May 6, 2021
What happens when a classically trained medical doctor develops
chronic fatigue? When Jeanne Drisko struggled with her health, she
discovered integrative medicine and nutrition. Now she’s running a
clinic at the University of Kansas with Dr. Kay Chin utilizing
translational medicine to unlock better care for cancer
patients.
Listen and learn
Jeanne Drisko is professor emeritus at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She tells her story of discovering intravenous vitamin C therapy to meet her own health struggles. She was impressed by its effect and, after working with internationally-renowned experts in nutritional medicine like Dr. Hugh Riordan, she started her own program in integrative medicine at the university. She knew she wanted intravenous vitamin C to part of that, and she’s spent years researching its effects on fighting viruses and cancers.
Unlike oral vitamin C, the intravenous introduction becomes a
drug in the vein at very high levels. It'll go from the vein into
what scientists call the extracellular space. At this point, she
says, it becomes something called a pro-oxidant, or the opposite of
an antioxidant, and forms hydrogen peroxide, a “promiscuous
molecule.” When it’s in the extracellular space, hydrogen peroxide
can kill viruses, bacteria, and other abnormal cells like
cancer.
She explains how this works alongside other treatments like
chemotherapy and chelation therapy, and why it shows such promise.
Listen in for more about this exciting research.
Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C