Testing......
Jan. 9th, 2017 08:03 pmJust a test. Let's see if this goes properly to Dreamwidth.
Jan. 9th, 2017
I love living in the future.
Jan. 9th, 2017 08:13 pmIt turns out megadoses of Vitamin C might *actually* cure (some) cancer.
Short version: Taking it orally is bullshit unless you have kidney failure because your gut will filter it and all you get is expensive urine. But given INTRAVENOUSLY, it gets to cells, decomposes to hydrogen peroxide, and is then filtered out before it can kill a healthy cell.
Tumour cells? Not so good at filtering out peroxide. So the peroxide kills them.
(This is a duplicate because I'm testing crossposting. I'll leave this one up.)
Short version: Taking it orally is bullshit unless you have kidney failure because your gut will filter it and all you get is expensive urine. But given INTRAVENOUSLY, it gets to cells, decomposes to hydrogen peroxide, and is then filtered out before it can kill a healthy cell.
Tumour cells? Not so good at filtering out peroxide. So the peroxide kills them.
(This is a duplicate because I'm testing crossposting. I'll leave this one up.)