Nutraceuticals and nootropics for anti-aging

Breakthrough in understanding anti-cancer effect of vitamin C

The Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University is a major generator of research about vitamins, minerals, and other nutritional substances. Scientists there recently announced the results of a study on vitamin C and its anti-cancer properties. It appears to be an important breakthrough in understanding the mechanism by which vitamin C clears the body of destructive oxidized fat molecules that are thought to be responsible for cardiovascular damage and cancer-causing damage to genes.

Simply stated, when the body metabolizes fats, some of the fat molecules escape the process in an oxidized form that makes them destructive — they damage arteries and genes, and cause cancer. Vitamin C reacts with these oxidized fats, converting some of them into an even more gene-damaging form called ‘LPOs’. The Pauling Institute study has now shown that the vitamin C molecules then attach to the LPOs, effectively neutralizing their gene-damaging potential.

Links to news articles:

Vitamin C May Be Cancer Fighter

OSU scientists find new Vitamin C benefits

Link to press release from Linus Pauling Institute:

Discovery Shows New Vitamin C Health Benefits

Link to abstract of research paper:

Vitamin C conjugates of genotoxic lipid peroxidation products: Structural characterization and detection in human plasma.

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