Hi, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health.

And today we are joined by Dr. Andrew Saul, who's been a guest on previous interviews and

is the editor-in-chief of the Ortholecular News Surface and also has written the book Doctoring Yourself for which we've done a previous

interview.

But today is joining us to discuss a article that was written in New York Times, which is representative of the general

theme about conventional media about supplements.

So he's going to basically break down that article. So welcome and

thank you for joining us Dr. Saul.

Well, thank you Dr. McCullough. And you know, it's shooting fish in the barrel when you look at an article that

starts out in the New York Times saying older Americans are hooked on vitamins

yes indeed. Boy, it's got to be dangerous. Nothing like being hooked to opioids is killing 60,000 Americans a year and the leading cause of death for Americans under 50.

That's just crazy, but no, they're hooked on vitamins. And not open to us. The funny thing is that for those that are hooked on opioids, high doses of

vitamin C have been shown in two really good studies to enable people to get off opioids without withdrawal symptoms or greatly

reduce withdrawal symptoms. So being hooked on vitamin C would actually help you get unhooked from heroin.

Yes indeed.

You know, here's another interesting fact that we could diverge on for a moment

that if you are taking vitamin C and you're hooked on it,

you've got to be careful if you go to the dentist

because vitamin C is a very important detoxifier.

And if you're taking large doses, they'll try and they're going to give you a local

anesthetic you're not it's not going to work that well because you're going to

break it down so quickly have you have you observed that at all?

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