What is High Dose Vitamin C? Is it an oral supplement? Is it Ascorbic Acid or Sodium Ascorbate? What exactly is it?
First, there are many different forms of vitamin C:
• Sodium Ascorbate
• Ascorbic Acid
• Magnesium Ascorbate
• Calcium Ascorbate
• Ascorbyl palmitate
Then, there are the metabolites of vitamin C:
• D-Isoascorbic
• DehydroAscorbate (DHA)
• Ascorbate radical
• Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2)
Metabolites are the Rodney Dangerfield of physiology. Just look at hormone metabolites for evidence of that. But, the field of metabolomics and the 38,000 + estimated metabolites are changing all of that.
All are the different forms, and the metabolites are members of the vitamin C and associated metabolite family. Beyond the name, and whatever the form is, it is the intended effect that is most important; so, what form and metabolites best help achieve the intended effect is what should be the goal.
Vitamin C is called many things:
• Vitamin C (of course)
• Ascorbic acid
• Dehydroascorbate
• Electron donor
• Drug
• Pro-drug
• deliverer of H202
• Pharmaceutical Ascorbate.
It is all of these things and more. Patients, the general population as a whole, and the majority of the medical community know it as “vitamin C”.
Whatever title is chosen to call it, I believe the biochemical effects and anticancer impact best identify “vitamin C” through its delivery of hydrogen peroxide (H202) and its function as an electron donor. More on this to come soon.
The biological functions of vitamin C can be attributed to its biochemical property as an electron donor.
What does the word "Vitamin" mean?
Words have their root origins in history. Sometimes in history, at the period in history of the word's origin, a proper understanding is lacking. But here, though not 100% exact, the origins of vitamin C did come really close to hitting the nail on the head.
Is Vitamin C - a "Vitamin"?
Vitamin was a word first coined by the Polish Biochemist Casimir Funk in 1912. It wasn’t vitamin as currently spelled, but vitamine from the two root words “vita-“ and “amines.”
It was group thinking in the 19th century that all life required chemical groups called amines. Amines were considered to be vital to life. Amines sustained life. Without amines, life couldn’t exist.
So, the theory went. The word life in Latin is “vita”. This led to the name “vital-amine” or “vita-amine”, or vitamin as it is commonly used today.
Is vitamin C a vital-amine?
Vitamin C is not a 19th-century amine. Vitamin C structure is similar to that of glucose but not identical. In fact, many plants and animals make vitamin C from glucose.
But, humans do not make vitamin C because we have mutation in the coding of the gene guloolactone oxidase (GULO)-the gene that codes the enzyme guloolactone oxidase which converts glucose to vitamin C.
As a result, humans can only obtain vitamin C through diet or supplementation. In this light, vitamin C is a nutrient that is essential to the human body's nutrition. Because of a mutation in the GULO gene the gulonolactone oxidase enzyme, which is necessary and essential for vitamin C production, is absent.
Without the ability to make Scurvy disease vitamin C, inadequate dietary vitamin C intake results in the disease called Scurvy.
Never heard of it?
Most have not. It is quite rare today and more of a disease of the history books. The first historical reference to scurvy was all the way back in 1550 BC. Even Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, referenced scurvy; he called it “ileos ematitis”.
To be clear, vitamin C is not an amine but is vital for human life. It is a vitamine. More important, it doesn’t matter what you call it, it only matter what its physiologic effect is.
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In this informative webinar, Dr. Nathan Goodyear, medical director of Brio Medical, discusses the critical role of high-dose vitamin C in cancer treatment.
Armed with years of experience and research, Dr. Goodyear compares the effectiveness of pH-neutral vitamin C treatment against ascorbic acid and oral supplements.
The webinar sheds light on the synergistic power of high-dose vitamin C when combined with integrative methods like immunotherapy, targeted therapies, ketogenic diets, radiation, and chemotherapy.
Highlighting its unique ability to boost patients' immune systems while reducing side-effects, Dr. Goodyear makes a case for High Dose Vitamin C being a key pillar of cancer care.
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