There are many forms and delivery systems of Vitamin C that you can get.
I’m Dr. Carrie Lam. This is Dr. Michael Lam.
You go to the store and you just see a whole row of Vitamin C’s
and you’re just confused on what to get.
We’re here to talk about the different types.
If we just give the umbrella way of looking at things,
there are the fat-soluble, there are the water-soluble.
There are the liposomals and even the IV system.
I mean, if you would like to talk about each of these different systems,
we can get a better idea of the delivery.
Historically, Vitamin C in its purest form is called Ascorbic Acid.
It’s available as a powder. It’s available as a capsule or as a pill.
You know, in the absence of anything else until the last 30, 40 years,
that’s what people have been using.
The studies have been using that in the past century.
Of course, you know,
the good thing with Ascorbic Acid is it tends to be what we call fast absorption.
But it’s also fast excretion.
The effect of Ascorbic Acid in the pure form
or the foundation form has a quick rise and effect and it drops down quickly,
like a little yoyo. It goes up, it comes down.
For some people, it’s good, and for some people,
It is not so good because if you want fast energy and if you’re healthy,
it is all right if you don’t take it too often like that.
But if you have a weak body or you have a sensitive body
and you have too much of this hyping stretching the system,
then you can actually eventually make yourself worse off,
not able to tolerate, crash, etc.
And that’s why Ascorbic Acid, over time,
has kind of lose it’s appeal in certain people.
That’s the water-soluble. - That’s the water-soluble.
What people start to do, for example, is to attach a mineral,
a portion to it such as Calcium Ascorbate or Magnesium Ascorbate
to make it easier for the gastric system.
Or you can attach a fat compound to it using, for example, palm
so it become Ascorbyl Palmitate and that will be a fat that is attached to the Ascorbic Acid.
What it does is it make it less water-soluble
and then so therefore it has a slower rise in effectiveness and a slower downfall.
Therefore, you have a more gentle delivery curve.
Now, both of them still, are delivered through the oral system,
primarily through the gut,
and then of course in the last 30, 40 years
we’ve been able to formulate the technology using liposomes
in nano form and other forms that’s able to encapsulate Ascorbic Acid
so it’s not even released in the gut anymore in terms of this gastric mucosa,
but have it released in the small intestine.
Why is that important? The reason is because
when you absorb into the gastric system,
you have to expend energy to transport the Ascorbic Acid
from the lumen through the mucosa,
but if you go through the small intestine, there’s a passive diffusion.
There’s no energy required so it’s much less taxing on the body.
So you’re saying that the Vitamin C, even those water-soluble,
is encapsulated in a fat-soluble
and so that when it passes the gut and it goes into the small intestines
so that you’re able to passively, not expend energy
and you can absorb that, the liposomal as a whole,
and then the fat will go away and then you can actually absorb the vitamins.
But there’s good and bad in each one because sometimes you want to have fast delivery.
You want energy now. You want the adrenals to do well.
You want to give it quick support.
Sometimes, you don’t want to have it too fast.
The key is to have a strategy.
It’s not just taking one type or the other type. It’s how to blend them together, for your body.
For example, if you get up in the morning, do you want fast energy or slow energy?
You want Vitamin C at night, if you do it too fast, you may not be able to sleep.
There’s a lot of consideration that goes into formulating the right Vitamin C cocktail for you
and that involves knowing not only the properties of the Vitamin C,
but your body, how it processes Vitamin C
and then we have challenges and protocols that we can help you to determine that
because until you get that perfect combination,
much of what you take can be totally wasted and you don’t even know it.
You think you’re doing the right thing
but your body is not healing, then you say, “Well, it’s not working,”
but actually, it’s not true.
Sometimes you need high dose, sometimes you need low dose. Sometimes you need to back off.
There’s a lot of variation in this process and this is just one compound of Vitamin C
and you can imagine the body requires many more compounds.
It’s good to know the different delivery systems
and it’s also okay to take multiple delivery systems of the Vitamin C.
Yeah. In fact, it is desirable to do that if you have a specific need.
If you’re just a healthy person
and you’re just looking for a little bit of Vitamin C, it doesn’t matter.
Go to the supermarket and just get whatever they have.
But if you want Vitamin C to have a health-supporting effect
and you want it to help you and heal from your situation,
then you want to maximize and optimize its delivery
and the effectiveness on a biochemical level.
We need to touch a little about the IV Vitamin C, too.
IV Vitamin C is popular.
The delivery can be anywhere from 10 grams to 100 grams over a period of time.
It’s not something you do at home.
You have to be down at the doctor’s office and usually they add even some Vitamin B.
It’s called Myers cocktail or some glutathione in there.
It’s very fast-acting because it goes in directly to your bloodstream.
It kind of goes in and it kind of goes away.
A lot of people use it for cancer support,
but, you know, in Adrenal Fatigue, a situation we have not find it to be very helpful
because if you do the oral form right,
you can get very good results already and you don’t have to be tied down to an IV pole,
you know, three times a week and then the problem with the IV,
and it’s not to say it’s not good, for some people it is very important
so don’t get me wrong, but generally speaking, it’s really not required.
All right, so we learned about the different types of delivery systems and forms of Vitamin C
and how you might need certain forms of that
together as a cocktail or individually. We are here to help you on your health journey.