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Megadose of vitamin C may treat sepsis (abc.net.au)
28 points by shusson on Dec 2, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



Dr. Fredirick Klenner was curing polio with intravenous sodium ascorbate, in the 1930's.

https://isom.ca/profile/frederick-klenner/

Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C http://vitaminc.co.nz/pdf/CLINICAL-GUIDE-TO-THE-USE-OF-VITAM...

Other papers published by Dr. Klenner. https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/hemila/klenner.htm


Note this is a just a single case report.

A single case report is an interesting starting point but in the hierarchy of evidence [0] it is the lowest or doesn't even make the scale.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_evidence


Yeah, right.... there are literary thousands of such reports if you care to look.


Nice, although hardly revolutionary (as they say) - Pauling had claims along those lines 30 years ago.


Pauling was pushing vit C megadosing for chronic, not acute use.




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