{"id":14,"date":"2017-05-14T15:54:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T20:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vitaminc.foundation\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=14"},"modified":"2017-06-27T10:11:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T15:11:12","slug":"gulo-correcting-a-damaged-gene-with-vitamin-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaminccures.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/14\/gulo-correcting-a-damaged-gene-with-vitamin-c\/","title":{"rendered":"GULO: Correcting A Damaged Gene With Vitamin C"},"content":{"rendered":"

The illnesses that Frederick Klenner, MD,\u00a0 found that he could treat with high dosages of vitamin C include most viruses<\/strong><\/span>, (e.g. the common cold and the flu), crib deaths<\/strong> <\/span>(commonly attributed to suffocation), crib syndrome<\/strong><\/span>, viral encephalitis<\/span><\/strong><\/span>, herpes simplex virus<\/strong><\/span>, diphtheria<\/span><\/strong>, hemolytic streptococcus and staphylococcus<\/span> infections<\/strong><\/span>, trichinosis<\/strong><\/span>, measles<\/strong><\/span>, herpes z.<\/span><\/strong> (chicken pox), herpetic lesions<\/strong><\/span>, sub clinical scurvy<\/strong><\/span>, elevated cholesterol<\/strong><\/span>, heavy metal poisoning<\/strong>,<\/span> monoxide poisoning<\/strong><\/span>, pseudamonis<\/strong><\/span>, shock<\/strong><\/span>, hepatitis<\/strong><\/span>, mononucleosis<\/strong><\/span>, urethritis<\/strong><\/span>, chronic cystitis<\/strong><\/span>, simple stress of pregnancy<\/strong><\/span>, glaucoma<\/strong><\/span>, schizophrenia<\/strong><\/span>, arthritis<\/strong><\/span>, tooth decay<\/strong><\/span>, abdominal wounds<\/strong><\/span>, rheumatic heart<\/strong><\/span>, tuberculosis<\/strong><\/span>, pneumococci<\/strong><\/span>, heat stroke<\/strong><\/span>, chronic myelocytic leukemia<\/strong><\/span>, pancreatis<\/strong><\/span>, severe burns<\/strong><\/span>, and several others. He also reported reductions in kidney and gallstones, and dramatic improvements in coronary artery disease.<\/em> – Lendon Smith, Clinical Guide to Vitamin C
\n<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 In order to correct the GULO mutation, one would need to take more Vitamin C than is commonly recommended by medical and governmental authorities.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 By Owen R. Fonorow<\/strong><\/span> – Vitamin C Foundation<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

Vitamin C is a panacea for many conditions due to the fact that humans evolved to require a great deal more Vitamin C than we can eat. Unlike our ancestors, we humans can no longer make Vitamin C in our bodies.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

All humans are born with a genetic defect. Our livers are missing a key enzyme, xl-gulono-\u00a7-lactone oxidase, which is required to synthesize ascorbic acid from glucose. The loss of this single gene prevents humans from making their own Vitamin C. The negative mutation of the so-called GULO gene has been well studied in both human and primate genomes. If this negative mutation could be corrected, most people would no longer need to supplement Vitamin C in their diets.<\/p>\n

Thanks to modern science, it is easy and inexpensive to correct this damaged gene by supplementing Vitamin C (ascorbic acid or one of its salts) into one\u2019s diet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As with any inherited malfunction, the inability to produce the GULO enzyme has negative consequences. Most people are taught to believe that they can obtain enough Vitamin C in their food, and so they supplement too little. While this \u2018food argument\u2019 generally holds true for most other vitamins, the idea that one can obtain the necessary amount of Vitamin C in food sources is countered by facts.<\/p>\n

When compared to all of the species alive today, humans are nearly the only species with a GULO-like genetic defect.<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

Most living things today make their own Vitamin C and do not have to obtain it through food sources. They do this by converting glucuronic acid (C6H10O7), derived from glucose (C6H12O6), into ascorbic acid (C6H8O6). The exceptions that cannot make their own Vitamin C are guinea pigs, fruit eating bats, the red-vented bulbul bird, and higher primates, such as gorillas and humans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With a working GULO gene, humans would make their own Vitamin C in “fantastic” amounts by today’s standards.<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

In the 1930s, Dr. Claus W. Jungblut, an early pioneer of Vitamin C therapy, discovered that only primates and guinea pigs were susceptible to scurvy as well as anaphylactic shock, pulmonary tuberculosis, diptheritic intoxication, a poliomyelitis-like viral infection and a viral form of leukemia. However, none of the Vitamin C synthesizing laboratory animals had susceptibility to these diseases.<\/strong> Gorillas in captivity are susceptible to the aforementioned set of diseases, and humans share other conditions with these primates that are not common in other species (e.g., cardiovascular disease).<\/p>\n

Linus Pauling elucidated in his Unified Theory of Cardiovascular Disease<\/a><\/strong><\/span> paper, and in a video-taped lecture<\/a>,<\/strong><\/span> that a large consequence of our genetic deficiency is our tendency to develop cardiovascular disease, which for many is a primary cause of death.<\/p>\n

If there is one thing to know about vitamin C, it is that animals make\u00a0 far more of it 24\/7 than the U. S. Recommended 70 mg Dietary Allowance for human beings.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Animals produce much more Vitamin C in their bodies than what humans can obtain from the meager dosages recommended. Adjusted for body weight and under ordinary conditions, animals have been found to produce between 3,000 to 13,000 mg of ascorbic acid daily. A goat under stress may produce over 100,000 mg of ascorbic acid daily.<\/em> As these animals make their own ascorbic acid, the molecule enters the blood stream intact (directly from the liver or kidney).<\/p>\n