----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 11:51 PM Subject: CS>Recent vitamin C research -FYI only!
<< Vitamin C Capable of Damaging DNA << WESTPORT, CT (Reuters Health) Jun 14 - While vitamin C is a known dietary antioxidant, it can actually induce the decomposition of lipid hydroperoxides to DNA-mutating compounds known as genotoxins, according to a report published in the June 15th issue of Science...................................... "This may be the first truly convincing evidence that vitamin C has two effects, one of them good and one of them bad," Dr. Blair stated. "This may be why it has never shown any efficacy" as a cancer chemoprevention agent, he added. "The bad effects may be cancelling out the good effects." Science 2001;292:2083-2086.>> Thank you for posting this. I had heard a one-line report about this experiment on the radio the other day, and had been really eager to hear about the details. This really rankles me, and I'll tell you why. Vitamins do not exist in isolation in Nature. They are a complex or conglomerate of many nutrients, which biochemical researchers call co-factors. These co-factors include enzymes, co-enzymes, antioxidants, trace elements, activators, and other unknown factors that enable the vitamin to go into biochemical operation. As I state in my upcoming book, the FDA legally defines Vitamin C as ascorbic acid, but Vitamin C is actually a complex of different ingredients, of which ascorbic acid is only one part-in fact, it comprises less than 5% of the total complex. Nowhere in Nature can you find plain ascorbic acid. The main function of naturally-occurring ascorbic acid is to preserve the more fragile Bioflavonoids, Rutin and other components to which it is bound. Vitamin C helps strengthen capillaries, but pure ascorbic acid by itself is useless for the job unless combined with all the other factors of the Vitamin C complex. Serious health researchers recognize that the Bioflavonoids and Rutin are even more important for health than ascorbic acid. For this reason, when people take plain ascorbic acid for various health problems results are sometimes mixed. I doubt very much that the experimenters used the Vitamin C complex in their study; they probably used plain ascorbic acid. And "laboratory assays" means that the studies were done solely with laboratory equipment rather than in living tissues (in vivo). God forbid they should use a real live person to test the efficacy and function of real Vitamin C complex. This would make a huge difference in the outcome of the test. There has been so much effort on the part of big business to control the world that I am very suspicious now when I hear reports like the one above. I can't help but think that the scientists conducting the study were funded by the pharmaceutical companies to "prove" that Vitamin C isn't "effective" in the treatment of cancer so they can push their pharmaceuticals on the public. Experiments like the one cited above are NOT scientific. It's known as "junk science" to REAL scientists who truly respect the variables in nature and know how to work with them honestly. Unfortunately, most of the public will not know this unless they are educated otherwise. Also unfortunately, most of the mainstream media will never report the truth because they are owned by the same corporations that also own most of the world's scientists. Regards, Nina Silver, Ph.D. dedicated to world healing and social change visit my website http://www.Heart-of-Healing.com -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
