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Posted by Beyond Health on Nov 3rd 2025

Deaths From Rx Drugs: 300,000-400,000 a Year; Deaths From Vitamins: 0

. . . there is almost always a better natural alternative to toxic medications Prescription drugs are the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. Properly prescribed prescription drugs kill an estimated 300,000-400,000 yearly. How many deaths have vitamins caused? None! Researchers at the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service were disturbed to find that the US government's American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) attributed 11 deaths to vitamins in the 27 years for which they have data. Now that's less than one death every two years from vitamins compared to hundreds of thousands of deaths from drugs yearly, but the researchers were skeptical that there was even one death from vitamins, so they probed a little deeper. The AAPCC uses a 4-point rating scale in attributing "Relative Contribution to Fatality:" (1) undoubtedly responsible, (2) probably responsible, (3) contributory, and (4) probably not responsible. When the researchers delved into the records, they found one of…

Posted by Beyond Health on Nov 3rd 2025

How Much Vitamin C Are You Taking?

. . . chances are it's not enough From an informal survey of our customers, it appears that many aren't taking nearly enough vitamin C to achieve optimal health. Vitamin C is pivotal to the Beyond Health lifestyle and to reversing just about any disease. Please don't go by government recommendations, which are based on preventing the disease scurvy and do not at all reflect the human need for this precious vitamin that has more than 300 functions in the human body. Famous vitamin C researcher Linus Pauling discovered that human beings have a unique need for vitamin C. Most animals, with the exception of humans, apes, guinea pigs, fruit bats and some birds, have an enzyme that converts glucose (blood sugar) to vitamin C as needed. For example, a goat weighing 110 pounds will normally make over 9 grams of vitamin C a day. That would translate into 13 grams for a 154-pound human. A lab rat will synthesize 20-70 mg a day, which translates into 4-15 grams for that same human. But when goats…

Posted by Beyond Health on Nov 3rd 2025

When All Else Fails, Try Vitamin C!

For decades, pioneer doctors have used vitamin C with spectacular results when nothing else was working to save patients’ lives during viral epidemics and pandemics. Not in the puny doses employed by researchers who sought to discredit Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling’s claim that he’d found the cure for the common cold, but in megadoses, up to 150 grams a day intravenously (IV). However their work, even when they painstakingly recorded it in medical journals, was summarily dismissed by the medical establishment. In a desperate search to help patients dying of COVID-19 related respiratory failure, the Chinese began using high-dose IV vitamin C, and last month the Shanghai government announced its official recommendation that COVID-19 should be treated with intravenous vitamin C at dosages equal to about 4-16 grams depending on body weight and severity of disease. Since IV vitamin C is ten times more powerful than oral vitamin C, this dosage would equal 40-160 grams…

Nov 3rd 2025

An End to Heart Disease?

Now I’ve got to the point where I think we can get almost complete control of cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes by the proper use of vitamin C and lysine. If you are at risk of heart disease or if there is a history of heart disease in your family . . . or if you have had a mild heart attack yourself, then you had better be taking vitamin C and lysine. – Linus PaulingIn the US, heart disease causes 700,000 deaths each year—more than all forms of cancer combined. Atherosclerosis, or “hardening of the arteries” causes most heart attacks and strokes and is found to some degree in almost everyone today, even babies. It doesn’t have to be this way.Dr. Linus Pauling proposed a solution: vitamin C . . .Thirty years ago, chemist Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize winner and one of the great scientific minds of the 20th century, proposed that vitamin C deficiency is the major cause of atherosclerosis.Among its more than 300 functions in the human body, vitamin C helps the…

Nov 3rd 2025

Sugar and Depression

Gloria Swanson is known for playing the delusional Norma Desmond in the movie “Sunset Boulevard.” But in real life, she was a very sane and smart woman, and an early convert to the natural health movement. In the 1970s she toured the US helping her husband William Duffy to promote a book he authored that became a dietary classic, Sugar Blues. Sugar Blues is an indictment of refined sugar as a dangerous and addictive toxin with disastrous effects on the brain and mental health (both Linus Pauling and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, who agreed with Duffy about sugar, are cited in the book). Although Duffy’s book has had a significant impact on a health-conscious minority, sugar consumption continues to ravage the mental health of millions of Americans in minor and major ways. It has been linked with all kinds of mental distress, from depression to schizophrenia, while sugar and a high-glycemic diet have been linked specifically with depression. As noted in a recent Newsclips article,…

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