A practitioner asks: “Liposomal Vitamin C is asserted to be a much more absorbable form of vitamin C, and I went to some pain and expense 6 years ago to gather the materials and equipment needed to make it in large quantities. Combined with prayer work, will this afford adequate protection, even to the point of being able to work with victims directly and frequently without other Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?”

Again, for those in need who are utilizing available mainstream resources, the addition of vitamin C as an adjunct is a good idea and will be embraced by many. After all, this is a desperate situation for which highly effective traditional medicines are not available, so it would be wrong to withhold such information. Liposomal Vitamin C is more bioavailable when compared head to head with other forms of vitamin C taken orally. This is always an important consideration, whether sufficient concentrations of an effective form of the vitamin can reach the organisms spread throughout tissues in the body. There will need to be a high enough dose and repeated administrations to maintain tissue levels and an effective concentration to do the job. This is always an aspect of any kind of drug delivery that must be taken into account. Liposomal formulations are superior to other vehicles of vitamin C. The ideal would be intravenous administration, but that cannot be done by the average person outside a medical setting and there are relatively few doctors who would endorse such a thing even in desperate circumstances. They would view it as a breach of their own institution’s constraints on using non-approved therapies within the institutional setting, not to mention the added distraction and burden on medical personnel who, under the circumstances of an epidemic, will be spread impossibly thin. So this speaks to the wisdom of finding a knowledgeable physician who is positioned to use intravenous therapies of this kind when it might be lifesaving during an outbreak.