BOOK REVIEW

 

Curing the Incurable: Levy Vitamin C Text Book to change the Practice of Medicine

 

Review by Owen Fonorow

 

Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins Curing the Incurable

By Thomas Levy, MD, JD

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Library of Congress Number: 2002093697; 451 pages

 ISBN: 1-4010-6964-9 (Hardcover); 1-4010-6963-0 (Softcover)

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Vitamin C, given at sufficiently high doses, by itself, can cure life-threatening infections and neutralize many otherwise fatal toxin exposures, according to author Thomas E. Levy, M.D., J.D. in his extensively referenced new book, Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins: Curing the Incurable.  

Levy’s book is unmatched in the medical literature. According to Dr. E. Cheraskin, more than 80,000 scientific papers and reports have been written about vitamin C since its chemical nature was first discovered early in the 20^th century.   The Vitamin C Foundation credits Levy with “doing an almost impossible feat of reading, analyzing and clearly explaining the meaning of the massive science behind vitamin C.”

In his book, Levy surprises even avid Vitamin C advocates with an incredible amount of new information. Dr. Levy also makes a credible case that Linus Pauling’s recommended vitamin C dosages were “too small.”

 In citing over 1,200 articles from scientific and medical journals world-wide, Dr. Levy presents the evidence that many viral diseases such as polio, hepatitis, and encephalitis have been consistently cured by high doses of vitamin C given intravenously. While maintaining that lower doses of vitamin C taken by mouth may have little or no effect on many infections,  Dr. Levy adds that high enough doses administered directly into the blood demonstrates significant clinical effects that border on the unbelievable. He notes that large enough oral doses of vitamin C can prevent many infections, but intravenous dosing is often needed to cure infections already contracted.

One Chapter outlines the extensive evidence that many potent toxins are completely neutralized by prompt and vigorous dosing of vitamin C, although current medicine offers little or no other effective treatments for them. Dr. Levy cites literature showing that vitamin C can completely reverse and clinically cure advanced poisonings from agents such as tetanus toxin, mushroom toxin, barbiturates, snakebite venom, and heavy metals, including lead, to name only a few. Because of this toxin-neutralizing ability, Dr. Levy further notes that the scientific evidence supports vitamin C as an ideal agent for treating many of the infectious diseases that also produce very potent toxins, such as diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough).

The importance of giving a high enough dose of vitamin C directly into the blood is repeatedly emphasized. Dr. Levy asserts that virtually all of the studies proclaiming the ineffectiveness of vitamin C for given infections or toxins use far too small doses, sometimes several thousand-fold too small. A chapter documenting the safety of vitamin C at daily doses up to 300,000 mg is included. Compelling evidence is presented contradicting the common belief that vitamin C causes kidney stones.

The reader is challenged to scientifically evaluate all of the assertions made in the book. References include articles from the most highly esteemed medical journals in the world, including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and The Journal of the American Medical Association.

The book is arranged so that the reader can easily find a particular infection or toxin to know what specific effects vitamin C has been reported to have had on that condition, during the last century. The scientific literature on vitamin C and over 25 infectious diseases and 100 toxic agents is reviewed.

The Levy case for the immediate administration of properly dosed vitamin C treatments is so convincing that it may well alter the practice of medicine, if for no other reason than patients who read this book will demand it. 

Today, people often ask their doctors about the vitamin, and are almost always confronted with such terse statements as “there is no proof or evidence that vitamin C has any benefit for any particular condition.” With the Levy book in hand, patients will now be able to challenge their doctor’s assertions with superb documentation. No medical professional should comment about vitamin C without having read the Levy book. For this reason, medical schools may include this book in their required reading lists.

The knowledge of many pioneering medical doctors and researchers has been compiled, along with scientific justification, showing beyond a reasonable doubt that the intravenous dosing of high doses of vitamin C is an optimal, nontoxic treatment for infections and poisonings.