No role for vitamin C in osteoporosis prevention

High-dose vitamin C has no role in the prevention of osteoporosis as excess levels of the common vitamin tend to end up in the toilet, a pilot study finds.

Postmenopausal women who took high doses of vitamin C did not achieve plasma antioxidant activity capable of preventing osteoporosis, the study authors found.

They initially found a rise in the plasma levels of the eight women but these fell rapidly over four weeks and could not be sustained despite continuous therapy.

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