Vitamin C Prevents Radiation Damage

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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, February 1, 2012

Vitamin C Prevents Radiation Damage

Nutritional Medicine in Japan

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(OMNS, Feb 1, 2012) Workers with severe radiation exposure at the

Fukushima nuclear plant had major reduction in cancer risk when supplemented

with

vitamin C and other anti-oxidative nutrients. Sixteen men aged between 32

and 59 years worked 5 to 6 weeks in a radiation contaminated area, collecting

contaminated water, measuring radiation levels, operating heavy machinery,

and removing debris. Blood samples were obtained to measure whole blood

counts and blood chemistry, plasma levels of free DNA, and 47 cancer related

gene expressions.

Four workers who took intravenous vitamin C (25,000 mg) therapy before

they went in, and continuously took anti-oxidative supplements during the

working period, had no significant change in both free DNA and overall cancer

risk.

Three workers that did not have preventive intravenous vitamin C had an

increase in calculated cancer risk. After 2 months of intervention with

intravenous vitamin C and oral anti-oxidative nutritional supplements, free DNA

returned to normal level and cancer risk score was significantly decreased.

(1)

This important clinical demonstration confirms research done nearly 20

years ago showing that pretreatment with vitamin C, by oral intake or

injection, increased sperm head survival after the injection of radioactive

Iodine-131 in mice. (2)

Oral intake of alpha-lipoic acid and vitamin E reduced urinary

radioactivity and oxidative stress in irradiated children in Chernobyl. (3)

Furthermore, there have been numerous scientific studies about the

radio-protective

effects of other vitamins, minerals, and antioxidative nutrients.

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References:

1. Yanagisawa A. Effect of Vitamin C and anti-oxidative nutrition on

radiation-induced gene expression in Fukushima nuclear plant workers. Free

download of full presentation at

_http://www.doctoryourself.com/Radiation_VitC.pptx.pdf_

(http://www.doctoryourself.com/Radiation_VitC.pptx.pdf)

2. Venkat R. Narra, W. Howell, Kandula S. R. Sastry and Dandamudi V.

Rao. J Nucl Med,1993. Vol. 34 No. 4, p 637-640.

_http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/34/4/637.long_

(http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/34/4/637.long)

3. Korkina L, et al. Antioxidant therapy in children affected by

irradiation from the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Biochem Soc Trans,1993.

21:314S.

PMID: 8224459 _http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=8224459_

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=8224459)

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