Why does nutritional, vitamin therapy take a backseat to drugs?

What if a vitamin that most of us probably have right now in our cupboard – vitamin C – could be used to help heal a lot more illnesses than the common cold? In the 1940’s, Dr. Fredrick R. Klenner used vitamin C to cure 60 out of 60 cases of polio. In fact, he consistently eliminated chicken pox, measles, mumps, tetanus, and polio with huge doses of IV vitamin C. Klenner did this when no vaccines existed.

Many people have never heard of these findings because good nutrition and vitamin therapy has pushed aside in favor of pharmaceutical drugs and big money. As author and heath pioneer Andrew Saul said, “Good health makes a lot of sense, but it doesn’t make a lot of dollars.”

The medical breakthroughs and facts continued for Dr. Klenner, who cured pneumonia, encephalitis, herpes zoster (shingles), herpes simplex, mononucleosis, pancreatitis, hepatitis, rocky mountain spotted fever, bladder infections, alcoholism, arthritis, some cancers, leukemia, atherosclerosis, ruptured intervertebral disc, high cholesterol, corneal ulcers, diabetes, glaucoma, radiation burns – the list goes on and on.

“Some physicians would stand by and see their patient die rather than use ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) because in their finite minds it exists only as a vitamin, ” Dr. Fredrick Klenner once said.

Saul, who has been a consulting specialist in natural healing for more than 30 years and has a Ph.D. in Human Ethology, agrees, and has wrote about the power of mega vitamins in his bestselling book, Doctor Yourself and edited the new mega-book, The OrthomolecularTreatment of Chronic Diseases: 65 Experts on Therapeutic & Preventive Nutrition. 

“Vitamin C is the world’s best natural antibiotic, antiviral, antitoxin, and antihistamine. Let the greats be given their due. The importance of vitamin C cannot be overemphasized," Saul said.

Saul, who raised his own healthy children by never once giving them antibiotics, believes that nutrition and mega-vitamin therapy are the answers to getting and staying healthy.

High doses of vitamins have been known to cure serious illnesses for nearly 80 years. Klaus Jungeblut, M.D., prevented and treated polio in the mid-1930s with a vitamin too. William Kaufman, M.D., cured arthritis, also in the 1940s. In the 1950s, Drs. Wilfrid and Evan Shute were curing various forms of cardiovascular disease with a vitamin. At the same time, psychiatrist Abram Hoffer was using niacin to cure schizophrenia, psychosis, and depression.

In the 1970s, Hugh D. Riordan, M.D., was obtaining cures for cancer with intravenous vitamin C. Dr. Harold Foster and colleagues arrested and reversed full-blown AIDS with nutrient therapy, and in just the last few years, Atsuo Yanagasawa, M.D., Ph.D., has shown that vitamin therapy can prevent and reverse sickness caused by exposure to nuclear radiation. Since 1968, much of this research has been published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. All of these findings are chronicled in The Orthomolecular Treatment of Chronic Diseases: 65 Experts on Therapeutic & Preventive Nutrition. 

If readers who want to know which illnesses best respond to nutrition therapy, and how and why that therapy works, will find this book a must-read. Part One presents the principles of Orthomolecular medicine and the science behind them. Part Two is devoted to Orthomolecular pioneers, presenting an introduction to maverick doctors and nutrition scientists in a way that brings the subject to life. Part Three brings together extraordinary clinical and experimental evidence from expert researchers and clinicians.

To find out more about this incredible health bible, check out the book at www.basichealthpub.com or www.amazon.com.