I'm Antony Reed and today, I'm probably going to be ticking off some
People here on the Inter-Webs with some good 'ol fashioned health science
So you may have come across videos or articles, as I have
Claiming that ascorbic acid is not "real" vitamin C
And claiming the only way that you can get actual vitamin C is through a
Whole foods vitamin C complex
And it just so happens that those articles and those videos
Usually point you to someone who's selling that product
They say that in nature, what we know as vitamin C, ascorbic acid, is just a container
Holding a whole bunch of other goodies inside of a plant
They claim that ascorbic acid, due to its acidity, may have some benefit
But unless it's packed with these other goodies
it doesn't really have much of a health benefit
Albert Szent-Györgyi, discoverer of vitamin C
And Nobel prize winner for doing so said
What he discovered was ascorbic acid, and nothing else
In fact, the vitamin C deficiency disease, scurvy, can only be cured by ascorbic acid,
and nothing else
In this whole vitamin C complex
And while it may be true that plants use ascobic acid
As a way to keep goodies inside their cells
To do, maybe what the plants need to do
Is this really the only place in nature that we find vitamin C?
What they don't tell you, is that, aside from humans, guinea pigs
Most primates and a few species of fruit bats
All other animals, including spiders, elephants, worms
Birds, fish... create their own vitamin C in their livers
How do they do this if they don't have the vitamin C complex?
And what form of vitamin C do they create?
A whole foods complex?
No, it's simply ascorbic acid...
Vitamin C
Now you may think, fine... so we don't need a vitamin C complex
But isn't there some difference between a natural form of vitamin C found in nature
And something created synthetically in a lab
Now of course it's a great idea to get as many of your vitamins
And minerals as you can from good, whole, unprocessed foods
But whether or not vitamin C is made in a goat's liver or in a lab
As long as it 's the same chemical structure it is the same thing
The molecular structure for vitamin C is C6-H8-O6
Now as long as those atoms are in the right amount, in the right place, and the right
number
It's vitamin C
If you want to learn more on how high-dose vitamin C can truly change your life
Check out the description below I've added a bunch of links just for you
Now, as promised here's a health hack to show you how you can get the most
Nutrient-dense vegetables for you and your family
Whenever possible, buy your veggies from the freezer section
Rather than the produce section
The reason is, the veggies that are in your produce section
Were picked 2 to 4 weeks prior to being delivered to your grocery store
And it's during this period, the ripening period, when the vegetables
Soak up the most nutrients from the plant
Therefore, regular vegetables are much less
Nutrient-dense then their fellow frozen counterparts
Primarily because, their frozen cousins are actually picked at pique ripeness
And flash-frozen so that it keeps all the goodness inside
Well that about wraps it up for the day
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