrigued us. The reported effects, especially of intravenous vitimin C, were astounding. It was difficult to find any reason to explain the lack of scientific follow-up. We had friends and relatives that were sick or dying from diseases that high dose vitimin C was claimed to cure. Eventually we felt we had no choice but to write the book."

Dr. Roberts adds: "Most RDA standards are based on data which was not measured in actual experiments on real people. Even the small amount of data from the 19-30 year old subjects, who were measured, is based on neutrophils, a white blood cell type that is known to have unusual vitimin C biochemistry, along with an exeptional ability to pump the vitimin into itself. Neutrophils have ascorbate levels from 25-60 times that of the surrounding plasma. This cell type is not a reliable model for the whole body."

Additional topics discussed in Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C include infectious disease, oxidation and illness, the safety of vitimin C, and a presentation of the authors' dynamic flow model of continual vitimin C-mediated tissue reduction. The book contains substantial sections devoted to cardiovascular disease, with the welcome inclusion of an efficient discussion of the roles of vitimin E and lysine. Two excellent chapters on cancer take the starch right out of the Mayo Clinic "refutations" of the Pauling/Cameron vitimin C studies. The authors state that Dr. Charles "Moertel's switch to oral doses would clearly have biased the results" even though Pauling "stated clearly that intravenous doses are more effective than oral doses and explained the reasons for the difference."

Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C contains 575 references, and especially good ones. Though not alphabetized, all are keyed to the text with numbered footnotes. For a book this important, the index could be and should be more detailed. A glossary is included for the general reader. All will enjoy the well-selected epigrams that form the chapter lead-in quotes.

The authors expert command of their topic has enabled them to successfully encompass an enormous, and enormously important, subject. To make a 216-page book this comprehensive, and also so exceptionally comprehensible as well, is no small achievement.

I wish I'd had a book of this caliber back in the 1970's when my kids were infants. I raised my children all the way into college without a single dose of any antiviral, antihistamine, or antibiotic. What they did get were megadoses of vitimin C. We, like so many other parents, learned the principles of vitimin C therapy (quantity, frequency, and duration) at our kids'bedsides at three in the morning. Now, the pioneering work of megascorbate orthomolecular physicians has been consisely summarized and very skillfully explained in Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C. It is a thorough, up to date and very readable analysis of what, to some, may still appear to be a controversial topic.

Those who use it know that taking enough C results in three C's: patient comfort, low cost, and parental control. Without necessitating the use of invasive technology, nor the trauma of hospitalization, parents can regain confidence and mastery over illness to a degree that they might never have thought possible. For this reason, vitimin C therapy will, at least in some quarters, continue to be decried and denounced as irresponsible. It takes some real ego strength for a parent to stand firm and say, "This is what I am going to do: I am going to follow the
Klenner/Pauling/Cathcart vitimin C protocol." Hickey and Roberts' review of vitimin C research is a solid buttress that makes such a stance possible. No bias or belief system can withstand their first-rate presentation of the safety and effectiveness of megadoses of ascorbate.

"reprinted with permission from the http//www.doctoryourself.com website. Copyright 2005 and previous years Andrew W. Saul. All rights reserved. Andrew Saul is Contributing Editor for the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and is the author of the book "DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural healing that works."

Could it be B12? An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses, 02 Sep 2007
When I was diagnosed with this illness, I was disappointed to find that there was not many books available on this subject.

I found this book by accident on Amazon and it has been a tremendous help to me.There are medical sections in the book however most of the explanations are in language which is easy to understand.

This book was very helpful to me as it explained the seriousness of the illness.It is a silent illness which is understated by the Medical profession.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is suffering from a B12 deficiency or who suspects this may be an underlying condition.






A must, 20 Jul 2006
An excellent read . A must for everybody interested in diet and health . full of facts , proofs and everything you need to know about vitamin C .

Ascorbate: The Science Of Vitimin C, 30 Jan 2005
:-"Review by Dr Andrew Saul."

"It's not what we don't know that harms us, but what we do know that ain't so." (Eubie blake, 1883-1983)

What is it about a little left-handed molecule of six carbons, six oxygens, and eight hydrogens that ticks off so many in the medical community? Maybe it's cases like this one: Ray, a health professional I know, had an 11-month old son who was very sick for over a week. No one and I mean no one, in their family had had any sleep in a long time. They were up night after night with this child, who had a high fever, glazed watery eyes, tons of thick watery mucus and labored breathing. The child would not sleep, and did little else but cry. The baby was under the care of a pediatrician, who, in the infant's eleven months on earth, had already prescribed twelve rounds of some very serious antibiotics. That they clearly were not working was all too apparent to Ray, who out of desperation decided to try something he previously had been taught to not try: bowel tolerance quantities of oral ascorbate. Ray and his wife gave their baby some vitimin C about every 15 minutes. As a result, the baby was noticeably improved in a matter of hours, and slept through the night. With frequent doses continuing, the child was completely well in 48 hours. Ray calculated that the baby had received just over 2,000 mg vitimin C per kilogram body weight per day. This is even more than what Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner customarily ordered for sick patients. Remarkably, at 20,000 milligrams of vitimin C/day, that 20-pound baby never had diarrhea.

With such a little body, you have to marvel at where all of it was going. Of course, it is the opinion of those who promulgate the US RDA and related nutritional mythology that almost all of that baby's vitimin C went uselessly into the toilet. Ray and his wife would tell you differently. They would say that their sick child soaked it up like a sponge, and then promptly got better.

For the layman unable to obtain intravenous vitimin C, one of the most important parts of Hickey and Roberts'new book, Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C, is its attention to oral administration, divided dosing, absorption, and vitimin C retention time in the bloodstream. With simple graphs and uncomplicated language, the authors illustrate
1) How high oral doses of vitimin C yeild higher blood levels of the vitimin, and
2) How dividing the oral doses maintains those higher levels.
Although initially seeming almost too obvious to mention, these are not self-evident concepts.

Government-based intake standards such as the RDA hinge on ignoring them.

Hickey and Roberts zero in on this serious public health error. Their critical analysis of research studies purporting to justify a mere 100 or 200 mg/day ascorbate dose is worthy of Linus Pauling himself. Dr. Roberts

says: "stressed and even mildly ill people can tolerate 1,000 times more vitimin C, implying a change in biochemistry that was ignored in creating the RDA. The RDA concept does not differentiate between short and long-term effects of deprivation. The possibility that sub-clinical scurvy causes chronic disease has enormous implications for health. In setting the RDA,unsubstantiated risks of taking too much vitimin C have been accorded great importance, whereas the risks of not taking enough have been ignored. Real scientists understand that 'no scientific proof' is a fancy way of saying 'we don't like this idea.' Furthermore, there is no clear mechanism for the RDA to be modified when new scientific evidence emerges."

Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C is a compellingly written, fast-paced inspection of belief-based bias that permeates the scientific method. It is not a tirade; Hickey and Roberts simply tell it the way it is. They are well qualified to do so. Steve Hickey has a PhD in Medical biophysics from the University of Manchester, and spent about ten years in research at the Manchester Medical School and associated hospitals.

Interestingly, he had initially trained as a biologist specializing in pharmacology, later switching to biomechanics and medical physics. In addition to degrees in physiology and computer science, Hilary Roberts' University of Manchester PhD was on the effects of early life malnutrition. She spent ten years in research and teaching at the University.

When asked how he and his coauthor came to write the book, Dr Hickey said:
"Since Linus Pauling's death, there seemed to be a great deal of misinformation. The NIH had performed some questionable experiments and were making the apparently ridiculous statement that blood plasma and tissues became saturated with low doses of vitimin C. There was no mainstream research on high doses and the establishment was making wild extrapolations from their low dose data. We could not see how a clinical trial with 200 mg of vitimin C, for example, could be used to suggest that higher doses were not effective. The work of physicians like Robert Cathcart, Archie Kalokerinos and Abram Hoffer intrigued us. The reported effects, especially of intravenous vitimin C, were astounding. It was difficult to find any reason to explain the lack of scientific follow-up. We had friends and relatives that were sick or dying from diseases that high dose vitimin C was claimed to cure. Eventually we felt we had no choice but to write the book."

Dr. Roberts adds: "Most RDA standards are based on data which was not measured in actual experiments on real people. Even the small amount of data from the 19-30 year old subjects, who were measured, is based on neutrophils, a white blood cell type that is known to have unusual vitimin C biochemistry, along with an exeptional ability to pump the vitimin into itself. Neutrophils have ascorbate levels from 25-60 times that of the surrounding plasma. This cell type is not a reliable model for the whole body."

Additional topics discussed in Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C include infectious disease, oxidation and illness, the safety of vitimin C, and a presentation of the authors' dynamic flow model of continual vitimin C-mediated tissue reduction. The book contains substantial sections devoted to cardiovascular disease, with the welcome inclusion of an efficient discussion of the roles of vitimin E and lysine. Two excellent chapters on cancer take the starch right out of the Mayo Clinic "refutations" of the Pauling/Cameron vitimin C studies. The authors state that Dr. Charles "Moertel's switch to oral doses would clearly have biased the results" even though Pauling "stated clearly that intravenous doses are more effective than oral doses and explained the reasons for the difference."

Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C contains 575 references, and especially good ones. Though not alphabetized, all are keyed to the text with numbered footnotes. For a book this important, the index could be and should be more detailed. A glossary is included for the general reader. All will enjoy the well-selected epigrams that form the chapter lead-in quotes.

The authors expert command of their topic has enabled them to successfully encompass an enormous, and enormously important, subject. To make a 216-page book this comprehensive, and also so exceptionally comprehensible as well, is no small achievement.

I wish I'd had a book of this caliber back in the 1970's when my kids were infants. I raised my children all the way into college without a single dose of any antiviral, antihistamine, or antibiotic. What they did get were megadoses of vitimin C. We, like so many other parents, learned the principles of vitimin C therapy (quantity, frequency, and duration) at our kids'bedsides at three in the morning. Now, the pioneering work of megascorbate orthomolecular physicians has been consisely summarized and very skillfully explained in Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C. It is a thorough, up to date and very readable analysis of what, to some, may still appear to be a controversial topic.

Those who use it know that taking enough C results in three C's: patient comfort, low cost, and parental control. Without necessitating the use of invasive technology, nor the trauma of hospitalization, parents can regain confidence and mastery over illness to a degree that they might never have thought possible. For this reason, vitimin C therapy will, at least in some quarters, continue to be decried and denounced as irresponsible. It takes some real ego strength for a parent to stand firm and say, "This is what I am going to do: I am going to follow the
Klenner/Pauling/Cathcart vitimin C protocol." Hickey and Roberts' review of vitimin C research is a solid buttress that makes such a stance possible. No bias or belief system can withstand their first-rate presentation of the safety and effectiveness of megadoses of ascorbate.

"reprinted with permission from the http//www.doctoryourself.com website. Copyright 2005 and previous years Andrew W. Saul. All rights reserved. Andrew Saul is Contributing Editor for the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and is the author of the book "DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural healing that works."

Everything here, 20 Jul 2006
Everything the health conscious person need to know about magnesium is here . Lots of information , well presented and easy to read .

Could it be B12? An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses, 02 Sep 2007
When I was diagnosed with this illness, I was disappointed to find that there was not many books available on this subject.

I found this book by accident on Amazon and it has been a tremendous help to me.There are medical sections in the book however most of the explanations are in language which is easy to understand.

This book was very helpful to me as it explained the seriousness of the illness.It is a silent illness which is understated by the Medical profession.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is suffering from a B12 deficiency or who suspects this may be an underlying condition.






A must, 20 Jul 2006
An excellent read . A must for everybody interested in diet and health . full of facts , proofs and everything you need to know about vitamin C .

Ascorbate: The Science Of Vitimin C, 30 Jan 2005
:-"Review by Dr Andrew Saul."

"It's not what we don't know that harms us, but what we do know that ain't so." (Eubie blake, 1883-1983)

What is it about a little left-handed molecule of six carbons, six oxygens, and eight hydrogens that ticks off so many in the medical community? Maybe it's cases like this one: Ray, a health professional I know, had an 11-month old son who was very sick for over a week. No one and I mean no one, in their family had had any sleep in a long time. They were up night after night with this child, who had a high fever, glazed watery eyes, tons of thick watery mucus and labored breathing. The child would not sleep, and did little else but cry. The baby was under the care of a pediatrician, who, in the infant's eleven months on earth, had already prescribed twelve rounds of some very serious antibiotics. That they clearly were not working was all too apparent to Ray, who out of desperation decided to try something he previously had been taught to not try: bowel tolerance quantities of oral ascorbate. Ray and his wife gave their baby some vitimin C about every 15 minutes. As a result, the baby was noticeably improved in a matter of hours, and slept through the night. With frequent doses continuing, the child was completely well in 48 hours. Ray calculated that the baby had received just over 2,000 mg vitimin C per kilogram body weight per day. This is even more than what Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner customarily ordered for sick patients. Remarkably, at 20,000 milligrams of vitimin C/day, that 20-pound baby never had diarrhea.

With such a little body, you have to marvel at where all of it was going. Of course, it is the opinion of those who promulgate the US RDA and related nutritional mythology that almost all of that baby's vitimin C went uselessly into the toilet. Ray and his wife would tell you differently. They would say that their sick child soaked it up like a sponge, and then promptly got better.

For the layman unable to obtain intravenous vitimin C, one of the most important parts of Hickey and Roberts'new book, Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C, is its attention to oral administration, divided dosing, absorption, and vitimin C retention time in the bloodstream. With simple graphs and uncomplicated language, the authors illustrate
1) How high oral doses of vitimin C yeild higher blood levels of the vitimin, and
2) How dividing the oral doses maintains those higher levels.
Although initially seeming almost too obvious to mention, these are not self-evident concepts.

Government-based intake standards such as the RDA hinge on ignoring them.

Hickey and Roberts zero in on this serious public health error. Their critical analysis of research studies purporting to justify a mere 100 or 200 mg/day ascorbate dose is worthy of Linus Pauling himself. Dr. Roberts

says: "stressed and even mildly ill people can tolerate 1,000 times more vitimin C, implying a change in biochemistry that was ignored in creating the RDA. The RDA concept does not differentiate between short and long-term effects of deprivation. The possibility that sub-clinical scurvy causes chronic disease has enormous implications for health. In setting the RDA,unsubstantiated risks of taking too much vitimin C have been accorded great importance, whereas the risks of not taking enough have been ignored. Real scientists understand that 'no scientific proof' is a fancy way of saying 'we don't like this idea.' Furthermore, there is no clear mechanism for the RDA to be modified when new scientific evidence emerges."

Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C is a compellingly written, fast-paced inspection of belief-based bias that permeates the scientific method. It is not a tirade; Hickey and Roberts simply tell it the way it is. They are well qualified to do so. Steve Hickey has a PhD in Medical biophysics from the University of Manchester, and spent about ten years in research at the Manchester Medical School and associated hospitals.

Interestingly, he had initially trained as a biologist specializing in pharmacology, later switching to biomechanics and medical physics. In addition to degrees in physiology and computer science, Hilary Roberts' University of Manchester PhD was on the effects of early life malnutrition. She spent ten years in research and teaching at the University.

When asked how he and his coauthor came to write the book, Dr Hickey said:
"Since Linus Pauling's death, there seemed to be a great deal of misinformation. The NIH had performed some questionable experiments and were making the apparently ridiculous statement that blood plasma and tissues became saturated with low doses of vitimin C. There was no mainstream research on high doses and the establishment was making wild extrapolations from their low dose data. We could not see how a clinical trial with 200 mg of vitimin C, for example, could be used to suggest that higher doses were not effective. The work of physicians like Robert Cathcart, Archie Kalokerinos and Abram Hoffer intrigued us. The reported effects, especially of intravenous vitimin C, were astounding. It was difficult to find any reason to explain the lack of scientific follow-up. We had friends and relatives that were sick or dying from diseases that high dose vitimin C was claimed to cure. Eventually we felt we had no choice but to write the book."

Dr. Roberts adds: "Most RDA standards are based on data which was not measured in actual experiments on real people. Even the small amount of data from the 19-30 year old subjects, who were measured, is based on neutrophils, a white blood cell type that is known to have unusual vitimin C biochemistry, along with an exeptional ability to pump the vitimin into itself. Neutrophils have ascorbate levels from 25-60 times that of the surrounding plasma. This cell type is not a reliable model for the whole body."

Additional topics discussed in Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C include infectious disease, oxidation and illness, the safety of vitimin C, and a presentation of the authors' dynamic flow model of continual vitimin C-mediated tissue reduction. The book contains substantial sections devoted to cardiovascular disease, with the welcome inclusion of an efficient discussion of the roles of vitimin E and lysine. Two excellent chapters on cancer take the starch right out of the Mayo Clinic "refutations" of the Pauling/Cameron vitimin C studies. The authors state that Dr. Charles "Moertel's switch to oral doses would clearly have biased the results" even though Pauling "stated clearly that intravenous doses are more effective than oral doses and explained the reasons for the difference."

Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C contains 575 references, and especially good ones. Though not alphabetized, all are keyed to the text with numbered footnotes. For a book this important, the index could be and should be more detailed. A glossary is included for the general reader. All will enjoy the well-selected epigrams that form the chapter lead-in quotes.

The authors expert command of their topic has enabled them to successfully encompass an enormous, and enormously important, subject. To make a 216-page book this comprehensive, and also so exceptionally comprehensible as well, is no small achievement.

I wish I'd had a book of this caliber back in the 1970's when my kids were infants. I raised my children all the way into college without a single dose of any antiviral, antihistamine, or antibiotic. What they did get were megadoses of vitimin C. We, like so many other parents, learned the principles of vitimin C therapy (quantity, frequency, and duration) at our kids'bedsides at three in the morning. Now, the pioneering work of megascorbate orthomolecular physicians has been consisely summarized and very skillfully explained in Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C. It is a thorough, up to date and very readable analysis of what, to some, may still appear to be a controversial topic.

Those who use it know that taking enough C results in three C's: patient comfort, low cost, and parental control. Without necessitating the use of invasive technology, nor the trauma of hospitalization, parents can regain confidence and mastery over illness to a degree that they might never have thought possible. For this reason, vitimin C therapy will, at least in some quarters, continue to be decried and denounced as irresponsible. It takes some real ego strength for a parent to stand firm and say, "This is what I am going to do: I am going to follow the
Klenner/Pauling/Cathcart vitimin C protocol." Hickey and Roberts' review of vitimin C research is a solid buttress that makes such a stance possible. No bias or belief system can withstand their first-rate presentation of the safety and effectiveness of megadoses of ascorbate.

"reprinted with permission from the http//www.doctoryourself.com website. Copyright 2005 and previous years Andrew W. Saul. All rights reserved. Andrew Saul is Contributing Editor for the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and is the author of the book "DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural healing that works."

Everything here, 20 Jul 2006
Everything the health conscious person need to know about magnesium is here . Lots of information , well presented and easy to read .

Well-written overview of the role of homocysteine in CVD, 01 May 2002
McCully is a pioneer in understanding the causes of heart disease and for pinpointing the importance of keeping homocysteine levels low, not only for avoiding heart disease, but in general to reduce free radical damage. He advocates a healthy diet as a basis and supplements when needed, arguing that a paleolithic fare would be the ideal. Two points do not seem logical: He does play down the importance of healthy fat in the etiology of heart disease, the unhealthy fats being trans fatty acids and peroxidized fats. In spite of this he recommends keeping the fat intake below 35% of energy, in my mind not warrented by the fact that CVD-free Inuits may ingest as much as 80% of their energy as fats. His preference for paleo diets does not prevent him from recommending whole grains, known to contain lectins which may damage our health, even if he mentiones the fact that Homo sapiens cannot have adapted to grains since the beginning of agriculture only 10.000 years ago. This much said, the book is highly recommended for its clarity of thought and for letting us in on the sad state of affairs in scientific circles, preventing truth to prevail over dogma.
Dag Viljen Poleszynski, PhD

An Excellent book to read. I recommend it to everyone., 01 May 1999
For those interested in the politics of medicine, the latest research on heart disease, and the role that vitamins and nutrition affect your health this is a must read book. It was overall easy for a lay person to follow and explained alot of medical concepts clearly. I was impressed. Thank you Dr. Mcully for making this important contribution to health sciences.

Logical information presented in understandable prose., 17 Jul 1998
Excellent information presented clearly. The diet suggestions offered in the book are logical and pleasant to follow. The difficulties the author faced in getting his ideas accepted offer a lesson in perserverance. I have given copies to several family members.

Could it be B12? An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses, 02 Sep 2007
When I was diagnosed with this illness, I was disappointed to find that there was not many books available on this subject.

I found this book by accident on Amazon and it has been a tremendous help to me.There are medical sections in the book however most of the explanations are in language which is easy to understand.

This book was very helpful to me as it explained the seriousness of the illness.It is a silent illness which is understated by the Medical profession.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is suffering from a B12 deficiency or who suspects this may be an underlying condition.






A must, 20 Jul 2006
An excellent read . A must for everybody interested in diet and health . full of facts , proofs and everything you need to know about vitamin C .

Ascorbate: The Science Of Vitimin C, 30 Jan 2005
:-"Review by Dr Andrew Saul."

"It's not what we don't know that harms us, but what we do know that ain't so." (Eubie blake, 1883-1983)

What is it about a little left-handed molecule of six carbons, six oxygens, and eight hydrogens that ticks off so many in the medical community? Maybe it's cases like this one: Ray, a health professional I know, had an 11-month old son who was very sick for over a week. No one and I mean no one, in their family had had any sleep in a long time. They were up night after night with this child, who had a high fever, glazed watery eyes, tons of thick watery mucus and labored breathing. The child would not sleep, and did little else but cry. The baby was under the care of a pediatrician, who, in the infant's eleven months on earth, had already prescribed twelve rounds of some very serious antibiotics. That they clearly were not working was all too apparent to Ray, who out of desperation decided to try something he previously had been taught to not try: bowel tolerance quantities of oral ascorbate. Ray and his wife gave their baby some vitimin C about every 15 minutes. As a result, the baby was noticeably improved in a matter of hours, and slept through the night. With frequent doses continuing, the child was completely well in 48 hours. Ray calculated that the baby had received just over 2,000 mg vitimin C per kilogram body weight per day. This is even more than what Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner customarily ordered for sick patients. Remarkably, at 20,000 milligrams of vitimin C/day, that 20-pound baby never had diarrhea.

With such a little body, you have to marvel at where all of it was going. Of course, it is the opinion of those who promulgate the US RDA and related nutritional mythology that almost all of that baby's vitimin C went uselessly into the toilet. Ray and his wife would tell you differently. They would say that their sick child soaked it up like a sponge, and then promptly got better.

For the layman unable to obtain intravenous vitimin C, one of the most important parts of Hickey and Roberts'new book, Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C, is its attention to oral administration, divided dosing, absorption, and vitimin C retention time in the bloodstream. With simple graphs and uncomplicated language, the authors illustrate
1) How high oral doses of vitimin C yeild higher blood levels of the vitimin, and
2) How dividing the oral doses maintains those higher levels.
Although initially seeming almost too obvious to mention, these are not self-evident concepts.

Government-based intake standards such as the RDA hinge on ignoring them.

Hickey and Roberts zero in on this serious public health error. Their critical analysis of research studies purporting to justify a mere 100 or 200 mg/day ascorbate dose is worthy of Linus Pauling himself. Dr. Roberts

says: "stressed and even mildly ill people can tolerate 1,000 times more vitimin C, implying a change in biochemistry that was ignored in creating the RDA. The RDA concept does not differentiate between short and long-term effects of deprivation. The possibility that sub-clinical scurvy causes chronic disease has enormous implications for health. In setting the RDA,unsubstantiated risks of taking too much vitimin C have been accorded great importance, whereas the risks of not taking enough have been ignored. Real scientists understand that 'no scientific proof' is a fancy way of saying 'we don't like this idea.' Furthermore, there is no clear mechanism for the RDA to be modified when new scientific evidence emerges."

Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C is a compellingly written, fast-paced inspection of belief-based bias that permeates the scientific method. It is not a tirade; Hickey and Roberts simply tell it the way it is. They are well qualified to do so. Steve Hickey has a PhD in Medical biophysics from the University of Manchester, and spent about ten years in research at the Manchester Medical School and associated hospitals.

Interestingly, he had initially trained as a biologist specializing in pharmacology, later switching to biomechanics and medical physics. In addition to degrees in physiology and computer science, Hilary Roberts' University of Manchester PhD was on the effects of early life malnutrition. She spent ten years in research and teaching at the University.

When asked how he and his coauthor came to write the book, Dr Hickey said:
"Since Linus Pauling's death, there seemed to be a great deal of misinformation. The NIH had performed some questionable experiments and were making the apparently ridiculous statement that blood plasma and tissues became saturated with low doses of vitimin C. There was no mainstream research on high doses and the establishment was making wild extrapolations from their low dose data. We could not see how a clinical trial with 200 mg of vitimin C, for example, could be used to suggest that higher doses were not effective. The work of physicians like Robert Cathcart, Archie Kalokerinos and Abram Hoffer intrigued us. The reported effects, especially of intravenous vitimin C, were astounding. It was difficult to find any reason to explain the lack of scientific follow-up. We had friends and relatives that were sick or dying from diseases that high dose vitimin C was claimed to cure. Eventually we felt we had no choice but to write the book."

Dr. Roberts adds: "Most RDA standards are based on data which was not measured in actual experiments on real people. Even the small amount of data from the 19-30 year old subjects, who were measured, is based on neutrophils, a white blood cell type that is known to have unusual vitimin C biochemistry, along with an exeptional ability to pump the vitimin into itself. Neutrophils have ascorbate levels from 25-60 times that of the surrounding plasma. This cell type is not a reliable model for the whole body."

Additional topics discussed in Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C include infectious disease, oxidation and illness, the safety of vitimin C, and a presentation of the authors' dynamic flow model of continual vitimin C-mediated tissue reduction. The book contains substantial sections devoted to cardiovascular disease, with the welcome inclusion of an efficient discussion of the roles of vitimin E and lysine. Two excellent chapters on cancer take the starch right out of the Mayo Clinic "refutations" of the Pauling/Cameron vitimin C studies. The authors state that Dr. Charles "Moertel's switch to oral doses would clearly have biased the results" even though Pauling "stated clearly that intravenous doses are more effective than oral doses and explained the reasons for the difference."

Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C contains 575 references, and especially good ones. Though not alphabetized, all are keyed to the text with numbered footnotes. For a book this important, the index could be and should be more detailed. A glossary is included for the general reader. All will enjoy the well-selected epigrams that form the chapter lead-in quotes.

The authors expert command of their topic has enabled them to successfully encompass an enormous, and enormously important, subject. To make a 216-page book this comprehensive, and also so exceptionally comprehensible as well, is no small achievement.

I wish I'd had a book of this caliber back in the 1970's when my kids were infants. I raised my children all the way into college without a single dose of any antiviral, antihistamine, or antibiotic. What they did get were megadoses of vitimin C. We, like so many other parents, learned the principles of vitimin C therapy (quantity, frequency, and duration) at our kids'bedsides at three in the morning. Now, the pioneering work of megascorbate orthomolecular physicians has been consisely summarized and very skillfully explained in Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C. It is a thorough, up to date and very readable analysis of what, to some, may still appear to be a controversial topic.

Those who use it know that taking enough C results in three C's: patient comfort, low cost, and parental control. Without necessitating the use of invasive technology, nor the trauma of hospitalization, parents can regain confidence and mastery over illness to a degree that they might never have thought possible. For this reason, vitimin C therapy will, at least in some quarters, continue to be decried and denounced as irresponsible. It takes some real ego strength for a parent to stand firm and say, "This is what I am going to do: I am going to follow the
Klenner/Pauling/Cathcart vitimin C protocol." Hickey and Roberts' review of vitimin C research is a solid buttress that makes such a stance possible. No bias or belief system can withstand their first-rate presentation of the safety and effectiveness of megadoses of ascorbate.

"reprinted with permission from the http//www.doctoryourself.com website. Copyright 2005 and previous years Andrew W. Saul. All rights reserved. Andrew Saul is Contributing Editor for the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and is the author of the book "DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural healing that works."

Everything here, 20 Jul 2006
Everything the health conscious person need to know about magnesium is here . Lots of information , well presented and easy to read .

Well-written overview of the role of homocysteine in CVD, 01 May 2002
McCully is a pioneer in understanding the causes of heart disease and for pinpointing the importance of keeping homocysteine levels low, not only for avoiding heart disease, but in general to reduce free radical damage. He advocates a healthy diet as a basis and supplements when needed, arguing that a paleolithic fare would be the ideal. Two points do not seem logical: He does play down the importance of healthy fat in the etiology of heart disease, the unhealthy fats being trans fatty acids and peroxidized fats. In spite of this he recommends keeping the fat intake below 35% of energy, in my mind not warrented by the fact that CVD-free Inuits may ingest as much as 80% of their energy as fats. His preference for paleo diets does not prevent him from recommending whole grains, known to contain lectins which may damage our health, even if he mentiones the fact that Homo sapiens cannot have adapted to grains since the beginning of agriculture only 10.000 years ago. This much said, the book is highly recommended for its clarity of thought and for letting us in on the sad state of affairs in scientific circles, preventing truth to prevail over dogma.
Dag Viljen Poleszynski, PhD

An Excellent book to read. I recommend it to everyone., 01 May 1999
For those interested in the politics of medicine, the latest research on heart disease, and the role that vitamins and nutrition affect your health this is a must read book. It was overall easy for a lay person to follow and explained alot of medical concepts clearly. I was impressed. Thank you Dr. Mcully for making this important contribution to health sciences.

Logical information presented in understandable prose., 17 Jul 1998
Excellent information presented clearly. The diet suggestions offered in the book are logical and pleasant to follow. The difficulties the author faced in getting his ideas accepted offer a lesson in perserverance. I have given copies to several family members.

A LONG OVER-DUE INTELLIGENT APPRAISAL OF SUNSHINE., 26 Aug 2003
At long last! An intelligently researched and cogently presented argument which systematically challenges the often questionable propaganda of the vested-interests-based cosmetics industry - responsible for distorting the general public's attitude to the sun and its health-giving poweers for far too long.
Richard Hobday is to be applauded loud and long for taking this whole issue to task and patiently working through the arguments, citing specific experience, research programmes, and case histories, of which so much appears to have been shamefully forgotten or overlooked by so many in the medical professions.
His patient rationalisations calmly counter the paranoid priests of solar fear who have all too often cynically set out to bury the once commonly accepted awareness of the vital healthiness of sunlight - purely in the interests of their often questionable(in terms of chemical content), over-priced, so-called 'sun-screen' products.
Read this book and you can once again liberate your mind and body to the (sensible) benefits of life in the most fundamental, naturally life-giving, energy and health source in our SOLAR system.

The definitive work on sunlight and health., 23 Jan 2000
This is a "must read book" if you want to be healthy. Why? Because it brings the balance back into the unbalanced argument that the sun is dangerous to our health and should be avoided or blocked at all costs.

Perhaps for the first time, all the most important results of research in the field of health and the sun have been brought together into one document and the conclusions are startling.

Lack of sunlight can increase your chances of getting heart disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, decaying teeth, psoriasis and cancer (breast, colon, ovarian and prostate).

Sun bathing safely allows your body to generate vitamin D - crucial to a healthy immune system.

Long term exposure to artificial lighting can have potentially harmful health effects. Office workers who spend most of their year under artificial light and then have short periods of intense sunlight when they go on holiday can be at particular risk.

Use of sunscreens and lack of respect for the sun can leave you open to health problems.

Sunlight kills bacteria - even through glass.

You are more likely to recover from a heart attack in a sunlit hospital ward.

Moderate and controlled sunbathing should be part of a beneficial health regime, acting as a preventative medicine. Knowing when and how to sunbathe is the key.

This book tells you how to sunbathe safely and get maximum benefit.

Could it be B12? An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses, 02 Sep 2007
When I was diagnosed with this illness, I was disappointed to find that there was not many books available on this subject.

I found this book by accident on Amazon and it has been a tremendous help to me.There are medical sections in the book however most of the explanations are in language which is easy to understand.

This book was very helpful to me as it explained the seriousness of the illness.It is a silent illness which is understated by the Medical profession.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is suffering from a B12 deficiency or who suspects this may be an underlying condition.






A must, 20 Jul 2006
An excellent read . A must for everybody interested in diet and health . full of facts , proofs and everything you need to know about vitamin C .

Ascorbate: The Science Of Vitimin C, 30 Jan 2005
:-"Review by Dr Andrew Saul."

"It's not what we don't know that harms us, but what we do know that ain't so." (Eubie blake, 1883-1983)

What is it about a little left-handed molecule of six carbons, six oxygens, and eight hydrogens that ticks off so many in the medical community? Maybe it's cases like this one: Ray, a health professional I know, had an 11-month old son who was very sick for over a week. No one and I mean no one, in their family had had any sleep in a long time. They were up night after night with this child, who had a high fever, glazed watery eyes, tons of thick watery mucus and labored breathing. The child would not sleep, and did little else but cry. The baby was under the care of a pediatrician, who, in the infant's eleven months on earth, had already prescribed twelve rounds of some very serious antibiotics. That they clearly were not working was all too apparent to Ray, who out of desperation decided to try something he previously had been taught to not try: bowel tolerance quantities of oral ascorbate. Ray and his wife gave their baby some vitimin C about every 15 minutes. As a result, the baby was noticeably improved in a matter of hours, and slept through the night. With frequent doses continuing, the child was completely well in 48 hours. Ray calculated that the baby had received just over 2,000 mg vitimin C per kilogram body weight per day. This is even more than what Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner customarily ordered for sick patients. Remarkably, at 20,000 milligrams of vitimin C/day, that 20-pound baby never had diarrhea.

With such a little body, you have to marvel at where all of it was going. Of course, it is the opinion of those who promulgate the US RDA and related nutritional mythology that almost all of that baby's vitimin C went uselessly into the toilet. Ray and his wife would tell you differently. They would say that their sick child soaked it up like a sponge, and then promptly got better.

For the layman unable to obtain intravenous vitimin C, one of the most important parts of Hickey and Roberts'new book, Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C, is its attention to oral administration, divided dosing, absorption, and vitimin C retention time in the bloodstream. With simple graphs and uncomplicated language, the authors illustrate
1) How high oral doses of vitimin C yeild higher blood levels of the vitimin, and
2) How dividing the oral doses maintains those higher levels.
Although initially seeming almost too obvious to mention, these are not self-evident concepts.

Government-based intake standards such as the RDA hinge on ignoring them.

Hickey and Roberts zero in on this serious public health error. Their critical analysis of research studies purporting to justify a mere 100 or 200 mg/day ascorbate dose is worthy of Linus Pauling himself. Dr. Roberts

says: "stressed and even mildly ill people can tolerate 1,000 times more vitimin C, implying a change in biochemistry that was ignored in creating the RDA. The RDA concept does not differentiate between short and long-term effects of deprivation. The possibility that sub-clinical scurvy causes chronic disease has enormous implications for health. In setting the RDA,unsubstantiated risks of taking too much vitimin C have been accorded great importance, whereas the risks of not taking enough have been ignored. Real scientists understand that 'no scientific proof' is a fancy way of saying 'we don't like this idea.' Furthermore, there is no clear mechanism for the RDA to be modified when new scientific evidence emerges."

Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C is a compellingly written, fast-paced inspection of belief-based bias that permeates the scientific method. It is not a tirade; Hickey and Roberts simply tell it the way it is. They are well qualified to do so. Steve Hickey has a PhD in Medical biophysics from the University of Manchester, and spent about ten years in research at the Manchester Medical School and associated hospitals.

Interestingly, he had initially trained as a biologist specializing in pharmacology, later switching to biomechanics and medical physics. In addition to degrees in physiology and computer science, Hilary Roberts' University of Manchester PhD was on the effects of early life malnutrition. She spent ten years in research and teaching at the University.

When asked how he and his coauthor came to write the book, Dr Hickey said:
"Since Linus Pauling's death, there seemed to be a great deal of misinformation. The NIH had performed some questionable experiments and were making the apparently ridiculous statement that blood plasma and tissues became saturated with low doses of vitimin C. There was no mainstream research on high doses and the establishment was making wild extrapolations from their low dose data. We could not see how a clinical trial with 200 mg of vitimin C, for example, could be used to suggest that higher doses were not effective. The work of physicians like Robert Cathcart, Archie Kalokerinos and Abram Hoffer intrigued us. The reported effects, especially of intravenous vitimin C, were astounding. It was difficult to find any reason to explain the lack of scientific follow-up. We had friends and relatives that were sick or dying from diseases that high dose vitimin C was claimed to cure. Eventually we felt we had no choice but to write the book."

Dr. Roberts adds: "Most RDA standards are based on data which was not measured in actual experiments on real people. Even the small amount of data from the 19-30 year old subjects, who were measured, is based on neutrophils, a white blood cell type that is known to have unusual vitimin C biochemistry, along with an exeptional ability to pump the vitimin into itself. Neutrophils have ascorbate levels from 25-60 times that of the surrounding plasma. This cell type is not a reliable model for the whole body."

Additional topics discussed in Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C include infectious disease, oxidation and illness, the safety of vitimin C, and a presentation of the authors' dynamic flow model of continual vitimin C-mediated tissue reduction. The book contains substantial sections devoted to cardiovascular disease, with the welcome inclusion of an efficient discussion of the roles of vitimin E and lysine. Two excellent chapters on cancer take the starch right out of the Mayo Clinic "refutations" of the Pauling/Cameron vitimin C studies. The authors state that Dr. Charles "Moertel's switch to oral doses would clearly have biased the results" even though Pauling "stated clearly that intravenous doses are more effective than oral doses and explained the reasons for the difference."

Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C contains 575 references, and especially good ones. Though not alphabetized, all are keyed to the text with numbered footnotes. For a book this important, the index could be and should be more detailed. A glossary is included for the general reader. All will enjoy the well-selected epigrams that form the chapter lead-in quotes.

The authors expert command of their topic has enabled them to successfully encompass an enormous, and enormously important, subject. To make a 216-page book this comprehensive, and also so exceptionally comprehensible as well, is no small achievement.

I wish I'd had a book of this caliber back in the 1970's when my kids were infants. I raised my children all the way into college without a single dose of any antiviral, antihistamine, or antibiotic. What they did get were megadoses of vitimin C. We, like so many other parents, learned the principles of vitimin C therapy (quantity, frequency, and duration) at our kids'bedsides at three in the morning. Now, the pioneering work of megascorbate orthomolecular physicians has been consisely summarized and very skillfully explained in Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C. It is a thorough, up to date and very readable analysis of what, to some, may still appear to be a controversial topic.

Those who use it know that taking enough C results in three C's: patient comfort, low cost, and parental control. Without necessitating the use of invasive technology, nor the trauma of hospitalization, parents can regain confidence and mastery over illness to a degree that they might never have thought possible. For this reason, vitimin C therapy will, at least in some quarters, continue to be decried and denounced as irresponsible. It takes some real ego strength for a parent to stand firm and say, "This is what I am going to do: I am going to follow the
Klenner/Pauling/Cathcart vitimin C protocol." Hickey and Roberts' review of vitimin C research is a solid buttress that makes such a stance possible. No bias or belief system can withstand their first-rate presentation of the safety and effectiveness of megadoses of ascorbate.

"reprinted with permission from the http//www.doctoryourself.com website. Copyright 2005 and previous years Andrew W. Saul. All rights reserved. Andrew Saul is Contributing Editor for the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and is the author of the book "DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural healing that works."

Everything here, 20 Jul 2006
Everything the health conscious person need to know about magnesium is here . Lots of information , well presented and easy to read .

Well-written overview of the role of homocysteine in CVD, 01 May 2002
McCully is a pioneer in understanding the causes of heart disease and for pinpointing the importance of keeping homocysteine levels low, not only for avoiding heart disease, but in general to reduce free radical damage. He advocates a healthy diet as a basis and supplements when needed, arguing that a paleolithic fare would be the ideal. Two points do not seem logical: He does play down the importance of healthy fat in the etiology of heart disease, the unhealthy fats being trans fatty acids and peroxidized fats. In spite of this he recommends keeping the fat intake below 35% of energy, in my mind not warrented by the fact that CVD-free Inuits may ingest as much as 80% of their energy as fats. His preference for paleo diets does not prevent him from recommending whole grains, known to contain lectins which may damage our health, even if he mentiones the fact that Homo sapiens cannot have adapted to grains since the beginning of agriculture only 10.000 years ago. This much said, the book is highly recommended for its clarity of thought and for letting us in on the sad state of affairs in scientific circles, preventing truth to prevail over dogma.
Dag Viljen Poleszynski, PhD

An Excellent book to read. I recommend it to everyone., 01 May 1999
For those interested in the politics of medicine, the latest research on heart disease, and the role that vitamins and nutrition affect your health this is a must read book. It was overall easy for a lay person to follow and explained alot of medical concepts clearly. I was impressed. Thank you Dr. Mcully for making this important contribution to health sciences.

Logical information presented in understandable prose., 17 Jul 1998
Excellent information presented clearly. The diet suggestions offered in the book are logical and pleasant to follow. The difficulties the author faced in getting his ideas accepted offer a lesson in perserverance. I have given copies to several family members.

A LONG OVER-DUE INTELLIGENT APPRAISAL OF SUNSHINE., 26 Aug 2003
At long last! An intelligently researched and cogently presented argument which systematically challenges the often questionable propaganda of the vested-interests-based cosmetics industry - responsible for distorting the general public's attitude to the sun and its health-giving poweers for far too long.
Richard Hobday is to be applauded loud and long for taking this whole issue to task and patiently working through the arguments, citing specific experience, research programmes, and case histories, of which so much appears to have been shamefully forgotten or overlooked by so many in the medical professions.
His patient rationalisations calmly counter the paranoid priests of solar fear who have all too often cynically set out to bury the once commonly accepted awareness of the vital healthiness of sunlight - purely in the interests of their often questionable(in terms of chemical content), over-priced, so-called 'sun-screen' products.
Read this book and you can once again liberate your mind and body to the (sensible) benefits of life in the most fundamental, naturally life-giving, energy and health source in our SOLAR system.

The definitive work on sunlight and health., 23 Jan 2000
This is a "must read book" if you want to be healthy. Why? Because it brings the balance back into the unbalanced argument that the sun is dangerous to our health and should be avoided or blocked at all costs.

Perhaps for the first time, all the most important results of research in the field of health and the sun have been brought together into one document and the conclusions are startling.

Lack of sunlight can increase your chances of getting heart disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, decaying teeth, psoriasis and cancer (breast, colon, ovarian and prostate).

Sun bathing safely allows your body to generate vitamin D - crucial to a healthy immune system.

Long term exposure to artificial lighting can have potentially harmful health effects. Office workers who spend most of their year under artificial light and then have short periods of intense sunlight when they go on holiday can be at particular risk.

Use of sunscreens and lack of respect for the sun can leave you open to health problems.

Sunlight kills bacteria - even through glass.

You are more likely to recover from a heart attack in a sunlit hospital ward.

Moderate and controlled sunbathing should be part of a beneficial health regime, acting as a preventative medicine. Knowing when and how to sunbathe is the key.

This book tells you how to sunbathe safely and get maximum benefit.

A must for all health nuts, 25 Dec 2007
An absolute must for any self respecting health nut. Should be required reading for all in the medical profession.

Most Comprehensive Enzyme Therapy Book for lay & docs, 20 Apr 1999
This magnificent piece of work is a fantastic resource. It contains information on every imaginable enzyme known to be therapeutic as well as actions, benefits, contraindications, etc. Along with suppliers and clinicians. A "Must-Have" for doctors interested in getting their patients well. A loving, easy to read thorough work...Thank You Dr. Cichoke! I will use this in my practice and my ed classes.

Dr. Carolyn Bormann Arrowhead Healthworks www.js-net.com/ahw drcnb@js-net.com

Could it be B12? An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses, 02 Sep 2007
When I was diagnosed with this illness, I was disappointed to find that there was not many books available on this subject.

I found this book by accident on Amazon and it has been a tremendous help to me.There are medical sections in the book however most of the explanations are in language which is easy to understand.

This book was very helpful to me as it explained the seriousness of the illness.It is a silent illness which is understated by the Medical profession.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is suffering from a B12 deficiency or who suspects this may be an underlying condition.






A must, 20 Jul 2006
An excellent read . A must for everybody interested in diet and health . full of facts , proofs and everything you need to know about vitamin C .

Ascorbate: The Science Of Vitimin C, 30 Jan 2005
:-"Review by Dr Andrew Saul."

"It's not what we don't know that harms us, but what we do know that ain't so." (Eubie blake, 1883-1983)

What is it about a little left-handed molecule of six carbons, six oxygens, and eight hydrogens that ticks off so many in the medical community? Maybe it's cases like this one: Ray, a health professional I know, had an 11-month old son who was very sick for over a week. No one and I mean no one, in their family had had any sleep in a long time. They were up night after night with this child, who had a high fever, glazed watery eyes, tons of thick watery mucus and labored breathing. The child would not sleep, and did little else but cry. The baby was under the care of a pediatrician, who, in the infant's eleven months on earth, had already prescribed twelve rounds of some very serious antibiotics. That they clearly were not working was all too apparent to Ray, who out of desperation decided to try something he previously had been taught to not try: bowel tolerance quantities of oral ascorbate. Ray and his wife gave their baby some vitimin C about every 15 minutes. As a result, the baby was noticeably improved in a matter of hours, and slept through the night. With frequent doses continuing, the child was completely well in 48 hours. Ray calculated that the baby had received just over 2,000 mg vitimin C per kilogram body weight per day. This is even more than what Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner customarily ordered for sick patients. Remarkably, at 20,000 milligrams of vitimin C/day, that 20-pound baby never had diarrhea.

With such a little body, you have to marvel at where all of it was going. Of course, it is the opinion of those who promulgate the US RDA and related nutritional mythology that almost all of that baby's vitimin C went uselessly into the toilet. Ray and his wife would tell you differently. They would say that their sick child soaked it up like a sponge, and then promptly got better.

For the layman unable to obtain intravenous vitimin C, one of the most important parts of Hickey and Roberts'new book, Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C, is its attention to oral administration, divided dosing, absorption, and vitimin C retention time in the bloodstream. With simple graphs and uncomplicated language, the authors illustrate
1) How high oral doses of vitimin C yeild higher blood levels of the vitimin, and
2) How dividing the oral doses maintains those higher levels.
Although initially seeming almost too obvious to mention, these are not self-evident concepts.

Government-based intake standards such as the RDA hinge on ignoring them.

Hickey and Roberts zero in on this serious public health error. Their critical analysis of research studies purporting to justify a mere 100 or 200 mg/day ascorbate dose is worthy of Linus Pauling himself. Dr. Roberts

says: "stressed and even mildly ill people can tolerate 1,000 times more vitimin C, implying a change in biochemistry that was ignored in creating the RDA. The RDA concept does not differentiate between short and long-term effects of deprivation. The possibility that sub-clinical scurvy causes chronic disease has enormous implications for health. In setting the RDA,unsubstantiated risks of taking too much vitimin C have been accorded great importance, whereas the risks of not taking enough have been ignored. Real scientists understand that 'no scientific proof' is a fancy way of saying 'we don't like this idea.' Furthermore, there is no clear mechanism for the RDA to be modified when new scientific evidence emerges."

Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C is a compellingly written, fast-paced inspection of belief-based bias that permeates the scientific method. It is not a tirade; Hickey and Roberts simply tell it the way it is. They are well qualified to do so. Steve Hickey has a PhD in Medical biophysics from the University of Manchester, and spent about ten years in research at the Manchester Medical School and associated hospitals.

Interestingly, he had initially trained as a biologist specializing in pharmacology, later switching to biomechanics and medical physics. In addition to degrees in physiology and computer science, Hilary Roberts' University of Manchester PhD was on the effects of early life malnutrition. She spent ten years in research and teaching at the University.

When asked how he and his coauthor came to write the book, Dr Hickey said:
"Since Linus Pauling's death, there seemed to be a great deal of misinformation. The NIH had performed some questionable experiments and were making the apparently ridiculous statement that blood plasma and tissues became saturated with low doses of vitimin C. There was no mainstream research on high doses and the establishment was making wild extrapolations from their low dose data. We could not see how a clinical trial with 200 mg of vitimin C, for example, could be used to suggest that higher doses were not effective. The work of physicians like Robert Cathcart, Archie Kalokerinos and Abram Hoffer intrigued us. The reported effects, especially of intravenous vitimin C, were astounding. It was difficult to find any reason to explain the lack of scientific follow-up. We had friends and relatives that were sick or dying from diseases that high dose vitimin C was claimed to cure. Eventually we felt we had no choice but to write the book."

Dr. Roberts adds: "Most RDA standards are based on data which was not measured in actual experiments on real people. Even the small amount of data from the 19-30 year old subjects, who were measured, is based on neutrophils, a white blood cell type that is known to have unusual vitimin C biochemistry, along with an exeptional ability to pump the vitimin into itself. Neutrophils have ascorbate levels from 25-60 times that of the surrounding plasma. This cell type is not a reliable model for the whole body."

Additional topics discussed in Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C include infectious disease, oxidation and illness, the safety of vitimin C, and a presentation of the authors' dynamic flow model of continual vitimin C-mediated tissue reduction. The book contains substantial sections devoted to cardiovascular disease, with the welcome inclusion of an efficient discussion of the roles of vitimin E and lysine. Two excellent chapters on cancer take the starch right out of the Mayo Clinic "refutations" of the Pauling/Cameron vitimin C studies. The authors state that Dr. Charles "Moertel's switch to oral doses would clearly have biased the results" even though Pauling "stated clearly that intravenous doses are more effective than oral doses and explained the reasons for the difference."

Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C contains 575 references, and especially good ones. Though not alphabetized, all are keyed to the text with numbered footnotes. For a book this important, the index could be and should be more detailed. A glossary is included for the general reader. All will enjoy the well-selected epigrams that form the chapter lead-in quotes.

The authors expert command of their topic has enabled them to successfully encompass an enormous, and enormously important, subject. To make a 216-page book this comprehensive, and also so exceptionally comprehensible as well, is no small achievement.

I wish I'd had a book of this caliber back in the 1970's when my kids were infants. I raised my children all the way into college without a single dose of any antiviral, antihistamine, or antibiotic. What they did get were megadoses of vitimin C. We, like so many other parents, learned the principles of vitimin C therapy (quantity, frequency, and duration) at our kids'bedsides at three in the morning. Now, the pioneering work of megascorbate orthomolecular physicians has been consisely summarized and very skillfully explained in Ascorbate: The Science of Vitimin C. It is a thorough, up to date and very readable analysis of what, to some, may still appear to be a controversial topic.

Those who use it know that taking enough C results in three C's: patient comfort, low cost, and parental control. Without necessitating the use of invasive technology, nor the trauma of hospitalization, parents can regain confidence and mastery over illness to a degree that they might never have thought possible. For this reason, vitimin C therapy will, at least in some quarters, continue to be decried and denounced as irresponsible. It takes some real ego strength for a parent to stand firm and say, "This is what I am going to do: I am going to follow the
Klenner/Pauling/Cathcart vitimin C protocol." Hickey and Roberts' review of vitimin C research is a solid buttress that makes such a stance possible. No bias or belief system can withstand their first-rate presentation of the safety and effectiveness of megadoses of ascorbate.

"reprinted with permission from the http//www.doctoryourself.com website. Copyright 2005 and previous years Andrew W. Saul. All rights reserved. Andrew Saul is Contributing Editor for the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and is the author of the book "DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural healing that works."

Everything here, 20 Jul 2006
Everything the health conscious person need to know about magnesium is here . Lots of information , well presented and easy to read .

Well-written overview of the role of homocysteine in CVD, 01 May 2002
McCully is a pioneer in understanding the causes of heart disease and for pinpointing the importance of keeping homocysteine levels low, not only for avoiding heart disease, but in general to reduce free radical damage. He advocates a healthy diet as a basis and supplements when needed, arguing that a paleolithic fare would be the ideal. Two points do not seem logical: He does play down the importance of healthy fat in the etiology of heart disease, the unhealthy fats being trans fatty acids and peroxidized fats. In spite of this he recommends keeping the fat intake below 35% of energy, in my mind not warrented by the fact that CVD-free Inuits may ingest as much as 80% of their energy as fats. His preference for paleo diets does not prevent him from recommending whole grains, known to contain lectins which may damage our health, even if he mentiones the fact that Homo sapiens cannot have adapted to grains since the beginning of agriculture only 10.000 years ago. This much said, the book is highly recommended for its clarity of thought and for letting us in on the sad state of affairs in scientific circles, preventing truth to prevail over dogma.
Dag Viljen Poleszynski, PhD

An Excellent book to read. I recommend it to everyone., 01 May 1999
For those interested in the politics of medicine, the latest research on heart disease, and the role that vitamins and nutrition affect your health this is a must read book. It was overall easy for a lay person to follow and explained alot of medical concepts clearly. I was impressed. Thank you Dr. Mcully for making this important contribution to health sciences.

Logical information presented in understandable prose., 17 Jul 1998
Excellent information presented clearly. The diet suggestions offered in the book are logical and pleasant to follow. The difficulties the author faced in getting his ideas accepted offer a lesson in perserverance. I have given copies to several family members.

A LONG OVER-DUE INTELLIGENT APPRAISAL OF SUNSHINE., 26 Aug 2003
At long last! An intelligently researched and cogently presented argument which systematically challenges the often questionable propaganda of the vested-interests-based cosmetics industry - responsible for distorting the general public's attitude to the sun and its health-giving poweers for far too long.
Richard Hobday is to be applauded loud and long for taking this whole issue to task and patiently working through the arguments, citing specific experience, research programmes, and case histories, of which so much appears to have been shamefully forgotten or overlooked by so many in the medical professions.
His patient rationalisations calmly counter the paranoid priests of solar fear who have all too often cynically set out to bury the once commonly accepted awareness of the vital healthiness of sunlight - purely in the interests of their often questionable(in terms of chemical content), over-priced, so-called 'sun-screen' products.
Read this book and you can once again liberate your mind and body to the (sensible) benefits of life in the most fundamental, naturally life-giving, energy and health source in our SOLAR system.

The definitive work on sunlight and health., 23 Jan 2000
This is a "must read book" if you want to be healthy. Why? Because it brings the balance back into the unbalanced argument that the sun is dangerous to our health and should be avoided or blocked at all costs.

Perhaps for the first time, all the most important results of research in the field of health and the sun have been brought together into one document and the conclusions are startling.

Lack of sunlight can increase your chances of getting heart disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, decaying teeth, psoriasis and cancer (breast, colon, ovarian and prostate).

Sun bathing safely allows your body to generate vitamin D - crucial to a healthy immune system.

Long term exposure to artificial lighting can have potentially harmful health effects. Office workers who spend most of their year under artificial light and then have short periods of intense sunlight when they go on holiday can be at particular risk.

Use of sunscreens and lack of respect for the sun can leave you open to health problems.

Sunlight kills bacteria - even through glass.

You are more likely to recover from a heart attack in a sunlit hospital ward.

Moderate and controlled sunbathing should be part of a beneficial health regime, acting as a preventative medicine. Knowing when and how to sunbathe is the key.

This book tells you how to sunbathe safely and get maximum benefit.

A must for all health nuts, 25 Dec 2007
An absolute must for any self respecting health nut. Should be required reading for all in the medical profession.

Most Comprehensive Enzyme Therapy Book for lay & docs, 20 Apr 1999
This magnificent piece of work is a fantastic resource. It contains information on every imaginable enzyme known to be therapeutic as well as actions, benefits, contraindications, etc. Along with suppliers and clinicians. A "Must-Have" for doctors interested in getting their patients well. A loving, easy to read thorough work...Thank You Dr. Cichoke! I will use this in my practice and my ed classes.

Dr. Carolyn Bormann Arrowhead Healthworks www.js-net.com/ahw drcnb@js-net.com

Big Claims - No Evidence - A Scientology Money Maker, 12 Mar 2008
Preying on the vunerable, this book makes big claims. There is no evidence that any of it works. the proceeds go towards Scientology. You tube that please. If you want help, there are better places to go and better books to read.

Beware of junk mail following your purchase !!!, 09 Jan 2008
My mother-in-law asked me to order this book for her following a plug on an american chat show. Amazon didn't have it in stock so I ordered from an Amazon seller. Big mistake. Turns out that this is something to do with Scientology and I constantly receive letters from the "Church of Scientology" trying to recruit me. Maybe I have unfairly given the book a 1 star rating having not actually read it myself, but my mother-in-law, (who is completely gullible with anything health related) informs me that it is not worth bothering with.

Clear Body Clear Mind, 20 Aug 2007
I found this book revolutionary in it's approach to detoxification,L Ron Hubbard's research into the effects of toxins on the mind and body is explained in a scientific way and for me provides a solution to the mounting chemical and drug crisis on our planet.
The Book is very well laid out and the glossary was helpful.

Handling Drugs, 31 Jan 2007
This is a great book. The program it outlines has higher than a 90% success rate in helping people get off drugs (much higher than any other rehab clinic or programme).

The below reviewer is mis-leading in his "sweat, exercise and don't eat bad food". This isn't what it says at all.

The book outlines an actual programme that has helped many people (Scientologists and non-Scientologists alike). Some courts send drug users to Narconon (a group that adminsters the programme to non-Scientologists) instead of giving them a custodial sentence. Clearly it is better to help the person to get off drugs than put them in an environment that is likely to make the situation worse.

I suggest you have a look at it for yourself and make your own decision.

utter rubbish - dont waste your money, 24 Dec 2006
I bought this book to see what all the hoo-hah in the press about Scientology is all about and to learn a bit more about it before I joined the bandwagon, but I have to say this book is utter shite. It is in fact, the worst book I have ever had the misfortune to read- and I forced myself to carry on despite wanting to give up after 60 pages or so.

I've never writte a review as I normally cant be bothered, but this is SO BAD I made the effort.
Badly written, for 4 year olds and written by one it seems. No scientific backup, all in nice big type for way-below-average reading age. Wild assumptions, no evidence to back most of it up and utter drivel of the very worst kind. Brainwashing for the easily influenced. Don't waste your money - here's the synopsis (there's a big word you wont read in the book) - "sweat a lot, excercise and don't eat bag things". There. just saved you a few quid.

Honestly, the author is a moron (albeit a very very rich one). Actually, I'm wrong. He cant be a moron cos he's fooled millions of people into buying this drivel for decades. He's a marketing genius, so I must apologise. He's a genius at stating the obvious, making it out to be a revelation and making a fortune out of the gullible.


It really is rubbish and badly written. The only reason I can't give this a "-1" star is cos Amazon don't have that as an option. Avoid Avoid Avoid. If you want to know about detoxing etc go buy "Fantastic Voyage" by Kurzweil - excellent. In a different league.

Could it be B12? An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses, 02 Sep 2007
When I was diagnosed with this illness, I was disappointed to find that there was not many books available on this subject.

I found this book by accident on Amazon and it has been a tremendous help to me.There are medical sections in the book however most of the explanations are in language which is easy to understand.

This book was very helpful to me as it explained the seriousness of the illness.It is a silent illness which is understated by the Medical profession.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is suffering from a B12 deficiency or who suspects this may be an underlying condition.






A must, 20 Jul 2006
An excellent read . A must for everybody interested in diet and health . full of facts , proofs and everything you need to know about vitamin C .

Ascorbate: The Science Of Vitimin C, 30 Jan 2005
:-"Review by Dr Andrew Saul."

"It's not what we don't know that harms us, but what we do know that ain't so." (Eubie blake, 1883-1983)

What is it about a little left-handed molecule of six carbons, six oxygens, and eight hydrogens that ticks off so many in the medical community? Maybe it's cases like this one: Ray, a health professional I know, had an 11-month old son who was very sick for over a week. No one and I mean no one, in their family had had any sleep in a long time. They were up night after night with this child, who had a high fever, glazed watery eyes, tons of thick watery mucus and labored breathing. The child would not sleep, and did little else but cry. The baby was under the care of a pediatrician, who, in the infant's eleven months on earth, had already prescribed twelve rounds of some very serious antibiotics. That they clearly were not working was all too apparent to Ray, who out of desperation decided to try something he previously had been taught to not try: bowel tolerance quantities of oral ascorbate. Ray and his wife gave their baby some vitimin C about every 15 minutes. As a result, the baby was noticeably improved in a matter of hours, and slept through the night. With frequent doses continuing, the child was completely well in 48 hours. Ray calculated that the baby had received just over 2,000 mg vitimin C per kilogram body weight per day. This is even more than what Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner customarily ordered for sick patients. Remarkably, at 20,000 milligrams of vitimin C/day, that 20-pound baby never had diarrhea.

With such a little body, you have to marvel at where all of it was going. Of course, it is the opinion of those who promulgate the US RDA and related nutritional mythology that almost all of that baby's vitimin C went uselessly into the toilet. Ray and his wife would tell you differently. They would say that their sick child soaked it up like a sponge, and then promptly got better.

For the layman unable to obtain intravenous vitimin C, on