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there are roughly about seven ways to

know if you are low in vitamin c okay

but i first want to cover some

confusions about vitamin c

the first one is between synthetic

vitamin c and natural vitamin c if you

look this up

you’ll you’ll be told that they’re the

same there’s no difference between

synthetic vitamin c

and natural vitamin c

chemically they’re the exact identical

molecules

well these studies if you actually read

them

mainly talk about

absorption rate okay it’s absorbed the

same well they might be the same but in

nature they’re very very different in

fact ascorbic acid which is now called

vitamin c

really is just one little piece

of the vitamin c complex in nature you

never see just plain ascorbic acid but

when you see the studies that show

there’s no difference between synthetic

versus natural

they’re really only talking about

absorption rate okay they’re not talking

about if vitamin c created an effect in

the body they’re mainly talking about

well it absorbs at the same rate in the

same amount

but i want to know will it actually fix

my problem right well even the gentleman

who discovered vitamin c okay back i

think it was 1939

said that you can’t cure scurvy okay

with isolated ascorbic

acid okay you can’t cure scurvy scurvy

is a severe vitamin c

deficiency and i’m not saying that

there’s no benefits from synthetic

vitamin c i just want to let you know

there’s a huge difference between

synthetic

versus what you see in nature

that is part of the vitamin c

complex

and most of the synthetic vitamin c that

is sold out there is made by china and

they make it from sulfuric acid in corn

starch okay and you’re going to tell me

that’s the same thing as what they have

in nature well

i don’t think so

in nature vitamin c comes as a complex

you have ascorbic acid as one part you

also have vitamin p which is the

bioflavonoids part

and

p stands for permeability because it’s

related to vascular permeability and

this is why if you’re deficient you tend

to have more bleeding because there’s

more leaking through your capillaries

okay and then you also have vitamin k as

part of the vitamin c complex too so

that’s included in a lot of functions

and the j factor has to do with

increasing oxygen in the lung and you

also have copper as a trace mineral

within the vitamin c complex in an

enzyme form called tyrosinase which is

involved in rebuilding

collagen okay in connective tissue so

this is why vitamin c is very very

important in

collagen formation connective tissue

joint health and a lot of vitamin c is

stored in the adrenal glands okay and

your white blood cells also need vitamin

c as part of the immune system

when you take vitamin c

the duration

of your cold can be a little bit less

but your immune system needs vitamin c

vitamin c is good for connective tissue

and also supporting the

walls of the capillaries to make sure

they don’t leak vitamin c is a very

powerful antioxidant in one study which

i’m going to put down below they tested

in a lab okay so they took vitamin c and

they wanted to see if it was a really

good antioxidant and they found it

actually was a pro-oxidant okay in this

study well what does that mean well very

simply if you envision a free radical

okay which is

it’s kind of an unpaired electron let’s

say you took this little plate that’s

spinning on my my finger and you had two

different weights on either side to

balance it out as it spins right

and then you took one of these these

weights off you can compare that to a

free radical because it’s an unpaired

electron so we have uh something that’s

not going to balance

and since this thing is spinning you can

have a lot of damage with this

unstable radical molecule an antioxidant

comes in and donates

that missing electron so now it can be

balanced and spin and be more stable but

if you’re going to take uh ascorbic acid

okay or any synthetic antioxidant and

what’s going to happen it’s going to

donate its electron and then it itself

is going to be unpaired it becomes a

free radical in nature and in your body

you always have networks of antioxidants

so when one donates electron it can then

receive another electron from another

antioxidant and they can share their

electrons

in fact vitamin c helps to regenerate

vitamin e with this very same mechanism

because let’s say for example you have a

lot of

problems in your arteries and vitamin e

is donating the electrons and you also

took vitamin c vitamin c can help

recharge the vitamin e so it can then

start donating more of these electrons

to help with this antioxidant effect

all right what are the ways that you can

determine if you’re low in vitamin c

well number one the big one is bleeding

gums right if you brush your teeth and

it’s these red little streaks on your

toothbrush and your bleeding and your

gums chances are you’re low in vitamin c

number two you might have these small

little red and purple

dots on your skin

sometimes you see them in the lower leg

sometimes they can be anywhere on the

body okay

but this is an indication of low vitamin

c

another one number three is bruising now

remember i talked about this k1 right

here in the vitamin c complex well

vitamin k helps to prevent bleeding okay

so it’s kind of coagulation so it’s

going to help you

prevent

this excessive bleeding when you injure

yourself but if you have a vitamin c

deficiency without any injury

no

no reason for bruising and you get a

bruise you might want to look at a

vitamin c deficiency

next one is dry rough scaly skin okay

that can be a vitamin c

deficiency and as a side note the

chemical

structure vitamin c is very similar to

glucose okay and so if you’re consuming

sugar at the same time you’re consuming

vitamin c guess what’s going to take

priority the glucose

this is why

kids adults who consume a lot of sugar

are usually always low in vitamin c also

if you’re a smoker you’re going to be

deficient in vitamin c because the need

for vitamin c goes way up

okay chicken skin like maybe in the back

of the arms you see these little little

uh bumps that you have okay and they’re

slightly red or it could be on the legs

or your thighs

that could be a vitamin c deficiency it

could also be an omega-3 fatty acid

deficiency as well

nose bleeds are a symptom of low vitamin

c okay

and then we have dry splitting hair

which is another indication that you are

low in vitamin c now the best way to get

vitamin c is from food or food

concentrates from lemon or lemon juice

the problem with lemon juice is that

it’s heated and heat destroys vitamin

c so if you’re going to use lemon juice

to get your vitamin c make sure you get

it from actual lemons that you juice or

blend the whole lemon like i do in the

morning with a glass of water and a

teaspoon of my electrolyte powder it

tastes great but you can get vitamin c

from peppers any type of peppers green

peppers red peppers

vitamin c is in cabbage

vitamin c is in the berries

but the highest vitamin c is in

sauerkraut okay sauerkraut one cup of

sauerkraut could give you up to like 10

times the vitamin c that your body

requires each day now since vitamin c is

an interesting topic

you should probably watch my other video

i did on vitamin c

right here

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