Everything You Need to Know About Vitamin C

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A lot of people have taken vitamin C at some stage in their life, but how much do you really know about ths commonly used vitamin.

Well to start with there is a good chance that the vitamin C you may have taken, was in the form of synthetic ascorbic acid which is a low-cost, manufactured mimic of food-state vitamin C. Non food-state ascorbic acid is made via a chemical laboratory process and therefore doesn't contain the co-factors and bio-markers that food-state vitamin C  does. It is far better to take a natural food-state vitamin C  because it has no chemical tag-alongs, and because of its bio-markers and co-factors, the body naturally recognises, assimilates and utilises the nutrient more readily.

A Few Facts About Vitamin C

• Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin
• The human body cannot synthesise its own vitamin C therefore it must be acquired from the diet
• Only very small amounts of vitamin C are stored in the body therefore it is necessary to ingest vitamin C on a regular basis for good health
• Vitamin C is an unstable vitamin that is sensitive to heat and light, and is easily lost during cooking of foods, making it more readily available in raw foods
• Vitamin C is almost non-existent in animal foods. The highest food sources of vitamin C are fruits and vegetables
• Vitamin C is an important co-factor for transformation and utilisation of many of the other vitamins
• Vitamin C plays a role in hundreds of metabolic processes in the body

• Alcohol consumption
• Smoking
• Stress
• Viruses
• Infections
• Heavy metal contamination
• Taking of pharmaceutical medications
• Exposure to toxins

• Vitamin C promotes collagen production which maintains healthy skin and blood vessels, and effective wound healing
• Vitamin C is important for good adrenal health
• Vitamin C promotes healthy gums
• Vitamin C improves immunity
• Vitamin C is a good anti-oxidant i.e it assists in "mopping up" free-radicals in the body that cause tissue damage
• Vitamin C aids detoxification
• Vitamin C aids the metabolism and conversion of other nutrients, such as tryptophan and tyrosine, into "feel good" neurotransmitters that are important for mental and emotional well-being
• Vitamin C is good for cardiovascular health issues such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and atherosclerosis
• Vitamin C may assist in relieving constipation. Higher dosages of vitamin C can cause the stools to become loose

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