Posted on 03/02/2020 4:00:22 PM PST by RummyChick
Desperate to avoid coming down with a winter cold or worse, plenty of us will be dosing up on vitamin C supplements — and doctors in China are even looking into its effectiveness against coronavirus.
Research into new and exciting uses such as battling sepsis and memory loss is also under way.
We spend more than £880 million on vitamin C supplements globally, with that figure expected to top £1.1 billion by 2024.
Its popularity is rooted in the belief that vitamin C can prevent colds — a theory first set out in 1970 by Nobel Prize-winning scientist Linus Pauling. He was convinced of its benefits and personally took 3g a day, although much of his research on the vitamin was later discredited.
Certainly, when it comes to infections or a virus such as flu, it is accepted that vitamin C is part of the immune response and quickly becomes depleted. It helps by encouraging the production of white blood cells that fight disease, attaching themselves to, and killing, invading microbes.
However, multiple studies have failed to back up Pauling’s theory of vitamin C as a preventative supplement and, according to a 2017 report by the authoritative review board the Cochrane Collaboration, the best we can hope from taking a well above average daily 1,000mg of vitamin C is shortening the length of a cold by 8 per cent — about 0.4 days.
Higher doses than this have been found to shorten colds further — research from the University of Helsinki in 2017 found that daily doses of 6g to 8g could shorten symptoms of a cold by 19 per cent. But in the general population, vitamin C was not found to have any preventative effect.
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I don't care.
I take Liposomal C at the first sign of illness. I don't take it daily because it is way to nasty for me to deal with..almost puke every time I do it.
I drink a 12oz glass of OJ every morning. I do get sick, but not often, and am usually over a cold fairly quickly.
I need to start doing that.
Vitamin D vs vitamin C
Vitamin C and D are just a requirement if you live in far northern states. That and a “SAD” light.
I can do it because I’m not diabetic. OJ is high in sugar.
In tests, vitamin C has worked against every virus — if given in sufficient concentration, says Dr Levy.
I have a lot of experience with this one. I have been taking 2000 mg a day for 5 years or more and then 1500 mg for about 15 years before that. It doesn’t prevent colds or sinus issues but it definitely reduces the severity.
The headline is misleading. Just taking Vitamin C is not going to beat a cold much less coronavirus but again it will reduce severity.
Also Vitamin D is another to take upon getting any cold symptoms. I take 5000 mg a day anyway and when sick I’ll double it.
I also do this...lots of pulp, too. And I take 1000-2000mg of vitamin C each day.
There were a few treatments of cancer with IV after IV of vitamin C.
The people actually did very well.
If you are not taking plant based Vitamin C, you are throwing your money away. There is a Cadillac of Vitamin C in the market. PM me if you want to know how to get it.
Yuck! I can’t stand OJ with the pulp in it.
It’s megadosing for sepsis and cornoavirus. They are testing 24 g IV for 7 days
For those dealing with dementia...read the article
I double dose Vitamin C for a couple days....and the sniffles disappear.
OK thanks. 24 grams is a lot and I have zero experience in anything like that. :-)
Vitamin C may help, but it’s global warming that will save us all.
Folks, it’s simple.
Ever notice viral infections get going during the months where there is not as much sun? Why is this? Your vitamin D blood levels crash, taking your immune system down.
D,C,E and the build immunity with Elderberry.
It works.
plus..bypassing the stomach. you definitely would not want to do that much vitamin c for long. likely jacks up your organs
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