High Dose of Vit C
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Romelette L.
I think I am getting better. And I am thankful that I feel that way especially since my doctor is not in town for two weeks. In the past when I am in this situation, severe coughing with chest pains and sleepless nights, I would be well after taking antibiotics that are prescribed by my doctor. But since it would be days before I get to see him I d ...
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Ascorbic acid protects lipids in human plasma and low-density-lipoprotein against oxidative damage
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Jan
Article Abstract: Free radicals are highly reactive atoms that have an unpaired electron. They are generated as a normal by product of many different chemical reactions in the body and are strong oxidizing agents. T hey damage cell membranes, proteins, enzymes, lipids and DNA, and they are believed to play important roles in cancer, aging, atheros ...
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Vitamin C and Fat Burning
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Tina C.
People with low levels of vitamin C in their blood burn 25% less fat than those who do not have low concentrations.Here is a link to the study's abstract:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16945143?dopt=AbstractCo what?This is because Vitamin C is a co-factor (something like a chemical "helper") for your body's production of carnitine. Ca ...
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Vitamin C & Cancer
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Sandy H.1 Comment
Recent Worldwide Newspaper headlines claimed that a study showing high doses of Vitamin C given intravenously could destroy cancer cells was a "breakthrough discovery". This infuriated many doctors who have been using IV Vitamin C since the 1970's as part of natural health remedy treatments for cancer. Dr Robert Cathcart has been using I ...
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More on Vitamins C and E
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Dr. Craig R.
More evidence shows that vitamins C and E taken in supplement form do not act as antioxidants. Researchers actually induced oxidation (free radical damage) in subjects using hyperbaric oxygen. They reported vitamins C and E did not alter the oxidative stress in the participants after 4 weeks of supplementation.What this means is that in real-lif ...
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Vitamin C: The Cold Cure?
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Caitlin L.
It started off small, almost imperceptible around 4:00 yesterday. "Is it the beginning of a cold, or am I being paranoid". Within an hour, it hit me like a ton of bricks. My throat was sore, my body wanted nothing more than to crawl into bed (it was 6:30), and then I knew it was over. I had the dreaded changing of the seasons cold tha ...
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Vitamin C - A Natural Healer
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Nick B.
In the year of 1536, the French explorer Jacques Cartier looked into the St. Lawrence River and used folk sciences’ knowledge to save his colleague who was highly infected by scurvy. To save him, Jacques boiled the needles of the tree known as Arbor Vitae and made a tea out of it that was later discovered to have 50 mg of Vitamin C per 100 gm ...
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Vitamin C, Curbing The Scurvy
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k1 Comment
Vitamin C is another water soluble vitamin often taken in higher than normal doses and goes to waste. You know that Emergen-C drink or Vitamin C supplements that contain about 1000% of the daily recommended allowance? Most of it goes to waste and may not be as beneficial as some may think.Vitamin C, also know as L-Ascorbate is an essential nutrient ...
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Vitamin C to Shrink Tumour
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Alan T.
Vitamin C, or we call it ascorbic acid is an essential nutrient commonly regarded as an antioxidant, protecting cells from the damaging effects of free radicals. There's a new study showed that vitamin C can slowed tumour growth by half. Maybe, you want to start relate to the antioxidant effect again, the protecting from free radicals, and so on. ...
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Values and benefits of Vitamin C
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Nicky M.
Vitamin C is recognised as a powerful ingredient to a healthy diet, holding invaluable properties in aiding health, healing and wellness. Commonly known as ‘ascorbic acid’ this essential vitamin is recognised as a water soluble, antioxidant vitamin, protecting against harmful effects of pollution and infection, aiding in the prevention of cancer a ...
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