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Oh lord, not another "wellness hack". And here comes the people giving themselves kidney stones and spinal cord problems to be featured on Chubbyemu.

https://youtu.be/oeyt2zVqCG8

Vitamin C/ascorbic acid/swimming pool cleener is interesting stuff, but it is not generaly benificient as a suppliment for healthy people. I will(very) occasionaly chew up a gram, or throw a spoon full into a summer drink concoction, but I also know someone who got a tounge blister from copying me chewing up a vitC pill, someone I knew well, who had such different respinses to things that we started to experiment lightly,they also had a variant form of collegen in all of there conective tissue, which made them vastly more flexible than most people......which(oddly)relates to the titles subject matter

In cell cultures. So nothing about topical, or digestive pathways. Just, expose cells to vitamin c rich medium.

How would topical application work, and what kind of homeostasis effect, from ingestion.

If you are low on vitamin c in your diet, sure. If not, you may not get much benefit from having more.

Vitamin C supplements and cancer risk is an active area of research. Unless there is a genuine deficiency, I would stay away from supplements just to look pretty until there is more clarity.

So possible treatment for age related thinning of the skin.

This just found a potential mechanism, right? Because we did know that, AFAIK. A doctor recommended me vitamin C for faster healing of minor lesions about a decade ago.

As a vaguely related aside, my skin is typically better when I have a decent vitamin c intake. Essentially all I do is have a orange or two every night. Nothing too extreme.

This is VERY anecdotal!

So true. I have been vitamin-C deficient the past 20 years and my skin has definitely degraded.

With conflicting evidence that vitamin C may promote tumour growth, how much study has been done as to whether this might exacerbate skin cancer?

This is why you need to include a good vitamin C serum in your daily skincare routine.

Could be why so many suggested home skin remedy moisturisers contain lemon juice.

Pauling spins furiously in his grave in approval.