Charles Runels, MD
"Every man [woman] is a builder of a
temple, called his body, to the god he worships,...
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood
and bones."---Walden, Henry David Thoreau
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I can remember going to the health food store as a teenage and
buying 250mg tablets of viatmin C. This was in about 1974 and people
thought I was crazy. I thought Linus Pauling was right. I still
do.
If you think you're just making expensive urine when you take extra
vitamin C, here's a couple of thoughts:
1. You don't say you're making expensive water when you throw the
mop water out after cleaning house. The point is that the
anti-oxidants are excreted; that's the point, they take the
free-radicals that cause cancer with them. So the expensive urine
is the mop water where the free radicals have been mopped up and
excreted (instead of causing cancer).
2. Vitamin C is cheap.
But what other anti-oxidants should be taken and at what doses?
My recommendation is that you take the following (check with your
doctor first):
Vitamin C 3000mg
Vitamin E 400 IU
B12 2,500 mcg
B-Complex
Notice I do not list vitamin A. Too many studies show a detrimental
effect. And, I have seen too many patients with headaches and skin
problems.
Too much vitamin A is the main reason I don't usually take a
multivitamin. Also, a multivitamin has a great number of
ingredients but usually not enought of the main anti-oxidants--the
main reason for taking vitamins for most people in my opinion.
This is my morning anti-oxidant routine. It usually works out to be
3 vitamin C tablets, one vitamin E, a sublingual B12, and a
B-complex.
(6 pills total from 4 different bottles).
If you follow this routine, always take the vitamins at the
beginning of breakfast so the food washes it down and you do not get
acid reflux from the Vitamin C.
I recently put all these vitamins into one packet...
I got tired of making multiple trips to the store when I would run
out of one or more of my anti-oxidants (which I consider one of the
basic things I do to prevent cancer). So, I had a reputable, US
manufacturer make up cannisters of 30 packets (each with all 6
tablets). I'm offering a cannister of thirty packets for $29.95.
I'm calling the cannisters "Foundation" since it's the foundation of
my vitamin routine (other recommendations change according to sex
and specific problems of each person).
As a bonus, I'm offering a monthly CD where I simply sit down and
summarize some of the more important new ideas that I have learned
either from patients, or conferences (still try to travel to class
at least once every other month), or from the journals or from
books. These are conversational CD's that will cover a variety of
topics. This will be included with every purchase of Foundation.
So, for $29.95, you get the CD and a 30 day supply of anti-oxidants. Or
you can go here and you'll get the vitamins monthly and never pay postage. |
Charles Runels, MD
