| Vitamin C nutrition for optimum body functions | | | | cartilage and heart valves...are some of the |
| When it comes to keeping the body's metabolic | | | | connective tissues that contain collagen. Without |
| processes running smoothly and consistently for | | | | collagen our tissues would not have their structural |
| optimum health vitamin C has a hand in a vast | | | | integrity or togetherness. Therefore, a lack of this |
| number of vital functions. Any of the body's organs, | | | | vital protein could cause some serious illnesses. |
| tissues or cells deprived of this extremely wonderful | | | | Studies have shown that collagen deficiency has been |
| nutrient would soon start to go awry in functioning. | | | | linked to a lack of vitamin C in the diet. Vitamin C has |
| Vitamin C as an immune system builder | | | | an involvement in the making of collagen in the body. |
| The white blood cells are involved in immune defence: | | | | Disk herniation |
| They kill off the unwanted foreign matter that | | | | Intervertebral disks exist in between the backbones. |
| invades the body. The types of white blood cells | | | | They cushion the backbones during movement, |
| involved in immunity are called the T-cells and | | | | acting as shock absorbers. Due to excessive wear |
| macrophages, which vitamin C is involved in the | | | | and tear and a lack of vitamin C, the outer |
| making of. If the immune defence could not do its | | | | surrounding of the intervertebral disk becomes less |
| job, then toxicity and disease sets in. | | | | tough and worn, forming pinholes. This allows the |
| Vitamin C as an antioxidant | | | | inner soft material to find its way on the outside, |
| Damage to the body's organs, tissues and cells | | | | causing it to make contact with the nerves around |
| happen by means of reactive molecules called free | | | | the spinal column. This can be quite painful. However, |
| radicals. These free radicals can cause damage by | | | | from a Japanese study it suggests that frequent |
| oxidation. They may come from environmental toxins | | | | intakes of vitamin C can remedy the situation by |
| such as heavy metals, noxious hydrocarbons; | | | | strengthening the intervertebral disks and returning |
| herbicides, fungicides, pesticides...or a whole range of | | | | their structural integrity. |
| chemicals like, for example, unsavoury and toxic | | | | Vitamin C and common colds prevention |
| nitrosamines from nitrates found in factory | | | | The trick to preventing the common cold is to |
| Processed foods. Smokers take in free radicals when | | | | mega-dose with high amounts of vitamin C the |
| inhaling...The extent of the damage caused by | | | | moment when you feel that ickle-tickle in your throat |
| oxidation can range from ageing to a number of | | | | and then carry on with further high doses, allowing |
| chronic conditions such as cancer and cardiovascular | | | | for bowel tolerance... Mega-dosing with vitamin C as a |
| disease. | | | | way of preventing the common cold and its exact |
| Vitamin C in the maintenance of collagen | | | | methodology can be found through searching Google. |
| Collagen can be found in connective tissue. Skin, | | | | -All the above benefits through taking vitamin C have |
| bone, teeth intervertebral disks, tendons, ligaments, | | | | been well documented and proven. |