There were a few board members ranting and raving about vitamin C during the last 19 months. Talking about megadosing it(in best efforts to match IV)I I remember arguments where they got clowned. Welp, looks like they might have been right all along.
As you can see, this piece also references a study that says there is NO benefit.
So which would be labeled 'misinformation' by our social media overlords? That Vitamin C can work or that it doesn't. This is why we should never cosign censorship when it comes to science that is an ongoing process.
Vitamin C can help to prevent severe Covid-19 and speed up recovery from infection, a study suggests, as scientists claim it should become standard treatment in hospitals.
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Vitamin C can help to
prevent severe Covid-19 and speed up recovery from infection, a study suggests, as scientists claim it should become standard treatment in hospitals.
A review of 12 clinical trials, due to be published in the journal Life this week, found administering the vitamin intravenously may improve the level of oxygen in the blood, reduce inflammation and cut a patient's hospital stay.
One study referenced in the review,
carried out in Wuhan, China, found vitamin C increased the rate of recovery from symptomatic infection by 70 per cent compared to a placebo.
“For more critically ill patients, trials using doses of 6-24g a day intravenously have shown positive benefits in terms of increased survival, and reduced hospital stay, improved oxygenation or reduced inflammation,” said co-author Anitra Carr, of the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Twenty oranges provide one gram of vitamin C, the researchers said, therefore these dosage levels require supplementation.
Plasma concentrations of Vitamin C were very low among 70 to 80 per cent of Covid patients, the review found, suggesting they may benefit from several grams of the vitamin to correct any deficiency.
But the study noted a short-term dose via a drip may not be long enough “to provide lasting benefit as 15–25 per cent of patients can return to hypovitaminosis C status [scurvy] following cessation of intervention”.
Dr Marcela Vizcaychipi, co-author from the Faculty of Medicine at London’s Imperial College, said it should be standard practice in every hospital to check the vitamin C status of patients and an
appropriate dosage should be given to optimise recovery.
“We always need to make sure the basics are covered such as replacement of electrolytes, trace elements and vitamins including vitamin C and D. This should be standard practice,” she said.
The review also suggested that vitamin C could help prevent Covid-19 progressing to a severe illness.
One study in the review, conducted in Shanghai, China, looked at 110 patients with moderate Covid, 55 of whom received a dose of vitamin C dependent on their weight, the other half had standard care.
A third fewer patients progressed to severe illness when given the dose, the study suggested.
The review concluded that randomised control trials and retrospective cohort studies show vitamin C “appears to also support positive outcomes in Covid-19 in both inpatient and outpatient settings, leading to a beneficial effect in patients with moderate symptoms”.
Prof Naveed Sattar, Professor of Metabolic Medicine, University of Glasgow, said: “The trials looking at Vitamin C supplementation as a means to reduce complications from Covid-19 are of some interest but none are definitive and all have important limitations.
“One must therefore be cautious in interpreting the current evidence.
“To really prove the 'vitamin C-Covid-19 hypothesis,' a much larger adequately powered placebo-controlled trial is needed. Without that the current data should not deflect practice away from interventions that do work or influence relevant guidelines.”
It comes after a study published by King’s College London earlier this year found taking vitamin C had “no preventive benefit” against Covid-19 infection.
Increasing vitamin D intake had also been suggested to help protect against Covid-19. But research published earlier this year by McGill University in Quebec, Canada, found no difference in the levels of the vitamin between people who did and did not contract the virus.