Studies & their Neutrality

I generally disagree with the findings of these studies and seriously doubt their neutrality.
You rarely hear of studies with positive outcomes (on vitamins and antioxidants) in the media. They often don’t even get a chance to get published in many journals.

Here you can find a review of intravenous vitamin C and its usefulness with cancer patients: http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/pdf/1479-5876-9-25.pdf

There is also an interesting case New Zealand. A man with H1N1, viral pneumonia und leukemia was able to fully recover with IV vitamin C: (VIDEO)

http://www.3news.co.nz/Living-Proof-Vitamin-C---Miracle-Cure/tabid/309/articleID/171328/Default.aspx

I know this is quite different from taking a pill, but it’s definitely an interesting topic and should motivate us not to discard vitamins and antioixdants as a treatment for diseases too easily. Also, it is quite interesting that animals which are able to synthesize vitamin C rarely have problems with their heart. Man, primates, and guinea pigs cannot synthesize vitamin C and often suffer from heart diseases.

There are also some promising results regarding CoQ 10 supplementation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coenzyme_Q10#Supplementation_benefits (I know it’s wikipedia… :P)

Many people believe that vitamin deficiencies are rare. That is not the case and it’s been shown. Around 40% (age: 26-83) of the population have a vitamin B12 deficiency:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2000/000802.htm
(you can find more on this in the book ‘Could It Be B12?’)

Here is a video of a woman, whose multiple sclerosis was actually a B12 deficiency: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kir2quaVaGQ

I gave my mother some B12 (1000mcg per day) and after a month her hair loss stopped and her mood improved. (hair loss in women is very frequently a B12 deficiency).

Niacin (vitamin B3) is proven and also used in conventional medicine to raise HDL cholesterol. (Unfortunately, it causes flushing. It usually decreases and goes away after longer usage)

Vitamins and antioxidants are not the holy grail. But it’s definitely worth looking into.
One of the biggest problems with these studies are the supplements themselves. What kind of quality do they have? (e.g. what kind of vitamin E was used?)