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29.07.2024 |
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Half a gram of vitamin C makes your immune system decades younger
If there is ever an outbreak of a new virus that enthusiastically solves the problem of high house prices, people over 70 will be at a disadvantage. Their immune system works less well than that of younger individuals. Daily supplementation with half a gram of vitamin C largely solves that problem.
Study
After the second blood draw, the researchers waited another 6 months and then took a third sample [PS].
The Spaniards gave another group of people in their seventies, in addition to vitamin C, also vitamin E. The effects of that combination were virtually identical to those of supplementation with vitamin C alone. We therefore leave that part of the research aside in the report.
Results
The people in their seventies had a less good immune system than those in their thirties, but supplementation with vitamin C brought the immune system of the people in their seventies back to the level of those in their thirties.
T cells clear away affected cells by attaching themselves to them and pumping those cells full of aggressive substances. B cells produce antibodies that attach to viruses and suspicious cells - then instruct other immune cells to disable them. Natural Killer cells eliminate anything unusual, even before the learning part of the immune system is active.
Vitamin C stimulated the development of lymphocytes into mature immune cell types [Proliferation].
Finally, vitamin C also made the Natural Killer cells more active.
Six months after the test subjects had taken their last dose of vitamin C, their immune systems were still better in some respects than before the supplementation started.
Conclusion
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