Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Evidence for...Vitamin C for asthma

Ascorbic acid supplementation attenuates exercise-induced bronchoconstriction in patients with asthma.
Tecklenburg SL et al.
Respir Med. 2007;101:1770-8.
Two weeks of ascorbic acid supplementation (1500 mg/day) significantly modified the bronchoconstrictor response to exercise in asthmatic subjects and significantly improved asthma symptoms scores.


Coenzyme Q10 supplementation reduces corticosteroids dosage in patients with bronchial asthma.
Gvozdjáková A et al.
Biofactors. 2005;25:235-40.
Antioxidant supplementation consisting of coenzyme Q10 as Q-Gel (120 mg) with 400 mg alpha-tocopherol and 250 mg vitamin C a day for 16 weeks reduced the dosage of corticosteroids in corticosteroid-dependent bronchial asthma patients

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