Some recent studies have shown that vitamin E, another strong antioxidant, can work against Alzheimer's. In April 1997 a team at New York's Columbia University found that both vitamin E and the anti-Parkinson's drug selegiline appeared to delay for six to seven months the milestones of the disease, such as required institutionalization, inability to perform basic activities of living, severe dementia and death. Vitamin C might be another candidate for helping prevent cell damage, but when people take vitamin C orally, most of it is lost in the urine and wasted, because it dissolves in water. Agus's team looked at how vitamin C gets into the brain naturally. Reporting in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, it said it had found that cells could break the vitamin down into ascorbic acid and dehydroascorbic acid.
Cells use vitamin C in the form of ascorbic acid.
The researchers injected mice with both forms, killed them and looked at their brains. They found that the mice injected with dehydroascorbic acid had more ascorbic acid in their brain cells afterward. How To Order Gvt. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Please contact your physician.