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Articles tagged with: Vitamin C
CLAIM REVIEWS
Little clinical evidence supports the use of high-dose intravenous vitamin C to treat cancer
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Intravenous vitamin C specifically kills only cancer cells and not healthy cells
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook, TikTok
Published: 11 Oct 2022
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Consuming sufficient vitamin C is necessary for health and plays an important role in many of the body’s chemical processes
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“The herbs heal [...] not vitamin C, because the body is not composed of any vitamin C”
SOURCE: Alfredo Bowman, Facebook
Published: 14 Jul 2022
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Some evidence suggests that vitamin C and D supplementation might prevent or treat respiratory infections, but their effectiveness is still being tested with COVID-19
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Vitamins C and D are now finally being adopted in the conventional treatment of SARS-CoV-2; Vitamin C at extremely high doses acts as an antiviral drug, actually killing viruses; vitamin D helps the body fight SARS-CoV-2 infection and can cut infection risk.
SOURCE: Joseph Mercola, Mercola
Published: 14 Apr 2020
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No, the Shanghai government has not recommended intravenous vitamin C as a treatment for COVID-19
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The government of Shanghai, China has announced its official recommendation that COVID-19 should be treated with high amounts of intravenous vitamin C
SOURCE: Andrew W. Saul, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service
Published: 20 Mar 2020
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Vitamin C supplementation does not prevent viral respiratory infections, such as those caused by coronaviruses, in the general population
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The coronavirus pandemic can be dramatically slowed, or stopped, with the immediate widespread use of high doses of vitamin C
SOURCE: Andrew W. Saul, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Health Impact News
Published: 20 Feb 2020
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Computing Forever interview with Dolores Cahill contains numerous inaccuracies about COVID-19 and vaccines
— 22 May 2020
This video, first published on 11 May 2020, features an interview between Dave Cullen, also known as Computing Forever on YouTube, and Dolores Cahill, a professor at University Col...