Can Vitamin C in Critical Covid Save Lives

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With Professor Paul Marik, Dr Marcela Vizcaychipi and Professor Anitra Carr

Can vitamin CWhat it does: Strengthens immune system – fights infections. Makes collagen, keeping bones, skin and joints firm and strong. Antioxidant, detoxifying pollutants and protecting against… in critical Covid save lives? That’s the topic of this podcast. I’m going to be talking to three of my co-authors of our review on vitamin C and Covid – Professor of Medicine Paul Marik, who is Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School and Dr Marcela Vizcaychipi, Head of Research in Intensive Care Medicine at the Chelsea and Westminster Foundation. But first, to give us a good background to the dynamics and the use of vitamin C in viral infection I’m talking to Associate Professor Anitra Carr who is Director of the Nutrition in Medicine Research Group at Otago University in New Zealand.