Hi George,
You are most welcome!
I would like to give you the following cautionary advice [with quotes from two different doctors] about using ascorbate therapeutically: Dosage is THE key! As an example, if a doctor prescribed a dose of
Antibiotic to a patient, it would come with both an amount and frequency of dosage. Hypothetically, if that patient decided to cut that prescribed
Antibiotic dosage in half, and/or ingest it at one-half the prescribed frequency, and then did not get the results expected, could we really/honestly say that they tried the
Antibiotic out, and it did not work? And so it is with ascorbic acid. Dr. Cathcart wrote that he did NOT see significant results in his patients UNTIL they approached Bowel Tolerance: "The clinical symptoms of...diseases and other conditions...are markedly ameliorated ONLY as Bowel Tolerance dose levels (the amount that almost, but not quite, causes diarrhea) are approached." And Dr. Thomas Levy, M.D., wrote, "...the three most important considerations in effective vitamin C therapy are "Dose, Dose, and Dose." If you don't take enough, you won't get the desired effects. Period!...you will rarely ever fail to observe a dramatic response...IF you take a large enough dose for a long enough time..."
My advice, George, IF you find hydrogen ascorbate, i.e. ascorbic acid, just too upsetting/acidic to/for your stomach [initially], would be to ingest whatever minimal amount of baking soda, i.e. sodium bicarbonate [thereby creating sodium ascorbate in your stomach], you need to take care of the problem. If you persevere, George, I do believe, sooner or later, you will be able to [gradually] ingest an ever increasing percentage of your ascorbate in the more potent [gram-for-gram] hydrogen form.
Mirroring Dr. Klenner's comment, Dr. Levy also wrote, "I am absolutely convinced of one thing -- when enough vitamin C is given...for a long enough time, vitamin C helps virtually every condition, resolves many of them, and prevents still others....Furthermore, I have never found a single article showing properly dosed and administered vitamin C to fail to improve the status of a toxic or infected patient."
You have all my best wishes, George, for a speedy recovery!
Sincerely,
David