Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Vitamin C – Repair Damaged Skin

Researchers discovered vitamin C, vitamin A can be carefully studied before a century, since the drug scurvy. Scurvy is in poor condition, the demolition of the small blood vessels in death from uncontrolled bleeding. Cheap Maine also caused swelling and destruction of bones, making them weak and brittle. Scurvy ending fatal if not treated.

Since its discovery, vitamin C is well studied. But researchers are still learning how the vitamin C in the body. Recent studies of vitamin C, which illustrate in the Journal of Free Radical Biology and Medicine published new light on the mechanism involved is the ability of vitamin C treatment to restore and protect the skin.


Vitamin C is an essential cofactor for the production of collagen, an important component of skin proteins. So far, researchers have shown that vitamin C can promote DNA repair. They found a significant increase in DNA repair, the Consumer source of vitamin C.

Recent research has focused on the genes and DNA repair in skin cells called fibroblasts from human skin. Skin fibroblasts have a key role in wound healing. According to researcher Dr. Tiago Duarte “from the sun’s UV radiation in summer, which often leads to a higher incidence of skin lesions.” UV radiation is a genotoxic agent, responsible for the formation of skin cancer, free radicals and DNA damage.

Recent studies in this vitamin, Dr. Duarte and his colleagues the known ability of C vitamin C to eliminate free radicals confirmed, but more importantly, that vitamin C on gene sequences, showing the healing mechanisms of the skin and does not protect against damage.

Researchers exposed skin fibroblasts from vitamin C as ascorbic acid-2-phosphate. Fibroblast cell, collagen and the cell medium that provides a framework for the human skin and connective tissues are available. Fibroblasts key role in wound healing and regeneration of skin cells. The study on the gene expression of cells and the effect of exposure is concentrated in vitamin C

The results showed that vitamin C promotes the promotion of the fibroblasts to share and promote their migration wound healing. In addition, vitamin C protects the skin and cause fibroblast repair DNA damage in potentially dangerous mutants.

Co-author, Dr. Marcus S. Cooke, University of Leicester Oncology and Molecular Medicine, at the end of the investigation said: “This study shows that the mechanism will help promote the effect of vitamin C in the maintenance of healthy skin to heal wounds.

There is a number of pure vitamin C preparations that can help damaged or aging skin. The one I use and recommend is Serum C, which contains a high concentration of vitamin C in the form of L-Ascorbic acid. Serum C also contains an antioxidant complex of extracts of grape skins, grape seeds and green tea.

There is compelling evidence that reducing oxidative stress through the use of antioxidants like vitamin C will heal, and protect, damaged or aging skin. Numerous studies indicate topically applied vitamin C can increase the body’s natural healing process. Apply vitamin C, to your hands, face and neck, morning and night for sixty days.

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