Vitamin C
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| SUSAN LECLAIR |
Vitamin C does seem to stimulate lymphocyte
activity - which was one of the reasons that Linus Pauling thought that
it was so good in the prevention of malignancy. The flip to that, of
course, is when the malignancy is in the lymphocytes and then it is not
a good idea to stimulate them any further than already are. |
| SUSAN LECLAIR |
In essence, Ray, you do have that correct. vitamin C does stimulate the immune system and several researchers claim that too much of it can be harmful to CLL patients. If you google vitamin C and leukemia, you will get several hits about this. One very good overview is http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/pressreleases/antioxidants Much of the work on anti-oxidants show that they have several different pathways of action. Is it possible that one of them MIGHT be better for patients with CLL than others? Possibly but that is unknown at this time. I think that most researchers would still rely on the "balanced nutrition" rather than the skewed nutrition used by Pauling and others. (Remember, Pauling did die of cancer.) |
