Full Transcript IV Vitamin C for Cancer Support 0:09 I'm most excited about offering this to our patients who have active cancer, who are in remission from cancer and the benefits of high-dose IV vitamin 0:22 C minimizing their side effects from their chemo. 0:25 The reason high dose IV vitamin C is so fantastic for people that have cancer is because normal cells have peroxides in them. 0:36 Catalyzed is an enzyme that breaks down peroxide in normal cell. 0:41 Well, cancer cells have 10 to 100 times less catalase. 0:46 So when you give high dose IV vitamin C, you make peroxide and then those cancer are rusted and destroyed from the inside out. 0:56 You can see that high-dose IV Vitamin C is absolutely outstanding for patients with cancer. 1:07 Well, I'm 61 years old, and I really didn't step my feet in the water of functional medicine until closer to 12 years ago on my own journey, 1:16 then opening the practice 10 years this year. 1:19 And, you know, those age spots, people call them age-spots or liver- spots.
Beauty, Skin Glow, and Age Spots 1:25 you just add vitamin C and those, and it'll make your skin glow. 1:31 So just for beauty and a skin-glow, you don't have to have cancer. 1:36 You don' have have pots. 1:37 you Don't Have to Have Surs, You Don' Have To Have Chronic Fatigue and all these other things to get it.You could buy a four-pack and do it for the glow 1:47 that the vitamin c is going to impart on your beautiful body and also take those aging and liver spots away. 1:59 A person has a lack of a certain enzyme called G6PDH. 2:05 Their red blood cells can break open. 2:08 That's called hemolytic anemia. 2:10 So first of all, we need to do that. 2:12 We also need make sure that a person doesn't have a history of kidney disease or congestive heart failure or the degree to which that is present. 2:22 High dose IV vitamin C can lead to the precipitation of calcium oxalate crystals.
Safety Screening and Patient Precautions 2:29 So we want to be very, very careful in certain patient populations. 2:34 And so we've developed these screening protocols and it's not just a one and done. 2:39 You want a ramp up so the bad cancer cells can die or just have the benefit of high dose, IV, vitamin c to kill infections in your body. 2:53 You don't receive the maximum benefits of high dose IV vitamin C in lowering inflammation in your body. 3:01 So this has to do with something called oxidation and reduction. 3:05 You want to replenish what's missing in the body, so that's why we don�t do a one and done. 3:11 We want provide people with the Because there are rapid shifts in electrolytes and minerals and vitamins in the body, sometimes you can develop tetany. 3:29 Have you ever woken up in middle of the night with a foot cramp, okay, where your foot is spasm? 3:34 That's called tetanine. 3:36 So when you're receiving that, that can happen. 3:40 We add in calcium gluconate. 3:41 The other thing is because it's very acidic, it goes into sterile water. 3:47 and we buffer that, it's pre-buffered so that it doesn't sting really bad. 3:53 This is such a therapeutic infusion and it also augments chemotherapy. 4:01 We want people, we partner with integrative oncologists and MD Anderson here at Hope for Healing. 4:07 we're in Houston for Pete's sake. 4:09 So that can help minimize the side effects of chemotherapy Chemotherapeutic agents can damage the heart and high dose IB vitamin C offsets that.
Infusion Preparation and Side Effect Prevention 4:23 And so we love it. 4:25 We love. 4:31 Vitamin C resembles glucose and because of that when you have a high amount of a hexose ring resembles in your bloodstream you get a lot of water following that. 4:46 So there's shifts in electrolytes in the body and so in a bag of vitamin C we put calcium gluconate which helps with any potential cramping, 4:58 but we also have minerals in there to replete that. 5:02 So you might drop your blood sugar during the infusion and that's why it's absolutely 100% necessary that you've had that meal so that, 5:14 you don't drop you bloodsugar, become very shaky and hypoglycemic. 5:19 I went to a stand-alone place several years ago. 5:22 The nurse didn't know this. 5:24 No one told me I had to have a meal, and no one could explain why I was shaking. 5:30 And I shivered under the covers for two hours. 5:34 They didn t tell me why. 5:38 it was so sad. 5:39 So we're not going to allow that to happen to our patients. 5:42 And we want you to also bring along some high protein snacks, you know, like boiled egg, avocado, chomp stick, that kind of a thing,
Glucose Monitoring, Snacks, and Infusion Experience 5:51 nuts, just to kind keep that going. 5:55 If you have a continuous glucose monitor and you've have metabolic syndrome, you might have an artificial escalation of your glucose and that's because 6:05 the glucometer is reading the hexose vitamin C, the little ring in your There's a ton of literature showing the benefits. 6:19 You know, when I first heard of IV vitamin C, it's like you wonder, well, is it orange? 6:23 Is it yellow? 6:24 Does it look like sunshine? 6:26 What what does that feel like? 6:28 And why would I put vitamin c in my body? 6:31 Well, years ago, Linus Pauling published a profound amount of research on vitamin C, and he was spot on and won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this.
Research Support and Clinical Advocacy 6:45 And then there's documentation for it, so it's so encouraging to see what's out there. 6:53 And if you just open your eyes to the benefit of that. 6:58 And I think that if a doctor with the plethora of literature that there is to support this doesn't agree with that, then you need to find a new doctor. 7:07 You know, it's like open you eyes and see the benefits for your patients. 7:12 So really, really excited about this.
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