Moderate amount of Vitamin C has many positive effects on the heart, such as scavenging free radicals and promoting antibody formation, but excessive Vitamin C also has some negative effects on the heart, such as inducing the rupture of red blood cells and the formation of hemolysis.
1. Scavenging free radicals: free radicals are the products of the body’s decomposition of toxins and foreign substances, and Vitamin C can assist the body in resisting the destructive effects of free radicals on the whole body, including the reduction of free radicals on the cardiomyocyte lipid peroxidation, atherosclerosis and other harmful effects.
2. Promote the formation of antibodies: Vitamin C can promote digestion and help convert protein substances in food into raw materials that can synthesize antibodies, which can be used to prevent and treat certain heart diseases, such as rheumatic heart disease, infectious myocarditis.
3. Inducing red blood cell rupture and hemolysis: Vitamin C, as a reducing agent, can induce red blood cell rupture. Normal people with low concentrations of this effect is almost negligible, but when the content is too high, a large hemolysis will occur, which in turn causes myocardial ischemia and damage to the heart.
Because excessive Vitamin C has a negative effect on the heart, it is recommended that it be taken in moderation under the guidance of a medical professional.