{"id":470,"date":"2022-09-13T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/22\/vitamin-c-supplementation-inhibits-cancer-growth-and-metastasis\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:57:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:06","slug":"vitamin-c-supplementation-inhibits-cancer-growth-and-metastasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-c-supplementation-inhibits-cancer-growth-and-metastasis\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin C supplementation inhibits cancer growth and metastasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This study tested the effect of vitamin C supplementation on tumor growth and metastasis.<br \/>\nHumans cannot produce vitamin C.<br \/>\nHowever, most animals can.<br \/>\nTo investigate the effect of vitamin C supplementation on metastasis and tumor growth in mice, the researchers altered the mice in a way that they were not able to synthesize vitamin C anymore.<br \/>\nThe mice were induced with melanoma or breast cancer cells. 4 weeks prior to and 2 weeks after cancer induction the mice were fed with either a standard diet or a standard diet enriched with vitamin C.<br \/>\nThe results showed that vitamin C supplementation hindered metastasis, tumor growth and inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>Further details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>John Cha,\u00a0M Waheed Roomi,\u00a0Vadim Ivanov,\u00a0Tatiana Kalinovsky,\u00a0Aleksandra Niedzwiecki,\u00a0Matthias Rath<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23175106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This study tested the effect of vitamin C supplementation on tumor growth and metastasis. Humans cannot produce vitamin C. However, most animals can. To investigate the effect of vitamin C supplementation on metastasis and tumor growth in mice, the researchers altered the mice in a way that they were not able to synthesize vitamin&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311],"tags":[455,367,368,369,366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6984,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/6984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}