Does Ascorbic Acid function as vitamin C?

Synthesized Ascorbic Acid is not vitamin C and does not work as vitamin C in your body.

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It is generally thought that the term vitamin C refers to ascorbic acid. But ascorbic acid is only the antioxidant ring that surrounds the vitamin C complex. Vitamin C was discovered by Szent-Gyorgi and first isolated from peppers. In this state it was found to have 7 identified and other unidentified compounds, comprised of Rutin (vitamin P), the bioflavonoid complex, the “K” factor, the “J”-factor, Tyrosinase (organic copper), ascorbic acid, ascorbigen, and components not yet identified. Ascorbic Acid only represents the antioxidant ring surrounding these 7 other compounds. Years of research have demonstrated that when any portion of a vitamin is separated from its naturally occurring collective, cooperative complex, including trace-mineral activators, and reduced to an isolated purified state, the vitamin activity has been lost.

Rutin is especially supportive in strengthening blood vessels (protection against arterial plaque and aneurisms) and other collagen-containing tissues; bioflavonoids cooperate with overall function of the complex with a multitude of roles; the “K” factor supports the clotting mechanism of the blood and, as is being discovered, the health and strength of bones and other organs, glands, and tissues; the “J” factor supports the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood and is thus important to all cells; and Tyrosinase is the trace element activator. In short, vitamin C is needed for all connective tissue, which is what holds up and keeps together all other tissues. You need it everywhere, and it plays a vital role in protection from bruising and internal bleeding.

The RDA for vitamin C is 60mg. Yet a national survey showed that the consumption of vitamin C did not meet the 60mg RDA in 43% of nonsmokers and 72% of smokers. Injured or hospitalized people require much more vitamin C. The adrenal glands are the most stressed glands in everyone’s body today, and they require vitamin C to be happy. Teenagers eating only refined foods such as hamburgers, soda, candy bars, and potato chips, consuming little or no fruits and vegetables, have actually been found to be suffering from scurvy—a serious deficiency of vitamin C. Many people in industrialized countries like the US show all the signs of subclinical scurvy and even clinical scurvy.

Results of vitamin C deficiency include: fragility and loss of elasticity of blood vessel walls leading to hemorrhages, tendency to bruise easily, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, pyorrhea, spongy, bleeding gums, gingivitis and other gum conditions, loose teeth, tooth degeneration, joint and bone changes (easily broken, decalcification), scaly skin, loss of weight, physical weakness, depression, irritability, elevated blood pressure, and arteriosclerosis. The list goes on and affects every area of the body.

Medications such as aspirin, non-steroidal inflammatory drugs, antibiotics, steroids, antihistamines, and ascorbic acid interfere with initial stages of inflammation. These things lessen the inflammation and/or symptoms, but the natural healing process is now sabotaged. Fever may go away, redness and congestion may abate, and mucus may dry up, yet the price paid is that the tissues remain unrepaired. Later, a minor insult--- an abrupt change in the weather, for instance --- brings on the next cold or sinusitis because the tissues are not healthy.

So far, 12 studies found that ascorbic acid does not prevent colds from occurring, it only shortens their duration by lowering histamine levels. This actually interrupts healing. Histamine is what increases circulation to an area, by which the body detoxifies the area and provides nutrients to lay down new tissue. Neutrophils are one class of white blood cells that engulf and digest debris. They have 50 times the amount of vitamin C complex (not ascorbic acid) in them compared to that found in blood plasma. Taking pure ascorbic acid acts like a drug to reduce histamine and inflammation and an increase in the movement of neutrophils as a compensator mechanism. Symptoms of a cold can be reduced due to the disruption of the inflammation process, but this process, now disturbed, cannot properly finish its function of eliminating dead or damaged tissue and laying the groundwork for cellular replacement. Thus, symptoms improve, but repair cannot be completed. It also increases the acidity of the body, a pH that encourages pathogens to grow. With Amla fruit (or any food source, whole complex vitamin C) no anti-histamine effect occurs.

It is interesting to note that Scurvy, a severe vitamin C deficiency, cannot be reversed with ascorbic acid but can be reversed with paprika or a natural food source vitamin C complex. Szent-Gyorgi, the original discoverer of ascorbic acid, found that it would not cure scurvy; only the natural complex can do that. Isolated ascorbic acid is made from corn sugar (glucose), and it is a naked substance devoid of all the cofactors. The reason ascorbic acid masquerades as vitamin C is for commercial reasons. It is profitable.

In the early 1930’s, when Szent-Gyorgi was striving to isolate ascorbic acid, what he initially called “hexuronic acid,” a “small accident” happened that he described in detail in his 1939 book, Oxidation. “I had a letter from an Austrian colleague who was suffering from a severe hemorrhagic diathesis (capillary bleeding beneath the skin). He wanted to try ascorbic acid in his condition. Possessing at that time no sufficient quantities of crystalline ascorbic acid, I sent him a preparation of paprika (a source of the whole vitamin C complex) that contained much ascorbic acid, and the man was cured by it. Later with my friend, St. Rusznyak, we tried to produce the same therapeutic effect in similar conditions with pure ascorbic acid, but we obtained no response.” Bioflavonoid intake is related to fatal heart disease risk and to the incidence of heart attack. Whole vitamin C complex reduces the risks and incidence of atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, and stroke.

All ascorbic acid-based supplements are devoid of the necessary cofactors. Even the ones that have added bioflavonoids are deficient in the real cofactors because they only add a pinch of these bioflavonoids to the formula so then can legally say bioflavonoids are present.

From strong pain-free joints to protection from cardiovascular disease to a wrinkle free face, healthy connective tissue plays the key role, and natural whole food complex vitamin C is essential to create healthy connective tissue.

The best source of natural vitamin C is the Amla fruit from East India. The best source of Amla is from Amla Royale. This 51-herb blend is both the best natural source vitamin C and an herbal tonic that feeds the glands of the body. Only grade 10 (highest grade available) herbs are used to make this exquisitely delicious food supplement. Everyone seems to know the value of vitamin C, but no one seems to be taking the real thing.

Neither ascorbic acid with or without bioflavonoid, ester C nor any other form of vitamin C compares to the power of Amla Royale.

References derived from the book: “The Truth About Vitamins and Antioxidants” By Judith DeCava.

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