Vitamic C Cold Myth
For those common folks out there taking Vitamin C in the hope to prevent cold, please stop as u maybe wasting your money. A new research shows taking Vitamin C probably won’t do any miracle to stop you from getting cold. But, if you are consistently exposed to high stress such as extreme physical exercise, living in sub zero climates Vitamin C may have some role to prevent cold.
When taken after a cold starts, vitamin C supplements do not make a cold shorter or less severe.
When taken as a daily preventive medicine, vitamin C very slightly shortens cold duration — by 8% in adults and by 13.6% in children.
When given as a preventive medicine to highly fit people in conditions of extreme cold — data based mostly on marathon runners — vitamin C cuts the risk of getting a cold in half.
The average adult who suffers with colds for 12 days a year would still suffer for 11 days a year if that person took a high dose of vitamin C every day.
Via WebMD
owh.. i didn’t know this before. i really thought vitamin c could prevent cold.