About Vitamin C (IVC)

Vitamin C (aka ascorbic acid) is a water-soluble vitamin that is an essential component of your health and wellness. Unlike most mammals, humans do not have the ability to make their own vitamin C, so must obtain it from diet or supplementation. Foods like oranges, lemons, and red bell peppers are rich in this vitamin, and there are many  over-the-counter supplements that contain vitamin C.

Vitamin C is a potent antioxidant, and it's essential for multiple functions in the body such as collagen production, immune system activation, metabolism support. Unfortunately, only a small percentage of  Vitamin C taken by mouth can be absorbed by our bodies.  High doses of Vitamin C cause gastrointestinal (GI) discomfort and/or diarrhea. Research shows that IV Vitamin C can be highly beneficial for your body.  IV Vitamin C therapy  allows you to bypass your GI tract and take full advantages of high doses of Vitamin C.

Potential benefits of intravenous Vitamin C (IVC)

• Vitamin C has many documented benefits, including boosting the immune system.
• IVC reduces inflammation (as measured by c-reactive protein levels) and reduces the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines.
• Cancer patients are often depleted of vitamin C, and IVC provides an efficient means of restoring tissue stores without causing diarrhea or GI distress.
• IVC has been shown to improve quality of life in cancer patients by a variety of metrics.
• At high concentrations, vitamin C is preferentially toxic to tumor cells and is an angiogenesis inhibitor - so this may help the chemotherapy and/or radiation work better and limit tumor growth/spread

Why should I try Vitamin C in IV form?

• I'd like to boost my levels of vitamin C for general health benefits.
• Provide a robust immune response to infection and many chronic conditions. 
• I have a chronic illness and want to try to improve quality of life.
• Other ways of getting Vitamin C aren't working for me.
• I have cancer and am receiving chemo/radiation and would like to improve the effectiveness of the therapy.
• I'd like to decrease the toxicity and severity of side effects from standard cancer therapy.
• I'd like to prolong my cancer remission with health-enhancing strategies.

Resources:

General

Vitamin C
Vitamin C and Immune Function

Vitamin C: intravenous use by complementary and alternative medicine practitioners and adverse effects

Pharmacokinetics of vitamin C: insights into the oral and intravenous administration of ascorbate

Vitamin C Is an Essential Factor on the Anti-viral Immune Responses

High doses of vitamin C during pregnancy may keep babies from memory issues later in life 

Research reveals the importance of nutrition for fathers-to-be

Acute and Chronic Conditions

Vitamin C may affect lung infections

Can vitamin C prevent a cold?

Research Shows: Oral Vitamin C Can Protect Against the Common Cold

Can Intravenous Vitamin C Stop a Deadly Infection?

Intravenous vitamin C and the treatment of infections

The effectiveness of vitamin C in preventing and relieving the symptoms of virus-induced respiratory infections. 

Shanghai Government Officially Recommends Vitamin C for COVID-19

Vitamin C inhibits SARS coronavirus-2 main protease essential for viral 2 replication

Effect of High Dose Vitamin C on Epstein-Barr Viral Infection

Intravenous infusion of ascorbic acid decreases serum histamine concentrations in patients with allergic and non-allergic diseases.

Intravenous vitamin C protects against metabolic syndrome and activates Nrf2

Intravenous high-dose ascorbic acid reduces the expression of inflammatory markers in peripheral mononuclear cells of subjects with metabolic syndrome

Liposomal-encapsulated ascorbic A influence on vitamin C bioavailability and capacity to protect against Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury

Vitamin C for preventing atrial fibrillation in high-risk patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Cancer

Riordan IVC Protocol for Adjunctive Cancer Care

Intravenously administered vitamin C as cancer therapy: three cases

High-dose intravenous vitamin C vombined with cytotoxic chemotherapy in patients with advanced aancer: a phase I-II clinical trial

Dr. Lemmo's  basic information on intravenous vitamin C and cancer

Why high-dose vitamin C kills cancer cells

Vitamin C kills tumor cells with hard-to-treat mutation

Vitamin C helps stage 3 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

Study summary: prostate cancer and vitamin C

Intravenous vitamin C administration improves quality of life in breast cancer patients during chemo-/radiotherapy and aftercare: results of a retrospective, multicentre, epidemiological cohort study in Germany

Pharmacologic doses of ascorbate act as a prooxidant and decrease growth of aggressive tumor xenografts in mice

Changes of terminal cancer patients’ health-related quality of life after high dose vitamin C administration

Treat cancer with Infusion vitamin C – Recent clinical success

Vitamin C may kill Mesothelioma cancer cells

High dose Infusion vitamin C kills cancer cells

Modulation of cytokines in cancer patients by intravenous ascorbate therapy

Tumor cells have decreased ability to metabolize H2O2: implications for pharmacological ascorbate in cancer therapy

Effect of high-dose intravenous vitamin C on inflammation in cancer patients

Intravenous Vitamin C treatment available for bowel cancer patients

High Doses of Vitamin C to Improve Cancer Treatment Passes Human Safety Trial

How Can We Advance the Clinical Application of Intravenous Vitamin C Among Patients With Cancer?

The Effect of High Dose Infusion Vitamin C on Plasma Antioxidant Capacity and Level of Oxidative Stress in Cancer Patients and Healthy Subjects

Increasing the Effectiveness of Intravenous Vitamin C as an Anticancer Agent

Mechanisms of anti-cancer effects of ascorbate: Cytotoxic activity and epigenetic modulation

Increasing the Effectiveness of Intravenous Vitamin C as an Anticancer Agent

The vitamin C: vitamin K3 system – enhancers and inhibitors of the anticancer effect

High-dose intravenous vitamin C treatment of a child with Neurofibromatosis Type 1 and Optic Pathway Glioma: a case report.

Targeting Cancer Vulnerabilities with High Dose Vitamin C 2019