A few weeks ago, a close friend of mine got the all-clear following a round of chemo and she’s now keen to supercharge her immune system with intravenous C. She recently asked me how it worked and I found myself getting tongue-tied. So I thought I’d enlist the help of Australia’s leading expert in IV C – Professor Ian Brighthope. Many of you will recognise Professor Brighthope – a medical doctor and surgeon – from the hit documentary Food Matters. What are the benefits of having vitamin C therapy alongside conventional treatments? He has been treating patients with intravenous vitamin C for over 35 years, and, as the previous president of the Australian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine (ACNEM), he’s well placed to talk about how it works.
So where did you learn about the benefits of high-dose Vitamin C ? ‘It reduces the toxic effects of chemotherapy, it accelerates the healing after chemotherapy, it reduces the inflammation caused by radiotherapy, it boosts the immune system, it suppresses the bacteria and viruses that may be implicated in causing or aggravating the growth of cancer and it stimulates white blood cells to mop up dead cancerous tissue and fight infection.’ ‘Every benefit in the world,’ said Brighthope. ‘I used vitamin C experimentally in a cancer patient who was terminal – and the patient lived for another seven years.’ ‘I had some clues from Linus Pauling in the US, but I basically taught myself,’ said Brighthope. More than thirty years ago, Dr Linus Pauling and Dr Ewan Cameron conducted a number of studies, looking at the effect of vitamin C therapy in cancer patients.
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