Paul Saladino· MD
with these high doses of vitamin C IV there's it's clearly having a pro-oxidant role now whether or not you could achieve that with oral dosing is questionable probably not
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with these high doses of vitamin C IV there's it's clearly having a pro-oxidant role now whether or not you could achieve that with oral dosing is questionable probably not
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IV vitamin C is gonna give you like a 13,000 micromolar level of vitamin C where's like we're sitting around 70 micromolar so you know that's a hundredfold difference
intravenous vitamin C increases blood levels that are 100-500 times higher than oral ingestion.
intravenous vitamin C bypasses intestinal absorption and the saturated Obul transport mechanisms so consequently the bioavailability of vitamin C differs appreciably between oral and intravenous administration so for example in healthy adults intravenous administration of vitamin C might reach blood level concentrations that are anywhere between thirty to seventy times higher than the same oral dose
then I'll talk about some really interesting data on intravenous administration of vitamin C although it's not that typical means of getting this essential vitamin it offers promise as a therapeutic strategy against cancer and some other serious health concerns
the effects of intravenous vitamin C differ considerably from those achieved with oral intake because of the huge concentrated increase in plasma levels that occurs with intravenous administration as a result intravenous vitamin C offers promise as a therapeutic strategy against certain types of cancer and infections at oral supplementation cannot achieve