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Originally Posted by GraceKrispy
I have upped my vitamin C a bit, but not to the point of diarrhea. I didn't know that was possible.  |
Look up Ascorbic Acid Flush. A friend of mine who was studying to be a holistic dr told me about this 2 decades ago. I didn't believe it, but much to my surprise, after loading myself up w/ enormous amounts of C, the huge lymph nodes in my neck went down after 1.5 hrs. I stopped the c, a few hours later they were back up. I started taking C, they went down. LOL... That started me on the path to finding natural remedies that encourage your body to heal itself.
There's a really good book that I've only heard about recently called
Doctor Yourself by Andrew Saul, Ph.D that puts things very simply:
When it comes to RDAs, one size fits nobody. Let’s temporarily assume that orthodox dietitians are correct when they tell us that vitamin supplements can cure nothing but vitamin deficiency diseases. If this is true, then any symptom cured by supplements indicates a deficiency. If zinc speeds recovery from the common cold (and many studies confirm this), then people with colds are zinc-deficient. If lots of vitamin C shortens the intensity and duration of the common cold (and dozens of scientific studies prove this), then people with colds are vitamin C deficient as well. The RDAs and pitiful American intakes are therefore below the deficiency levels.
LAW: The quantity of a nutritional supplement that cures an illness indicates the patient’s degree of deficiency. It is therefore not a megadose of the vitamin, but rather a megadeficiency of the nutrient, that we are dealing with. - Doctor Yourself by Andrew Saul, Ph. D
After seeing him interviewed and buying his book, my goal last year was, simply, to make sure I was never vit. C or zinc deficient and see if that could prevent me from catching a single common cold. I guess I got sloppy, because I caught that cold on Dec 30th, when I went to the movies. I almost made it!
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I had to google "z-pack." I've never heard of that before. I agree- I could still have a cold and be more miserable. But I hate this feeling of hacking up a lung. A goopy lung. A loud goopy lung.
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Maybe there's some weird tropical cold going around down here around the Tropic of Cancer. The worst cold that I can ever remember was the one I caught when I moved here. I can't even explain the pure misery. It was horrible.
