ascorbate

And it has the same problem as ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbate and calcium ascorbate – it gets distributed throughout the entire body with only minute amounts reaching the «skin».

One for glucose (as sodium ascorbate was diluted using a glucose solution), and another placebo group for sodium chloride?

The only calcium containing supp i might take would be calcium ascorbate (it's a fairly small dose of calcium).

Comparing sodium chloride to sodium ascorbate is not the way to study the effect of sodium.

The problem here, again, is that this choice led to both sodium and ascorbate administration being different between the two arms.

They think they are testing the ascorbate, but they can’t exclude the possibility that they are getting results due to sodium.

You realize that the authors think that the ascorbate molecule is their active ingredient, right?

Absorption rate is dosage dependent: – At moderate doses (≤ 250 mg/day): 70–90 per cent of ascorbate is absorbed into the bloodstream.

First, the Mayo Clinic trials abruptly stopped the ascorbate administration, switching to traditional chemotherapy, when the patient developed signs of tumor progression.

I think you either have to add expensive/exotic antioxidant systems, or rely on ascorbate derivatives which may be less/not effective.

This is using sodium ascorbate, bit different from vitamin C (ascorbic acid).

Fredirick Klenner was curing polio with intravenous sodium ascorbate, in the 1930's.

The book "Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C" has good historic info if anybody is interested.

It may be what's used in dechlorinator products, but vitamin C (ascorbic acid, or Sodium Ascorbate) does a good job of converting chloramines (or just chlorine) to salt, NaCl.