Vitamin C Cancer Treatment. Vitamin C may be effective treatment for heart failure, scientists announce. (NaturalNews) According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), approximately 5.7 million people in the US suffer from heart failure and it takes the lives of about 300,000 Americans each year.
Currently, heart failure has no cure although certain medications and lifestyle changes can help many people live longer; in severe cases some heart failure patients undergo heart transplants. But now there's a new treatment that could dramatically help heart failure patients. And it's not a new type of surgery or Big Pharma prescription -- it's plain old vitamin C. These findings were just announced at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2011, underway in Orlando, Florida. "We found that adequate intake of vitamin C was associated with longer survival in patients with heart failure," Eun Kyeung Song, Ph.D., R.N., lead author of the study and assistant professor at the Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, in the University of Ulsan in Korea, said in a media statement.
Vitamins and minerals - Vitamin C. Vitamin C is also known as ascorbic acid and has several important functions.
For example, it: helps protect cells and keeps them healthy is necessary for the maintenance of healthy connective tissue, which gives support and structure for other tissue and organs helps wound healing. Vitamin C deficiency and high C-reactive protein levels linked to chronic diseases. The findings of a cross-sectional study conducted by the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto are consistent with previous research showing the effects of vitamin C deficiency.
Inadequate vitamin C levels have been shown to decrease the body's ability to burn fat when exercising. A study conducted ten years ago by the Boston University School of Medicine and the Lunus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University concluded that vitamin C intake of 500mg per day can reduce blood pressure and hypertension.
The new study linking vitamin deficiency with high CRP levels is important because levels of C-reactive protein increases in the blood when infection and inflammation are present, and high c-reactive protein levels have been linked to atherosclerosis, cholesterol build-up, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and cancers. News links: The Examiner, Science Daily Health Headlines MORE » Treatment with vitamin C dissolves toxic protein aggregates in Alzheimer's disease. Researchers at Lund University have discovered a new function for vitamin C.
Treatment with vitamin C can dissolve the toxic protein aggregates that build up in the brain in Alzheimer's disease. The research findings are now being presented in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The brains of people with Alzheimer's disease contain lumps of so-called amyloid plaques which consist of misfolded protein aggregates. They cause nerve cell death in the brain and the first nerves to be attacked are the ones in the brain's memory centre. "When we treated brain tissue from mice suffering from Alzheimer's disease with vitamin C, we could see that the toxic protein aggregates were dissolved. "Another interesting finding is that the useful vitamin C does not need to come from fresh fruit. There is at present no treatment that cures Alzheimer's disease, but the research is aimed at treatments and methods to delay and alleviate the progression of the disease by addressing the symptoms.
Living Proof: Vitamin C - Miracle Cure? - 60 Minutes. Do Not Use Two Vitamin C Supplements - Health Canada Warning 2008-10-28. Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C. The Clinical Experiences of Frederick R.
Klenner, M.D., abbreviated, sumarized and annotated by Lendon H. Smith, M.D. 2233 SW Market Street, Portland, Oregon 97201 Preface After Frederick Klenner died in 1984, his friend (and mine), Arthur Rybeck, a nutritionally-oriented dentist practicing in Wheeling, West Virginia, asked if I would be interested in going over the 27 papers Klenner had written from the early 1940’s to the early 1970’s. Standard doctors tend to believe studies and reports if published, but tend to disbelieve hearsay stories about treatments that patients have read in a “health” newsletter. I have used Dr. The timing of such a paper might be most appropriate. That last part might make the insurance carriers perk up their ears. Take this booklet to your M.D. and suggest that he read about these documented studies. Foreword by Linus Pauling, Ph.D. The early papers by Dr. Introduction Dedication If Dr.
Anne Klenner for her patience and understanding. General Remarks How it Works. Treatment with vitamin C dissolves toxic protein aggregates in Alzheimer's disease. Vitamin C found to reduce blood pressure. New research suggests that boosting vitamin C levels may help to reduce blood pressuse.
Researchers studied 242 Black and White women aged 18-21 to determine whether blood levels of vitamin C influence blood pressure (BP). After taking into account race, body mass index, education, and dietary intake of fat and sodium, results showed that the systolic and diastolic BP of women with the highest levels of vitamin C in their blood was 4.66 mmHg and 6.04 mmHg lower, respectively, than in women with the lowest levels of vitamin C. The researchers concluded: “The findings suggest the possibility that vitamin C may influence BP in healthy young adults.
Since lower BP in young adulthood may lead to lower BP and decreased incidence of age-associated vascular events in older adults, further investigation of treatment effects of vitamin C on BP regulation in young adults is warranted.” Health Headlines MORE » Moderate exercise helps to regenerate muscle mass, in a lab animal model.