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The past three years have seen a growing number of spas, IV lounges and clinics in the UK offering intravenous and intramuscular injections of vitamins
In a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in 11 smokers and 13 nonsmokers given -tocopherol and -tocopherol that was labeled with deuterium, supplementation with vitamin C reduced the rate of vitamin E loss in plasma, likely by regenerating tocopheryl radicals back to nonoxidized forms (22)
Importantly, crucial fatigue, exercise intolerance and myalgia are not specific of ME/CFS, but are shared by patients suffering from primary mitochondrial diseases with mutations in either nuclear or mitochondrial DNA (188)
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some formulations also include antioxidants