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Bio C Vitamin 120★★★★★ £9.99
Key Ingredients Vitamin C 750 mg
How much vitamin C should you take ?
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Bio C Vitamin |
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What is Vitamin C ? Vitamin C (also known as ascorbic acid) is an important nutrient which must be obtained from the diet or by supplementation, as it cannot be synthesized by the human body.
Major dietary sources of vitamin C are green vegetables and fruit. Vitamin C is one of the most labile dietary nutrients, being easily destroyed by cooking or food processing.
Levels of vitamin C are reduced by smoking, drinking alcohol, as well as by certain drugs (e.g. anticoagulants, antidepressants, oral contraceptives).
What can Vitamin C do ? Vitamin C is essential for normal tissue growth and repair, playing a vital role in collagen formation and strengthening capillary blood vessels.
Vitamin C strengthens ligaments and tendons, prevents bruising and is required for wound healing. Vitamin C helps to maintain healthy gums and normal immune function.
Vitamin C is the primary water soluble antioxidant vitamin within the human body, protecting the aqueous cytoplasm within the main body of the cell from damage by free radicals.
Vitamin C acts synergistically with the major lipid soluble antioxidant vitamin E, which protects cell membranes from free radical damage.
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Who needs vitamin C ? Everybody ! smokers have an increased need for vitamin C, which is why the American health authorities recommend smokers to take twice the recommended daily allowance, RDA. Female smokers have less vitamin C in their breast milk which increases the risk of their babies not getting enough vitamin C when they are breast- fed.
There is an increased need for vitamin C during periods of fever, or when there are cuts, wounds or inflammatory diseases. Certain types of medicine also increase the need for vitamin C. Vitamin C is water soluble and can therefore not be overdosed. In fact, it is far more serious to get too little vitamin C than the other way around.
A grave deficiency results in scurvy. Vitamin C on its own is a powerful antioxidant, and just like vitamin E, beta-carotene or selenium it pre- vents oxidative damage caused by excessive free radicals.
Are there adverse effects
from taking vitamin C ?
As vitamin C facilitates the absorption of iron from the diet, high intake of vitamin C should not be taken by patients with iron overload syndromes (e.g. haematochromatosis, thalasaemia). High intake of vitamin C should not be taken by individuals with a susceptibility to kidney stone formation.
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