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"The harsh climate in northern Europe meant that the diet was often deficient in vitamin C, predisposing the population to scurvy. Vitamin C is essential to reweave the broken bits of collagen that routinely occur inside our blood vessels-and our skin. Victims of scurvy often bleed to death from their gums or intestines. Enter Lp(a), which "spackles" holes in damaged blood vessels, allowing our northern European forbears to survive scurvy and reproduce, ensuring the ongoing life of their genes. So far so good." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Outright deficiency is called scurvy. Less than a full-blown deficiency but enough of a deficit to shortchange the body is referred to as subclinical scurvy, a widespread chronic condition that the two-time Nobel Prize laureate Linus Pauling considered the underlying cause of CVD. We can become depleted from smoking, poor diet, medications, aging, and stress. The body needs vitamin C to make collagen, the primary structural protein of the connective tissue holding together your entire physical structure." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"A deficiency of vitamin C results in a really nasty disease called scurvy. The body breaks down cellular structures, flesh and bones decay, a baker's dozen of horrible symptoms manifest, and if scurvy is left untreated, you die a pretty horrible death. It was a particular problem for anyone separated from fruits and vegetables for long periods of time. Sailors who went on long voyages, for example, were at particular risk. In the 1400s and 1500s, explorers like Magellan and Vasco da Gama would typically lose more than half their crew to the disease." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"These special molecules, which at first were isolated from foods and then later synthesized in a laboratory, could cure people of nutritional deficiencies such as scurvy or beriberi almost overnight in a convincing demonstration of reductive chemistry's power. Beginning in the 1920s, vitamins enjoyed a vogue among the middle class, a group not notably afflicted by beriberi or scurvy. But the belief took hold that these magic molecules also promoted growth in children, long life in adults, and, in a phrase of the time, "positive health" in everyone. (And what would "negative health" be exactly?" - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Victims of scurvy often bleed to death from their gums or intestines. Enter Lp(a), which "spackles" holes in damaged blood vessels, allowing our northern European forbears to survive scurvy and reproduce, ensuring the ongoing life of their genes. So far so good. But Lp(a) is such a good spackling compound that it just keeps piling on any damaged area, which means that people with Lp(a) usually develop severe premature coronary artery disease. Why has this gene persisted if it's so lethal? By now you should know." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Although one study showed that women who took 5,000 mg of vitamin C daily during pregnancy delivered healthy infants who developed scurvy,57 this "rebound scurvy" is very rare, and the infant recovers quickly without treatment. Supplementation with vitamin C may be as effective as calcium for leg cramps during pregnancy.58 Food sources of vitamin C are fruits (particularly citrus), green chilies, tomatoes, honey, cabbage, cucumbers, and prunes. Herbal sources include elderberries, rose hips, parsley, dandelion greens, nettles, alfalfa, and cayenne." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"At that time, the conventional wisdom was still that you used vitamins only in tiny amounts and you only needed them for the prevention of deficiency diseases, like scurvy or beriberi. A nutritionist accepted the fact that if you had scurvy you would eat oranges or you would take small quantities of vitamin C. As Dr. Hoffer puts it, "It was unheard of to give someone 1,000 mg of vitamin C. If you suggested this they would throw up their hands in horror. The idea that you could use large quantities of vitamins to treat conditions, not just to prevent them, was a major step forward." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"We either have scurvy or we don't. This can be misleading. scurvy is the extreme form of a vitamin-C deficiency. A lesser form may not reveal the classic symptoms of scurvy but could manifest itself as fatigue, susceptibility to infection, and other non-fatal maladies. World-famous biologist, Albert Szant-Gyorgyi, phrased it this way: Scurvy is not the first symptom of deficiency. It is a sign of the final collapse of the organism, a pre-mortal syndrome, and there is a very wide gap between scurvy and a completely healthy condition...." - G. Edward Griffin, World Without Cancer (Get the book.)

"Perhaps the most famous and noteworthy effect of vitamin C is preventing the disease of scurvy. scurvy is an illness in which subcutaneous bleeding occurs along with loss of appetite, tender joints, and low-grade anemia, accompanied by slow wound healing. Centuries ago, sailing ships used to carry limes in order to prevent scurvy among the crew. Recently, there was a case of scurvy at a major university center in a young man who had been eating out of cans for six months. He came to the doctor complaining of bleeding and funny "corkscrew-type" hair." - Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra, Optimum Health - A Cardiologist's Prescription for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"Even though James Lind, a British physician, showed in 1747 that oranges and lemons could prevent scurvy, it was another 50 years before the British navy mandated a daily ration of lime juice on all vessels (thus giving British sailors the traditional nickname, limeys). And it took another 200 years before the component of citrus that protected against scurvy, vitamin C, was isolated. Its scientific name, ascorbic acid, reflects its anti-scurvy past. Our C Rations These days, we get so much vitamin C from foods that we never have to worry about scurvy or lime juice rations." - Gale Maleskey, Nature's Medicines : From Asthma to Weight Gain, from Colds to High Cholesterol -- The Most Powerful All-Natural Cures (Get the book.)

"Nutrients like vitamin C and calcium were discovered, and signs of nutrient deficiencies like scurvy or rickets were uncovered. We accumulated knowledge in pieces rather than taking a look at how our diet relates to food habits or eating patterns. Such an approach hardly provides an opportunity to gaze at the whole picture. In some ways, it's like looking into a rearview mirror to try to gauge your hem length." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"One striking example is the discovery of vitamin C with its link to the disease called scurvy, a disease marked by bleeding, anemia, tooth loss, fetid breath, and gum ulcers. scurvy plagued generations of adventurers, including the California gold miners, sailors on extended voyages, and others on long ventures without fresh foods. An impressive example of the torment scurvy could inflict was found aboard a Spanish galleon discovered in 1577 adrift in the Sargasso Sea, with the entire crew dead from scurvy." - J. Robert Hatherill, Eat To Beat Cancer: A Research Scientist Explains How You and Your Family Can Avoid Up to 90% of All Cancers (Get the book.)

"Enter Lp(a), which "spackles" holes in damaged blood vessels, allowing our northern European forbears to survive scurvy and reproduce, ensuring the ongoing life of their genes. So far so good. But Lp(a) is such a good spackling compound that it just keeps piling on any damaged area, which means that people with Lp(a) usually develop severe premature coronary artery disease. Why has this gene persisted if it's so lethal? By now you should know." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"VITAMIN C Vitamin C has been recognised as a powerful and useful part of the diet for hundreds of years, since it was first associated with preventing scurvy in sailors. It is without doubt the most important of the vitamins required for anyone who suffers from any respiratory complaint, including asthma. Dr Linus Pauling, the Nobel prize winner, is most emphatic in his book Vitamin C and the Common Cold about the need to take 2000?000 mg (2? g) of Vitamin C per day for bronchial and respiratory conditions." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Three out of four sailors never made it back home, mostly as a result of scurvy and infectious diseases. Ironically, many more might have made it back home alive if they had drunk their cargo instead of just transporting it. The vitamin C in green tea prevents scurvy, and tea's polyphenols boost the body's immune function so that it can better fight infectious disease. By the 1630s, each Dutch vessel returning to Europe from China routinely carried several large pottery jars of tea. Accordingly, there are records of people drinking tea in Amsterdam, London, and Paris as early as 1635." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"One striking example is the discovery of vitamin C with its link to the disease called scurvy, a disease marked by bleeding, anemia, tooth loss, fetid breath, and gum ulcers. scurvy plagued generations of adventurers, including the California gold miners, sailors on extended voyages, and others on long ventures without fresh foods. An impressive example of the torment scurvy could inflict was found aboard a Spanish galleon discovered in 1577 adrift in the Sargasso Sea, with the entire crew dead from scurvy." - J. Robert Hatherill, Eat To Beat Cancer: A Research Scientist Explains How You and Your Family Can Avoid Up to 90% of All Cancers (Get the book.)

"Perhaps the most famous and noteworthy effect of vitamin C is preventing the disease of scurvy. scurvy is an illness in which subcutaneous bleeding occurs along with loss of appetite, tender joints, and low-grade anemia, accompanied by slow wound healing. Centuries ago, sailing ships used to carry limes in order to prevent scurvy among the crew. Recently, there was a case of scurvy at a major university center in a young man who had been eating out of cans for six months. He came to the doctor complaining of bleeding and funny "corkscrew-type" hair." - Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra, Optimum Health - A Cardiologist's Prescription for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"You don't need to have scurvy to have a vitamin C deficiency. (Here's an eye-opener: in the last twenty-five years the level of vitamin C deficiency in our population has gone from 3 to 5 percent to a confounding 20 percent—largely due to the shift from whole foods to processed foods.) Vitamin C is essential to your body's breakdown and utilization of food, and the body can neither manufacture it on its own or store it. By the same token, you don't need to have osteoporosis to have a calcium deficiency, yet millions don't get enough calcium on a daily basis as a result of diet choices." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Birth defects. (d) scurvy. 7. This form of vitamin D is made in the skin: (a) Calcidiol. (b) Cholecalciferol. (c) Calcitriol. (d) Ergocalciferol. 8. This form of vitamin D is a powerful hormone: (a) Calcidiol. (b) Cholecalciferol. (c) Calcitriol. (d) Ergocalciferol. 9. Enough sun can be obtained to produce adequate vitamin D: (a) In ten minutes on the face and hands three times weekly. (b) In thirty minutes of sun on the face, chest, and arms with SPF 8 sunscreen once weekly. (c) Through windows in the winter. (d) Supplemental vitamin D must always be taken. 10." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"A nutritionist accepted the fact that if you had scurvy you would eat oranges or you would take small quantities of vitamin C. As Dr. Hoffer puts it, "It was unheard of to give someone 1,000 mg of vitamin C. If you suggested this they would throw up their hands in horror. The idea that you could use large quantities of vitamins to treat conditions, not just to prevent them, was a major step forward. In fact, it is considered a major paradigm change. So we are now in a paradigm in which we use vitamins as treatment, not just as prevention." Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"This leads to a subclinical scurvy problem, which creates an increased tendency to bleed, poor wound healing, microvascular disease, heart disease, elevation of cholesterol, and a depressed immune system. Perhaps a most important effect of vitamin C (at doses of 2,000 mg/day) is its ability to reverse the glycosylation of proteins.105'106 The sorbitol accumulation and cross-linking, or glycosylation, are linked to many complications, especially eye and nervous system and circulatory disorders." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"It kills many of its victims by rapidly depleting ascorbate (vitamin C) stores in the body, inducing scurvy and collapse of the arterial blood supply, causing internal hemorrhaging of the lungs and sinus cavities. Most people today have barely enough vitamin C in their bodies (typically 60 mg per day) to prevent scurvy under normal living conditions, and are not prepared for this kind of illness."2 Some physicians would stand by and see their patient die rather than use ascorbic acid (vitamin C) because in their finite minds it exists only as a vitamin. Dr. Frederick R." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Before 1990, vitamins and minerals were seen by most physicians as substances in food that prevented nutritional deficiency states such as scurvy, beriberi, rickets, and pellagra. Mainstream medicine viewed supplementation as unnecessary, believing people got all the nutrition they needed from their diet. For decades, only a small minority of nutritionally oriented physicians recommended supplements as a potent, safe, and inexpensive medical option . . . and many of them actually got in trouble for doing that." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "Less than a full-blown deficiency but enough of a deficit to shortchange the body is referred to as subclinical scurvy, a widespread chronic condition that the two-time Nobel Prize laureate Linus Pauling considered the underlying cause of CVD. We can become depleted from smoking, poor diet, medications, aging, and stress. The body needs vitamin C to make collagen, the primary structural protein of the connective tissue holding together your entire physical structure." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Limes saved Lives Back in the days when the maritime explorers started penetrating the Indian and Pacific Oceans, huge numbers of crew members were being lost to scurvy. Vasco da Gama lost two-thirds of his crew to the disease while making his way to India in 1499. Magellan lost 80 percent of his crew while crossing the Pacific. The symptoms of scurvy weren't pretty: skin black as ink, ulcers, difficult respiration, teeth falling out, and perhaps most revolting of all, a strange mass of gum tissue sprouting out of the mouth. Xot anything you'd want to have." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.) "Now we know that scurvy was a vitamin deficiency disease, mainly of vitamin C, and sometimes compounded by an overdose of vitamin A from eating seals' livers. Only when Captain James Cook of England insisted on feeding his crew sauerkraut and lime juice to fight scurvy (based on studies done by Dr. James Lind in 1747) did the death rate begin to go down. But it was not until 1795 that lime juice rations were provided for all sailors in the Royal Navy, and to this day, British sailors are known as "limeys." Limes don't differ a lot from lemons in their nutritional value." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"Insufficient intake of vitamin C has been shown to be detrimental to the body, and prolonged deficiency can result in diseases like scurvy, as experienced by sailors who went for long periods without a source of vitamin C. During the 1970s, it was revealed that the administration of high doses of ascorbate might provide a clinical benefit for treating cancer. Researchers at the HISTORY National Institutes of Health found that at high concentrations, as delivered through intravenous infusion, ascorbate killed cancer cells, while leaving normal cells unaffected." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Although eating citrus was known to prevent scurvy, tens of thousands of soldiers succumbed to the disease as late as the 1910s. The conclusive discovery of vitamins around the time of WWI marked a decisive shift toward considering raw fruits not only as beneficial, but as necessary. Still, fresh fruits disappeared during the twentieth century's world wars. Canadian families received rations of "raspberry" jam: it was, in fact, sweetened turnips dotted with wood chips to simulate the seeds. Matisse said that fruits were "more expensive than a beautiful woman" during wartime." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"For example, in the past when we traveled by boat, limes were brought along for a vital supply of vitamin C, the absence of which can cause scurvy and eventually death. Knowledge of the necessity and power of vitamins has been widely established for decades, but more recently, researchers have discovered thousands of other phytonutrients that have an incredibly powerful effect on our health. It is as if we have discovered that there are really thousands of vitamins, not just the handful we all know about." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

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