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[Believer]

Intravenous vitamin C elevates vitamin C levels 25-fold, thus strengthening the immune system. Vitamin C also has a pro-oxidant effect in this high concentrations in the bloodstream.

 

If cell senescence build-up is an effect of a weakened immune system, why would boosting the immune system with intravenous vitamin C, which is able to fight off serious infections, not work to remove senescent cells too?

[Turnbuckle]

Your thoughts are along the lines of this paper: Senescent cell clearance by the immune system: Emerging therapeutic opportunities, an approach I don't agree with. Senescent cells are more appropriately removed by cellular suicide -- apoptosis. Vitamin C can promote apoptosis in certain types of cancers by restoring normal apoptosis functioning. And while the immune system can be stimulated to clear out damaged tissue, this is a pathological response due to a failure of normal maintenance. Better not to get to that point.

 

 

Edited by Turnbuckle, 22 December 2020 - 11:42 AM.