Vitamin C is seemingly so ubiquitous an intervention in integrative healthcare it is easy to overlook its potential therapeutic benefit as well as economical cost profile when considering therapies. One therapeutic target that is both common and also often filled with costly interventions is cardiovascular prevention and disease. All the common natural interventions are necessary …
QUESTION: I was at Doc Talks and saw your talk on Artesunate. I am wanting to try it for a pt I have with chronic fatigue and reactivated EBV. All I have in notes is Artesunate and its use in cancer pts. You mentioned that you had used it for EBV, but I didn’t get the …
QUESTION: I am working with an oncologist who is worried about me using glutathione and HDIVC in a shared cancer patient who is also getting sodium thiosulfate, to lessen the side effects (neuropathy) of cisplatin, because he says it is his understanding that there is significant concern about timing and use of anything that can …
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QUESTION: How can we deal with the use of IVC in hypertensive patients when the HDIVC tends to raise BP? ANSWER: Do watch pre and post BP and vitals always. Normally with HDIVC you see a transient rise in BP post HDIVC. Often this lasts 30 min to 3 hours and goes away. If the …
QUESTION: I will be starting artesunate with a patient in the near future (hopefully in the next week). She has done HIVC with her chemo. However, the chemo has not worked well for the patient and she now is willing to entertain further treatments. I have read your artesunate summary for IV use and you mention …
A seeming conundrum regarding the ability of some leukemic cells (i.e. CLL) to sequester ascorbate (ASC) has led to confusion regarding the safety and utility of high dose ascorbate delivered via IV (IVAA). This has led to some apparent confusion between this concern and the apparent positive benefits of IVAA seen in clinical practice. As …
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QUESTION: How often and for how long should I dose an oncology patient with IV Vitamin C? ANSWER: This answer is based on a retrospective analysis of our BIORC IV patients and those who responded to IVC. If it is a patient new to IVC or there has been a Tx break of any time …
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QUESTION: I have a pt who first came to our clinic in the fall with hx of prostate cancer. He’d had his prostate removed and had received extensive radiation. When he arrived he walked poorly with 2 canes, had HTN, elevated blood sugar, fatigue, depression etc. We started a number of interventions including IVC. In …
QUESTION: I have an inquiry about a patient with a past history of Ca Oxalate stones who is recently dx’d with Prostate Cancer. The diagnosis is one where the cancer is inoperable and there are mets to the bone, however the patient is asymptomatic. Bloodwork prior to starting IV therapy came back with all lab …
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QUESTION: Can I give IV vitamin C to a patient who has a significant history of kidney stones? How much do I have to worry about oxalate stones? ANSWER: This question has followed IVC for ‘ever’, and as two of the high grade adverse events were oxalosis, it requires a somewhat formed thought and reply. …
QUESTION: Basically my question is when do the risks of kidney damage outweigh the benefits of receiving IVC?? My case is as follows: 32 yo female with Osteosarcoma with lung mets. Palliative. Completed several month of chemo at which point she no longer responded to chemo and became septic requiring several weeks of IV cefazolin. …
QUESTION: In reviewing Radiation Recovery info from files and several IV seminars I still need clarification on the glutathione. My understanding was no glutathione on the same day as HDIVC. The Augmented Glutathione (Radiation Recovery) Formula from 1/2014 has a GSH preload. There is 25 grams of Vit C in the formula. Can you help …
QUESTION: I had a quick question about glutathione. I read that its half-life is relatively short (a couple days), and one of our cancer patients is asking about getting it in between IV vitamin C treatments. Do you typically do the IV glutathione twice a week because of the short half-life? Also, on average, how …
QUESTION: What do you recommend for treating glioblastoma? Will HDIVC help? ANSWER: Folks with GBM don’t have a lot of normal Blood Brain Barrier which helps, and using GLUT transport the ASC hits the CNS pretty well after an IV. In all the GBM I’ve treated IVC is an OK adjunct but never seen much …
QUESTION: I have two patients (one female 56yo (PI) and one male 50yo (GP)) that have high levels of EBV EA (24 for PI, >150 for GP). So I started them on valtrex 1g bid, did myer’s IV on both, IVC on female and first IVC on male tomorrow. Along with adrenal support, niacel for …
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QUESTION: I have a Breast Cancer patient who I would like to treat with HDIVC but her oncologist told her he’s really not comfortable with it, especially since this new study in breast cancer patients which showed worse outcomes for the woman that used it during chemotherapy. Is there such a study? ANSWER: Any actual …
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QUESTION: I work with a doctor who suggested that I email you to ask since you know everything! I have an 85 yo F patient who has colorectal cancer that I have been treating for a few years now. She has recently been diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis but she wants to continue with HDIVC …
Intravenously administered high dose ascorbic acid (HDIVC) as used in cases of patients with cancer and chronic infection has considerable mythology surrounding it. The purpose of this review is not to exhaustively recap the data regarding this therapy but rather to address basic issues of safety, pharmacology and outcomes of ongoing research. I have been …
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QUESTION: I have a patient with fluoroquinolone toxicity. She was referred to me by a chiropractic neurologist for glutathione infusions. She has not responded particularly well to that approach, so if you could please share your perspective, I would again be most appreciative. She is also finding mixed info about whether or not the Cipro remains in …
QUESTION: Can Artesunate be followed by a Vitamin C bag with B-17 added, or do they (b-17 and Artesunate) have to be given different days? Also, would the patient still benefit from just 25 grams of Vitamin C after Artesunate, or does it only make sense to use a 50g dosage to enhance the Artesunate. …
QUESTION: Below is an oncologist’s receptive response to my patient’s mom (pt is a 4 y/o NED in maintenance therapy after dx with meduloblastoma) requesting to do IV Vitamin C and possibly glutathione after cisplatin. I am not familiar with any interaction with the drug in question sodium thiosulfate (STS) (giving it for otoprotection as …
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