The Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry published a review explaining how nutrients strengthen the immune system against viruses. The researchers reviewed 51 articles, many of them randomized clinical trials and meta analyses. Notably, the following results identified what the imm
New research shows that vitamin C intravenously for cancer treatments amplifies the effects of conventional cancer therapies, such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy. While oral vitamin C levels give only shallow vitamin C blood levels, intravenous blood vitamin C levels can reach levels
Until not too long ago scientists considered the biology of aging as a one-way street. Your DNA ages, mitochondria, the cells’ power plants, age and the telomeres get shorter as we age. At the end we run out of steam and die. Telomeres and the biology of aging In one study the telomer
It is known for a long time that cancer patients need vitamin C. Vitamin C has been around for some time. Many degenerative diseases including cancer come from oxidation. Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant. But it is important to see this in context. Linus Pauling claimed that vitami
At a research conference in Savannah, Georgia in September 2015 a presentation was given about the use of vitamin C supplementation in a group of overweight and obese patients. Postdoctoral research fellow Caitlin Dow, PhD and colleagues from the University of Colorado compared the ef
Vitamin c protects from hemorrhagic stroke as Dr. Stéphane Vannier suggested. He presented the results of a study at the American Academy of Neurology 66th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia where he showed that a lack of vitamin C was responsible for hemorrhagic strokes. He stated that dis
A study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute examined records from 10 observational studies and pooled them in a meta-analysis. There were a total of 17,696 women who had been verified to have breast cancer, and during the study there were 2,791 total deaths and 1,558 breast cancer spec