{"id":227635,"date":"2025-12-22T22:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-common-vitamin-could-help-protect-your-lungs-from-air-pollution"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:05:46","slug":"a-common-vitamin-could-help-protect-your-lungs-from-air-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-common-vitamin-could-help-protect-your-lungs-from-air-pollution","title":{"rendered":"A Common Vitamin Could Help Protect Your Lungs From Air Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-common-vitamin-could-help-protect-your-lungs-from-air-pollution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Large doses of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-are-vitamins-and-do-we-really-need-to-take-them\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">vitamin<\/a> C may provide our lungs with a degree of protection from the harmful effects of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-may-have-been-wrong-about-air-pollution-being-more-toxic-in-the-city\">fine particles<\/a> in the air. Referred to as PM2.5, in reference to their micrometer-wide particle size, these pollutants have been linked to issues such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/almost-nowhere-on-earth-is-safe-from-air-pollution-now-scientists-warn\">asthma<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/just-3-years-of-air-pollution-can-increase-lung-cancer-risk-study-warns\">lung cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers led by a team from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) conducted a series of experiments on male mice and lab-grown human tissues to test the effects of vitamin C on tissues exposed to fine particulate matter, finding that the vitamin protected against some of the core damage to cells that air pollution typically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-think-theyve-solved-the-enigma-of-how-air-pollution-causes-lung-cancer\">does to the lungs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, vitamin C reduced the loss of the cells\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/boosting-one-mitochondrial-protein-increases-lifespan-and-slows-aging-in-mice\">mitochondrial \u2018power stations\u2019<\/a>, reduced harmful inflammation, and prevented cells from being damaged by the effects of oxidative stress \u2013 attacks caused by unstable, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/publications\/dictionaries\/cancer-terms\/def\/reactive-oxygen-species\">reactive molecules<\/a> that then lead to numerous malfunctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large doses of vitamin C may provide our lungs with a degree of protection from the harmful effects of fine particles in the air. Referred to as PM2.5, in reference to their micrometer-wide particle size, these pollutants have been linked to issues such as asthma and lung cancer. Researchers led by a team from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}