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so let’s talk about how to determine a vitamin C deficiency a major

vitamin C deficiency like a subclinical scurvy type situation just from looking

at the tongue so the name of this would be scorbutic tongue so you have a

combination of glossitis which is a condition where the tongue is inflamed

kind of shiny sometimes red with red blotches on the side through here and

that’s basically a very tiny micro hemorrhaging of the blood vessels and

you can also see that in other parts of the body like the lower legs we lose

these red purple spots and the reason for that is vitamin C is intimately

involved in making collagen and it’s involved in connective tissue so the

inside of your vascular system is all connective tissue so if you don’t have

enough vitamin C to make that that network everything falls apart and you

start getting little areas of bruising and bleeding and little red spots and

blotches and it can happen on the tongue anywhere in the body and so there’s

other vitamin C deficiencies as well but realize a vitamin C deficiency starts

off very very gradual and the more deficient you are the more symptoms

you’re going to have you don’t want to necessarily wait until you have all of

these symptoms to do something about it but it does usually take about a month

of not consuming vitamin C to have this show up and there’s other things too

that can create a deficiency by preventing the absorption of vitamin C

so you may be consuming vitamin C or even taking it as a supplement but if

you’re consuming this thing called sugar or you have high levels of sugar in your

bloodstream because you’re diabetic that can block your vitamin C levels why

because the chemistry of vitamin C is very similar to sugar so if you consume

them at the same time the sugars going to go in and the vitamin C will not so

if you’re going to consume sugar consume it not when you’re taking the vitamin C

at a different time period and I’m being very sarcastic because you don’t want to

consume any sugar at all there are many other symptoms of a vitamin C deficiency

one would be fatigued and that’s probably gonna be the first one you

experience you have this lethargy you’re weak you’re tired you may develop sore

arms or legs you might brush your teeth and notice

there’s blood on there bleeding gums why because the connective tissue in our

collagen around the vascular part of your gums also you can experience bone

pain you can also see this with a vitamin D deficiency bruising like we

just talked about the vascular system and then there were these red and purple

spots a lot of times you’ll see them in the lower legs especially in a diabetic

I wonder why because sugar competes for vitamin C and they have high levels of

sugar also because vitamin C is necessary to strengthen collagen tendons

ligaments you may find that your teeth are loose here’s some good foods that

have higher levels of vitamin C citrus like lemon juice but it has to be raw

because heat destroys it peppers red peppers green peppers sauerkraut

probably has the most vitamin C if you have a good sauerkraut you’re talking

like 700 milligrams of vitamin C per cup I mean our RDA is for vitamin C it’s

about 90 so you’re consuming a tremendous amount of vitamin C when you

do sauerkraut the leafy greens salads Brussels sprouts broccoli all have

vitamin C parsley is loaded with vitamin C and so is cabbage which well that’s

how you make the sauerkraut right so there you have it if you want more

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