A doctor friend recently forwarded me a study showing vitamin C increases the incidence of cataracts. Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? Of course it is—and this mainstream attack is no match for Dr. Wright's expertise.

As part of my ongoing search for the latest alternative health news, I keep in touch with several doctors who practice natural medicine. I get almost daily forwards of information the public just isn't supposed to see (scary thought, huh?). They also send me some of the more ridiculous studies that hit their radars...

Like this one—a study in Sweden, which will be published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, that tries to draw a link between increased intakes of vitamin C and cataract development. The study, conducted with 24,593 women between 49 and 83, claims that vitamin C use was associated with a 25% increase in cataracts.

The doctor friend who sent it included a note predicting that Dr. Wright would have some very strong comments on this ridiculous study.

I didn't have to ask Dr. Wright about the study—because I knew exactly what he would say. You see, he's written about vitamin C and cataracts before.

About how vitamin C helps PREVENT cataracts, that is.

That's right—the power of C strikes again. Researchers at Tufts University found several years ago that vitamin C could keep cataracts from forming altogether.

And a while back, Dr. Wright wrote in an issue of Nutrition & Healing that getting plenty of vitamin B2, selenium, zinc, and vitamin C could slow cataract progression. And when patients come to him suffering from dry, itchy eyes, he always urges them to avoid steroid-containing eye drops, which can increase the risk of cataracts (wonder if any of the women in this recent study were using them?). He recommends eye drops containing vitamins A and C to strengthen the surface tissue of the eyes.

Oh, and there was more to that study—researchers found that women on hormone replacement therapy were at even greater risk. But they took an interesting angle on that one, saying the vitamin C supplements were associated with a 56% increase in cataracts in those women.

Really? Still trying to draw the line to vitamin C, with all we know of the dangers of hormone replacement therapy?

No matter how many shots the mainstream tries to take at vitamins, especially one so powerful as C, the attack just isn't going to work. Because we'll always be right there—with the research and results to back up the truth.

So, if you hear about some new mainstream study "proving" that natural medicine doesn't work, remember you can always turn to the archive at www.wrightnewsletter.com to get the facts.

Source:

"C for cataracts – study raises concerns over vitamin and eye health," NutraIngredients USA (www.nutraingredients-usa.com).

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