VITAMIN C

 ARE YOU OR HAVE YOU BEEN UNDER STRESS & FEEL AS THOUGH YOU ARE FALLING APART?

 If your get up and go has got up and gone then this generally is a strong indication that you need a serious dose of Vitamin C

 Vitamin C is the cementing substance that joins the body cells one to the other.

 Vitamin C carries hydrogen around the body, fuelling it and helping with the proper absorption of Iron, that mineral so vital for oxidising or “burning off waste”

 If your cells are not held strongly bonded, you quite literally may fall apart .This Vitamin will help you bounce back from physical or emotional trauma.

 Along with Vitamin B12 it assists in repairing renewing and strengthening cells when there has been major tissue damage.

 Vitamin C has been called the stress vitamin. It follows that we need more of it now than we did generations ago. Its greatest concentration is stored in the adrenal gland, which controls kidney function as well as our “fight back” mechanism in disease and vitality in health. Vitamin C will help you to acquire that Vital, alive look that is so rare in our busy cities

 EXCESSIVE CONSUMPTION OF SIMPLE SUGARS (e.g. Fructose, Glucose, Sucrose) may interfere with the transport of Vitamin C around the body - due to Simple Sugars sharing the same transport system within the body as Vitamin C.Generally this urge to sweeten your life with sugars is your body craving Vitamin C. Most of Vitamin C sources are naturally sweet. So listen to your body calling out for a pick up – It’s screaming out Vitamin C to you. COOOOO EEE

 ADDICTIONS – Vitamin C has a huge role to play here. Generally we reach for a cigarette or a drink or carbohydrates when we are starting to fall a little flat and lack energy.

 ARE YOU ABOUT TO HAVE AN OPERATION? Taken several weeks before an operation tissues will be stronger and less subject to the shocks of anaesthetics and drugs and then post operative. Vitamin C maintains collagen, helps to heal wounds, scar tissue and fractures

 CORTISONE can completely block your vitamin C absorption, so can sulpha drugs and so can antibiotics. Vitamin C while taking these medications would contribute considerably to improved wellbeing Pharmaceutical Antibiotics may reduce the body's ability to absorb Vitamin C and Sulphur based Pharmaceutical Antibiotics increase the excretion of Vitamin C from the body by 200 - 300%: references

PHARMACEUTICAL DRUGS such as Tetracycline, Anticoagulants, Anticonvulsants, Antidepressants and Anti-Histaminesmay destroy Vitamin C. Aspirin, Barbiturates, Omeprazole may accelerate the depletion of the body's Vitamin C reserves. Pharmaceutical Steroids (including the Contraceptive Pill) may destroy Vitamin C.

SERUM CHOLESTEROL & TRIGLYCERIDE levels can be reduced significantly by Vitamin C Supplementation. Vitamin C helps in the transformation of Cholesterol to bile acids which can then be more easily excreted by the body.

Vitamin A is usually thought of in connection to EYESIGHT & VISION however Vitamin C has a strong structural role in benefiting improved eyesight.There is little or no Vitamin C to be found in an unhealthy eye. The eyes of those suffering from CATARACTS have none. Vitamin C has been used therapeutically to treat cataracts. (Please don’t try to self treat – seek the advice of a practitioner)

 SMOKING not only tears your throat and bronchial tree and lungs to pieces but the resulting lack of Vitamin C makes it difficult to repair any damaged areas. Smokers would need at least two oranges per cigarette. You would need a crate a day if oranges were your only Vitamin C source and you are a heavy smoker.

 ALCHOHOL (ethanol) may destroy Vitamin C

 DO YOU HAVE SPONGY BLEEDING GUMS? Vitamin C is needed here – another of Vitamin C’s jobs is to harden the dentine of our teeth. Beware though that massive doses osynthetic Vitamin C can contribute to the breakdown of tooth enamel.

 Vitamin C sourced from Rosehips or from other natural sources, in it’s natural form can only help – not harm no matter how much is taken.Although not scientifically proven , foodstuffs containing natural, balanced compounds do not contribute to body unbalance , while synthetic compounds have been found to do so.

 FLUORIDATED WATER can inhibit the assimilation of Vitamin C. Natural fluorides in water are fine however in it’s synthetic form it can inhibit the function of Vitamin C – giving the opposite effect of it’s intention and contributing to the breakdown rather than strengthening of enamel. An increased intake of Vitamin C detoxifies the bloodstream and carries fluorides out of the system in the urine.

DO YOU HAVE TINY CAPILLARY ARTERIES AND VEINS VISIBLE ON THE SURFACE OF THE SKIN?These are reddened and discoloured because of the fragility of the blood vessel walls, a strong indication that you are lacking Vitamin C.

 For BRUISING: Take Vitamin C internally and apply externally.(Rosehip oil)