Our Wildcrafted Organic Vitamin C Complex is created to help your immune
system flourish with a full spectrum of organic superfoods rich in vitamin
C that is loaded with antioxidants.
Why do we use Acerola Cherry?
Acerola Cherry is the most potent source of Vitamin C on the planet. A
single Acerola Cherry contains 120 times more vitamin C than an orange.
Why do we use Camu Camu?
Grown in the rainforest, Camu Camu helps support and healthy and optimally
functioning immune system. It also has properties that support your gums,
eyes, and skin. Camu Camu has also shown helpful for mood boosting.
Vitamin C is one of the most fragile nutrients, so we use a gentle, low
temperature method to dry each and every superfood.
Many people call vitamin C "the master nutrient" because
its actions are so extensive and so diverse. Vitamin C is involved in so
many biochemical pathways that a deficiency can produce a multitude of
disorders. A recent study published in Seminars in Preventive and
Alternative Medicine that looked at over 100 studies over 10 years revealed
a growing list of benefits of vitamin C.
Did you know:
China now manufactures over 90 percent of the Vitamin C consumed in the
United States? China is the most polluted nation on the planet (by far),
yet most all vitamin companies use nutrients from China to use in their
natural products to save money.
Not LifeSource Vitamins!
We will never use any nutrients from China.
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"Vitamin C has received a great deal of attention, and with good reason.
Higher blood levels of vitamin C may be the ideal nutrition marker for
overall health," says study researcher Mark Moyad, MD, MPH, of the
University of Michigan. "The more we study vitamin C, the better our
understanding of how diverse it is in protecting our health, from
cardiovascular, cancer, stroke, eye health [and] immunity to living
longer."
"But," Moyad notes, "the ideal dosage may be higher than the recommended
dietary allowance."
Vitamin C helps thyroid hormone production and the metabolism of folic
acid, tyrosine, and tryptophan, and it stimulates our adrenal function and
the release of norepinephrine and epinephrine, which are stress hormones.
However, prolonged stress depletes Vitamin C in the adrenals and decreases
blood levels.
Ascorbic acid is important in cellular immune functions, where it may be
helpful against bacterial, viral, and fungal diseases. At higher amounts,
Vitamin C may decrease the production of histamine, thereby reducing
allergy potential.*
Still more benefits of vitamin C -
The list of the benefits of vitamin C is a long one.
Vitamin C helps the absorption of iron (particularly the vegetable, or
non-heme form), so it is helpful for iron- deficiency anemia. Other
conditions that benefit from ascorbic acid, metabolism include diabetes
(for insulin production), certain cases of male infertility, as well as
arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, cataracts, glaucoma, and musculoskeletal
degeneration (mostly by Vitamin C keeping calcium soluble and preventing it
from going too high.
Physicians and scientists have long wondered how scurvy - a simple vitamin
deficiency - can cause so much to go wrong in the body. The gruesome
symptoms include loosened joints, bleeding gums, psychotic disorders, black
and blue spots, and broken capillaries, just to name a few which occur
before death. Now we are beginning to understand: it is not only what
reactions vitamin C is directly involved in, but also what it is indirectly involved in that's important to stay healthy.
Helps with healthy teeth, gums & bones; helps heal wounds, scar tissue,
and fractures; prevents scurvy; builds resistance to infection; aids in the
prevention and treatment of the common cold; gives strength to blood
vessels; aids in the absorption of iron*
Recently, we have begun to understand two additional functions of vitamin
C. These functions are reviewed by Dr. Harish Padh at the University of
Chicago .
The first new realization involves vitamin C's role as an antioxidant in
terms of protecting body components by scavenging free radicals. Now we're
finding out that vitamin C is an antioxidant in the sense that it keeps the
mineral portion of certain enzymes in their proper reduced electronic
state.
Minerals such as iron and copper are key components of hundreds of enzymes.
Enzymes control body chemistry, and nearly every type of reaction in the
body requires a specific enzyme. Enzymes that depend on iron and copper
won't work if these minerals are oxidized to a higher electronic state.
What Vitamin C does is to restore this required electronic state and thus
rejuvenate oxidized enzymes.
Dr. Padh concludes, "The available data suggest that perhaps the most
significant role of ascorbate is as a reductant that, along with other
reducing agents minimize damage by oxidative processes. This role includes
keeping the iron and copper ions of some enzymes in their required reduced
form and in neutralizing harmful oxidants and free radicals."
With this new comprehension, we will be able to understand much more about
how vitamin C affects such diverse body functions.
Cell Usage
When you add to this new comprehension that cells can hold and use more
Vitamin C than previously thought, all of a sudden we can begin to explain
how megavitamin levels of vitamin C work.
The concentration of ascorbic acid in cells could be as high as several
millimolar, considerably higher than previous estimates. This applies to
human peripheral mononuclear leukocytes, B lymphocytes and T lymphocytes
(T-cells).
The report also states, "The new data comes after learning that neutrophils
appear to have both low- and high-affinity membrane transporters for
ascorbic acid... Having two transport systems of different affinities and
capacities give cells the flexibility to respond and adjust to quite
different extracellular concentrations of the vitamin."
The problem was that the old way of measuring vitamin C content and uptake
of cells was wrong. The analytical methods were lacking speed and precision
and were less sensitive. Now we know that cells of the immune system can
hold considerably more than once believed. In addition, we now learn that
cells have two mechanisms of vitamin C uptake. There must be a reason! This
will open the minds of more medical researchers.
Immune Function
As long ago as 1971, the importance of vitamin C to the immune system was
known. Drs. Lawrence DeChatelet, Charles McCall, and Robert Cooper reported
vitamin C stimulated increased activity of white blood fells. Without
copious amounts of vitamin C, engulfment of bacteria by white cells can
take place, but they can't break down the bacteria as effectively.
Vitamin C- Facts
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Vitamin C’s a vitamin that’s water-soluble; crucial on an everyday
basis for one’s body.
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The key micronutrient that boosts up one’s immune system; it can’t be
stored within the body similar to the other vitamins that are
fat-soluble (like A, E, D, & K).
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Ascorbic acid’s used as a food preservative as it’s reasonably priced
and it doesn’t meddle with the flavor of food that’s processed. This
determines adequate delivery of vitamins into one’s body by means of
food that’s processed.
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Raw vegetables and fruits must be consumed as and when possible. They
must be refrigerated inside air-tight containers.
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This vitamin is effortlessly washed out throughout the preparation of
food and its storage. Therefore, care must be taken when you are
chopping, boiling, and cooking the food in order to evade the
aggrandizement of a specific process.
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The amount of Vitamin C’s extremely high in the majority of foods;
therefore processed foodstuff still has the potential to guarantee the
daily-recommended delivery of vitamin C.
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If you cook soda, it destroys Vitamin C because of its alkalinity.
Vitamin C- Functional Benefits
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Ascorbic acid plays an essential role in collagen synthesis which
strengthens blood vessels, bones, and ligaments.
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It takes steps against the free radicals through its oxidant-defiant
properties and as a result aids in preserving and repair of tissues in
the body.
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Essential for healthy teeth and gums.
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Aids in the emission of the adrenal hormones
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Augments calcium and iron absorption
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Efficient antiviral agent
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Takes steps in improving immunity and fighting against infections
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Puts off arteriosclerosis
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Lowers cholesterol
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