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MISCARRIAGE AND
SPONTANEOUS ABORTION
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Miscarriage
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Several
friends, who are Catholic missionary sisters, asked me if vitamin C
supplementation would help the people they work with in the South American
rainforests. Since I think supplemental
C is valuable for all humans, I said “yes.” They took it from
there, and for several years now have been giving multi-thousand-milligram doses
of ascorbic acid powder to the natives daily. The result is that miscarriage and infant mortality rates have
plummeted. (To save naysayers some time, you may complain about me directly
to the Pope at http://www.vatican.va)
VITAMIN C
HELPS HOLD A PREGNANCY
One
Reader asks:
"I've read on your other pregnancy
page (http://www.doctoryourself.com/pregnancy_lactation.html) that Dr. Frederick R. Klenner gave pregnant women 3,000 mg of
vitamin C in first trimester. I have taken 6,000 to 12,000 mg of vitamin C
(as ascorbic acid) for 6 days during weeks 4 and 5, and am concerned about
birth defects. Some women-websites talk about vitamin C being used as an abortifacient. Any input would be greatly appreciated as
I am concerned of the health of my embryo/fetus."
It is
simply incredible what people have been told about vitamins, isn't it?
One area
of theoretical concern might over acidity. Vitamin C is most frequently
supplemented as ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid is a weak acid, having about the
same pH as an orange. Ascorbic acid is weaker than vinegar or even “Coca-Cola.”
I do not see any great amount of published panic over ladies that consume
these items. Lemons are more acidic than ascorbic acid. Some commercial
lemons are properly known to science as Citrusmedica. Since medieval times, "lymons" have been known and prized for their ability
to ensure healthy pregnancies and easier deliveries.
This
brings us to the second consideration, that of
ascorbic acid's biological effects on the developing baby. Far from being an abortifacient, vitamin C in fact helps hold a healthy
pregnancy right from the start. From the passage the reader referred to:
F. R. Klenner, M.D. gave large
doses to over 300 pregnant women and reported virtually no complications in
any of the pregnancies or deliveries (Irwin Stone, The Healing Factor, Chapter 28). Indeed, the hospital nurses around
Specifically, Klenner gave:
(1) 4,000 mg each day during the
first trimester (first three months of pregnancy)
(2) 6,000 mg each day during the
second trimester
(3) 8,000 to 10,000 mg each day during the
third trimester
Some women got 15,000 mg daily
during the third trimester. Results? There were NO miscarriages in this
entire group of 300 women."
That would make ascorbic acid one singularly lousy abortifacient,
don't you think?
Lendon
Smith, M.D., said, “Vitamin C is our best defense and everyone should
be on this one even before birth. Three thousand mgs daily for the pregnant
woman is a start. The baby should get 100 mg per day per month of age. (The
six month old would get 600 mg, the year-old gets a thousand mgs daily, the
two year-old would get 2,000 mgs., etc.) A daily dose
of 2,000 to 5,000 mg would be prudent for a lifetime.”
(From the
doctor’s former website, smithsez.com/AlivearticleonCancer.html)
Not only that, but vitamin C also helps with conception. As I have
written at my website (http://www.doctoryourself.com/fertility.html) :
Try having the man take megadoses
of vitamin C for a few weeks prior. At least 6,000 milligrams a day, and as
much as 20,000 mg/day guarantees very high sperm production. Divide the dose throughout the day for
maximum effect. And that effect is what, exactly? More sperm, stronger sperm, and better
swimming sperm all occurred, at even lower
daily C doses, in a
It was Dr. Klenner's experience,
with the hundreds of babies that he delivered, that vitamin C was not only
safe but especially beneficial in early pregnancy. Klenner gave
"booster" injections of vitamin C to 80% of the women upon admission
to the hospital for childbirth. The results? Wonderful, indeed:
First, labor was shorter and less
painful. My children's mother, with
her 2 1/2 and 1 3/4 hour labor times, can confirm this. Second, stretch marks
were seldom to be seen. (I can vouch for this; after all, I was there.) Third, there were no toxic manifestations
and no cardiac distress And, there were NO postpartum hemorrhages at all. (Stone,
The Healing Factor, p. 191.)
This is
exceptionally significant. For centuries, postpartum hemorrhage was a leading
cause of death in childbed. (Postpartum infection was another, usually caused
by doctors that did not wash their hands. This rejection of the teachings of
Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis and
other "quacks" is discussed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/quackquack.html .)
Hemorrhage
very often occurs in scorbutic (vitamin C deficient) patients. (http://www.doctoryourself.com/mccormick.html) Klenner-sized doses of vitamin C
prevent hemorrhage and saves women's lives. One way it may do this is by
strengthening the body’s large and small blood vessels. Believe it or
not, the press tried to make that out to be a problem, claiming that vitamin
C's "thickening" of artery walls would reduce blood flow. It does
not. (http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_factoids.html)
And
finally, here what I consider to be a definitive statement from the Journal of the American Medical
Association:
"Harmful effects have been
mistakenly attributed to vitamin C, including hypoglycemia, rebound scurvy,
infertility, mutagenesis, and destruction of vitamin B(12).
Health professionals should recognize that vitamin C does not produce these
effects."
[M. Levine, et al, JAMA, April 21, 1999. Vol 281,
No 15, p 1419]
Vitamin C
does not cause birth defects, or infertility, or miscarriage. (It does not
cause kidney stones, either. http://www.doctoryourself.com/kidney.html)
What vitamin C does do is deliver healthier babies.
Read Dr
Klenner’s Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C for free at
http://www.whale.to/v/c/index.html
My
reviews are posted at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitaminc.html and at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/smith1.html
.
For more
about Dr. Klenner's use of megavitamin vitamin C therapy:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html
and
http://www.doctoryourself.com/klenner_table.html
VITAMIN E
PREVENTS MISCARRIAGE
1922 was the year the
In 1936, Evans' team had isolated
alpha tocopherol from wheat germ oil and vitamin E was beginning to be widely
appreciated, and the consequences of deficiency better known. Health Culture
Magazine for January, 1936 said, "The fertility food factor (is) now
called vitamin E. Excepting for the abundance of that vitamin in whole
grains, there could not have been any perpetuation of the human race. Its
absence from the diet makes for irreparable sterility occasioned by a
complete degeneration of the germinal cells of the male generative glands. (T)he expectant mother requires vitamin E to insure the
carriage of her charge to a complete and natural term. If her diet is
deficient in vitamin E . . . the woman is very apt to abort. . . It is more
difficult to insure a liberal vitamin E supply in the daily average diet than
to insure an adequate supply of any other known vitamin." (9)
Since the word
"tocopherol" is taken from the Greek words for "to carry
offspring" or "to bring forth childbirth," it is easy enough
to see how Evan Shute and other obstetricians were drawn into the work. As
early as 1931, Vogt-Moller of
Yet when the MDR's
(Minimum Daily Requirements) first came out in 1941, there was no mention of
vitamin E. It was not until 1959 that vitamin E was recognized by the
(From Vitamin E: A cure
in search of recognition, by Andrew W. Saul. Reprinted with permission from
the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, 2003; Vol. 18, Numbers 3 and
4, p. 205-212.)
All references
and the rest of the above quoted paper are at http://www.doctoryourself.com/evitamin.htm)
Taking vitamin E (at least 200 and perhaps 400 IU daily) greatly
reduces the chance of miscarriage. This is no myth: by the end of WW II, there were
already dozens of medical studies confirming this. They are reviewed in a
1953 medical textbook, The Vitamins in
Medicine, by Bicknell and Prescott. (William Heinemann Medical Books
Ltd.; Third Edition. ASIN: B000LCKALQ)
Andrew Saul is the author of the books FIRE
YOUR DOCTOR! How to be
Independently Healthy (reader reviews at http://www.doctoryourself.com/review.html
) and DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural Healing that Works. (reviewed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/saulbooks.html
)
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