Fwd: Vitamin C and the common cold

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A friend who lives in Sweden sent an article about vitamin C and the

common cold - another study that proves vitamin C is not effective.

Apart from the ridiculous quantity used (200 mg and up) as vitamin C

supplementation, there is another point to be made about the cold,

which I make in my reply to Adi in Sweden...

 

Kind regards

Sepp

 

 

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Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:14:52 +0200

" Adi "

Sepp Hasslberger

Re: Vitamin C and the common cold

 

 

Dear Adi,

 

thank you for the article on vitamin C and the Common Cold.

 

the researchers are missing one basic datum: The common cold is not

an illness but a cleaning process. It eliminates accumulated toxins

from the body, much like we do when performing a " spring cleaning "

ritual on our house.

 

Vitamin C does the same, but in a different (more slow) way. So it

makes sense that some people taking vitamin C should have a reduced

incidence of the cold, and it becomes understandable that vitamin C

supplementation does little to reduce or eliminate a cold once it has

started.

 

We are looking at two curative mechanisms, the first one is vitamin C

promoting elimination by way of renal and intestinal excretion, the

second one is the the cold virus, promoting elimination in a more

radical way, through mucous membranes.

 

See also another recent article on the subject of an adeno-associated

(cold-associated) virus (AAV2) actually killing cancer cells and thus

protecting health, which you forwarded some days ago.

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/050622142153.htm

 

The upshot is that perhaps vira (virusses) are not that bad after

all, they may have a function in health, and we should probably find

out what that function is before we go all out killing them off.

 

Kind regards

Sepp

 

 

 

 

Reported June 28, 2005

 

Vitamin C and the Common Cold

 

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- When the book, " Vitamin C and the Common Cold "

was released in 1970, many people came to believe vitamin C was

important in preventing and treating the common cold. Since that

time, we've all heard varying research debating whether vitamin C

helps to prevent the common cold or not.

 

Recently, researchers in Australia and Finland reviewed the best

quality studies of vitamin C and common cold conducted over the last

65 years. All of these studies compared a daily dose of 200

milligrams of vitamin C or more against a placebo. The researchers

hoped to discover whether vitamin C reduced the incidence, duration

or severity of the common cold, and whether it helped to reduce cold

symptoms.

 

After reviewing 23 studies, the researchers found vitamin C did not

reduce the risk of contracting the common cold. However, those people

who were given vitamin C and then caught a cold experienced a small

reduction in the duration of the cold compared with those taking a

placebo. The authors say the clinical significance of this minor

reduction is questionable.

 

The authors did find evidence vitamin C could help prevent colds in

people exposed to extreme physical exertion or cold weather. Marathon

runners, skiers and soldiers taking vitamin C in six different

studies experienced a 50-percent reduction in common cold incidence.

 

No benefit was found for taking vitamin C as a possible treatment for

an established cold. However, in one of the seven trials looking at

the vitamin as a treatment, patients who took a single very high dose

of the vitamin on the day symptoms began experienced a shorter

illness compared with those who took a placebo.

This article was reported by

<http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=11566>

 

http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?storyid=11566

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sepp Hasslberger

 

 

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