Vitamins help reduce the risk of cancer for smokers

Vitamin C supplementation may help prevent serious consumption of vitamin E in smokers and may help them prevent cancer, according to US scientists.

Supplementing vitamin C can help prevent serious consumption of vitamin E in smokers (Photo: umanitoba) Research led by scientists at Oregon State University has for the first time demonstrated the interaction between These two antioxidants are in humans, and have also uncovered a theory about the causes of cancer among smokers.

Researchers found that smokers who consumed 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C a day could reduce 45 percent of the loss of one form of vitamin E. Vitamin C supplements also help protect the function and plasma levels of vitamin E.

Vitamin E is one of the first "fences" to protect the lungs against tobacco smoke - the culprit who produces free radicals that ravages the lungs. Providing adequate amounts of vitamin E to your body can help prevent pleural destruction. However, during this protection, vitamin E itself can become a free radical. The addition of a compatible amount of vitamin C helps vitamin E return to a free-radical form and continue to protect the lungs.

Recent studies published in the National Cancer Institute's journal also found that vitamin E supplementation reduces the risk of prostate cancer in men who smoke but does not work in men. Non-smokers.

WALL VY (According to Xinhua)