Vitamin C for microglia

New Horizons for Vitamin C

T he polarization of views on vitamin • C that has occurred in the last few years is well illustrated by the following sequence of events: 1970, Linus Pauling's book, "Vitamin C and the Common Cold” was published and became a bestseller, 1972, Irwin Stone published "The Healing Factor: Vitamin C Against Disease/' claiming a wide variety of health benefits from large doses of Vitamin C. 1974, th...

Vitamin C supplementation for asthma.

BACKGROUND Vitamin C is one of the key antioxidant vitamins which is abundant in the extracellular fluid lining the lung and low vitamin C intake has been associated with pulmonary dysfunction. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the evidence for the efficacy of vitamin C in the treatment of asthma. SEARCH STRATEGY The Cochrane Airways Review Group asthma register was searched and bibliographies of stud...

Periparturient Vitamin C for Swine

Two experiments were conducted, involving 68 third-litter sows and 20 first-litter gilts in Exp. 1 and 82 first-litter gilts in Exp. 2. On d 108 of gestation, the dams were moved into individual crates, stratified by parity and breed, and randomly assigned within strata, to one of two treatments: (1) fed a basal 16% protein corn-soybean meal diet, 1.8 and 2.7 kg once daily before farrowing and ...

Screening for vitamin c status.

Vitamin C and COVID-19

  Corona disease has killed at least 5 million people globally since it started in Wuhan, China in December 2019 (World Health Organization, 2021). The disease is caused by SARS-COVID-19, and is transmitted from person to person by respiratory droplets (Baladia et al., 2020, Ejaz et al., 2020). Although the early symptoms of COVID-19  include fever, weariness, headache, sore throat, cough, d...