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Four Reasons to Boost Your Vitamin C Intake
By Kory | April 8, 2008
If you’re like most people, when you think of taking vitamin C, it’s probably when you feel like you’re getting a cold.
True, vitamin C can help your immune system when you’re feeling under the weather, but not many know it serves other purposes in the body.
1) For starters, this vitamin is a major antioxidant, meaning it quenches free radicals (free electrons that can disturb your body’s metabolic activities, causing things like cancer and signs of aging). Vitamin C binds those free radicals so they are part of a bigger molecule and can’t go around mucking up your system.
2) Vitamin C also repairs and maintains mucous membranes anywhere in the body — ears, nose, throat, respiratory system, reproductive organs. Anyone with allergies can benefit from taking vitamin C to help support healthy mucous membrane.
3) It’s good for skin, as well. People with dermatitis often are allergic to vitamin C, which means they’re not absorbing it as well as they ought to be.
4) There is some ongoing research showing that vitamin C deficiency is linked to heart disease. Studies show that vitamin C is necessary for the production of collagen which maintains the integrity of the arteries.
These are all great reasons to boost the amount of vitamin C in your diet, and to make sure that you’re absorbing it properly. The majority of my clients with asthma and allergies have an allergy to vitamin C, preventing their system from making good use of the nutrient. Fortunately, clearing up vitamin C allergy is one of the first treatments in the protocol for NAET. With this allergy cleared, we set a stronger foundation (healthier mucous membranes) to support your system through the clearing of other allergies.
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