What GOOD is Vitamin C with Cancer?
• Ascorbic acid is required for the synthesis of collagen and connective tissue. Collagen strengthens tendons, cartilage, bones, arteries and veins. However, in 1933 Ewan Cameron, a surgeon at the Vale of Leven Hospital, Scotland, presented a theory about how vitamin C might therefore act to prevent tumour development in a paper Hyaluronidase and Cancer. All malignant tumours probably produce two enzymes, hyaluroldase and collagenase which weaken the connective tissues and the “glue” between cells around the tumour, thus allowing the rogue cells to spread. The theory ran that vitamin C was an inhibitor of these enzymes and a possible treatment to restrict tumours and stop their growth might be vitamin C megadoses of 10gms and above. (For more, click this link ). • Ascorbic acid strengthens the immune system. Early studies showed that vitamin C increased the body’s resistance to a cold; in stressful situations like surgery, burns or wounds the levels of vitamin C in the blood fall; and
