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03-03-2008, 04:47 PM | #1 | |||
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In doing a new page for my web site this weekend, on vitamin C, I discovered some research that has identified a specific gene which causes people with diabetes who take a lot of vitamin C to be at higher risk of death from heart attack.
The research concluded that people with diabetes shouldn't take over 250mg of vitamin C as supplements. Presumably if you knew you didn't have the gene you could take a lot more... Just thought I'd pass that on.
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03-04-2008, 07:39 AM | #2 | |||
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Here is more information:
http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/mod...ticle&sid=2255 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...67/ai_n8700713 http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/ate/diabetes/202346.html And this: Vit C protective of stroke: http://www.nutrition.org/media/publi...s/ajcnsum1.pdf (non-diabetic patients) Articles BEFORE 2004 typically recommend vitamin C supplements for diabetics. Those after reflect this newer data. There is also a connection between Vit C intake and stomach cancer. I am still looking for that study which I failed to save. I am sure we haven't heard the last of it yet. The studies on diabetes are neverending. What I do find in the studies over the years is that taking high dose of one antioxidant only, typically shows negative outcomes. It is thought that we need a balance of A, C, E, and that they work as a team to hand off the free radicals our body generates. Artificially elevating only one antioxidant does not work well.
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03-06-2008, 05:35 PM | #3 | |||
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The study that showed a danger in taking above 250 mg of vitamin C for people with diabetes, in case someone has the specific gene, did not say not to take vitamin C, but rather that taking more than 250 mg a day could lead to a risk, be a danger.
In terms of stomach cancer there is some evidence that vitamin C reduces the risk because it tends to kill off h.pyloi and the like.
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