Orange is one of the foods with high content of vitamin C. Taking vitamin C or extend through cosmetic products improves wound healing and helps to counteract the signs of aging caused by external agents such as pollution, ultraviolet rays or snuff. This is confirmed by a new study published in ‘Free Radical Biology and Medicine.
“Our study shows a mechanism by which vitamin C helps maintain healthy skin. First, it improves healing of wounds and also because it protects DNA from oxidation by free radicals (oxygen molecules responsible the destruction of healthy cells and premature aging of the skin), “said Marcus Cooke, lead author of the article.Scientists from the University of Leicester (UK) and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Portugal have analyzed the effects of a derivative of vitamin C (ascorbic acid 2-phosphate) in dermal fibroblasts, a type of cell synthesizing collagen to the healing process. And the result was conclusive. The authors found that vitamin C increased the proliferation of fibroblasts and, consequently, could improve healing problematic.
“It’s new way of using it can improve healing complex for one reason or another,” explains Aurora Guerra, section chief of dermatology at the Hospital of University 12 October. (more…)
