Its common these days to see people buy a vitamin C tabs, pills, and chewables at the beginning of cold and flu season. While some swear by the immune system to increase the nature of some still question whether these supplements really help. There are many studies that definitively show Vitamin C is needed by the body for collagen production and without it you will eventually die scab. Other studies have found benefits of vitamin in other areas, utilizing the antioxidant properties. While the claims of some vitamins can be used in high doses to cure the common cold or reduce the rate and severity of disease. First Vitamin C has been studied as an aid in fighting cancer. One interesting study, but first performed on living cancer cells in test tube environment. Scientists given intravenous vitamin C for a set of nine cancer cell cultures and four normal cell cultures. Cancer cells have a fifty percent reduction in survival rate, while normal cells appear unaffected. Vitamin C appears to kill cancer cells in a laboratory environment. While this promises to be noted that this is not a study conducted in humans and many things can be promising in the laboratory, but some things do not work in real world courts. People with diabetes may be interested to know that Vitamin C is being studied as a means to increase readiness of the body to insulin. The disease is in part characterized by the inability of the blood vessels to respond to the Nitric Oxide (NO) is secreted by the walls of blood vessels and encourage the muscles to relax increasing blood flow to areas of the body. Vessel walls do not relax and thus contribute to insulin resistance of the body. It was confirmed that the injection of vitamin C has been shown to increase the reaction vessel walls to NO in patients with diabetes. The new study will examine the effectiveness of oral vitamin C in diabetic patients. There are many, many studies done to try and determine whether vitamin C can indeed prevent the common cold. In the seventies there is a series of tests by a team led by Dr. Terrence Anderson at the University of Toronto. His study found the same results as other studies, that although the body needs vitamin C did not prevent the common cold. It seems to reduce the length of time you have a cold with a half a day on average and there is no need to take very high doses to achieve this. It seems that you can get the same effect with very high doses of vitamin C in higher doses than usual during the winter when cold 250mg ends you must return to the recommended daily value of 60mg.
