Vitamin C treatment - Foods High in Vitamin C

Also known as ascorbic acid, vitamin C was isolated in 1928. This vitamin serves as an excellent antioxidant and could protect brain cells, including cells in the eye. The eye is highly susceptible to damage by sunlight, oxygen, various chemicals, and pollutants. Because of an aging Western world population and a continued depletion of ozone, having adequate antioxidants in the eye is very important. But how much vitamin C is enough to protect our cells? You can find vitamin C in an excellent doctor-formulated multivitamin product. You can also find vitamin C in Acerola. For more information on vitamin supplement use.

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Ever since Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling extolled the benefits of megadosing with vitamin C, the medical community has been debating the optimal dosage intake of this vitamin. Although many doctors stood firm for a long time asserting that the RDA of 60 mg for this vitamin was adequate, more and more doctors are now realizing that higher dosages can confer additional antioxidant benefits. However, the optimal daily intake of vitamin C has not yet been determined, nor is it likely to be determined soon. Nevertheless, we now suspect that excessive intake of vitamin C, expect perhaps in the therapy of a particular medical condition, may not be necessary.

Too much vitamin C
A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition points that large doses of ingested vitamin C may be excreted without being utilized. When the dosage of vitamin C given to a group of healthy men was increased from 200 mg a day to 2,500 mg a day, blood levels increased only negligibly. Blood levels of vitamin C generally reflect the levels found in the rest of the body.

Foods High in Vitamin C
You will find the highest concentration of vitamin C in fruits such as oranges, lemons, grapefruit, tangerines, mangos, papayas and strawberries. Vegetables that have a good amount of vitamin C include cabbage, broccoli, peppers, potatoes, collards, spinach and tomatoes.

Vitamin C questions
Q. I am a Filipino student from the Philippine Science High School. I am having this research paper about clotting time, bleeding time, and platelet count in white mice. The treatments I used were obtained from a citrus fruit which contains the vitamin C and the flavonoids rutin and hesperidin. I also found out that it has calcium. The plant is native in the Philippines known as calamansi ( Citrus microcarpa ). With your knowledge and expertise, could you please help me find out how rutin, hesperidin, vitamin C and calcium could influence clotting, bleeding, and platelet count?
   A. The common name for Citrus microcarpa is Colomondon. We don't know much details about this plant.

Q. What new research if any is being done with treatment of Vitamin C intravenously in mega doses for women with breast cancer ?
   A. We have not seen any long term double blind studies on the use vitamin C intravenously regarding the rate of mortality or morbidity of those with breast cancer.

Q. Is Ester C preferable to regular vitamin C?
   A. We have seen no studies that compare the two forms of vitamin C in humans for any length of time to determine whether one form of vitamin C is preferable to the other. For more nutritional supplement information on various topics.

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