Higher doses, such as1 gram an hour, was first recommended by Dr Linus Pauling – to achieve the same blood level of 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… of animals who make during the viral infection, since we have lost that ability.
Once again, I’ve cruised through winter without a cold, taking 2 grams a day. My vitamin C also contains zincWhat it does: Component of over 200 enzymes in the body, essential for growth, important for healing, controls hormones, aids ability to cope with stress… and black elderberry, both of which have clear evidence of effect. I load up, on first sign of infection, with 4 grams of vitamin C then take 2 grams every two hours.
Professor of Public health, Dr Harri Hemila from the University if Helsinki, who authored this review has also reanalysed the seminal Sheffield Study, back in the 1940’s.
In the study 10 participants were “deprived” and not given vitamin C supplements, 7 participants were administered 10 mg/day vitamin C as a supplement, and 3 participants were administered 70 mg/day.
Colds lasted on average 6 days during vitamin C deprivation, compared with 3 days on the 10-70 mg/day dosage. Thus, deprivation nearly doubled the duration of colds. Jowett concluded that “such evidence as there is, however, definitely confirms the hypothesis that the absence of vitamin C tended to cause colds to last longer”.
The reanalysed results show that vitamin C deprivation increased the duration of colds on average by 77% and extended the duration of 1 day colds by 2.2 days.
“The finding that vitamin C deprivation extended the duration of colds was not reported in the summaries of the trial published in the Lancet (1948) and in the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society (1953). In addition, this finding is also not mentioned in the current UK recommendations for vitamin C.
As a consequence, readers have not been fully informed about the common cold results of the Sheffield trial for several decades.” Says Professor Hemila .The Lancet was the UK’s leading medical journal at that time.
References
Link: https://www.mp.pl/paim/issue/article/16926/
Vitamin C review: https://zenodo.org/records/14717361
Reanalysis of Sheffield study
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