Comment: Vitamin C - Cancer - Chemotherapy

Don,

As a former Biochemist, I appreciate you clarifying the media’s continual misinterpretation of scientific studies. It is a pervasive problem. I would like to add as you suggested that the concentrations of Vit. C the cells are exposed to is still very high from my understanding and not likely to occur in the body. Most oral Vit. C is quickly disposed of in the body in excrements. Circulatory blood concentrations have not been established. In fact, there is no definitive data at all on Vit. C except that it may cause problems for females taken at high doses due to its acidic nature. This is due to a pH balance which needs to be maintained in the female urinary/reproductive tract.

Nobel Laureate, Linus Pauling was a big proponent of mega doses of Vitamin C and studies in his later life were dedicated to Vit. C and health. He was unable to find definitive answers. In fact today, scientists within the Pauling Institute continue these studies with no clear recommendations.

Tammy Rechtin, Ph.D.