Researchers found that a form of Vitamin C promoted better wound healing and helped protect against DNA damage of skin cells.
In addition to improving wound healing, the Vitamin C derivative (ascorbic acid 2-phosphate) protected the skin by “increasing the capacity of fibroblasts to repair potentially mutagenic DNA lesions,” says researcher Tiago Duarte, formerly of the University of Leicester, and now at the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology in Portugal. The findings were published in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine.
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Vitamin C is an antioxidant (it captures volatile oxygen free radicals) — is the prevailing theory why Vitamin C is an anti-cancer agent.
A new theory has come up: Vitamin C may block growth of tumors by destabilizing their ability to grow under oxygen-starved conditions – according to a new study from a team from The Johns Hopkins University.
The team was alerted to a new possible mechanism of antioxidant functioning when it examined cancer cells from those cancer-implanted mice that were not fed antioxidants. There was an absence of any significant DNA damage in these mice.
This led the authors to suspect …read more