Vitamin C
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Effect of vitamin C supplements on urinary oxalate and pH in calcium stone-forming patients
These data suggest that vitamin C supplementation may increase urinary oxalate excretion and the risk of calcium oxalate crystallization in calcium stone-forming patients.
The Vitamin C Myth
It was Noble Prize Winner Linus Pauling, a chemist, who really popularized vitamin C in the early 60s. He suggested that the vitamin, already known to protect against scurvy, was even more beneficial in mega doses. Dr. Marvin Lipman is an endocrinologist in New York and Chief Medical Advisor for the magazine Consumer Reports.
Sepsis Is A Global Killer. Can Vitamin C Be The Cure?
Every day, approximately 30,000 people die globally of sepsis. The condition comes about when your immune system overreacts to an infection, leading potentially to organ failure and death. There is no cure. But then in 2017, a doctor proposed a novel treatment for sepsis, a mixture that included Vitamin C, arguing it saved the lives of most of his patients. NPR's Richard Harris has been reporting on this treatment and how it's divided scientists from around the world.
Vitamin C 'gives chemotherapy a boost'
by Helen Briggs 9/2/14 BBC NEWS
Pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to run trials, as vitamins cannot be patented.
Vitamin C Fails Again As Treatment For Sepsis
Though attention has understandably been on COVID-19 over the last year, nearly as many people in the hospital have died with a different condition: sepsis. A study now casts doubt on a once-promising treatment for this disease.
How Linus Pauling duped America into believing vitamin C cures colds
by Megan Thielking 27/2/15 Vox
Vitamin C Apparently Not Useful For Sepsis After All
[https://www.npr.org/2021/02/23/970672328/vitamin-c-apparently-not-useful-for-sepsis-after-all by Richard Harris 23/2/21 npr]
The nation's attention has understandably been on COVID-19 over this past year. But in that same span of time, nearly as many people in the hospital have died with a different condition - sepsis. Researchers have been searching for better ways to treat this disease, which is sometimes called blood poisoning. A new study throws cold water on one treatment that had drawn a great deal of interest in the past few years. NPR science correspondent Richard Harris reports.
