| What is Vitamin C? |
This page contains basic information on the history and structure and function of vitamin C -- the ascorbate ion. It is difficult to find authoritative web pages that do not have some misinformation about vitamin C, However, we provide a few links to pages with overviews that are mostly correct in hopes of helping students at all age levels.
Vitamin C - Linus Pauling Institute (Oregon State Univ.)
OVERVIEW OF
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION: Vitamin C...
The Nature of Vitamin C (html)
The official Vitamin C Foundation response to the "Natural Vitamin C" and "C-complex" arguments that are widely distributed across the Internet. The claim that Ascorbic Acid isn't the real vitamin C is false. Please print, read and distribute as appropriate.The Nature of Vitamin C (PDF Suitable for Printing)
Vitamine VITAMIN. THE EARLY YEARS OF DISCOVERY...
Flashback: 70 Years Ago...
SYNTHETIC VITAMIN PRODUCES STRIKING UNEXPECTED CURES
From the September 22, 1934, issue of Science News
Synthetic vitamin C, called ascorbic acid, in its first actual use on medical patients is producing very striking and unexpected disease conquests, the British Association for the Advancement of Science was informed by Prof. A. Szent-Györgyi, the Hungarian chemist who played a major role in the artificial manufacture of this important vitamin.The mouth disorder known as pyorrhea, a certain kind of hemophilia, which is a disease of bleeding, certain forms of hemorrhagic nephritis, and several other diseases against which medicine was helpless are seemingly being cured by ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid is not a cure for hereditary hemophilia.
"This is the more striking since these pathological conditions have not been thought to be connected with lack of vitamin," Prof. Szent-Györgyi explained. "These curative effects suggest that humanity is suffering much more gravely from a lack of vitamin C than has hitherto been supposed."
Disfiguring colorations of the skin brought on by illness are also made to disappear by ascorbic acid. Patients with Addison's disease, who have a yellow color, can be bleached out again by the use of this substance.
THE NOBEL PRIZE LECTURE ON VITAMIN C
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ASCORBATE WEB One of the largest collections of vitamin C research on the web.
New Mega C Educational Web Site...
Good overview. Excellent references. The authors make the common mistakes (e.g. they cites tissue saturation without explaining why animals produce so much more endogenous ascorbate past their own 'tissue saturation' levels, etc.).
The New Definition of Scurvy...
Eight Year old Daniel Crawford's Science Project Contains a procedure for testing for Vitamin C content in foods.
The Last Interview Linus Pauling's final interview with the Journal of Optimum Nutrition in 1994.
The genetic reason why we can't make our own vitamin C
Vitamin C Study Abstracts Amazing findings from the latest studies.
Karl
Loren's Discussion: Synthetic Vitamin C Versus "Natural" Vitamin C...
Dietary Supplement Information
Bureau...
Vitamin C Content in Foods (Large file! Derived from the USDA database)
New technology for vitamin C production may end Chinese monopoly...
| Dr. Saul's Vitamin C Collection |
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VITAMIN C DOSAGE TABLE
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CATHCART'S TITRATING VITAMIN C...
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"Vitamin C is a normal constituent of the body, required for life. It is involved in essentially all of the biochemical reations that take place in the body and in all of the body's protective mechanisms. With the ordinary intake of vitamin C these reactions and mechanisms do not operate efficiently." - Linus Pauling (pg. 123 HOW TO LIVE LONGER AND FEEL BTTER, 1986, paperback)
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