Vitamin C: Everything You Ever Needed To Know
About It
Author: Adam Thompson

Vitamin C is one of the most well known vitamins, but do you
really know what it is and what it does? That's what this
article will show you: everything you've ever needed to know
about Vitamin C.

Vitamin C is an essential nutrient for good health and
wellness. Your body is unable to manufacture vitamin C, so you
should ensure that you get enough from the foods you eat and
nutritional supplements.

Vitamin C has many different functions in the body, including:

Required for creation of collagen
Vitamin C is essential for your body to create collagen, a
protein your body uses to create skin, scar tissue, ligaments,
tendons, and blood vessels.

Antioxidant Activity
Vitamin c is a powerful antioxidant, meaning that it protects
your cells from oxidation by free radicals. The damage caused
by free radicals has been linked to disease and aging. Vitamin
C, as an antioxidant, can help counteract free radicals.

Deficiencies
If your body lacks vitamin C, you can develop conditions such
as bleeding and bruising easily, hair and tooth loss, joint
pain and swelling, decreased wound-healing rate, anemia;
decreased ability to ward off infection, and in severe cases,
scurvy.

Scurvy is the most famous of the effects of a lack of vitamin
C, due to the effect that scurvy had on the navies of times
past. It took centuries before anyone realized that this
devestating disease was from the lack of nutritious foods that
contained vitamin C. Of course, we've all heard the story of
Captain Cook and others who beat scurvy with limes, hence why
British sailors are call limies!

Sources:
vitamin C is available from many different sources. Especially
good sources are citrus fruits, Australian bush plum,
strawberries, tomatoes, goji berries, broccoli, and more. There
are also some good Vitamin C nutritional supplements that you
can use.

Vitamin C is a very important nutritional component. Be sure
that your body gets enough of it!


About The Author: Adam Thompson Nutraceutical Rep If you're
looking for a great food source for Vitamin C, try goji juice:
http://www.gojicapital.com Goji has more vitamin C than
oranges.