Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling turned his attention to studying and
documenting how vitamin C could improve health status and help the human
body resist and heal from disease. His reward ? By the time of his
death in l994, he had been branded a "quack" by a large part of the
medical community. Now, almost 25 years after his passing, not only is
his research being taken more seriously but other scientists are
documenting how vitamin C can be the key to preventing and treating a
host of health problems.
In fact, most everyone knows vitamin C is now lauded for helping to
reduce symptoms of a cold if taken in sufficient quantity when sniffles
first appear. But what you may not know is that researchers have found
evidence strongly suggesting vitamin C can be used to head off some
serious diseases and disorders -- and may even help you lose weight! In
fact, some of these uses for the vitamin are just plain amazing. Yet
you'll seldom find vitamin C "prescribed" and, instead, are more likely
to get drugs to treat maladies after they develop. And the odds are,
your family doctor may be clueless about these ways vitamin C can help
you.
Here's the latest on the relatively secret but very real ways vitamin C can improve your health:
1. Burn more fat and control your weight.
Researchers in the Department of Nutrition at Arizona State University
found that research subjects who had low blood concentrations of C
burned a whopping 25 percent less fat than those who had plenty of the
vitamin in their body. The scientists think this may be because vitamin C
is a co-factor for the biosynthesis of carnitine, a molecule your body
needs to oxidize fatty acids. They concluded inadequate vitamin C could
explain why some people have such a hard time losing and keeping off
excess pounds.
2. Breathing right.
British scientists at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care
at the Institute of Public Health in Cambridge studied 515 adults with
asthma and 515 matched controls. They found that adults with symptomatic
asthma had the lowest intake of fruit, especially citrus fruit, and low
plasma vitamin C levels. These findings, the scientists stated in their
research paper, suggest diet may be a potentially modifiable risk
factor for the development of asthma.
3. Oral Health.
In the 1700s, sailors found that eating limes during low sea voyages
kept their gums healthy. No doubt the vitamin C in the fruit was
responsible. Research published in the Journal of Periodontology showed
that people with too little vitamin C have higher rates of periodontal
disease. Also, the American National Institutes of Health (NIH) report
inadequate C is associated with weakened tooth enamel as well as the
painful inflammation of gums known as gingivitis.
4. Skincare.
The American NIH also lists rough, dry and scaly skin as signs of too
little C. So is dry hair and even split ends. What's more, research
published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that
people who ate a lot of vitamin C-rich foods had fewer wrinkles than
those with inadequate amounts of the vitamin.
5. Cardiovascular.
While we all are bombarded with ads about omegas and other drugs that
purport to reduce the risk of heart disease, you seldom hear about the
mounting evidence a natural therapy -- vitamin C -- may protect your
cardiovascular system. A case in point: Finnish researchers published a
study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggesting higher
doses of supplemental vitamin C cause the incidence of major coronary
heart disease events like heart attacks to plummet.
So how much vitamin C do you need? Most experts agree that you can take
large amounts, usually up two grams, safely unless an excess causes
diarrhea or other stomach upset (if that happens, simply cut back on
your dose). Vitamin C is not stored in the body so toxicity is very
rare. Vitamin C is best presented in a buffered form in order to be
gentle in the stomach since vitamin C can be acidic if not buffered. Altacura Hot Lemon sachets is presented by Alta Care Laboratoires in 1000mg of buffered Vitamin C.
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