Question About Topical Vitamin C

[wookster]

An interesting article on vitamin C and stem cells:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2914589.stm

In an exhausting process, they mixed stem cells with a total of 880 "bioactive" substances to see if any of them nudged the embryonic cells into heart muscle cells.

Only one had any effect whatsoever - vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, which turned the embryonic stem cells into cardiac myocytes - heart muscle cells.

Vitamin C is also known as ascorbic acid. It appears to have hair growth stimulative properties:

http://www.ehrs.org/conferenceabstracts ... 37-kim.htm

P37 ASCORBIC ACID 2-PHOSPHATE PROMOTES HAIR GROWTH


[...]

The growth stimulation of dermal papilla cells and induction of hair follicle growth seems to be, at least in part, mediated by IGF-1 over-expression from dermal papilla cells by Asc 2-P. In addition, these data suggests that signalling pathway that leads to versican expression is activated by Asc 2-P and Asc 2-P may keep dermal papilla cells to maintain hair-inducing activity by regulating versican.

Can higher concentrations of topically applied vitamin C - ascorbic acid also stimulate hair follicle stem cells and produce significant hair regrowth? What would be the necessary mixture of the topical ingredients that provides the adequate amount vitamin C to the hair cells, causing hair re-growth?

 

[So]

Ascorbic acid 2-phosphate is what we need....

http://www.ehrs.org/conferenceabstracts ... 37-kim.htm

 

[Daved]

Ascorbic acid 2-phosphate is what we need....

http://www.ehrs.org/conferenceabstracts ... 37-kim.htm

Where can you get it from?

 

[Riordan]

P-Asc is a phosphate derivative of L-ascorbic acid and has more prolonged vitamin C activity in solution than does L-ascorbic acid

get it here: http://www.chemexper.com/index.shtml?ma ... -23-9.html

 

[Follically Challenged]

In the study it doesn't say anything about being a magnesium salt though.

 

[Riordan]

In the study it doesn't say anything about being a magnesium salt though.

sowee...here: http://www.chemexper.com/index.shtml?ma ... -23-9.html

 

[Follically Challenged]

Ascorbic acid-2-phosphate magnesium salt is what you keep providing a link for. I don't know sh*t about chemistry, but in that study all it said was they were using ascorbic acid-2-phosphate.

Maybe CCS can help?

 

[Riordan]

Ascorbic acid-2-phosphate magnesium salt is what you keep providing a link for. I don't know $#iT about chemistry, but in that study all it said was they were using ascorbic acid-2-phosphate.

Maybe CCS can help?

sorry brother...anyways, just ues the search in that link and it'll take you there...i wonder if lemon (ascorbic acid source can do the trick. i've been using lemon extracts before shampoo from time to time)