Vitamin C

This volume is dedicated to vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, - mainly present in fruits and vegetables. These studies will be the key to providing the scientific basis that explains why this simple but important vitamin possesses such a wide range of positive biological activities.

This book presents the scientific evidence for the role of vitamin C in health and disease and offers new guidance on vitamin C intake in humans. The importance of vitamin C in preventing cancer and cardiovascular disease, its relevance to aging and stress, and its impacts on each of the human body systems are thoroughly assessed on the basis of the author’s extensive research and his deep understanding, as an anatomy professor, of the body as a whole.

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is a normal liver metabolite in most animals, with humans being a notable exception due to random genetic mutations that have occurred during our evolution. As such, it has become a vitamin (vital to life), with requirements increasing significantly during various illnesses, particularly severe infections.

Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience is the compelling story of the history and science behind vitamin C.

Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience is the compelling story of the history and science behind vitamin C.

A superb book on vitamin c that came from the man that researched this vitamin for 40 years .even the late linus pauling consoulted with mr.stone (the author).in this book the author discover the genetic defect that prevent us of manufactue vitamin c in our liver, on a contrary to most of the animals.the author explains all the mecanisms that are realy important for us (humans),in an extraordinary way, and he gives you (the reader) the best understanding on vitamin c on the human function.this is the best researcher on vitamin c ever!.i am highly recommand on that superb book.the information of that book is valid today the same as in the time when this book was published.