Re: Vitamin C deficiency impairs early brain development

Stoneface,
thank you for your comments.

This study concerning Vitamin C, confirms the importance of nutrition generally for optimum health.
Adequate Vitamin C will of course prevent scurvy, but as Linus Pauling pointed out, the RDA is woefully insufficient in preventing other more serious and chronic diseases.

Humans lost their ability to manufacture their own Ascorbate in the eons of time-past, and where the diet (no matter the quality) does not nearly provide sufficient amounts of this vital Vitamin. In his view, (and my own) supplementation was the only answer.

Other nutrients and their deficiencies may well contribute to impaired Brain development from conception onwards, but the study just highlighted this one particular, major, and vital Vitamin, where the diet just cannot compensate for the optimum quantity.
Vitamin D would also come into this category.

Chrisb1.