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The suppressed truth about vitamin C [& sepsis]
The established facts reveal that vitamin C has no defined toxicity at any level of intake, is not costly, and alleviates many conditions that remain largely unresponsive to mainstream medicine. When compared to toxic, expensive, and often minimally effective prescription medicines, it should not be difficult to understand why the value and efficacy of vitamin C therapy has always remained unacknowledged, and even suppressed by those entrusted to report the truth.
Recently reported in the mainstream media, both on television and in print, Dr. Paul Marik from the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia had been using a protocol in his intensive care unit (ICU) patients diagnosed with advanced sepsis and septic shock. Sepsis is a body-wide infection that rapidly evolves to a state of low blood pressure (shock) and multi-organ failure due to both the infection itself and the poor blood flow secondary to the low blood pressure.
Currently,sepsis is the most common cause of death in hospitalized patients,routinely killing 30% to 50% of such patients, and claiming millions of lives around the world every year.
Vitamin C therapy delivers lifesaving results for septic shock patients
Already aware of much of the literature on vitamin C and infection, Dr. Marik decided to try intravenous vitamin C, along with some hydrocortisone and thiamine, on a 48-year-old woman dying of septic shock in his ICU in January, 2016. In Dr. Marik’s own words, he asserted that “I was expecting the next morning when I came to work she would be dead.” He then added, “But when I walked in the next morning, I got the shock of my life,” as the patient was strikingly improved, subsequently proceeding smoothly to a complete recovery.
Dr. Marik, a principled physician who was not going to deny what he and his staff had clearly witnessed, then proceeded to institute his vitamin C/hydrocortisone/thiamine protocol on 47 more consecutive septic patients over the next seven months. He compared the results he achieved with these patients in a retrospective manner with a control group of septic patients treated without his new protocol during the prior seven months, simply looking at the outcome of survival.
Dr. Marik’sresults were stunning,to say the least. Only 4 of the 47 patients treated with the protocol did not survive (8.5%), while 19 of the 47 control patients died (40.4%). None of the treated patients developed any organ failure, and all of the treated patients were able to be weaned off of vasopressors (blood pressure-supporting drugs) within roughly 24 hours of starting the protocol.
Furthermore, Dr. Marik also noted that all four of the treated patients who died did not die of sepsis-related shock, but from their underlying conditions. Since this study, Dr. Marik has increased the number of treated patients with severe sepsis and septic shock to 150, and only one from that group went on to die from the sepsis itself.Moving from a 30-50 percent mortality utilizing standard treatment protocols for sepsis to achieving a sepsis-related mortality of less than 1% using IV vitamin C/hydrocortosone/thiamine therapy in this small treatment group is nothing short of miraculous.
If a new drug were developed that could produce these astounding results, it would be labeled a miracle drug.
https://www.peakenergy.com/articles/nh20170522/Vitamin-C-and-sepsis:-The-genie-is-now-out-of-the-bottle