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You already know that vitamin C is good for you. But are you
aware of just how powerfully beneficial it is?
High doses of vitamin C are used at the Bolles Clinic to benefit
patients suffering from chronic fatigue, cancer, cardiovascular
disease, multiple sclerosis, weak immunity, viral and bacterial
infections, allergies, toxicity, cataracts, and gum disease.
Vitamin C and Proper Body Function
Vitamin C is essential to a number of functions that are
necessary for keeping the body healthy. It helps with the body’s
production of collagen, which is a protein necessary for strong
bones and tissues. It’s important for wound healing and blood vessel
health.
Vitamin C is also necessary for the adrenal glands to make
adrenaline. Adrenaline helps the body react to stress. Additionally,
vitamin C is necessary for production of the steroids and hormones
that regulate blood sugar and make blood minerals. It also helps the
body metabolize folic acid and absorb iron.
Vitamin C plays an important role in the brain. The chemical
neurotransmitters, serotonin and norepinephrine, cannot do their job
of conducting impulses between nerve cells without vitamin C.
Vitamin C and Anti-aging
Aging and degenerative diseases are linked to free-radical damage
in cells. Free radicals are a highly reactive chemical species that
cause damage to the protein, DNA, and repair mechanism of the
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cells. An accumulation of this
damage leads to aging and disease. Vitamin C is a powerful
anti-oxidant. It blocks free radicals and prevents oxidative damage
to the body, protecting you from airborne pollutants. Vitamin C also
helps regenerate vitamin E, which also blocks free
radicals.
Vitamin C and
Cancer
Among practitioners of natural
medicine, vitamin C has long been known for its anti-cancer
properties. According to Dr. Go, "I have seen terminal cancer
patients recover by receiving frequent high doses of vitamin C
intravenously." Vitamin C works like a natural chemotherapy to
cancer cells. A study compared the cancer cell death rate caused by
vitamin C derived from beets to that caused by Camptothecin, a
chemotherapy drug. Camptothecin caused a cancer cell death rate of
37.8%. The vitamin C cancer cell death rate was 38.4%.
Unlike chemotherapies, which are generally toxic to all cells,
vitamin C is only toxic to cancer cells. Inside cells,
vitamin C becomes a
reactive oxygen species. Healthy cells contain catalase enzyme to
break down the reactive oxygen species, and the vitamin C acts as an
anti-oxidant and detoxifier. Cancer cells have only about 10% of the
amount of catalase enzyme contained in a healthy cell. Therefore,
cancer cells cannot break down the reactive oxygen species. It
becomes toxic and kills the cell.
Vitamin C also helps prevent
cancer
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