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i want to talk about some interesting

things related to

vitamin c

so the first question is

is ascorbic acid

vitamin c well according to the

dictionary it is but there’s an

interesting change in the dictionary

apparently in the older dictionaries

which i have quite a few different

dictionaries

the definition of vitamin c is

non-ascorbic acid that was actually

updated later in the dictionaries so if

you’re reading a recent edition of a

dictionary you’re going to find that

vitamin c is ascorbic acid but is it

really does the type of ascorbic acid

sold in vitamins nowadays

is that

very similar to the vitamin c that is in

nature well what you need to know is

this 80 of all the ascorbic acids sold

in the world comes from china and the

rest of it is manufactured by

mainly two other chemical companies and

they make it from glucose from sugar and

other chemicals sometimes they’ll use

sulfuric acid

and the sugar usually comes from corn so

is it possible that this manufactured

chemical

can be the same as the vitamin c you

would get in nature in my opinion it is

not the same it’s actually very

different now would i personally ever

take a synthetic ascorbic acid in a

certain dosage well maybe for a detox

cleanse

but definitely not as a routine thing

but this video is about increasing your

awareness

on the type of vitamin c that you’re

probably might be taking and just so you

have all the data because when someone

tells you that there’s no difference

between synthetic ascorbic acid and

vitamin c they’re both the same thing

well actually that’s not 100 true i’m

going to put this research right down

below you can check it out

some real interesting data on vitamin c

as far as the research and the

conclusion of a lot of the randomized

controlled trials is that there is

little to no benefit from taking high

doses of ascorbic acid there’s some

mixed results with

lessening the side effects from cancer

but there is a lot of misinterpretation

and again i’m going to put that data

down below you should check it out so

the research on colds

cancer

heart benefits mortality sports

performance it’s a very very minimal if

zero benefit now i think regarding colds

the reason why it may help you is

because ascorbic acid is

acidic and i do know that taking an acid

tends to

put the phagocytes in high gear it makes

them work faster and the phagocytes are

part of the immune system that help

tends to clean up everything but you can

do the same thing with apple cider

vinegar why would you need to take

ascorbic acid so number one little to no

benefit

number two most the vitamin c sold out

there is fake and i’m talking about

synthetic of just one part of the

vitamin c complex that comes if we

compare this to nature if we look in

nature vitamin c comes in a complex with

different parts you have the antioxidant

part which is the ascorbic acid you have

you have other parts like about

flavonoids you have

the j factor which helps with oxygen you

have you have vitamin k which is part of

that complex which helps decrease

bleeding and you also have copper in a

certain enzyme form because most vitamin

complexes come with a mineral but the

point is that in nature you have many

many other

parts of the vitamin c complex not to

mention

all the phytonutrients and

the plant-based chemicals that we

haven’t even discovered yet as well

we’re constantly discovering new

phytonutrients that come with different

vitamins and minerals so if you were to

look at maybe the top 10

sold vitamin c supplements on amazon and

look in the back of the label you’re

going to notice that

they all say ascorbic acid but they

might add a pinch of rose hips you know

but

they’re based on ascorbic acid in large

quantities either 500 milligrams to a

thousand or two thousand milligrams per

serving size now a normal rda would be

like something like 70 or 80

milligrams okay

but you’re getting 500 to over a

thousand milligrams of the synthetic

version of a part of the whole vitamin c

complex now this type of vitamin c is

very very inexpensive it’s very very

cheap and this is why when you buy

synthetic vitamin c it’s going to be

like might be five

seven ten dollars for a whole bottle

well that’s because the ingredients so

when you get a vitamin it’s very very

important to read the label

to make sure that it’s not synthetic now

of course i’m not biased of my vitamin c

but i wanted to point out

two things number one does it come from

real food is it a vitamin complex and

does it actually list the type of food

that’s on there does it come from

blueberries acerola berry strawberry etc

and then what form does it come in is it

freeze dried is it organic or is it just

conventional these are all important

factors because the thing about vitamin

c is that

it’s destroyed with heat

and light and so this is why when you

drink orange juice that’s been

pasteurized cooked

you’re getting very little vitamin c

unless they add the ascorbic acid back

in it as a preservative the best type of

vitamin c that you can get is from food

or food based vitamins and the food that

has the highest vitamin c are going to

be leafy greens it could be in the

berries it can also be in lemons as well

as their peel but you can also get

vitamin c from organ meats

liver

kidney

adrenal glands

even brain but the problem is a lot of

people don’t like organ meats but then

again a lot of people don’t like

vegetables too

so there’s a couple foods that are

really really high in vitamin c peppers

sauerkraut but if you’re gonna buy a

very cheap vitamin c supplement realize

what you’re really getting is you’re

just getting plain ascorbic acid which

is made chemically from corn and

sulfuric acid now another point i want

to bring up about vitamin c is that

it doesn’t really get absorbed that well

if you’re consuming sugar at the same

time so if your vitamin c is a trouble

and it has sugar in it like fructose or

glucose or high fructose corn syrup or

maltodextrin

which by the way

many times the way that they uh dry this

ascorbic acid out in the chemical

companies

is they use a spray agent called

maltodextrin so we’re adding this

ascorbic acid with maltodextrin which is

a sugar and that’s going to impair the

absorption of vitamin c now why

well it’s because the chemistry of

vitamin c is very very similar to the

chemistry of glucose and so if the body

has a chance

it’s always going to go after the

glucose first before the vitamin c so if

you’re taking some refined carbs or

sugar at the same time you’re taking

vitamin c you’re not going to absorb it

and see now the next point i want to

bring up is if someone’s using a mega

dose of ascorbic acid and they’re using

it as an antioxidant

there’s some interesting data that

this so-called antioxidant turns into a

pro-oxidant it creates more oxidation

and that really has to do with

antioxidants in nature always come as a

network

not as an individual antioxidant so as

soon as this antioxidant donates its

electron

now it becomes unstable it becomes a

free radical but scorpic acid a lot of

times will give you diarrhea bloating

and it can even act as a pro-oxidant not

as an antioxidant so in summary it’s

best to get your vitamin c from actual

food or food-based vitamins

not the synthetic version

of a

part of the vitamin c complex

unless you’re doing maybe a short-term

cleanse but you don’t want to take it on

a long-term basis now if you haven’t

seen my video on what vitamin c actually

does

i put it up right here check it out