First published at 17:57 UTC on February 20th, 2024.
Although vitamin C is “only” an antioxidant, its unique chemical structure, closely resembling glucose, allows it to penetrate all of the water-soluble areas and tissues of the body, both inside cells and outside cells. It only really fails to conce…
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Although vitamin C is “only” an antioxidant, its unique chemical structure, closely resembling glucose, allows it to penetrate all of the water-soluble areas and tissues of the body, both inside cells and outside cells. It only really fails to concentrate in fatty areas, although it can still have an antioxidant impact there, as it will regenerate fat-soluble antioxidants, such as oxidized vitamin E, back to its normal electron-donating status.
Vitamin C makes all normal cells stronger
All non-malignant cells in the body require vitamin C to fuel their metabolic activity. In fact, vitamin C can very much be considered the fuel on which cells run. Even inside the cells, where the antioxidant glutathione plays a prominent role in cell function, vitamin C is needed to keep the glutathione in its active, electron-donating state.
Other antioxidants [bicarbonates, etc.] can help vitamin C perform its function, but when it is severely depleted, disease is always present [e.g. regardless of the amount of bicarbonate (etc.) present!].
Vitamin C kills cancer cells
The design of nature is incredibly elegant. While vitamin C improves the health of normal cells, it increases the oxidative stress inside malignant cells. This is because all cancer cells accumulate iron and hydrogen peroxide, and the vitamin C can generate highly reactive hydroxyl radicals via the Fenton reaction that can kill the cell when it is sufficiently activated.
Normal cells have only relatively little iron and next to no hydrogen peroxide, and vitamin C cannot increase oxidative stress in these cells. Actually, in normal cells, the only effect of vitamin C is decreased oxidative stress. As an added point, when enough vitamin C is chronically present inside cells, they cannot accumulate iron and hydrogen peroxide, and they are unable to become malignant in the first place.
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