ABSTRACT

Vitamin C holds a unique place in scientific and cultural history. In this book, a group of leading scientific researchers describe new insights into the myriad ways vitamin C is employed during normal physiological functioning. In addition, the text provides an extensive overview of the following: the rationale for utilizing vitamin C in the clinic, updates on recent uses of vitamin C in cancer treatment through high-dose intravenous therapies, the role vitamin C plays in the treatment of sepsis and infectious disease, management of the ways vitamin C can improve stem cell differentiation, as well as vitamin C use in other important health situations.

Features

    • Includes chapters from a team of leading international scholars

    • Reviews the history and recent research on the functions, benefits, and uses of vitamin C

    • Focuses special attention on the way vitamin C can be used in the treatment of cancers

    • Discusses how vitamin C can be employed against infectious disease

    Chapters 1, 3, 7,  and 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

    part One|21 pages

    Overview of Vitamin C

    chapter Chapter One|19 pages

    A “C Odyssey”

    Recommended Dietary Allowances and Optimal Health: Paradigm and Promise of Vitamin C

    part Three|67 pages

    Vitamin C and Immune Function

    chapter Chapter Seven|21 pages

    Vitamin C in Pneumonia and Sepsis

    part Four|69 pages

    Vitamin C and Neurological Function