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"Hannah Gruen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:"Lady o' the house" <[email hidden]> wrote
Quoted message said:But I've noticed that since I've been on this woe and
taking vitamins/minerals, I've not had as many illnesses. Has this been
anyone else's experience? I also figure I am being exposed to a lot,
since
Quoted message said:I work in an elementary school.
Below is an explanation of why so many of us have observed that we get
sick
Quoted message said:less often, and generally not as sick as others with the same bug, since
we
Quoted message said:started LC. It's from a transcript of a talk, titled "Insulin and It's
Metabolic Effects" given by Ron Rosedale, MD in 1999. Very interesting
stuff.
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"So what you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is you need
to
Quoted message said:get to the root of the disease. If you keep pulling a dandelion out by
it's
Quoted message said:leaves, you are not going to get very far. But the problem is that we
don't
Quoted message said:know what the root is, or we haven't. They know what it is in many other
areas of science, but the problem is that medicine really isn't a science,
it is a business, but I don't want to get in to that, we can talk hours on
that. But if you really look at the root of what is causing it, we can use
that cold as a further example. Why does that person have a cold? If he
saw
Quoted message said:the doctor, the doctor might tell him to take an antibiotic along with the
decongestant. You see this all the time because the doctor wants to get
rid
Quoted message said:of the patient. Well we all know that in almost all cases of an upper
respiratory infection it is a virus, and the antibiotic is going to do
worse
Quoted message said:than nothing because it is going to kill the bacterial flora in the gut
and
Quoted message said:impair the immune system, making the immune system worse. The patient
might
Quoted message said:see someone else more knowledgeable who will say no, you caught a virus,
don't do anything, go home and sleep, let your body heal itself. That's
better. You might see someone else who would ask why you caught a virus
without being out there trying to hunt for viruses with a net. We are
breathing viruses every day; right now we are breathing viruses, cold
viruses, rhinoviruses. Why doesn't everybody catch a cold tomorrow? The
Chinese will tell you that it is because the milieu has to be right, if
the
Quoted message said:Chinese were to quote the French. Your body has to be receptive to that
virus. Only if your immune system is depressed will it allow that virus to
take hold.
So maybe a depressed immune system is the disease. So you can be given a
bunch of vitamin C because your immune system is depressed and it is
likely
Quoted message said:that the person has a vitamin C deficiency. That's where most of us are at
right now, where we would give a bunch of vitamin C to try to pick up the
immune system. But why is the vitamin C not working. Vitamin C is made in
almost all living mammals except humans and a couple other species.
Vitamin
Quoted message said:C is made directly from glucose and actually has a similar structure and
they compete for one another. We've known for many years that sugar
depresses the immune system. We have known that for decades. It was only
in
Quoted message said:the 70's that they found out that vitamin C was needed by white blood
cells
Quoted message said:so that they could phagocytize bacteria and viruses. White blood cells
require a fifty times higher concentration at least inside the cell as
outside so they have to accumulate vitamin C. There is something called a
phagocytic index which tells you how rapidly a particular macrophage or
lymphocyte can gobble up a virus, bacteria, or cancer cell. It was in the
70's that Linus Pauling knew that white blood cells needed a high dose of
vitamin C and that is when he came up with his theory that you need high
doses of vitamin C to combat the common cold. But if we know that vitamin
C
Quoted message said:and glucose have similar chemical structure, what happens when the sugar
levels go up? They compete for one another upon entering the cells. And
the
Quoted message said:thing that mediates the entry of vitamin C into the cells is the same
thing
Quoted message said:that mediates the entry of glucose into the cells. If there is more
glucose
Quoted message said:around there is going to be less vitamin C allowed into the cell and it
doesn't take much. A blood sugar value of 120 reduces the phagocytic index
seventy-five percent.
Here we are getting a little bit further down into the roots of disease.
It
Quoted message said:doesn't matter what disease you are talking about, whether you are talking
about a common cold or about cardiovascular disease, or osteoporosis or
cancer, the root is always going to be at the molecular and cellular
level,
Quoted message said:and I will tell you that insulin is going to have its hand in it, if not
totally controlling it."
