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Vitamin C
Most animals make their own Vitamin C (ASCORBIC ACID), here’s a few examples of animals that can’t. Certain primates, monkeys, apes, guinea pigs, bats, capybaras (a giant rat) and of course humans. All of theses animals can’t make their own Vitamin C. So where do we get our Vitamin C from? And what happens if you are Vitamin C deficient? Also what is the optimal level dose of Vitamin C?
A Brief History of Vitamin C – The Age of Scurvy
It is thought that between the time of Columbus’s first voyage to the new world. And the invention of steamships in the 19th century. More than 2 million sailors died of scurvy. More died of vitamin deficiency than, battles, storms and all other diseases combined. They realised that if sailors ate citrus fruit they would not get scurvy. But they still didn’t know why it worked.
The risk of developing scurvy was documented as far back as Hippocrates. Even the Egyptians recorded scurvy symptoms. In fact, the knowledge that consuming vitamin-rich foods was beneficial has been discovered and forgotten then rediscovered many times. However, it wasn’t until the 1930’s that Vitamin C was actually discovered. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi a Hungarian biochemist was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1937 for the discovery. Dr. Fred R Klenner then took vitamin c treatment to the next level. In the 1940’s he used high dose Vitamin C intake via intravenous and injections. His well-documented studies show that high dose Vitamin C will reduce oxidative stress reduces the risk of heart disease slow down age-related macular degeneration.
Klenner’s research and treatments were reversing polio and pneumonia among others. Another 20th-century Vitamin C hero was Prof Linus Pauling who also won a Nobel Prize. But his research into Vitamin C was often ridiculed by mainstream medicine.
There are many Vitamin C pioneers here’s a non-definitive list.
Dr. Fred R Klenner
Prof. Linus Pauling
Dr. Robert Cathcart
Dr. Hugh Riordan
Dr. Thomas Levy
Dr. Ron Hunninghake
10 Vitamin C Deficiency Symptoms
Poor Immunity
Persistent Iron Deficiency Anemia
Fatigue and Poor Mood
Unexplained Weight Gain
Chronic Inflammation and Oxidative Stress
Bleeding Gums and Tooth Loss
Weak Bones
Painful, Swollen Joints
Slowly Healing Wounds and Easy Bruising
Dry, Damaged Skin and Rough, Bumpy Skin
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.’
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