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What are the Benefits of Vitamin C?

Vitamin C has been the craze of all things vitamins since the beginning of time (or so one should think). It literally is the ultimate reference point for everything healthy and the ultimate cure all for that daily cold, or literally anything under the sun. Well, as it just so happens, it doesn’t do all of that but mostly all of it.

In fact, I will agree with the online “experts” that vitamin C is in fact a wonderful vitamin that is necessary in our daily lives, and one of the few vitamins an individual can find tasteful (if you are consuming an orange, or some other amazing fruit as a mango). The medical community because of its anti-oxidant features defines it as an essential nutrient and it’s ability to become an immunity booster.

This is why people always are stressing to consume large amounts of Vitamin C when you’re sick. It is because the Vitamin C consumed by immunity cells at a rapid pace when fighting off colds or sickness in the body and need to be replenished. So long as the Vitamin C is replenished, your cells are much more effective at fighting off bad bacteria in the body.

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Not only that, but Vitamin C has regularly been attributed as helping rid the world of scurvy. Since Vitamin C is an anti-oxidant, what it can do is help rebuild the body tissue and helps fortify it against future deterioration.

Vitamin C is also a nutrient at maintaining optimal bone density. So those who are elderly, smokers, or exercise regularly would be wise to consume the daily recommended dosage of Vitamin C in order to avoid future consequences from bone density loss (oh, and you would want to stop smoking as well!).

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The importance of taking vitamin C can be done though food, more specifically through the consumption of fruits. The fruits need to be consumed regularly and in raw form to get the maximum benefits, but many times this can be expensive and time consuming to attain.

One of the best ways to get the amount of Vitamin C you need, and increase the absorption of the vitamin c in your cells can be to take through supplementation. This has to do with the lipids of the supplementation that make the deliver system more efficient so long as it is correctly integrated with the nutrient (in this case, the Vitamin C).

There is so much more information on Vitamin C that you could write novels and books on the benefits that it has to offer. However, one of the greatest sources for finding information on this topic can be found at Encompass Nutrients. You can find out more information by visiting their website, while also checking out there great nutrients that they have available to provide all the vitamins and nutrients that you need.

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