Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C by Steve Hickey Hilary Roberts

Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C Steve Hickey Hilary Roberts ebook
Page: 264
ISBN: 1411607244, 9781411607248
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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. Go to Amazon and check out all of the reviews. 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. Since then, several research articles have been published exploring the role of ascorbate in cancer therapy. It was the result of a lack of vitamin C. Vitamin C has been advocated for many other therapeutic uses. Although The National Academy of Sciences has established 90 mg/day (for adult males) and 75 mg/day (for adult females) as the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for vitamin C [9]. Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have shown that Vitamin C actively protects against osteoporosis, the findings are published in the October online edition of PloS ONE. Among the plethora of literature discussing the relationship between vitamin C .. I don't know if I can post this here or not, but please check out this book, Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C. Now you see why some of the “scientific studies” on vitamin C are not so scientific at all. This is where the term This takes massive amounts of vitamin C. The authors provide examples of scientists and doctors who have used vitamin C for treatment of heart disease, cancer, AIDS, viral diseases, and polio. Despite the fact that most mammals can synthesize ascorbate (Asc), humans (along with other primates, bats, and guinea pigs) are unable to make vitamin C as a result of a mutation to the gene encoding L-gulono-1,4-lactone oxidase, the last enzyme in the Asc biosynthetic pathway [1]. As early as in 1949, vitamin C was implicated in cancer therapy. If this is the case, you will have to use Calcium Ascorbate instead of plain Ascorbic Acid. Captain Cook and others found that a little bit of lemon or lime juice every few days prevented it, and kept their sailors better able to do their duty to King and Country. In 1949, Pauling and his colleagues published a paper in Science that announced the discovery of the cause of sickle-cell anemia, the first disease to be described as a molecular disease.