Posted on 12/24/2009 4:01:42 PM PST by Nachum
Vitamin C could be used to overcome hurdles in creating stem cells for treating human diseases, scientists believe.
The vitamin boosts the reprogramming of adult cells to give them the properties of embryonic stem cells.
Scientists who made the discovery believe it may help them overcome long-standing problems in creating the reprogrammed cells, called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Humans are one of three species that because of a mutation cannot produce vitamin C. Google Linus Pauling and Dr. Mathias Rath....
We need to get that thing fixed, by golly!
Before you run to the store so that you can buy a big bottle of viamin C tablets, planning on taking a hand full every day Be aware of this. Vitamin C is a water soluble vitamin which is shed through your kidneys, once your body get enough concentration. And it does not take a lot to get to this point. And you do not need to pay for tablets, just each some green veggies, fruits or drink some juice and you will get all that you body needs.
One problem is that what you get in the store and veggies is ascorbic acid NOT really vitamin C. Vitamin C is sodium ascorbate which what your intestinal acids turn ascorbic acid into. We also don’t really don’t really know what the minimum or maximum human requirement is. Dogs for example produce their own vitamin C, as much as 15,000 milligrams a day and their body weight etc. is far less than ours.. However, everything I just said may be wrong and studies falsified. The global warming fiasco proves that you can’t trust science or scientists anymore.
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