Vitamin-C helps your body in so many ways. First, it promotes the production and release by your adrenal glands of cortisone, dopamine and norepinephrine, which all work to help your body cope with stress and also keeps your entire central nervous system in balance.

Vitamin-C is essential to your immune system. Your white blood cells need Vitamin-C to effectively attack virus and other pathogens, as well as breakdown any drugs or chemicals your body considers “a foreign substance”. It also helps your body and liver to detoxify alcohol and other toxic substances. A Vitamin-C deficiency will lead to a depleted immune system leaving you open to sickness and infection. It will also slow the healing process of wounds.

Vitamin-C also acts as an antioxidant, scavenging potentially harmful molecules called free-radicals. This antioxidant capacity helps boost immune function, protecting against cancer, cataracts, age-related macular degeneration of the retina and other chronic diseases.

Vitamin-C is needed for the production of collagen, the “glue” that strengthens the body’s muscles and blood vessels.

Vitamin-C enhances iron absorption (from non-meat sources). The chemical cartinine is dependent on Vitamin-C to help it move sugars into your cells to create ENERGY. In studies, Vitamin-C has been shown to lower blood pressure and lowers the risk of acquiring cardiovascular disease. These studies also confirmed that Vitamin-C from food is far more effective than man-made ascorbic acid.