Having a degree in nutrition science, I thought I knew a little about Vitamin C. After all, we learned about Linus Pauling (who discovered Vitamin C) many years ago, and his efforts to cure cancer. Which sadly have not been researched properly over the years -- a long story that I won't go into here.
It's the sugar that enters this picture as the real culprit.
On a Charlie Rose (PBS) show several years ago, I listened to researchers from heavy-weight institutions proclaim that studies had just proved that sugar causes cancer. And it didn't take years worth of sugar intake to do it -- only a few weeks! That was startling news, and I wondered how long it'd take our culture to catch on to what a poison sugar really is.
Now enter my cancer diagnosis, and efforts to try some natural treatments like Vitamin C. It turns out that Vitamin C (i.e., ascorbic acid) resembles a GLUCOSE molecule! Glucose as in the most basic sugar in our blood, that all other sugars and starches are broken down into.
It also turns out that cancer cells take up glucose. Said another way, cancer cells eat and live on sugar. WOW.
Now, this sounded a little surprising to me too at first, but it's fairly common knowledge in the cancer/Vitamin C world. At least it should be. My neurologist Dr. Hassid is up on all this. Here's how it works. Because ascorbic acid resembles a glucose molecule, the cancer cells (without other available sugar) will take up the ascorbic acid, which then proceeds to kill the cancer cell.
Simply amazing, isn't it? This also means one can't eat any sugar around the time of the IV because then the cancer cells will preferentially eat the real sugar instead. The ascorbic acid is only a suitable alternative without real sugar.
So the ascorbic acid is given intravenously (IV) in 30 to 75 grams doses (or more), and increases blood levels of ascorbic acid dramatically -- but only for a few hours. Interestingly, at Dr. Hassids, they also test your blood sugar before and after the IV. What happens is your blood sugar actually tests HIGH after the IV, but it's only an illusion. It's only high ascorbic acid, not high glucose. But even the glucose meter can't tell the difference.
So blood levels stay high for up to 4 hours, and this is why 2-3 IV's are recommended weekly for cancer treatment.
Well, that all sounds good but in my mind I got to thinking....if my blood levels are only high for up to 4 hours, then I"m only getting cancer cells killed for 4 hours. What about the rest of the time? So I started looking for another way to get, perhaps, round-the-clock cancer killing from ascorbic acid. I'm not the only one wondering this, it turns out.
That's where liposomal (fat-soluble) ascorbic acid comes in - taken orally. If it's fat soluble, and not just water soluble like regular ascorbic acid, then it can actually get inside the fatty membranes surrounding every cell. This is done by combining the ascorbic acid with phospholipids such as lecithin.
And now there's not just liposomal, there's "liposheric" ascorbic acid. Where the fatty molecules are made into even much smaller "nanospheres" so they can REALLY get inside the cells and go to work. This then keeps levels of ascorbic acid fairly high - almost as high as with IV's, if it's taken at regular intervals during the day.
I found a way online to make my own lipospheric ascorbic acid using lecithin granules. It's done with sonic energy that merges the molecules, in a smallish jewelry cleaner machine! I've never cleaned jewelry in my life with such a machine; maybe that's why my end product seemed like a failure. Tastes nasty too with the lecithin. So I just ordered a good brand of liposheric C to see if mine resembled theirs at all. The oral amount will be 6 grams to 12 grams per day, which could cost up to $1.00 per gram, without making it at home.
And so goes the weekly trials of using alternative medicine, and attempting some cost effectiveness. I even had chemistry for 3 years in college, oh well. It's a process, for sure.
Other things can be made into liposheric molecules too, like glutathione (body's master detoxer), resveretrol (master anti-oxidant), COQ10 (strong anti-inflammatory), and curcumin (from turmeric) -- all very potent cancer supplements. Sounds like more home chemistry is coming up soon at my house!
It's the sugar that enters this picture as the real culprit.
On a Charlie Rose (PBS) show several years ago, I listened to researchers from heavy-weight institutions proclaim that studies had just proved that sugar causes cancer. And it didn't take years worth of sugar intake to do it -- only a few weeks! That was startling news, and I wondered how long it'd take our culture to catch on to what a poison sugar really is.
Now enter my cancer diagnosis, and efforts to try some natural treatments like Vitamin C. It turns out that Vitamin C (i.e., ascorbic acid) resembles a GLUCOSE molecule! Glucose as in the most basic sugar in our blood, that all other sugars and starches are broken down into.
It also turns out that cancer cells take up glucose. Said another way, cancer cells eat and live on sugar. WOW.
Now, this sounded a little surprising to me too at first, but it's fairly common knowledge in the cancer/Vitamin C world. At least it should be. My neurologist Dr. Hassid is up on all this. Here's how it works. Because ascorbic acid resembles a glucose molecule, the cancer cells (without other available sugar) will take up the ascorbic acid, which then proceeds to kill the cancer cell.
Simply amazing, isn't it? This also means one can't eat any sugar around the time of the IV because then the cancer cells will preferentially eat the real sugar instead. The ascorbic acid is only a suitable alternative without real sugar.
So the ascorbic acid is given intravenously (IV) in 30 to 75 grams doses (or more), and increases blood levels of ascorbic acid dramatically -- but only for a few hours. Interestingly, at Dr. Hassids, they also test your blood sugar before and after the IV. What happens is your blood sugar actually tests HIGH after the IV, but it's only an illusion. It's only high ascorbic acid, not high glucose. But even the glucose meter can't tell the difference.
So blood levels stay high for up to 4 hours, and this is why 2-3 IV's are recommended weekly for cancer treatment.
Well, that all sounds good but in my mind I got to thinking....if my blood levels are only high for up to 4 hours, then I"m only getting cancer cells killed for 4 hours. What about the rest of the time? So I started looking for another way to get, perhaps, round-the-clock cancer killing from ascorbic acid. I'm not the only one wondering this, it turns out.
That's where liposomal (fat-soluble) ascorbic acid comes in - taken orally. If it's fat soluble, and not just water soluble like regular ascorbic acid, then it can actually get inside the fatty membranes surrounding every cell. This is done by combining the ascorbic acid with phospholipids such as lecithin.
And now there's not just liposomal, there's "liposheric" ascorbic acid. Where the fatty molecules are made into even much smaller "nanospheres" so they can REALLY get inside the cells and go to work. This then keeps levels of ascorbic acid fairly high - almost as high as with IV's, if it's taken at regular intervals during the day.
I found a way online to make my own lipospheric ascorbic acid using lecithin granules. It's done with sonic energy that merges the molecules, in a smallish jewelry cleaner machine! I've never cleaned jewelry in my life with such a machine; maybe that's why my end product seemed like a failure. Tastes nasty too with the lecithin. So I just ordered a good brand of liposheric C to see if mine resembled theirs at all. The oral amount will be 6 grams to 12 grams per day, which could cost up to $1.00 per gram, without making it at home.
And so goes the weekly trials of using alternative medicine, and attempting some cost effectiveness. I even had chemistry for 3 years in college, oh well. It's a process, for sure.
Other things can be made into liposheric molecules too, like glutathione (body's master detoxer), resveretrol (master anti-oxidant), COQ10 (strong anti-inflammatory), and curcumin (from turmeric) -- all very potent cancer supplements. Sounds like more home chemistry is coming up soon at my house!
