Besides the B vitamins, vitamin C is one of the most recognized and used of all vitamins on the market. The awareness of this critical element’s role in the protection of our immune system goes without comment. The sale and use of vitamin C increases markedly during the cold and flu months in particular.
The government defines vitamin C as ascorbic acid and the derivatives of ascorbic acid after being alkalinized into mineral compounds like calcium ascorbate. Because of this, all vitamin C on the market is rated according to the amount of ascorbic acid or ascorbate it contains.
Ascorbic acid is the antioxidant portion of vitamin C and responsible for protecting, or preserving the active and nutritional components of vitamin C. It’s what the egg shell is to the egg. I’m not into egg shell omelets!
Unfortunately, the co-factors required for optimum utilization of vitamin C are all too often left out. These co-factors include such things as what’s referred to as “P” complexes. These include the bioflavonoids and rutin. These are critical for the maintenance and integrity of blood vessels. If your blood vessels break and you bleed easily, or you bruise or have bleeding gums, it’s quite possible you’re lacking this in your system, and no amount of ascorbic acid will correct this.
Vitamin K is another critical component of vitamin C. It’s responsible for promoting production of prothrombin. Without it, clot formation becomes defective, and, combined with low rutin levels, there’s a greater potential of bleeding and poor repair of damaged tissue. Vitamin K is used in the formation of protein. This protein is delivered to the site of injury to allow for repair.
Vitamin “J” is one which is rarely ever talked about. This is a factor which increases the oxygen carrying capacity of your red blood cells. With a cold, you need more oxygen to get to your cells to oxidize and carry away toxins along with the carbon dioxide. Straight ascorbic acid is not equipped to accomplish this by itself.
Naturally occurring vitamin C contains enzymes like the copper bound tyrosinase, which facilitates our stress response as an adrenal activator. In today’s world, this one element is probably the most important, and foods highest in this produce the best vitamin C responses. Most commercially produced vitamin C is derived from the Sago palm and is highly refined to the point that no tyrosinase is left in the end product.
A whole food vitamin C made from foods like mushrooms, buckwheat leaf, alfalfa, and bone marrow may not contain much ascorbic acid, but the critical functioning elements are present and totally viable. It may only contain 1% ascorbic acid by weight, but that’s how much you’ll find in high vitamin C foods, which includes the highly touted rose hips. To the extent a food or nutritional support contains greater than 1% ascorbic acid is to the degree it’s synthetically altered, and fortified.
Since public demand is for high potency, manufactures will add synthetic ascorbic acid to the degree the label claim meets the expectations of the general public. As with any foods treated this way, you are consuming a refined product, and consuming refined foods creates nutritional imbalances. Here in America, we’ve become the land of indulgence, and consume and waste more than any other nation on earth. The land of Costco and Big Lots, where bigger is better. The higher the milligrams, the better it must be for you. Not so!
When a food quits being a food, and is potentized, it becomes a drug. My efforts are to return patients to health through better nutrition. When the scale is tipped too far in the opposite direction, you have new health challenges to overcome.
When used in moderate amounts, ascorbic acid rarely produces any toxic effects. It can be used to assist in re-acidifying. Most people who are sick are too alkaline, and acidifying the system is beneficial. Citrus fruits and fruit juices leave the system more alkaline and are contra-indicated in these cases due to the ash left over from metabolizing these foods. Betaine hydrochloride is a far better acidifier, and part of a very effective protocol intravenously for colds and influenza. Intravenous therapy at times like this can truly turn the tide.
The government defines vitamin C as ascorbic acid and the derivatives of ascorbic acid after being alkalinized into mineral compounds like calcium ascorbate. Because of this, all vitamin C on the market is rated according to the amount of ascorbic acid or ascorbate it contains.
Ascorbic acid is the antioxidant portion of vitamin C and responsible for protecting, or preserving the active and nutritional components of vitamin C. It’s what the egg shell is to the egg. I’m not into egg shell omelets!
Unfortunately, the co-factors required for optimum utilization of vitamin C are all too often left out. These co-factors include such things as what’s referred to as “P” complexes. These include the bioflavonoids and rutin. These are critical for the maintenance and integrity of blood vessels. If your blood vessels break and you bleed easily, or you bruise or have bleeding gums, it’s quite possible you’re lacking this in your system, and no amount of ascorbic acid will correct this.
Vitamin K is another critical component of vitamin C. It’s responsible for promoting production of prothrombin. Without it, clot formation becomes defective, and, combined with low rutin levels, there’s a greater potential of bleeding and poor repair of damaged tissue. Vitamin K is used in the formation of protein. This protein is delivered to the site of injury to allow for repair.
Vitamin “J” is one which is rarely ever talked about. This is a factor which increases the oxygen carrying capacity of your red blood cells. With a cold, you need more oxygen to get to your cells to oxidize and carry away toxins along with the carbon dioxide. Straight ascorbic acid is not equipped to accomplish this by itself.
Naturally occurring vitamin C contains enzymes like the copper bound tyrosinase, which facilitates our stress response as an adrenal activator. In today’s world, this one element is probably the most important, and foods highest in this produce the best vitamin C responses. Most commercially produced vitamin C is derived from the Sago palm and is highly refined to the point that no tyrosinase is left in the end product.
A whole food vitamin C made from foods like mushrooms, buckwheat leaf, alfalfa, and bone marrow may not contain much ascorbic acid, but the critical functioning elements are present and totally viable. It may only contain 1% ascorbic acid by weight, but that’s how much you’ll find in high vitamin C foods, which includes the highly touted rose hips. To the extent a food or nutritional support contains greater than 1% ascorbic acid is to the degree it’s synthetically altered, and fortified.
Since public demand is for high potency, manufactures will add synthetic ascorbic acid to the degree the label claim meets the expectations of the general public. As with any foods treated this way, you are consuming a refined product, and consuming refined foods creates nutritional imbalances. Here in America, we’ve become the land of indulgence, and consume and waste more than any other nation on earth. The land of Costco and Big Lots, where bigger is better. The higher the milligrams, the better it must be for you. Not so!
When a food quits being a food, and is potentized, it becomes a drug. My efforts are to return patients to health through better nutrition. When the scale is tipped too far in the opposite direction, you have new health challenges to overcome.
When used in moderate amounts, ascorbic acid rarely produces any toxic effects. It can be used to assist in re-acidifying. Most people who are sick are too alkaline, and acidifying the system is beneficial. Citrus fruits and fruit juices leave the system more alkaline and are contra-indicated in these cases due to the ash left over from metabolizing these foods. Betaine hydrochloride is a far better acidifier, and part of a very effective protocol intravenously for colds and influenza. Intravenous therapy at times like this can truly turn the tide.
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