If you’ve been loading up on vitamin C to reduce your risk of inflammatory arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), or skipping C entirely to prevent accelerated joint damage from osteoarthritis (OA), you can relax. The USDA’s recommendation of 75 milligrams (mg) per day for women and 90 mg per day for men remains the golden mean for vitamin C consumption.
Questions regarding the appropriate vitamin C amount for people with arthritis arose in 2004 when two back-to-back studies reported decidedly contradictory results. The first, an animal study at Duke University, Durham, N.C., found that very high levels of vitamin C triggered a protein that causes bone spurs, accelerating joint damage and pain in subjects who had OA. The second study, conducted in Great Britain, determined that people who had low levels of vitamin C were three times more likely to develop RA than people whose diets included foods rich in vitamin C.
Though the study reports reflected both ends of the C spectrum, they show that getting the right amount of vitamin C is key for both preventing inflammatory arthritis and maintaining healthy joints with OA.
Without a doubt, vitamin C benefits most people. So keep a happy balance of C-rich foods, including red peppers, strawberries and citrus fruits, in your diet.
The Right Amount of Vitamin C
Vitamin C may help prevent some forms of arthritis, but too much of it may worsen other kinds. Here’s how to find a happy medium.
By Arthritis Today Staff
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Frank
14 Mar 2010, 12:21
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| I would like to know if vitimim c will help with stress and blood pressure |
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Tom
13 Feb 2010, 06:37
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| The USDA’s recommendation of 75 milligrams (mg) per day for women and 90
mg per day for men remains the golden mean for vitamin C consumption.This
statement given in the above article seems to be quite untru. I have been
having High Blood sugar 180/100.A FRIEND SUGGESTED TO TAKE Vitamince daily
6000 mg and I found out the miracle of Vitamine C.Now my BP is normal and I
feel quite healthy in my body.My knee pain too reduced to very little.Our
cells are thirsting for vitamines and when we feed them well with vitamines
our many sicknesses can be removed from our system and it is chief too.I am
sure alopathy doctors will discourage this treatment with vitamines.Those
who wouldlike to understand well about the usage of Vitamin C please read
Dr. Irvin Stone's book " The Healing Factor" and you will find in this book
the great findings of Dr.Lines Pauling whom the world honoured with Nobel
prizes and 40PhD/D.Sc.s.This ebook can be fully downloaded free.All the
best. |
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Chris
07 Jan 2010, 13:05
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| go to http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/ for more information on Vitamin C. |
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Michael
05 Nov 2009, 02:13
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| Vitamin C is one of the least toxic substances known to man. Basically if you have too much which is not easy to do unless you try you will get diarrhea. This will stop very soon after you stop taking vitamin C. For more information please see the work by Dr Klenner. Google him and find out the miracle of vitamin C! |
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madhu
29 Oct 2009, 01:30
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| I would like to know that How much vitamin c and e a OA person can take in a day? |
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Aries
18 Sep 2009, 07:54
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| Until now, the proof that vitamin C helps patients with arthritis is still missing. Up to now, no such recommendation can be given. Except omega-3-acids, that has an effect in several randomized controlled studies on the clinical and serological outcome non of the vitamien or minerals can be recommneded to treat arthritis ! |
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dr.hamza k.
22 Jul 2009, 10:39
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| I always recommend my patients of RA.to take 500mg of Vitamin C per day ,which gives wonderful outcome. |
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Faye McMillen
21 Jul 2009, 14:04
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| I would like information for how much vite. c-and vite.E-also how much calcium to take each day. I have R.A.What would be the recommended mg. per .day. |
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James Ermovick
21 Jul 2009, 10:54
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| I take 2,000mg of Vitamin C per day and 400mg of Vitamin E. I understand that the body needs 5 times the amount of C in order for the body to absorb the E. Is this true and is this amount of C harmful? |
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Jesse C. Perkins
17 Jul 2009, 19:03
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| Would like more definitive information on dosage of Vitimin C for
Rheumatoid Arthritis. Vitimin C is derived from several sources. Which works best for arthritic conditions? |
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nancy
09 Jul 2009, 09:15
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| i like to recieve more of the coloms about diffenert things. |
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Jenny Campbell
21 Apr 2009, 15:04
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| 2,000 to 4,000 mg of vitamin c a day can help wonderful -arthritis |
