Vitamin C, gastric cancer cells and Helicobacter pylori – (01-17-02)

Vitamin C, gastric cancer cells and Helicobacter pylori

This study finds that Vit C can protect against the cancerous changes that can be associated with H. pylori infection but that the typical patient does not have enough Vit C in gastric juice to achieve this effect. Maybe that’s why the bacteria is there in the first place???… Okay, since this is yet another study showing that Vit C seems to play a pivotal role in treatment of H. pylori associated gastric conditions, why are we not seeing this as an essential co-factor for treatment? Just give it a few decades…

Gut — Abstracts: Zhang et al. 50 (2): 165

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