On May 28, 2009, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, featuring special guest Tony Bennett,  held a black tie, red carpet event to help raise funds. The charity event was organized by Richard Estevez, CEO of Trusted Translations, Inc.

As part of its…

I have cured myself of very difficult to cure prostatitis probably because rising my defenses, also all types of viruses illnes and have attacked flu and destroyed it just during incipient symtoms with high doses of Vitamin C, 10 or 15 grams orally per day. I have done this for several years, also with my parents. So far no adverse effects. Vitamine C is being used intravenous to treat many illness including cancer in may countries. The truth is IT WORKS.

All children got conventional therapy, antitetanus serum, sedatives, antibiotics, etc. Additionally, subjects in the experimental group got 1 gram of intravenous vitamin C daily. None of the children in the experimental group died; 74 percent of the children in the control group died. Dramatic benefits for tetanus patients aged 13 to 30 years were also found. Two-day-old chicks receiving fatal doses of strychnine survived with injections of vitamin C.
[note: tetanus is bacterial, not viral]

Nat. Acad of Sciences found high dose vitamin C kills cancer cells in the blood, but not normal cells, apparently by increasing hydrogen peroxide in the serum. (IV Hydrogen peroxide therapy is another controversial treatment that may be valuable.)

About flu vaccine: In a February 2005 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases compared flu-related mortality among older people to rates of immunization. Their finding: During the past quarter century, immunization rates for the elderly have climbed substantially while the elderly flu-related mortality rate has stayed the same.

The authors of the research wrote: “We conclude that observational studies substantially overestimate vaccination benefit.”

One of the reasons vitamin C was first investigated for bird flu, is that the symptoms are identical to scurvy, probably indicating that fighting the virus depletes vitamin C in the body.

There isn't enough research to date to gain FDA approval of high dose vitamin C, but there is more than enough to justify some serious research. However, since our drug approval system is geared exclusively toward patentable monosubstance synthetic chemicals, that probably won't happen here.

Big Pharma may be guilty of a lot of things, but you don't give their researchers enough credit (plus the fact that virology and the research regarding methods to disrupt viral replication is not as subject to the whims of marketing because government health agencies put a good bit of funding into the pot to find ways to deal with pandemics.) The antiviral drugs generally do work against flu viruses, but the problems are going to be in manufacturing and distributing sufficient quantities of them when needed, and in possible acquired resistance to the drugs.

…And the nutcases are already coming out of the woodwork. My favorite unnecessarily-political comment in the local paper this afternoon: “The idiocRAT lieberals are going to kill us all. Open the borders so the pestilence can spring forth upon America. Impeach Obama NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!” Yeah….riiiiiiggghht.

Conspiracy theories are abounding. Another comment: “On this flu, it is clearly genetically engineered since it uses genes from three diverse sources (birds, monkey, pigs?). It is a man-made virus that has been created for malicious purposes. Where is USARNORTH, are they not the 'vanguards' to 'save' and 'protect' US citizens from this mess? Or, is this a trial run of Bird Flu at this school?” More conspiracy – here's a recording of a caller to a radio program talking in detail about the DHS transporting the bird flu by truck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qJQCJp4ehc . And lots of people are making hay that the first person to die in Mexico from the swine flu last week was greeted by Obama the day before: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087…

I suppose the conspiracy theory nuts jumping on the story is totally inevitable, considering how information spreads through the web with such alacrity these days – but putting the alarm aside it is quite entertaining to watch the rumor mill spread.

A physician friend, working in Asia, has found it effective against bird flu, in humans.

Don't be so sure, big pharma, You've been wrong before.

(Notice that the above article only sites other Orthomecular places and not peer reviewed research, except in the case of scurvy)
About Vitamin C
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About “Orthomolecular Medicine”
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