Author Stephen Sheffrey's 'Personal C Experience'
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:00 am
The 2002 book Vitamin C: How Best to Use It is a breath of fresh air. Sheffrey shows unusual candor and a special gift for writing when he shares his insight into this subject that could only have come from many years of taking high doses of C. As the back cover says, this is really a Vitamin C reference book. But it's an unusual reference in that it's lots of fun to read too. It will be great for those wanting to know more about vitamin C---be they a vitamin C neophyte, a high-doser of C or someone in between. Dr. Sheffrey does an excellent job taking apart deceptive clinical trials and the non-stop misinformation we are getting about C. He's great at explaining its benefits, its safety and how much C is enough. His take on how much is enough is decidedly different from dear old Linus'; Sheffrey's take is that teenagers need only their dietary vitamin C, that healthy adults should supplement with 100 mg C with each meal, and that only the sick or those over 55 need the much higher doses recommended by Pauling. Sheffrey says that new C users should first be sure they have a normal iron status and no rare condition that is off-limits to high-dose C. Sheffrey's coverage of C's side effects, both real and alleged, is the best I've ever seen in a single volume. Sheffrey's only two blind spots seem to be his belief in the Lipid Hypothesis of heart disease and his improper use of alpha lipoic acid. Since these are mentioned only in passing they hardly detract from the book's great writing style and terrific content.
I consider the last chapter to be one of the best on Vitamin C ever written, and that includes Linus Pauling's writings in HTLLFB. In the field of orthomolecular medicine Sheffrey's Vitamin C opus easily ranks among the works of Pauling, Cheraskin, or Hoffer. It's a superb distillation of thousands of hours of research, but without any rose-colored glasses. I highly recommend you find it and read it. Just one more thing - thank you Dr. Sheffrey for writing it.
- book review by VanCanada
in Vancouver, Canada
Vitamin C: how best to use it: how improper clinical trials have misled us!: separating fact from fiction to ensure proper use / Stephen Sheffrey, D.D.S. -- 2nd ed. (2002)
ISBN: 0-9629372-3-1
Published by Service Press, Box 130104, Ann Arbor, MI 48113
I consider the last chapter to be one of the best on Vitamin C ever written, and that includes Linus Pauling's writings in HTLLFB. In the field of orthomolecular medicine Sheffrey's Vitamin C opus easily ranks among the works of Pauling, Cheraskin, or Hoffer. It's a superb distillation of thousands of hours of research, but without any rose-colored glasses. I highly recommend you find it and read it. Just one more thing - thank you Dr. Sheffrey for writing it.
- book review by VanCanada
in Vancouver, Canada
On the back cover the publisher wrote:...In 1937 a scientist reported that vitamin C had inactivated every virus and toxin it was tested against. In 1975 a scientist reported that vitamin C minces viral nucleic acid, all viruses being susceptible. Also in 1975 a scientist wrote that there's no excuse for anyone dying of a viral disease.
Why, then, isn't vitamin C the medicine of choice for viral diseases? The answer: drug marketing tactics have ambushed it regularly with deceptive clinical trials along with scary rhetoric about toxicity. There's just too much money at stake to allow inexpensive C to be recognized as a potent therapeutic substance, for viral as well as many other diseases.
Dr. Sheffrey, a former clinical instructor at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry and former dental columnist for the Detroit Free Press, began a 6,000-hour review of the medical literature on vitamin C in 1986. He has written and lectured about C since 1992 and since 1994 has sent, at no charge, 228,000 pamphlets summarizing the information to doctors across the country...
Vitamin C: how best to use it: how improper clinical trials have misled us!: separating fact from fiction to ensure proper use / Stephen Sheffrey, D.D.S. -- 2nd ed. (2002)
ISBN: 0-9629372-3-1
Published by Service Press, Box 130104, Ann Arbor, MI 48113