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The Linus Pauling Institute’s Alexander Michels, Ph.D., shares the essentials on vitamin C, including evidence, myths, recommendations, and limitations.
So What does Vitamin C Actually Do?
There is water soluble and fat-soluble vitamins and minerals. Water soluble are use and lose nutrients what we don’t use are lost. As well as Vitamin C all the B Vitamins are water soluble as well. Fat soluble vitamins are stored longer and they are absorbed into the intestine. Vitamins A D E and K are fat soluble. Ascorbyl Palmitate is a fat-soluble variant of Vitamin C. But our main focus is on Ascorbic Acid which is water soluble. We require a constant supply of Vitamin C in our diets and from Vitamin C supplementation. And anyone with Lyme disease, or illnesses that reduce your immune system require higher levels of Vitamin C.
Why I hear you ask conventional guidelines say an adult aged 19-64 only needs 40 mg of Vitamin C per day to ward off illnesses like scurvy.
As I mentioned before, humans can’t make Vitamin C. We get our daily Vitamin C from our diet or Vitamin C supplements. No argument from mainstream medicine on that one 100% fact. This is due to a mutation or failure in the GULO (gluonolactone oxidase) gene. The failure of this gene means we can’t synthesize or store it for long periods.
What Vitamin C does is give our immune system a boost, our immune system then eliminates infections. Following is an excerpt from an interview by Dr Thomas Levy, he’s an American cardiologist and a Vitamin C expert among other things and he’ll explain the process better than I ever could;
Dr. Levy: ‘Well, that’s the basic question, and the answer is amazingly straightforward. Biology and biochemistry can be so complicated sometimes. And when you start to see the big picture, you can see that there are very significant common denominators to the way molecules interact inside the body, not only of human beings, but of all animals. And the basic thing about vitamin C is that it is what’s called an antioxidant. An antioxidant donates or gives up its electrons. A toxin on the other hand or any infection or anything that causes a medical symptom in the body occurs because there’s increase oxidative stress, which means there’s increased molecules that have had their electrons taken away—they’re oxidized. Vitamin C can give those electrons back, quell or hold down the level of oxidation, oxidative stress, and relieve symptoms.’
