Your own best doctor

All too often people take the word of their doctor as gospel. The patients report the symptoms, often get a prescription, and then trot over to PHI or Brabu to get the medicine. They take the medicine and sometimes the symptoms improve; sometimes they don’t.

Do these people ever search for a remedy online? Do they ever bother to watch YouTube videos of doctors talking about their condition? Not usually. No, they rely on the doctor to have all of the answers, and this can be a bad mistake.

Sometimes common ailments are caused by a simple vitamin or mineral deficiency. But the doctors are not trained in vitamins and minerals; they mostly know about drugs.

As I reported previously, muscular dystrophy—thought to be incurable—is a result of a simple selenium deficiency. Selenium is a trace mineral your body needs. If you don’t have any selenium in your bloodstream, or in the foods you eat, you may develop muscular dystrophy.

Meanwhile, earnest scientists assumed that this terrible disease was caused by some kind of pathogen (a germ, a virus, or bacteria).

Long ago, British sailors developed a terrible disease called scurvy. Nobody knew what caused it, but when the sailors dropped anchor at a Pacific island, the islanders quickly perceived the problem and gave the sailors limes to eat. This not only cured the disease but gave the British sailors the unfortunate nickname of “Limeys.”

Limes cured scurvy because they contain vitamin C, and that’s what scurvy is: an easily corrected deficiency in vitamin C. Are you getting enough vitamin C? Probably not.

People drink orange juice and think they are getting a daily amount of vitamin C, but they are wrong. Orange juice is mostly orange-flavored water with a lot of sugar. If there is any vitamin C in it, it’s a tiny speck—not nearly enough for an active person.

Linus Pawling, the only man to win two Nobel prizes, did exhaustive research on vitamin C. He says that most heart disease is an advanced, unique, form of scurvy, and that most people are totally deficient in this vital nutrient.

Pawling discovered that we humans are one of only two “mammals” whose liver does not make vitamin C. A goat makes 14 grams of vitamin C in its liver every day. But not us. No, we have to get our vitamin C from outside sources.

As a result, Pawling found that the average human being needs about 10 grams of vitamin C every day—a whopping amount. And, if taken in combination with amino acids, L-Lysine and L-Proline, all heart disease could be not only prevented, but reversed.

However, if you look up the RDA of vitamin C (Recommended Daily Allowance) you will see that the dosage is 60 milligrams, not 10 thousand. 60 milligrams is the amount you need to prevent scurvy, but it won’t help you much beyond that.

And, if you smoke cigarettes, the 60 milligrams is gone by the time you put out your butt.

Be careful
As you may know, there are different forms of vitamin C.

The pure stuff is called ascorbate, or ascorbic acid. It’s the pure, unadulterated vitamin C. But it is also an acid, and can be hard on your stomach.

A safer form is “buffered” vitamin C, in which bioflavonoids have been added to the capsules or powder. The bioflavonoids do two things—they reduce the acidic effects of vitamin C, but they also act as a transport mechanism, so that the vitamin is more readily absorbed by the body.

Other uses for vitamin C
Before I came to Saipan, I had some pre-cancerous spots on my face. They were small dots. One was over an eyebrow; another was on my forehead. I also had a small cancerous basal cell on the side of my nose. It was blue.

I told my primary care doctor about the spots; he called a dermatologist and made an appointment for me.

Upon seeing the dermatologist, the doctor looked at my spots with a magnifying glass and said yes, he could get rid of them by zapping them with liquid nitrogen. He said it would hurt a little, but that they would go away in a couple of weeks. He was right.

However, when he examined the basal cell, he said the only way to cure it was by surgery. He made an appointment for me—three months down the road. He was busy.

In the meantime, I started doing research—being my own doctor—and found a cure. Not just a treatment but a cure to kill the basal cell totally. It called for a mixture of vitamin C powder (true ascorbic acid, not buffered) mixed with emu oil. You make a little paste, about ½ tsp, and then coat the basal cell.

Emu oil is one of the few oils whose molecules are so small that they are able to penetrate the surface of the skin. It’s the only oil that can do this.

So, by mixing vitamin C powder with emu oil, this mixture carries the ascorbic acid into the cancerous cell, and the acid will kill it, without affecting other healthy tissue.

Within 10 minutes of coating the basal cell with this stuff, I could feel the acid eating the cancer away.

When I returned to the doctor, three months later, my basal cell was gone.

“What happened? What did you do?” asked the astonished doctor.

I told him about my homemade concoction of ascorbic acid and emu oil. Instead of being happy, he was indignant.

“That’s not an approved treatment!” he growled.

“I don’t care. It worked,” I replied, thus denying him the profit of surgery.

The bottom line is this, friends. If you take the time to do some research online, you can find remedies for whatever ails you. Whether it’s cancer, diabetes, or a basal cell on your nose, you can find the means to treat, and to maybe to even cure yourself.

It’s worth it. If you can read, and are wise, you will never need to see an MD for most common conditions. If you have a problem, look it up and read everything you can find.

Doctors are wonderful people, but they don’t know everything.