Hi guys, I have a friend who's husband just went through chemo for thyroid cancer (neck area). He's in his late twenties/early thirties. He is cancer-free now, thank the good Lord. She is a pharmaceutical rep. We were talking Sunday about Vitamin C and how it helped me to stop getting sick so much after I first started teaching, and somehow we got on the topic of cats and vitamin C being used to strengthen their immune systems. She told me through her research while her husband was sick, that she found recently that Vitamin C is now being given intraveneously to cancer patients who have lymphoma and breast cancer, as well as other cancers, and that they are responding to it very well. She said that the vitamin C once injected into the bloodstream either turns into or produces hydrogen peroxide, which travels through the blood stream, completely annihiliates the cancer cells and strengthens the good cells. As I understand it, cancer cells themselves are weak cells so they are easy to destroy; the problem with them is that they multiply easily, which is why cutting into cancer cells to remove them backfires often because the whole cancer cell(s) isn't always removed and new cancer cells grow from them. The bad thing about chemo is that yes, it does destroy cancer cells but it also destroys many of the good cells too. I think the numbers she quoted were with chemo, 85%+ of the bad cells can be destroyed, but 20-85% of the good cells are destroyed too. With Vitamin C, the studies are showing a better destruction rate of the cancer cells, and no destruction of the good cells. She said that the FDA has recently approved trials using the IV Vitamin C.
Here is an article on that: http://www.physorg.com/news87833644.html I thought this was so important and wanted to share it with you guys, not only for our furbabies with leukemia, but also for those of you who have family members or friends who have or have had cancer. I have no idea how a cat's body would react to having Vitamin C injected into it's blood stream, but I would be VERY interested if the veterinary colleges have done any studies on this and what the outcome was. I did read that intraveneous vitamin c is given, along with other things, to treat acetaminophen toxicity in animals. (www.manhattancats.com/Articles/toxic_tragediesl.html) I also found this quote: Ascorbate when used at the proper high levels is a non-toxic, non-specific, therapeutic virucidal agent (Stone, 1972)" in this website/article on : http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/197x/belfield-w-j_int_assn_prev_med-1978-v2-n3-p10.htm The article is from 1975 in a veterinary medicine journal and written by two vets. I also read this paragraph in that article: "One of us (one of the two vets who wrote the article) has been using megascorbic veterinary therapy in the viral diseases for the past eight years although the rationale was not too clear in the early treatments. All that was known was that it worked and gave successful results where other treatments failed. We now know that we are merely duplicating and aiding a normal mammalian protective mechanism against disease stress by providing enough ascorbate to maintain biochemical homeostasis. This normally is the function of the mammalian liver but for some reason the liver enzymes do not seem to produce enough ascorbate, fast enough during disease stress in these small mammals. This successful therapy may be regarded as an application of veterinary orthomolecular medicine." And this paragraph: "The intravenous use of ascorbate is especially valuable in the therapy of the viral diseases as it appears to be an effective, non-specific, non-toxic virucidal agent. We have not seen any viral disease that did not respond to this treatment. Successful therapy appears to depend on using it in sufficiently large doses." Also, as I was reading through the vitamin C Foundation's website, I did a search for feline, and found the article linked below. It says that hyper-oxygenation was found to 'get rid of' feline leukemia. The article stated that the two basic types of oxygen therapy are ozone blood infusion, and absorption of oxygen water (hydrogen peroxide) at very low concentrations. There's that hydrogen peroxide again! http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/oxygen.htm It's about 2/3 down the way of the very long article under Veterinary and Agricultural Applications. I just went under Edit, Find, and typed in 'feline', and it took me straight to the paragraph. Has anyone heard about this? Is this another crack pot cure? What do you think about all this???! Thanks, :) Wendy "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it is the only thing that ever has!" ~~~ Margaret Meade ~~~ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367
