Posted on 04/17/2017 4:28:32 AM PDT by huldah1776
It seems too good to be true. A simple and inexpensive treatment for one of the most dreadful conditions around: sepsis.
Also known as blood poisoning, sepsis strikes one million Americans every year, killing one-fourth of them.
Dr. Paul Marik, chief of pulmonary and critical care at Eastern Virginia Medical School, came up with the idea on little more than a whim.
His patient, 48-year-old Valerie Hobbs, was succumbing to sepsis and he had run out of options to save her. It was a desperation shot in the dark: Vitamin C. It worked. Beautifully. Again and again.
Valerie spent a lifetime crocheting blankets for people in her church and feeding the homeless. But then she came down with sepsis. And when everyone thought it would take her life, she was brought back from the brink of death.
"I feel blessed," she said, "I don't say lucky. I tell people, 'I'm not lucky because I didn't win the lottery.' I'm blessed. Because God could have took me. He got me here for a reason. To keep doing the stuff I do."
Valerie was "patient A," the first to receive an experimental treatment for sepsis that worked, and ended up working on many more patients after her.
Sepsis is the body's reaction to an infection. It usually occurs in people who are hospitalized. About a quarter of a million Americans die from sepsis every year, making it the most common cause of death among people who are hospitalized.
Valerie was about to become one of them. Dr. Marik was treating her in the Intensive Care Unit and knew her outlook was grim.
"When you see a patient dying," he said, "You can tell they are dying."
Dr. Marik told Valerie's daughter Anne to prepare for the worst.
"I just broke down and cried," Anne recalled. "I just broke down and cried."
Not long before that, Dr. Marik had been reading about the healing powers of Vitamin C. On a hunch, he gave 1.5 grams of it to Valerie intravenously (because the body can only absorb 500 milligrams when taken orally), along with the steroid hydrocortisone, to reduce inflammation. He would later add Vitamin B to the mixture three patients later.
"I went home not expecting that she would survive," Dr. Marik admitted, "The next morning when I got to work, she was off the blood pressure medication and she was off the ventilator two hours later and actually left the ICU three days later. So it was quite astonishing." Since then, Dr. Marik has treated over 150 septic patients the same way. Time after time they survive.
"This is quite miraculous in that patients who are critically ill, who are at death's door, when we give them this simple combination of medications it turns around their septic process," Dr. Marik said. "And within hours they're significantly better. So in a way, it is a miracle."
News of Dr. Marik's revolutionary Vitamin C cure for sepsis is sweeping the medical community from coast to coast. The reaction? Mixed.
"Some people think this is the coolest thing in the world," Dr. Marik said. "Others think this is complete b.s. and this could not possibly be true."
Dr. Marik says the skeptics are waiting on proof his protocol works in the form of a large, randomized study. However, that may be a very long wait. Most research like that is very expensive and is paid for by drug companies who are testing one of their products that they stand to make a lot of money from, once it's approved. Marik's protocol does not fit that description.
Dr. Marik says when considering his protocol, physicians with patients dying from sepsis need to weigh the pros and cons.
"My argument is, it's so safe, you've got nothing to lose," he said.
Not only is it safe, it's also cheap. This is good news, not only for America, but more so for poor countries. Worldwide, sepsis claims eight million lives every year.
LOL why I love FR.
I have no knowledge of CRPS and vitamin C. But your post caught my eye. My dentist has a sign posted in his office that states do not take vitamin C before having dental work performed. More out of curiosity than anything else I had to ask why. He told me vitamin C counteracts (might have used a different word) novacane, basically makes it ineffective. He went on to say if taken after the procedure it will shorten the time it takes for the novacane to wear off. I never tried it.
Nicely said! Save me some reading please. Will this treatment work? I don’t need another magic elixir infomercial. Or Green Vineagar. Or magnets. Or copper.
So this has been studied previously. How many doctors are using it to treat sepsis?
This doctor indicates it is his first time using intravenous Vitamin C for sepsis treatment.
Are doctors not keeping up with recent studies? Are the promising studies not being circulated through out the medical community?
This study especially seems to have few drawbacks and a great potential for success. Yet not everyone is using it. Cost is not the problem, nor availability. I imagine because the medical field doesn’t know about it.
The other poster may have been overly critical of big pharma, but we are all familiar with how drug companies get behind their new miracle drugs. Yet when a promising study like this Vitamin C cure is done, the medical community doesn’t seem to hear about it.
You’ve presented two studies, 2009 and 2012.
Can you imagine the advertising if it had been a new drug discovered and manufactured by one of the big drug companies. There needs to be a way to get these promising cures out that are not connected to the advertising dollars of drug companies.
That you survived such a traumatizing number of events that happened one after another after another is a testament to your strength.
My pop died when I was 14, the anxiety attacks / depression kicked in at 16. 48 and have good days and bad days.
Mom really fell apart for a number of years afterwards and wa put in psych a few time. She got better. I didn’t lol.
I don’t think panic attacks are too trendy to say you have because because of the outdated notion that it shows weakness.
It’s an illness It’s a ####y illness. And it’s always in the shadows waiting to make its move.
I am glad you recovered.
I wish I had never taken an SSRI or SNRI in my life. Don’t think they really ever made a difference.
Just good stretches and bad stretches :)
Traumatic Brain Injury - TBI 10 years ago. quite severe but i’m here :)
No, your thinking of of Angoraphobia. Fear of fluffy sweaters.
I don’t know what kind of heart problem you have but I take Serrapeptase for mine. I have Prinzmetal Angina. As long as I take my 2 tabs every night I have no pain.
Doctors learn of innovative new drugs via pharmaceutical salesmen and trade publications. Neither of those is going to be particularly inclined to cover new treatments involving vitamins or herbal treatments. It’s the somewhat unusual doctor who keeps up with alternative medicine and incorporates it into his or her practice, but they’re not as hostile as they once were and I don’t think anyone’s conspiring to prevent it, it’s just that the “usual channels” don’t get the information to them, they’ve got to be involved enough to seek it out and most don’t.
If the person is deficient or if the body needs it at the time, is that when the body will keep it instead of pee it? I’m sure athletes eat differently off season (or should) than during season.
I do not have any heart issue. In my family history if you drank or smoked you would have heart problems and I have never done either.
Hype article. No mention of what he really injected.
How does a single doctor encounter 150 sepsis patients?
Hmmmm.
I know I’ll never say “it can’t possibly get any worse” ever again, because it can.
Good! I must’ve read your post wrong. Sorry.
Does anyone really know what the proper diet is these days?
I mean really? What is it? No eggs, no meat, no coffee, no butter, no this or that. High carb/low fat protein, high protein/ no carb...? Oh and what about that reversal of the food pyramid a few years ago? Oh wait...yes you need butter, need eggs, coffee is OK too...and yeah you need some fats for your brain to function...
How anyone knows what a proper diet is these days is beyond me!
The medical community in general is very good at scoffing at anything that doesn’t come from THEM. They stick their noses up when it comes to more natural ways.
If this doctor has been administering Vit. C to people with sepsis and watching them become well, that’s all the “proof” I would need.
#56 My diet today has been a Jack in the Box breakfast with eggs, sausage, bacon, pancakes then diet sunkist and strawberry yogurt. Next will be a Hersey’s chocolate bar.
Yep I am still alive but for some reason my left arm hurts.... : )
The good doctor used a bundle I including steroids and other vitamins. The article is all hype.
The article is all hype. Do your homework!
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