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#1 evilbaga

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Posted 11 February 2016 - 01:59 AM


Seeing that so many here take MB, I just found a quote from Irwin Stone's Vitamin C book from the 1970s "The Healing Factor":

 

 

High Altitude

 

Exposure to high altitude is a severe form of stress because the rarefied atmosphere induces oxygen deprivation, known as hypoxia.  Hypoxia is a lack of the proper levels of oxygen in the blood and tissues.  Severe hypoxia can be induced in the body by means other than high altitude, such as drowning.  Our discussion of high altitudes will also apply to these other conditions.

 

If people are transported from sea level to high mountainous altitudes, there is a chance that they will develop acute mountain sickness before they become accustomed to the great heights.  The disease is called soroche in the Andes and probably has many other local names in various mountain areas.  The air we breathe contains about 20 percent oxygen at sea level but only about 15 percent at about 15,000 feet.  High altitude was also a problem in aviation before the advent of the pressurized cabin,

 

As long ago as 1938 it was perceived that ascorbic acid increases the altitude tolerance of ski troop and rabbits.  Peterson, in 1941, showed that mice injected with ascorbic acid were able to withstand repeated exposure to air pressures that were 1/6 normal, while their untreated companions succumbed.  Krasno and coworkers showed in 1950, using human subjects repeatedly exposed to 18,000-foot altitude conditions, increased utilization of ascorbic acid with consequent depletion.  This was confirmed in guinea pigs exposed to the same high altitudes, with the animals manifesting abnormally low levels of tissue ascorbic acid.  In a 1959 paper from Yugoslavia, Wesley and coworkers reported that in guinea pigs exposed for one hour to low air pressures equivalent to a 30,000-foot height, there was a drop in ascorbic acid levels and a substantial increase in the more toxic dehydroascorbic acid levels.  This was also confirmed in dogs; and tests were made on men who responded similarly to the hypoxia, depending upon the intensity and duration of exposure (8).

 

Even with this extensive background of suggestive research, I was unable to find anyone who was inspired to prevent altitude sickness or the bad effects of hypoxia by the administration of high levels of ascorbic acid.  The closest to a test of this nature was reported by Brooks (8), in 1948, using the dyestuff, methylene blue.  She found that if people who normally suffered from altitude sickness were given 0.2 grams of the methylene blue before ascending to about 15,000 feet in a four-hour automobile trip, they no longer became ill.  Also, untreated subjects who became ill with headache and nausea at 10,000 feet, if given 0,1 gram of methylene blue, were free of the symptoms within an hour.  Methylene blue and ascorbic acid a re both members of oxidation-reduction systems and should have similar therapeutic actions.  Anything methylene blue can do, ascorbic acid should do better.  The diuretic effect of ascorbic acid should also help relieve the pulmonary edema that develops at high altitudes.  It is time now for the necessary further clinical work, since hypoxia is a widespread problem much beyond altitude sickness.  The results obtained would be important in the treatment of the hypoxia of nonfatal drownings, of infants during birth, during anesthesia in surgery, in prolonged surgical procedures, and in suffocation cases, to prevent brain damage.

 


Edited by evilbaga, 11 February 2016 - 01:59 AM.

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