Latest Science On Vitamin C Is Damning! — Transcript

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1. 0:00vitamin C supplements and skin serums
2. 0:02are an utter waste of your hard-earned
3. 0:04money and there are far better options
4. 0:05to improve your health which we'll go
5. 0:07through later in the video excitement
6. 0:09about vitamin C kicked into overdrive in
7. 0:11the 1970s where Linus Pauling suggested
8. 0:14that vitamin C could successfully treat
9. 0:16and prevent the common cold this is
10. 0:18because in addition to its antioxidant
11. 0:20properties vitamin C plays a critical
12. 0:22role in immune function it's also
13. 0:24required to build collagen
14. 0:26neurotransmitters and is heavily
15. 0:27involved in protein metabolism
16. 0:29disappointingly though the results from
17. 0:31clinical studies have been inconsistent
18. 0:33and a massive Cochrane review was done
19. 0:35which is at the very top of the evidence
20. 0:36pyramid and it concluded that vitamin C
21. 0:39did not reduce the chances of developing
22. 0:41the common cold and therefore routine
23. 0:43vitamin C supplementation is not
24. 0:45justified because of its antioxidant
25. 0:48properties vitamin C was hoped to reduce
26. 0:50the chance of heart attacks multiple
27. 0:52large-scale Studies have been done and
28. 0:54before I get into the results of those
29. 0:55trials I want to explain the rationale
30. 0:57for using 500 milligram dosages the
31. 1:00recommended daily intake is 90
32. 1:02milligrams for males and 75 milligrams
33. 1:04for females to put that into context
34. 1:07five servings of fruit and vegetables
35. 1:09can provide more than 200 milligrams of
36. 1:11Vitamin C but here's the crucial point
37. 1:13from intakes of 100 milligrams and above
38. 1:16our cells are fully saturated they've
39. 1:18got all of the vitamin C that they could
40. 1:20possibly want and above that dose
41. 1:22vitamin C is only slightly increased in
42. 1:24the blood the rest is peed out there are
43. 1:27liposomal versions of vitamin C which
44. 1:29are more bioavailable compared to the
45. 1:31regular versions however liposomal
46. 1:33vitamin C is not expected to offer any
47. 1:36further benefits because again our cells
48. 1:38at 100 milligram dosages and above have
49. 1:40got all of the vitamin C that they could
50. 1:42possibly want and they get rid of the
51. 1:44rest the trials used 500 milligram doses
52. 1:46because at that dose you're accounting
53. 1:48for any potential absorption issues that
54. 1:50some patients may have the first study
55. 1:53involved over 8 000 women who were
56. 1:55followed up for an average of over nine
57. 1:57years unfortunately vitamin C had no
58. 1:59effect on any of the cardiovascular
59. 2:01outcomes the same result was found in a
60. 2:03massive French study involving over 13
61. 2:06000 people in a randomized double-blind
62. 2:08placebo-controlled trial participants
63. 2:10were followed up for seven and a half
64. 2:12years and there were no differences in
65. 2:14cardiovascular disease or all cause
66. 2:16death threats furthermore a Cochrane
67. 2:18review combined all of the relevant
68. 2:20studies together and they concluded that
69. 2:22currently there is no evidence to
70. 2:23suggest that vitamin C supplements
71. 2:25reduce the risk of cardiovascular
72. 2:27disease there are far better options to
73. 2:29reduce your chance of heart attacks
74. 2:30which we'll go through at the end of the
75. 2:32video moving on to cancer a randomized
76. 2:34placebo-controlled study involving over
77. 2:3614 000 participants who were followed up
78. 2:39for 10 years found no effect for vitamin
79. 2:41C supplements on reducing cancer rates
80. 2:43the same results were found in the
81. 2:45women's study where again we could see
82. 2:47no effect on cancer rates one
83. 2:49interesting area of research however is
84. 2:51intravenous vitamin C because if you
85. 2:53inject vitamin C directly into patients
86. 2:56you achieve significantly larger vitamin
87. 2:58C levels and concentrate situations of
88. 3:00that magnitude they are selectively
89. 3:02toxic to cancer cells in the lab however
90. 3:05we don't have any large
91. 3:06placebo-controlled studies so it's
92. 3:08premature to determine what role IV
93. 3:11vitamin C may play in the treatment of
94. 3:13cancer but I do look forward to
95. 3:14reporting on future studies in that area
96. 3:16of research the caveat however is that
97. 3:18in certain circumstances IV vitamin C is
98. 3:21toxic a study published in the New
99. 3:23England Journal of Medicine last year
100. 3:25for intensive care patients found that
101. 3:27those patients who received intravenous
102. 3:29vitamin C had a higher risk of death or
103. 3:32persistent organ dysfunction which is
104. 3:34why this therapy needs careful research
105. 3:36it should not be recommended until we
106. 3:38have those studies the next reported
107. 3:40benefit is skin Health but our skin
108. 3:42cells can get all of the vitamin C that
109. 3:44they could possibly want from a great
110. 3:45diet alone there are many vitamin C skin
111. 3:48serums which claim to have benefits for
112. 3:50skin Health however almost all of these
113. 3:52claims have no scientific testing to
114. 3:54back them up plus a correctly formulated
115. 3:56vitamin C skin serum is incredibly
116. 3:58costly because regular vitamin C it's
117. 4:01unstable when exposed to oxygen making
118. 4:03it useless there are far better options
119. 4:05for skin Health at the end of the video
120. 4:07so what about the risks of vitamin C
121. 4:09supplements well generally it has low
122. 4:11toxicity and it's not believed to cause
123. 4:13serious adverse health risks at high
124. 4:16intakes the most common side effects
125. 4:18include things like diarrhea or gastro
126. 4:20discomfort there's also the potential of
127. 4:22causing kidney stones so people with a
128. 4:23history of kidney stones they need to
129. 4:25tread carefully with taking vitamin C
130. 4:27supplements but instead of wasting your
131. 4:29money on vitamin C supplements get your
132. 4:31vitamin C from a great diet filled with
133. 4:34fruit and vegetables and thankfully the
134. 4:36war against fruit from the keto diet
135. 4:38gurus is coming to an end make sure to
136. 4:40regularly exercise prioritize sleep and
137. 4:43if you do want to take supplements to
138. 4:44improve skin Health consider things like
139. 4:46collagen peptides and hyaluronic acid
140. 4:48and I've got a video about the
141. 4:50hyaluronic acid research here a massive
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