All Vitamin C/Common Cold Studies Conducted Over The Past 60 Years Are Flawed
A recent scientific review, which claims vitamin C pills are ineffective against the common cold, is flawed and appears timed to coincide with debates on the safety and effectiveness of dietary supplements.
(PRWEB) July 7, 2005 -- The recent, widely circulated news report, that
vitamin C supplements are ineffective against the common cold, emanated from a
report first published in October of 2004 [Cochrane Database System Review Oct.
18, 2004 and its republication in the Public Library of Science journal [PLOS
June 2005 appears to have been timed to coincide with CODEX deliberations in
Rome over safe dosage of vitamins and minerals, says health journalist Bill
Sardi.
“All of the 55 studies that investigators reviewed, published over
the past 60 years, were flawed,” says Sardi, “because they did not take into
consideration the dynamic flow of vitamin C in the human body.” Vitamin C, as a
water-soluble nutrient, is rapidly excreted from the body and needs
replenishment throughout the day.
Most animals continuously produce their
own vitamin C and don’t get colds. For example, a goat, about the same weight as
a human, incessantly produces vitamin C, about 13,000 milligrams in 24 hours.
None of the 55 studies reviewed in the PLOS report utilized repeated dosing.
Humans have genes to produce enzymes that would convert blood sugar to vitamin
C, but due to a genetic mutation, humans no longer synthesize vitamin C and must
totally rely upon their diet for this essential nutrient.
A recent
study, unmentioned in the PLOS journal report, reveals that three times greater
vitamin C concentration can be achieved in the blood circulation than previously
thought possible through oral dosing. [Annals Internal Medicine 2004 140:533-7,
2004. The notion that vitamin pills only produce “expensive urine” should now be
dismissed since blood concentrations can be achieved that would significantly
lower mortality rates from cardiovascular disease, as well as reduce the
incidence of allergy, aneurysms, gall stones, arterial disease, leg blood clots,
cataracts, strokes and other maladies.
For more authoritative
information about the potential health benefits of vitamin C, refer to the
e-book Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C, by Steve Hickey and Hilary Roberts
at www.lulu.com/ascorbate.
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