Vitamin C and Mortality

VITAMIN C AND MORTALITY

Vitamin C’s proven effect on mortality stands in stark contrast to the statin drugs. According to author Bill Sardi, “ Vitamin C is the only vitamin repeatedly proven to increase the human life span when taken in doses that exceed dietary levels of this vitamin."   This observation was recently confirmed in Britain, again.

Low Blood Vitamin C Concentrations in the Older British Population Strongly Predict Mortality

In November 2003 the British Centre for Ageing and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom. (astrid.fletcher@lshtm.ac.uk) published their findings of a direct correlation between low vitamin C and increased mortality.

We found a strong inverse relationship for blood ascorbate (vitamin C) concentrations with all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality, which were only marginally reduced after adjustment for confounders or supplement use. Those in the lowest fifth (< 17 micromol/L) had the highest mortality, whereas those in the highest fifth (> 66 micromol/L) had a mortality risk nearly half that (hazard ratio = 0.54; 95% CI: 0.34, 0.84). Similar results were found after the exclusion of those subjects with cardiovascular disease or cancer at baseline (hazard ratio = 0.51; 0.28, 0.93). In fully adjusted models, there was no evidence for an influence of alpha-tocopherol (vitamin-E), beta-carotene, or retinol (vitamin-A) on total mortality. Dietary antioxidants measured by the food-frequency questionnaire were not associated with all-cause or cardiovascular disease mortality”

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