Vitamin C’s Benefits in Cancer Treatment

are needed to achieve the powerful drug-like effects of vitamin C, which can kill cancer cells and fight infections. Dr. Nathan Goodyear, medical director at Brio-Medical, a holistic cancer clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, discusses the benefits of vitamin C in cancer treatment. He explains that holistic therapies, such as vitamin C in combination with artemisinin or artesunate, curcumin, melatonin, and mistletoe, can be incredibly specific and targeted for the dysfunction within the cancer, but with natural holistic or integrated therapy.

One key point to be made about holistic oncology is that the earlier you start this kind of treatment, the better. Unfortunately, most patients who seek alternative strategies have already done tremendous damage to their bodies, particularly the immune system, with one, two, or even three rounds of chemo, which really impairs your body’s ability to heal naturally.

Dr. Goodyear emphasizes that healing has to be your focus and goal to achieve healing. You have to heal to heal. The conventional approach seems to follow the logic ‘destroy to heal,’ and he just doesn’t know where that really occurs in nature outside conventional cancer treatment.

The story of vitamin C demonstrates that the devil’s in the details. Roughly 50 years ago, Linus Pauling demonstrated that intravenous vitamin C improved cancer survival. Later, researchers at the Mayo Clinic tried to reproduce the results, but didn’t use IV vitamin C. They instead gave it orally, and found no benefit. In the academic battle that followed, Mayo won and for the next several decades, the conventional thought was that vitamin C doesn’t work. That began to change around 2000, when Dr. Ping Chen, a conventional oncologist started looking into vitamin C and publishing papers on its pharmacokinetics.

Vitamin C does have drug-like effects, and it’s still a natural biological molecule that cannot be patented, and hence cannot be a drug. Also, to be clear, there are distinct differences between whole food vitamin C and ascorbic acid. They really have two very different purposes. Whole food vitamin C is not suitable for the treatment of cancer, but does wonders for general health support, as it interacts favorably with copper and iron in your cells and mitochondria.

When treating cancer, IV needs to be used because you simply cannot take the high dosages required orally. Doses over 10 to 20 grams are needed to achieve the powerful drug-like effects of vitamin C, which can kill cancer cells and fight infections.

In conclusion, holistic therapies, such as vitamin C, can be incredibly specific and targeted for the dysfunction within the cancer, but with natural holistic or integrated therapy. The earlier you start this kind of treatment, the better. Vitamin C does have drug-like effects, and it’s still a natural biological molecule that cannot be patented, and hence cannot be a drug. When treating cancer, IV needs to be used because you simply cannot take the high dosages required orally.

IV Vitamin C: A Powerful Tool in the Fight Against Cancer

Why IV Administration is Necessary for Cancer Treatment

Ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, can cause loose stools when taken orally, but IV administration bypasses this limitation and allows the vitamin C to get directly into the blood and tumor microenvironment. When dealing with cancer, a minimum of 1,000 micromolar, or 1 millimolar, in the extracellular fluid is needed to kill cancer cells, which is why IV administration is necessary.

While the dosage is highly individual to each patient, as a general benchmark, IV vitamin C typically starts at 1.5 grams per kilogram, which for the average person would be somewhere between 100 and 200 grams per dose, three times a week.

The Benefits of Oral Vitamin C for Infections

For infections such as the flu or cold, oral vitamin C is plenty adequate. Oral dosing of vitamin C, using a nonliposomal product, can double your blood level of vitamin C, and using liposomal vitamin C can increase it three- to fivefold—up to about 300 micromolar.

Vitamin C’s Effects on Cancer Cells

Vitamin C has a wide variety of effects, including genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and immunomodulatomic. In high doses available through IV, it becomes a pro-oxidant, allowing it to kill cancer cells and giving it antiviral and antibacterial properties. Vitamin C also changes the metabolism of cancer cells, creating an energy crisis and depleting the cancer of its ability to detoxify.

Using Melatonin for Cancer Treatment

Goodyear also uses melatonin for cancer, and monitors patients’ melatonin levels to ensure proper dosage. Typically, patients will start off with IV melatonin at a dose of 10 to 20 milligrams daily for two weeks, while simultaneously taking oral melatonin at a dose of about 60 mg per day.

The Benefits of a Holistic Approach to Cancer Treatment

Most of the patients have destroyed much of their bodies’ innate healing ability through repeated toxic treatments, which makes holistic treatment far less effective. However, for those in the early to mid-stages of cancer, going holistic first can increase chances of total remission.

Goodyear offers the case history of a woman with bilateral breast cancer who’d been told she needed a bilateral mastectomy, bilateral radiation with chemo, and lymph node dissection—six to 12 months of brutal and toxic treatments that would have left her disfigured. Instead, she opted for holistic treatment and achieved no evidence of disease with a 50 percent reduction in tumor burden.

Save Your Breasts with a Holistic Integrative Approach

A Healing Perspective

Are you tired of the traditional cancer treatments that leave you feeling drained and hopeless? There is a better way. By taking a holistic integrative approach, you may just save your breasts and negate the need for harmful therapies.

One woman took a chance to think and read before deciding on a different approach. Instead of heading down the road of life-changing surgeries, she hit the pause button and sought out a holistic evidence-based approach. Now, over two years later, she is cancer-free with both breasts intact and no lymph nodes removed.

Benefits of a Holistic Approach

When the immune system is not destroyed by full-dose chemo, things work so much better. This woman even had COVID and did great because her immune system was still intact. By addressing cancer with a holistic integrative approach, you can give your body the tools it needs to fight back and heal.

Book an Appointment Today

If you’re ready to take control of your health and explore a holistic approach to cancer treatment, visit Brio-Medical.com to book an appointment or schedule a free phone consultation. Don’t settle for harmful therapies that leave you feeling drained and hopeless. Take a chance on a healing perspective and save your breasts with a holistic integrative approach.

• Save your breasts with a holistic integrative approach
• Address cancer with a holistic evidence-based approach
• Give your body the tools it needs to fight back and heal
• Book an appointment or schedule a free phone consultation at Brio-Medical.com

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