It’s time for another ride on ‘vitamin C cures cancer’ rollercoaster. Some readers may recall that chemist Linus Pauling took a long ride a while ago and was never quite the same after. Exercise caution people.
In a paper published this week in PNAS Qi Chen, of the US National Institutes of Health, and colleagues show that injected vitamin C (ascorbate) can halve the growth rate of tumours in mice. The team tested vitamin C injections in mice with rapidly spreading ovarian, pancreatic, and brain tumours. Injections reduced tumour growth by 41% and appeared to control spreading to other organs.
By injecting vitamin C you can produce far higher levels of ascorbate than you ca[...]