Vitamin C Forum

FMC wrote:...ascorbic acid depletes the bodies real vitamin c and is a pro oxidant.

Nevertheless, Dr. Driskol of the Univ of Kansas, who did the definitive work on the mechanisms of action of ascorbic acid, even referred to it incorrectly as vitamin C. Even when she determined it was a pro-oxidant, not an anti oxidant (which is what the C molecule is.)

The University of Kansas Cancer Center wrote:
Does oral vitamin C (ascorbate) provide the same results?
No. Oral vitamin C is an antioxidant with controlled absorption. Intravenous vitamin C is a pro-oxidant drug that helps produce hydrogen peroxide, which targets neoplastic cells while leaving normal cells unharmed. Because this form is delivered intravenously, plasma and tissue levels are many times above that of oral dosing. - See more at: http://www.kumed.com/medical-services/i ... gENi0.dpuf

If large amounts of vitamin C are presented to cancer cells, large amounts will be absorbed. In these unusually large concentrations, the antioxidant vitamin C will start behaving as a pro-oxidant as it interacts with intracellular copper and iron. This chemical interaction produces small amounts of hydrogen peroxide.

Because cancer cells are relatively low in an intracellular anti-oxidant enzyme called catalase, the high dose vitamin C induction of peroxide will continue to build up until it eventually lyses the cancer cell from the inside out! This effectively makes high dose IVC a non-toxic chemotherapeutic agent that can be given in conjunction with conventional cancer treatments. Based on the work of several vitamin C pioneers before him, Dr. Riordan was able to prove that vitamin C was selectively toxic to cancer cells if given intravenously. This research was recently reproduced and published by Dr. Mark Levine at the National Institutes of Health.