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Growing old is an inevitable part of life, but many of the signs attributed to ageing are due rather to vitamin and mineral deficiencies accumulated over the years than to the ageing process itself.

Vitamin C can play a big part in halting many of the ageing processes and if taken in adequate doses throughout life, can prolong the period of vigorous and healthy matur­ity, not merely prolong life itself.

It has been shown by many researches that although the need for Vitamin C increases with age, the actual vita­min content of human tissues decreases as the years ad­vance. In fact, a Vitamin C deficiency is very common in elderly people.

This is evident in the spots of bruising so often seen under the skin on older people’s forearms — the smallest injury will cause a bruise. Also in the teeth loosened in their sockets where the colloid substance which holds the teeth firmly in the gums has deteriorated; in the bent backs and brittle bones due to thinning of the matrix in which the calcium of the bones is deposited; in the loss of height through subsidence of the firm fibro-elastic tissue of the intervertabral discs and in the stiffness of joints whose smooth cartilage is eroded by deterioration of the Vitamin C dependent colloid substance of which it is made.

Literally, Vitamin C is responsible for holding all the connecting tissues of the body together, and, when it is deficient as it becomes in old age, the body is inclined to literally ‘come apart at the seams’. Not only this but the poor resistance of old people to infections, specially chest infec­tions, is due to a relative Vitamin C deficiency.

There are so many references in<,the medical literature showing that ascorbic acid requirements are increased in old age and that the elderly suffer from serious depletion, that it is difficult to understand why the 500 mg ascorbic acid tablets allowed as a pharmaceutical benefit (for pen­sioners) should have recently been cut down to 50 mg maximum tablet.

The elderly, of whom most are pensioners, need far more than the meagre 50 mg tablets allowed. Even 3 to 6 fifty milligram tablets a day would only provide 150 mg to 300 mg a day. But it has been found that elderly people are greatly improved on at least 1000 mg or 1 gram a day and that many of their disabilities disappear when 2-3 grams, even 4 grams, of Vitamin C are taken daily.

The great advantage of Vitamin C is that it is non-toxic and that large doses can be taken daily for long periods with only benefit and no serious side effects.
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Vitamin C assists Vitamin A, the B Complex and Zinc in controlling the acne that is so often the despair of teenagers, but may continue into adult life. It is especially valuable in combating the staphylococcus germs which infect the hair follicles and pores of the skin, and are the basis of both the white headed and the deep-seated pimples.

At least one to three grams a day, taken in divided doses, will often prevent the black heads from turning into unsightly pustles.

The type of acne termed rosacae is more prevalent in middle age. It is caused by networks of enlarged capillary vessels and open pores on the nose and across the cheeks. Vitamin C, coupled with the B vitamin, B2 (riboflavine) and bioflavinoid prevents and improves the redness due to di­lated surface capillaries. At least 3 doses of 500 mg daily, coupled with a Vitamin B2 tablet and 2 bioflavinoid tablets three times a day over long periods are needed to cure the unsightly pink flush across the nose and cheeks.

The redness and itching of prickly heat is claimed by Singapore doctors to be alleviated in both children and adults by taking Vitamin C in quite moderate doses say, 250 mg to 500 mg three times a day during the tropical heat and humidity. This treatment should be very helpful in the northern parts of Australia during summer months.

Experimenting with the effect of megadoses of Vita­min C in acute skin affections complaining of inflammation and intolerable itching, Dr A. Glew of Brisbane reports dramatic relief of a case of eczema and a case of psoriasis immediately following intravenous sodium ascorbate, 15 to 30 grams.
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