Thank you Brooks for that really helpful article. Can you say whether in your opinion, it is better to take sodium ascorbate or a whole form of vit C. Thank you again and may you have many more Happy New Years! dee
On 12 Jan 2010, at 02:01, Brooks Bradley wrote: > > Dear Steve, > We have evaluated High Dosage vitamin C INTENSIVELY, SINCE CIRCA 1975. > Although I have no way of disproving the allegations to which you refer.....I > can not bring myself to even consider such claims to have actual merit. We > have, directly, prosecuted....literally....hundreds of evaluations (involving > almost 2000 people)involving vitamin C (in all of its various chemical > configurations)...All without a single DETECTABLE adverse agent of influence. > Although our studies were NOT double-blind in nature....the experimental > subjects were ALL subjected to BEFORE and AFTER----- SYSTEMIC AND BLOOD > CHEMISTRY evaluated parameters. We never encountered a volunteer subject who > manifested ANY challenge or insult (except loose stools; if one considers > that adverse) from vitamin C dosages as high as 30 grams daily----over > periods of time as long as 4 months, continually. The only > detectable/measurable consequences presented were UNIVERSALLY positive. > However, there were, some! times, surprising conditions.....although all were > positive in nature. e.g. We did encounter a number of individuals (sometimes > as high as 10% of the entire test group of 45 persons) who did not display > ANY measurable benefits until the dosage of vitamin C reached 10 grams daily. > The spectrum of beneficial responses were, sometimes,....simply > breath-taking. In one limited study we compared the effects of saturated > solutions of vitamin C against a wide array of conventional antibiotics as > the principal address for deep penetrating wounds and major lacerations. Not > a single ONE of the antibiotics proved superior to the vitamin C......and a > majority (7 antibiotics) proved to be considerably less effective. Some > antibiotics proved no better than tap water. > I am not recommending that ANYONE take ANY AMOUNT of vitamin C---in ANY FORM. > These comments are merely a simple synopsis of our DIRECT RESEARCH > EXPERIENCES involving experimental volunteers.....during the immediately-past > 30+ years (a much longer period than we have been a chartered research > foundation). > I have experienced a deep and direct relationship (principally a professional > one)with many facets of the conventional medical profession over the last 50 > years. A majority of all these people proved to be well-intentioned, > professionally honest and for the most part---capable. I have witnessed what > I would characterize as ASTOUNDING.....an almost total domination of both the > professional and economic parameters of the national medical arena (research > as well as the major elements of direct practice )by elements OUTSIDE the > physical practice of the art. I will not comment on what I believe the > complete nature of this influence to be. > However, one particularly vexing consequence of having a profit-oriented, > cartel-like, control over ANY human endeavor involving the general population > of a people is...that by definition....the continued expansion of such > "artificial constructs" requires a dedication to net business Income.....not > the health and vitality of the general population.....except as an accidental > corollary. This observation is so obvious that it mitigates against ANY > reasonable rebuttal involving common sense. > I now close this epistle, hopefully, before it requires Mike Devour to > declare me out-of-bounds. > Thankfully, or rather mercifully, he has allowed me such an incoherent > raving----at least once a year----without giving me the heave-ho. I did it > early this year.....because I am so long-in-the-tooth that I may not make > another year :>) . > May Each of You Enjoy the Grandest Year of This Life, > Namaste, Brooks Bradley. > > > > > > > > -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
