SUPPLEMENTS
ingredients that must be added to make tablets may inadver-
tently pollute the product.
Vitamin C is often marketed for children. Be particularly
cautious of those. Is that flavored, chewable, or “better than
regular vitamin C” really worth taking a risk?
Thulium pollution, especially, concerns me. Both the Syn-
crometer and independent laboratories have detected it in some
vitamin C varieties. Thulium is a rare earth (lanthanide) metal.
Lanthanides have recently been shown to cause extensive muta-
tions, with thulium in the lead.^100
There is yet another reason for sticking to plain vitamin C.
As soon as you do any kind of chemistry with it, like “buffer” it
with calcium, you create oxidation products. These are some-
times called ascorbic acid “metabolites,” and have not been well
researched. But excessive oxidation products of vitamin C have
been found in the blood of diabetics, in the lens during cataract
formation, and in aging in general.^101 Adrenal and kidney tu-
mors have been implicated, too. You take vitamin C for its re-
ducing power. Why ingest a form that is partly oxidized?
Oxidize the Bad Guys!
Although the current emphasis is on reducing chemistry,
(antioxidants), at least one early researcher thought the problem
in cancer was a missing Mystery-oxidizer. Dr. William E. Koch
thought that older persons lacked certain oxidizers that children
had in abundance. This allowed toxic amines to interfere with
regulation of cell division. So he designed three “super oxidiz-
ers” that could be taken safely in microgram (homeopathically
small) amounts: benzoquinone (BQ), rhodizonic acid, and
glyoxilide. I have seen that a single dose of BQ can kill fluke,
Ascaris and tapeworm stages, all bacteria, and can destroy my-
(^100) Jha A.M., Singh A.C., Clastogenicity of Lanthanides: Induction of Chromosomal
Aberration in Bone Marrow Cells of Mice in Vivo, Mut. Res., v. 341, 1995, pp. 193-
97.
(^101) Nagaraj R.H., Monnier, V.M., Protein Modification by the Degradation Products of
Ascorbate: Formation of a Novel Pyrrole from the Maillard Reaction of L-threose
With Proteins, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1253, 1995, pp. 75-84.