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Vitamin C is an Essential Nutrient for Good Health & Wellness
Without the proper nutrition in today’s hurried lifestyle you may be lacking one of the most important vitamins; Vitamin C.
This amazing vitamin is one of the most well-known vitamins. The question is do you really know what it is and what it does for your body?
This vitamin is one of the most important essential nutrients for good health and wellness. Your body is unable to manufacture vitamin C, so you should ensure that you get enough from the foods you eat or by adding nutritional supplements to your diet.
Vitamin C has many different functions in the body, including:
Required for creation of collagen – Essential for your body to create collagen, a protein your body uses to create healthy skin, heal scar tissue, rebuild ligaments, tendons, and blood vessels.
Antioxidant Activity – A powerful antioxidant, meaning that it protects your cells from oxidation by free radicals. The damage caused by free radicals has been linked to disease and aging. Vitamin C, as an antioxidant, can help counteract free radicals.
Deficiencies – If your body lacks this important healing vitamin, you can develop conditions such as bleeding and bruising easily, hair and tooth loss, joint pain and swelling, decreased wound-healing rate, anemia; decreased ability to ward off infection, and in severe cases, scurvy. Scurvy is the most famous of the effects of a lack of vitamin C, due to the effect that scurvy had on the navies of times past.
It took centuries before anyone realized that this devastating disease was from the lack of nutritious foods that contained vitamin C. Of course, we’ve all heard the story of Captain Cook and others who beat scurvy with limes, hence why British sailors are call limies!
Sources – Vitamin C is easily available from many different sources. Especially good sources are citrus fruits, Australian bush plum, strawberries, tomatoes, goji berries, broccoli, and more. There are also some very good dietary supplements that you can add to your daily diet. The C Vitamin is a very important and healthy nutritional component.
Be sure that your body gets enough of it! If you don’t feel you are getting enough of this vitamin, our Premium Phytoceramides provides 100% of vitamin C as well as our Multi-Well Multivitamin.
Our supplement store can help you get more of this very important vitamin.
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