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A 49-year-old female asked:
Can daily doses of vitamin c, selenium, & folic acid improve the body's defenses against hpv? what about a decaffeinated green tea extract supplement?
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Dr. Ed Friedlanderanswered
Pathology 46 years experience
I doubt it: Claims that particular vitamins / minerals "strengthen the immune system" are created by advertisers with little or no real science. Anyone who believes miracle claims for decaffeinated green tea is reading uncritically. I hope you will manage hpv scientifically; it's a real danger to life if ignored but can almost always be dealt with by today's evidence-based medicine. Thanks for asking.
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Great point Dr. Rinker.
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I have chemotherapy , if it is possible to get a vitamin supplement which does not contain vitamin B9 / folic acid, any suggestions?
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You should get folic: Some chimo drugs are against of Folic Acid . So this kind of patient needs extra folic acid.
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Be very careful. You don't want to "rescue" the cancer cells from the chemo effects
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