The administration of vitamin C quickly improves the well-being of hospitalized patients, informs the Nutrition magazine.
Previous studies have indicated that people admitted to hospitals on emergency indications often lack vitamins C and D. Specialists from the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal and the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research conducted double-blind studies (neither patients nor doctors knew who was receiving which preparation until the end of the research).
Some patients were given vitamin D for seven to 10 days, others were given vitamin C. It turned out that vitamin C improved patients’ mood quickly and statistically and clinically significantly, while vitamin D did not change their mood – so the effect of vitamin C was not a placebo effect but was due to its actual biological activity.
As noted by prof. By L. John Hoffer of the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, approximately one in five patients admitted to his hospital has blood levels of vitamin C so low that it corresponds to scurvy (a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C). Hardly any doctor is aware of the prevalence of this deficiency. Meanwhile, the administration of vitamin C is a safe, simple and cheap method (PAP).