Vitamin C
Vitamin C - Vitamin C is an essential nutrient for higher primates (among them homo sapines - i.e. you and me), and a small number of other species. Vitamin C is required for a range of essential metabolic reactions in all animals and in plants.  Allmost all living things can maufacture Vitamin C themselves internally, we human beings are one  of the very few exception. Vitamin C is widely known as the vitamin whose deficiency causes scurvy in humans, a problem early explorers faced on their ...

Vitamin C
Vitamin C and Bioflavonoids
Vitamin C is one of the most widely researched nutrients available.  There are numerous health benefits to supplementing this vitamin to your diet.  Vitamin C is both good for your immune system and for your appearance. The importance of Vitamin C became known by the early sea voyagers who would come down with scurvy from a Vitamin C defeciency.  Today, scurvy is very rare, but adding Vitamin C to the diet is done to help with collagen production, to aid in cleansing, to improve immune fuctio...

Vitamin C
Vitamin C is an essential protector of body cells!
As an antioxidant, vitamin C helps neutralize cell-damaging free radicals, which are byproducts of metabolism found throughout the body. Because of this activity, some scientists have suggested that high doses of vitamin C might help battle cancer by both protecting healthy cells from the assaults of cancer treatment and by fighting tumor cells. The free radicals that vitamin C normally combats can damage DNA directly or by converting certain fatty acids into genotoxins. The researchers found...