In this video I’m going to show you how easy it is to make your own vitamin C supplement at home from Orange peels!
I’ll also jabber about the amazing health benefits of orange peels beyond vitamin C & in general just be a real human 😊
Hey folks how’s it going today we’re going to do something pretty cool I think you’ll get a kick out of it at least you’ll learn something for sure we are going to make our own vitamin C supplement out of this huge hoarded bowl of orange peels that’s right we’re going
To be here for hours grinding this all down no no but you do want to start saving your orange peels M are organic I mean you can use conventional if you want be aware there will be pesticides on them but I I’ve just been naturally drying like you you air dry these don’t
Use heat because you’ll destroy the vitamin C content in there but once you have a bunch of orange peels saved up which oranges are expensive so this is a way to get even more nutrition out of the currently vastly overpriced food that we’re all facing right um okay so
You’ve got your orange peels they’re dried out we’re not going to do this whole B let’s work with 100 gr did you know that to every 100 G grams wor of orange peels you get 110 millgram of vitamin C that’s a lot there’s more vitamin C content in the
Orange peels than the oranges themselves there’s also more flavonoids and more phenols and more copper and more various B vitamins there’s more vitamin A there’s more vitamin A little bit of vitamin D although I’d argue that vitamin E for sure cuz there’s nice oily compounds in here right and that is just
Amazing and I see that there’s a sticker on one of them still I always try to take them off before I throw it you know peel it but sometimes you forget but anyhow so this is an amazing way that we can reclaim some nutrition and save a little bit of
Money and know that we are getting bioavailable vitamin C okay so you’re going to need your dried orange peels coffee grinder you could probably try a food processor something like that something that has the capacity to grind it down into small amounts but I really like using a coffee grinder it just I
Feel like it works better it’s meant to be a really confined space I try to avoid getting like the tiny little stem pieces in there you know if that came off on the peel because they don’t really grind down very well um but beyond the vitamin C content it’s
Important to know like you need Vitamin C alongside of copper which is why if you take like a lot of ab sorbic acid it’s not that AB sorbic acid is inherently bad it’s that your body has to Rob Copper from other places of your body to be able to process the vitamin C
Right because vitamin C I want you to think of it like an egg you have an egg the outer white of the egg in the Shell is your vitamin C the inner yellow core is copper because in nature vitamin C always comes with copper uh like on like
A molecular level right so when you take synthetic man-made vitamin C what happens is it’s it’s Hollow it’s like you have an egg with no yolk in it and so your body has to steal Copper from other parts of your body right and vitamin um C is also really important
For things like helping you convert retinol or convert betacarotene into retinol which is vitamin A for fancy talk um vitamin is important for gum health skin Health mental health immune Health there’s not a Single part in your body that does not require large amounts of vitamin C to
Function and here’s the thing vitamin C is water soluble so you can take vitamin C in the morning or eat in the orange in the morning within 2 hours your body has already absorbed everything it’s going to from that and you piss out the excess right and even if you needed more it
Still pees it out and so it’s not something that builds up in you it I mean it doesn’t really you can become like having scurvy like a p it within like the better part of like I think it’s like a week to two weeks you can start showing subclinical SK signs of
Scurvy right which is like bleeding gums exhaustion thyroid issues eventually wounds start opening up things heal slowly bone pain all kinds of stuff right so we need far more vitamin C than we realize especially swear to God I know how to use it there we go especially because things like mold
Exposure osure stress chemical exposure subpar soil quality all that kind of stuff gut health issues genetic issues can all reduce the vitamin C levels in your body and greatly increase how much vitamin C you need all right let’s let’s turn this into a powder together See smells so strong you want your house to smell like oranges grind up some orange pels I’m telling you woo see now we’ve still got a way to go right now you can keep grinding this you can keep turning it into a really fine powder but
I know nobody wants to sit here for like an hour and hear me do that it doesn’t actually take that long so what I’m gonna do instead is take a strainer who you know just a mesh Si do a little bit of a dance right now what you can do is then put this back in there blend it up again you know and that makes it a little easier cuz sometimes I feel like the powder itself can get it in the way of grinding if that makes sense right
So woo that smells so strong look at that beautiful color look at that let me see how close I can get isn’t that beautiful now you’ve got some options you can add this to your cooking but do know it will deplete a lot of the vitamin C Properties it will still have
All the copper and things intact you can add this to your smoothies there is the white pith on this right you know the stuff that you peel off your oranges cuz it’s kind of bitter um so it can make things taste a little bitter but if you were making like a strong flavored
Smoothie like raspberry or something like that you probably wouldn’t taste it added or it would just taste pleasantly like orange you can also turn it into capsules which is what I’m going to do all right so I can’t link this capsule machine in my like little Amazon affiliate thing because
Amazon doesn’t let you buy capsule machines but this is available in most health food stores you can also get it from this capsule connection.com go ahead and screenshot it right they don’t they don’t like pay me money to say any of this I just like it I have
Actually I have um a commercial capsule machine in my Apothecary but it’s way too big and clunky to pull out for this and when I need to make little amounts so I like this little capsule machine and so I’m just going to put some of my Vitamin C powder on here probably didn’t
Need that much and then I’m just going to there we go I’m just going to spread it out until it starts falling into the capsules kind of just go back and forth in a line right and then you can push it off to the side and it comes
With put too much on there for sure it comes with a little compressor that’s super handy like this right here lets me put it in there and push down so I have more space in my capsules right so I can grab a little bit more of this now I
Won’t say that taking one of these capsules every day would necessarily meet your vitamin C requirements that’s because you know every body is different what you’re going through is different than what I’m going through but I do know that if you incorporate these capsules or this powder or dried orange
Peels into your diet that you will be getting more flavonoids that you will be getting more bioavailable vitamin C than if you were taking a supplement and that it might be just a good way to um just kind of increase the amount that you’re getting in general to Aid in your health
Now um one thing that’s really interesting too much on here is that um there are these companies that have been making um orange peel pectin for Digestive Health like IBS and stuff and there’s no reason that you really need to do that because the pectin is in
These capsules like you can go and you can get this manmade completely like hyper like stripped down you know they’re finding a way to make money off of product waste which is amazing but also you could just save your orange pills and do it yourself and if you
Really wanted to you could boil the pectin out of your out of your orange peels and so now I take the top part I already put the capsules in this cuz I didn’t want to make everybody watch me put the capsules in there cuz it would
Take forever um oh always fall out with this one now I got to find where they came out of they came out of right there and you came out of right there okay back in they go and you just push down there’s like a little spring to it
Right I bet not all of them succeeded but probably most of them did some of them did some of them are stuck so now I can take this little jar push out this oh doing it live people doing Al but look at that right now I’ve got vitamin C
Flavonoids copper all kinds of Rich Health bringing ingredients from my orange peels that would have got maybe composted or thrown away or given to the chickens and we all know they never really eat them right and so isn’t that amazing and what’s funny is I didn’t
Even end up processing it all look at how much is left in there there I could make probably a month’s worth if I was taking one or two a day I could probably make a month’s worth of cap capsules other words I know just out of 100 gram of
Orange peels and I know that in this jar when I’m done putting it all together I will have 110 milligrams of Vitamin C now when you think about it not being that much right well how about the fact that when we eat nonbioavailable vitamin C our body doesn’t really utilize it and there
Have been studies that show well first of all if you take too much vitamin C you are going to your brains out that just happens it’s a symptom because your body can only use so much and when there’s too much it pushes it all out some people find their tolerance dose
And back down or they get accustomed to it but there’s also studies that show when people take really big amounts of vitamin C compared to small daily amounts of vitamin C you might be taking a whole lot in but your blood serum levels are actually lower when you’re
Taking big amounts versus higher when you’re taking smaller amounts and I really think that comes down to the fact that when you take a large amount of anything whether it’s a vitamin or an herb or whatever your body is so Pro like focused on processing out the
Excess that it doesn’t get a real chance to utilize what you’re actually giving it right and so as a person who discovered I had scurby because I’m cool like a pirate and I was shocked because I eat a lot of vitamin C rich foods turns out it
Was like a genetic thing for me all kinds of stuff like that um but I was shocked to find that I you know I was feeling better from small amounts of vitamin C than I was from large amounts right um also did you know that vitamin C is crucial for uptaking iron right
Some people however you might have the Celtic Gene some people have problem with excess iron now if you have a lot of iron in your body and no matter what you do your iron is high you should get tested for the Celtic Gene um just what they call it you know but
Also because vitamin C is pushing iron into your cells into your into your bloodstream and all that type of stuff if you take a bunch of vitamin C it’ll make your iron situation worse so that’s something to think about you know and it’s something that I looked into when I
Discovered I was vitamin C deficiency I’m like why isn’t my body absorbing this but I don’t think that’s the case because my iron levels are okay and it’s been a whole thing but I think that vitamin C is underutilized I think that you are smart enough to begin utilizing
Her more I think you can take some orange peels that you might have laying around anyways if you’re eating oranges and you can dry them out to make things like capsules but we can also do things like use this for tea Blends you can also put
It in your bathtub you can simmer it to make your house smell good you can use these orange peels in so many ways for your home and your health and just to enrich your life and you already spent money on the orange anyway you might as
Well save this big old amount of orange peels and see what you can do with them because I genuinely believe with all of my heart that are smart enough and capable of doing this so if you like my random videos where I’m showing you how I grind up things
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