Every year, we have a LOT of baby mammals on the farm. One of the things I learned long after I had two sons who developed serious medical issues in the 1980 and 90's is that, way back in 1971, a doctor named Frederick Klenner, who was practicing in Reidsville, North Carolina, published a paper that included mention of his series of 300 CONSECUTIVE uncomplicated births. His secret to easy births: he instructed all his pregnant patients to take 5 grams of vitamin C in their first trimester, 10 grams in the second, and 15 grams in their third. When a woman would go into the hospital, Klenner would administer vitamin C through an IV until the baby was born. Two time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling reviewed Klenner's documentation and had very positive words for his work. "The nurses at the hospital," Pauling said, "called his babies 'the vitamin c babies' they were so big and healthy...." Klenner had been in a small town practice since the 1940s, and his practice consisted primarily of treating people with vitamin C, oral vitamin C and IV vitamin C. He relied on it, and studied it meticulously. He cured all the polio cases that walked through his door with vitamin C, and published about it in the AMA Conference Proceedings in 1949. What Klenner knew, and what all vitamin C researchers knew, was that the vast majority of life forms on earth make their own vitamin C in large quantities, and that humans make none. He knew that it was more than "a vitamin," but was more of a missing key to health and healing. Another researcher around the same time, Irwin Stone, called it "the healing factor."
Vitamin C Babies!
Nice to see you're also on substack, Theo.