This content delves into the role of Vitamin C as a potent antiviral agent. It clarifies that while Vitamin C may not prevent colds, it can lessen their severity and duration. The discussion also touches on how animals increase Vitamin C production when faced with a cold or virus. It suggests a dosage of a gram per hour when exposed to a virus, dispels some myths, and addresses potential side effects.
Vitamin C Dosage for Colds and Flu
Transcript
One of the never ending debates is about vitamin C, colds and flu. You hear time and time again that taking vitamin C doesn’t reduce the number of colds, which by the way is true. Um, it does reduce the severity of colds, and it does shorten the duration of colds, which of course is what you want. Shorter colds, less severe, but unlike vitamin D, uh, which stores in the body and the higher your general blood level, the greater immunity you have, vitamin C is something that you really get the most benefit from when you take very, very high amounts, the minute you get the symptoms of cold or flu. Let me just explain. All animals with virtually no exception make vitamin CA goat, a chicken, a cow, a dog, a rat, a cat. And the minute you expose them to a cold or virus, they massively increased their production of vitamin C. So what the scientists who’ve really studied vitamin C have done, starting with my teacher, the late and, and great Dr. Linus Pauling. I mean, this man had two unshared Nobel prizes, 48 PhDs. When Einstein was asked, are you a genius? He said, if you want a real genius, it’s Linus Pauling. The question that he asked was, how much does an animal make when exposed to a flu or virus? And he looked at their blood levels and he worked out that you need a gram an hour, 1000 milligram an hour when you are exposed to a virus. Now that is about 20 supermarket oranges worth. Okay, so I’m 66, I take two grams a day. Uh, it’s only gonna be in my bloodstream for five hours, so I take one in the morning and one in the afternoon. But that is not gonna stop me getting a cold, and it won’t have a very significant effect in shortening the duration of a cold. But the minute I get the first signs of flu, cold blo, nose tiredness, you, you know, those early warning signs, I take three grams of vitamin C straight away, and then I take the equivalent of a gram an hour, or actually two grams every two hours. And I do not stop. I want to get my blood level up to the same that every animal that makes vitamin C does. I do not stop. And in almost all cases, uh, I become symptom free in 24 hours. I had covid twice and it took me 18 hours in each case. The other great myth about, uh, vitamin C, well, it’s not strictly a myth, is, you know, we’ll give you loose bowels or diarrhea, a bit like a oo. I mean, it’s not the most terrible thing to have happened in the world, especially if it helps you get rid of an infection. But the point is you don’t get it when you are fighting an infection. When your body needs vitamin C, you do not get that effect. So actually, uh, if you do take high dose and you keep going, and you get to the point where you do start to get a bit of a bit of looseness or gastrointestinal upset, that is the indication that you no longer need to be taking this high dose, and then you can go back to your daily dose of one or two grams. So vitamin C used in this way is the most incredible and powerful antiviral agent. So I just want you to know that because the next time you start getting sniffles and snuffles, you try it for yourself. Don’t believe me. Just do it. Take that gram an hour or two grams every two hours. Don’t stop and just see what happens. I’ve never suffered for more than 48 hours from any cold or flu since I discovered this when I was 25. That’s more than 40 years ago.