What's Happening in Vitamin C Research...
Below are links to information, new studies, and research about high-dose vitamin C. This information is not presented as proof of the efficacy of Lipo Naturals Sunflower Liposomal C to treat, cure, or prevent any disease. They are shown here to educate the consumer about the new-found benefits high-dose vitamin C may have.
- In vitro study (outside living animal) showing vitamin C's effect on cell death of different cancer cell lines
- Fancy a Gin & Tonic? Tests in rats indicate that the quinine in tonic has a toxic effect on their testes, reducing sperm counts significantly. When researchers added ascorbic acid (vitamin C) to the concoction, the damage to the testes from quinine was prevented and sperm counts remained normal. Here's the full study.
- This story in Nature.com gives a good explanation of why humans can't produce vitamin C, unlike almost every other mammal.
- Study on vitamin C's effect on collagen production in the body
- A recent study in Japan showed the age-preventing effects of vitamin C by removing vitamin C production in laboratory mice. Original Study - National Institutes of Health link
- Story in BBC showing dramatic effect on tumor growth shown by in vivo testing (inside living animal) with intravenous vitamin C
- Japanese study showing large reduction in risk of stroke with higher blood levels of vitamin C - Original study - British study showing similar findings.
- Paper discussing how to improve vitamin C research from previous errors or shortcomings
- National Institutes of Health Vitamin C fact sheet
- Study published by Mark Heaney's group in Sloan-Kettering in Cancer Research - titled'Vitamin C antagonizes the cytotoxic effects of antineoplastic drugs', often quoted in major news and media in stories about vitamin C supplements interfering with cancer therapies turns out to not use vitamin C at all. Past the title, the study indicates DHA was used (dehydroascorbic acid), which is not vitamin C. More detail is in the published response in Cancer Research