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Vitamin C Protects Some Elderly Men From Bone Loss
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 Zaidi added that laboratory experiments have shown that vitamin C inhibits bone reabsorption. To clearly establish that vitamin C protects men and women against bone loss as they age, Zaidi said that a randomized, double-blind, large clinical trial is needed. The problem is that because vitamin C can't be patented, drug companies, which usually finance this type of clinical trial, aren't interested, he said.
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Last updated 9/26/2008
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SOURCES: Katherine Tucker, Ph.D., John Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston; Mone Zaidi, M.D., Ph.D., professor, medicine and physiology, and director, Mount Sinai Bone Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City; October 2008 The Journal of Nutrition
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