Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C Steve Hickey Hilary Roberts
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Fewer people know that Pauling's work, influenced by Dr. That's a long time for a thought process to be fermenting in the minds of scientists. Vitamin C or L-ascorbic acid, or simply ascorbate (the anion of ascorbic acid), is an essential nutrient for humans and certain other animal species. Vitamin C has been advocated for many other therapeutic uses. In their recent book Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C, pharmacology professors Steve Hickey and Hilary Roberts describe the background science needed to understand the controversy. If there is any vitamin we have all heard about, it is vitamin C. Most people take vitamin C to boost immunity. Irwin Stone, who argued that nearly all human beings were suffering from vitamin C deficiencies and that everyone requires 50 or 100 or even 200 times as much vitamin C as there soon was no doubt that when dying cancer patients were given large doses of vitamin C they felt much betterand it seemed certain that the ascorbate-treated patients were living much longer than would have been expected. Pauling was then able to successfully apply "mega-ascorbate therapy" to a variety of ailments-including cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Few research groups have investigated risk factors for cataracts in India,3 4 5 6 7 8 and in only one study in India was data collected on vitamin C. Nee hoor Kees, die gedachte berust op een hardnekkig en inmiddels lang achterhaald misverstand. Vitamin C There is continuing debate within the scientific community over the best dose schedule (the amount and frequency of intake) of vitamin C for maintaining optimal health in humans. For acne, however, vitamin C when it is used to keep immune responses in check. Vitamin C (L-ascorbate) is a very powerful nutrient and the premier water-soluble antioxidant. In that study, the results suggested that high levels of vitamin C were associated with increased risk The INDEYE feasibility study was a population-based survey of persons living in a rural periurban region of Balbagarh, Faridabad district, serviced by a community outreach hospital of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Steve Hickey and Hilary Roberts, University of Manchester graduates in pharmacology in England. This is not so, says a new book, Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C,* written by Drs.