Helenlight
New member
After reading two studies showing vitamin c to thin mucous and reduce lung inflammation (in association with CF), I am truly interested and wonder if anyone knows more about this or have any personal experience.
Here they are:
http://www.ajcn.org/content/65/6/1858.full.pdf
http://www.pnas.org/content/101/10/3691.full
If I am interpreting these studies correctly it seems prudent to make sure blood plasma levels of the vitamin are at optimum levels (80-90umol? whatever that means!) and that ideally there would be a way to get the stuff into the airways.
What do you think the ideal supplementation level would be for a CFer? I think saturation for a healthy non-CFer sounds like it would be around 1000mg, but for people with chronic lung inflamation it could be higher. Thoughts please!
Here they are:
http://www.ajcn.org/content/65/6/1858.full.pdf
http://www.pnas.org/content/101/10/3691.full
If I am interpreting these studies correctly it seems prudent to make sure blood plasma levels of the vitamin are at optimum levels (80-90umol? whatever that means!) and that ideally there would be a way to get the stuff into the airways.
What do you think the ideal supplementation level would be for a CFer? I think saturation for a healthy non-CFer sounds like it would be around 1000mg, but for people with chronic lung inflamation it could be higher. Thoughts please!