Pushing The Limits

The battle against cancer has been ongoing for hundreds of years now. But recently, interest in using vitamin C to improve outcomes for cancer patients has been growing. And the results of these various studies look promising. Biochemist and medical researcher Professor Margreet Vissers joins us in this episode to explain her current research on vitamin C and how it helps the immune system fight cancer. She also talks about the other health benefits of vitamin C, as well as some of its limitations. Is vitamin C the cancer treatment we’ve been looking for all along? Tune in to find out.    Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: You will learn about vitamin C’s role in controlling tumours. Discover how humans metabolise vitamin C differently from other animals. Know how intravenous vitamin C turned around a leukaemia patient’s relapse.   Resources Watch Professor Margreet Vissers' lecture on her work on vitamin C. “The power of C” on University of Otago Magazine Das, A. B., Kakadi