Vitamin C therapy:
Vitamin C is a micronutrient that is essential for survival. Unfortunately, unlike most animals, humans have lost the ability to synthesize it during evolution.
We have to take in vitamin C. Intake via food is limited by restricted absorption in the intestine. It is therefore not surprising that around a third of the population has a subclinical deficiency.
Increased oxidative stress increases the need for vitamin C:
- Colds, flu-like infections
- Inflammation of any kind
- smoking
- Alcohol consumption
- old age
- Malnutrition
- injuries
Vitamin C is involved in many vital metabolic steps and is the most effective physiological antioxidant in the blood. Oxidative stress induces a vitamin C deficiency, which increases inflammation and disrupts immune, nerve, bone, skin and connective tissue function in particular.
