Max-C

Ever wondered why animals don’t get heart attacks? Simple answer – They make their own Vitamin C (ascorbic acid). With few exceptions all animals synthesize their own ascorbate by conversion from glucose. These exceptions are Humans, Bats, Guinea Pigs & Fish. Somehow our ancestors seem to have lost the ability to make our own Vitamin C some 40 million years ago. This was the result of a mutation of a gene. As a result of this mutation, we became dependent only on dietary ascorbate intake.

Recent studies indicate that the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) are way off the mark for the vitamin & mineral requirements today. Dr. James Enstrom from the University of California studied the vitamin intake of over 11,000 people for 10 years. He found that 300mg of vitamin C a day reduced risk of heart disease by 50 percent in men and 40 percent in women. Dr G. C. Willis found that people taking 1,500mg of vitamin C a day for 12 months reversed plaque while those who didn’t take vitamin C had worsening plaque. It is clear that vitamin C is necessary for vascular health. A research team at the University of California, Berkeley (my alma mater) found new evidence that vitamin C can significantly reduce levels of oxidative stress, which is associated with a variety of chronic diseases, for people exposed to environmental stress.

Here is some expert advice on the subject

• The primary cause of coronary heart disease and other forms of atherosclerotic disease is a chronic deficiency of vitamins and other essential nutrients in millions of vascular wall cells. This leads to the instability of the vascular walls, lesions and cracks, atherosclerotic deposits and, eventually, heart attacks or strokes. – Dr. Mathias Rath – MD.
• Ascorbate deficiency is the precondition and common denominator of human Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD). The invariable morphological consequences of chronic ascorbate deficiency in the vascular wall are the loosening of the connective tissue and the loss of the endothelial barrier function. Thus human CVD is a form of pre-scurvy. Scurvy is a fatal disease. It is characterized by structural and metabolic impairment of the human body, particularly by the destabilization of the connective tissue. Ascorbate is essential for an optimum production and hydroxy-lation of collagen and elastin, key constituents of the extracellular matrix. – Dr. Linus Pauling – Ph.D
• Optometrist, Dr. Sydney Bush’s retinal artery observations has documented reversal of atherosclerotic plaque with Vitamin C supplementation. 
• Richard T. Lee, MD, and his colleagues at the Harvard Medical School, tested 880 chemical compounds for their effect on embryonic stem cells derived from mice. The stem cells were pretreated so that they would emit a green color if they grew into heart muscle cells.  Of all 880 compounds, which are approved for use in people, only one promoted activity in the stem cells, and that was vitamin C.
• Vitamin C is known to perform many critical functions within the body involving detoxification, tissue building, immune enhancement, pain control, and controlling or killing pathogenic organisms. It is known to be helpful for wound and bone healing, healthy skin and eyes, fighting infections, stress control, toxic exposure, and repairing damaged tissue of all types. At very high dosages administered intravenously vitamin C is also known to be able to treat and bring cancer into remission even with late-stage cancer patients. – Dr. Scott Greenberg – MD.
• Vitamin C can help curb the growth of cancer cells, according to New Zealand scientists who claim breakthrough research to provide the first real evidence of a connection between the vitamin and cancer remission.- Prof Margreet Vissers
• Study from Univ. of Maryland - Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin, meaning that your body doesn't store it. We have to get what we need from food, including citrus fruits, broccoli, and tomatoes. You need vitamin C for the growth and repair of tissues in all parts of your body. It helps the body make collagen, an important protein used to make skin, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, and blood vessels. Vitamin C is needed for healing wounds, and for repairing and maintaining bones and teeth. Vitamin C is an antioxidant, along with vitamin E, beta-carotene, and many other plant-based nutrients. Antioxidants block some of the damage caused by free radicals, substances that damage DNA. The build-up of free radicals over time may contribute to the aging process and the development of health conditions such as cancer, heart disease, and arthritis.
• Univ of California, School of Medicine - Vitamin C functions as a regulator of the catabolism of cholesterol to bile acids. For individuals with high total cholesterol concentrations, greater than or equal to 5.20 mmol/L (200 mg/dl) and less than full tissue saturation, increasing the concentration of vitamin C may have a salutary effect on total cholesterol. Vitamin C's effect on promoting the production and inhibiting the degradation of prostacyclin is reviewed, as are implications of these findings regarding thrombosis and atherogenesis. Evidence indicative of a protective effect on lipid peroxidation by vitamin C is examined. Analysis of the literature regarding groups at high risk for coronary heart disease reveals that men, the elderly, smokers, diabetics, hypertensives and perhaps oral estrogen-containing contraceptive users have lowered plasma vitamin C levels.

Though, Vitamin C is found in citrus fruits and some vegetables, it’s bio-availability to the body remains uncertain. Therefore having supplements for this critical component of good health is not such a bad idea.  Many commercial brands of chewable Vitamin C tablets are available in the market. However, even these are mostly excreted from the body. The best method of delivering adequate quantities of Vitamin C to the body is to do so intravenously. But that is (1) a very expensive way & (2) it would require a proactive medical establishment, which is very hard to find.

Recently, a new approach of effective Vitamin C delivery was achieved by “fat encapsulation of liquid Vitamin C”. The encapsulation is done by separating the fats & the Vitamin C by means of sound waves. The fat molecules engulf the Vitamin C and are able to deliver it direct to the blood stream without it getting absorbed by the digestive system. A guy called Alan Smith from New Zealand was brought out of a coma by the use of this type of lypospheric Vitamin C delivery. This was after the doctors had given up all hope of his remaining alive. You can read his full story by clicking here.

I have obtained the imported equipment and the ingredients and have started making the encapsulated Vitamin C. I am taking one dose of this vital daily requirement. That delivers approximately 1 gm of Vitamin C directly to my vascular blood supply. This is equivalent to a much larger intravenous and oral intake. Studies have shown that the effects are very beneficial and the science supports the idea. Let’s see what my next blood panel reports indicate.

At some point maybe we’ll take the product to a commercial level. I have thought of calling it - “Max-C”.