Vitamin C Cancer Treatments Might Someday Become Commonplace
According to new research that was published in Redbox Biology journal at the end of last year, scientists from the University of Iowa have discovered specifically why vitamin C is notably effective at trying to fight off cancer.
They discovered that vitamin C is an effective combatant to cancer cells because it is able to create hydrogen peroxide and the cancer cells are ineffective at trying to remove that hydrogen peroxide from the cells and body. Healthier cells are going to be better equipped to get rid of the hydrogen peroxide that gets created, and cancer cells will be more prone to being damaged and eventually dying.
The researchers suggest that since the vitamin c isn't damaging to healthy tissue and it's only damaging to the problematic tissue, that it might be effective at fighting off cancer when used alongside other traditional cancer therapy treatments; when administered intravenously.
Thanks to being administered in an intravenous fashion, the vitamin C has the ability to bypass the stomach, enabling more of the nutrients to quickly enter the bloodstream. In the future, scientists plan to test this treatment on lung cancer and pancreatic cancer patients along with standard cancer treatments. And this isn't the first time that good things have been uncovered about vitamin C, it's been suggested for some time that this vitamin might possess cancer-fighting abilities.
In a study from back in 2015, researchers also discovered that vitamin C was effective in treating cancer cells in colon cancer patients who had been otherwise unresponsive to treatment for their illness. And some researchers imagine that one day, high-doses of vitamin C might become commonplace treatment for cancer patients.
High-doses of vitamin C has been used and studied in cancer patients since at least the 1970s. Past research suggests that high doses of the vitamin might help to slow the growth of tumors for a variety of cancers: prostate, colon, liver, pancreatic, and more. Scientific research also suggests that regular consumption of vitamin C might help to improve quality of emotional, mental, and physical functions, nausea, pain, symptoms of fatigue, and more.
But not all studies ended in positive favor of the vitamin, some of them suggested that it might hinder the progress to be had from treatments like chemotherapy. And for now, the US FDA hasn't approved of the use of high doses of vitamin c, injected intravenously, as a treatment for cancer or any other medical condition for that matter.
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Source:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231716302634
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1405876/
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/752822/cancer-disease-treatment-vitamin-C-diet
@doitvoluntary a very good post. I have a friend she now lives in Brazil - she was diagnozed of breast cancer but instead of having her beautiful breast chopped since her hubby is a medical practitioner they didn't use a chemo to treat her but rather an intravenous vitamin C treatment approach and in a matter of three months - she was perfectly healthy again .
Of course she also watched her diet - and she doesn't take any cured meat at all, she used to gorge on them - specially bacon and drink sodas so much but she turned her eating habits 360 degrees and just overcome her breast cancer compared to the other friend I had who went through a breast operation, chemo and just kept eating the same stuff - shorter than a year she left us, probably her choice too but maybe had she also been given a chance to know about Vitamin C being the cure and the right approach and dosage she would have also survived.
Intravenous vitamin C treatment? Really? Wowza!
@richman yes. I do think so - it's a wowza but every patient has their own dosage needs - so I'm not going to elaborate on that cause I'm not a doctor.
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It is good to see that a mechanism has been found. Ironically this is from the flip-side of the reduction reaction (soaking up oxygen) that ascorbic acid does. It actually changes into another chemical that reacts the other way, and oxidises things. The basics of this reaction can be seen by mixing solid elemental iodine into a solution of ascorbic acid. The ascorbic acid goes into an equilibrium between making iodine into Hydriodic acid, and hydriodic acid reduces the changed ascorbate back into ascorbic acid.
Also, I remember years ago some claimed that food grade hydrogen peroxide kills cancer. This verifies that mechanism is correct...
This should be good news for the human race
Image that! Mother Nature has a better/cheaper treatment for cancer than humans do.
or the designer does:)
Linus Pauling maintained this, up until his death over 20 years ago. He was ridiculed by the establishment, and told that high dose vitamin C was dangerous. The danger appears to be dependent on source and method of isolation.
Here is an excellent article about Pauling, from 2004.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/12154.php
Nice post man, keep it up :)
Upvote and follow ;)
That's the beauty with science: information changes as more credible evidence comes by. Since vitamin C is an antioxidant, it makes sense that it helps the body. However, the strong pharmaceutical lobby probably has something to do with the "questioning" of these studies...
Thanks for sharing this!
I love oranges, now I have yet another reason to buy tons of them :D