Vitamin C

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Vitamin C

Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin that is essential for growth and repair of all body tissues. It is involved in many bodily functions, including the formation of collagen, absorption of iron, immune system function, wound healing, and maintenance of cartilage, bones, and teeth.

Category
Vitamin
Molecular Formula
C6H8O6
Mechanism of Action
Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that can neutralize harmful free radicals. It is also a cofactor in at least eight enzymatic reactions, including several collagen synthesis reactions that cause the most severe symptoms of scurvy when they are dysfunctional.
Evidence Grade
A

Other Names

  • Ascorbic Acid
  • L-Ascorbic Acid
  • Ascorbate

Primary Benefits

  • Boosts immune system
  • Helps in collagen formation
  • Aids in iron absorption
  • Antioxidant

Recommended Dosage

Adults 75-90mg per day
Children 15-75mg per day
Pregnant Women 85-120mg per day

Side Effects

  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Heartburn
  • Stomach cramps
  • Headache

Precautions

  • People with kidney problems or a history of kidney stones may be at risk for complications.
  • High doses of vitamin C might affect blood sugar levels in people with diabetes.

Interactions

  • Antacids containing aluminum
  • Barbiturates
  • Chemotherapy drugs
  • Oral contraceptives

Key References

  • https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-vitamin-c/art-20363932
  • https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminC-Consumer/
How to Optimize Female Hormone Health for Vitality & Longevity | Dr. Sara Gottfried
Optimizing Women's Health: Hormones, Nutrition, Exercise, and Genetics Insights 37:44 0
“What I like to do with nutritional testing is run a panel that's looking at antioxidants like vitamin A, vitamin C, Alpha lipoic acid, plant-based antioxidants. You can measure that in the blood.”

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Rhonda Patrick at Orthomolecular Medicine Congress in Bussum, Netherlands (Keynote Oct. 3rd, 2015)
Optimizing Health Through Micronutrients: Key Role in Disease Prevention 17:02 0
“Eat Your Greens magnesium is high in spinach and kale and other green leafy vegetables um vitamin K calcium vitamin C um this is me drinking my my vegetable smoothie that I drink almost every day which has kale and spinach and charred and and more vegetables.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 31:18 0
“the indication is for skin lightning is that so that's something that came out of the Asian market and theyve been injecting GL with vitamin C every week injections for skin lightning and it worked it it does work”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 31:46 0
“somebody that's really dark pigmented could use high dose glutathione and vitamin C to actually lighten their skin”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 44:18 0
“these are natural compounds like testosterone or estrogen or vitamin C or vitamin D that exist in nature that are not new to Nature molecules and so n nature molecules they are like things that we make up as in the pharmaceutical industry but these are things that naturally exist”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 51:13 0
“a lot of these Ivy cocktails that these IV nutrition centers or mobile nurses are administering to patients you know they are 100% bioavailable when infused and some of these you know you'd have to take you know tens of grams or hundreds of grams Orly to be able to get an equivalent effect”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 51:42 0
“vitamin C can be very helpful for allergy I had a patient with an acute allergic reaction to like environmental allergies not like a peanut allergy but like he was just miserable and I hooked him up and I gave him 50 grams of IV vitamin C”

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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Secret to Beating Illness & Hormone Imbalances | Shaun Noorian
Understanding Hormone Imbalances and Medication Applications for Optimal Health 52:19 0
“for oncology treatment you know vitamin C has been known to be used off label to potentially help the patient's immune system you know fight whatever disease”

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How to Improve Your Eye Health & Offset Vision Loss | Dr. Jeffrey Goldberg
Enhancing Eye Health Through Lifestyle Choices and Preventative Measures 2:50:01 0
“There have been two age related eye disease studies called AIDS (Age Related Eye Disease Studies) - ARIDS and ARIDS 2. These studies were large randomized trials of giving patients supplements and in ARIDS it was Vitamin C and E, higher dose than would just come in a multivitamin, zinc and copper, and also beta carotene.”

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Let Food Be Thy Medicine: EAT THIS To Heal The Body & STARVE CANCER! | Dr. William Li
Food as medicine to prevent disease and promote health naturally 1:43:02 0
“kiwi's got vitamin c it's got fiber”

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Let Food Be Thy Medicine: EAT THIS To Heal The Body & STARVE CANCER! | Dr. William Li
Food as medicine to prevent disease and promote health naturally 1:43:09 0
“red bell pepper can actually have that”

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Let Food Be Thy Medicine: EAT THIS To Heal The Body & STARVE CANCER! | Dr. William Li
Food as medicine to prevent disease and promote health naturally 1:43:15 0
“guava that also has vitamin c and it's also got fiber as well”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 22:01 0
“if you're deficient in the key nutrients that build your sleep related hormones and neurotransmitters you are still going to have disrupted Sleep Quality”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 22:48 0
“they uncovered that folks with a vitamin C deficiency were more prone to disrupted sleep they didn't have problems falling asleep but they had problems staying asleep”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 22:59 0
“we tend to do is like I want to make sure that I'm getting my vitamin C in and we get a vitamin C supplement”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 24:39 0
“over 90% of the vitamin C products sold in the United States are made from genetically modified corn starch and corn syrup”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 25:55 0
“when the test subjects took the real whole food based vitamin C they had a significant reduction in inflammatory biomarkers”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:44:10 0
“your biology is taking notes that flavor is attached to those nutrients so when I become deficient in those nutrients I'll develop a craving for that flavor.”

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The Truth About Microplastics – Dr Rhonda Patrick
Understanding Microplastics and Toxin Exposure in Everyday Health and Environment 1:30:09 0
“the nitrates you know are something that's found in plants they're in vegetables they're in Greens they're you know all over in nature they can also be converted into um nitrites and then ultimately n amines however vitamin C prevents the conversion so vitamin C is also found in plants so packaged together so that's why when you eat you know a lot of plants or like beets have a lot of nitrates you know beet beetroot juice extract is high in nitrates but it's also high in vitamin C and when you have the vitamin C there it converts the nitrates into nitric oxide”

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The 5 Compounds that Detoxify & Protect the Brain (neuroprotectants) – Dr. Sherr
Understanding the Visual Programming Language Processing for Creative Expression 0:00 0
“what alphalapoic acid can do is that it helps in that mitochondria it helps neutralize free radicals directly and then at the same time it recycles your major antioxidants your glutathione your vitamin C your vitamin E”

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The 5 Compounds that Detoxify & Protect the Brain (neuroprotectants) – Dr. Sherr
Understanding the Visual Programming Language Processing for Creative Expression 3:55 0
“alphalopoic acid is one of the unsung antioxidants out there people have heard of glutathione and vitamin C and vitamin E alphalapoic acid is actually the one that recycles all of those to make them more effective in the body”

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The 5 Compounds that Detoxify & Protect the Brain (neuroprotectants) – Dr. Sherr
Understanding the Visual Programming Language Processing for Creative Expression 5:15 0
“alphalapoic acid can do is that it helps in that mitochondria it helps neutralize free radicals directly and then at the same time it recycles your major antioxidants your glutathione your vitamin C your vitamin E it also upregulates another pathway called the NRF2 pathway”

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Exercise & Nutrition Scientist: The Truth About Exercise On Your Period! Take These 4 Supplements!
Optimizing Women's Health and Performance Through Physiological Understanding 1:10:20 0
“what foods have iron in them or iron rich so primarily red meat is where a lot of people turn to but if you are more plant-based then we look at leafy greens we look at nuts and seeds but using a lot of vitamin C with that prly adding um a little bit of olive oil on our salads uh maybe cooking in an iron skillet to improve the amount of iron that comes into the food”

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Protein Amount, Quality and Timing – with Dr. Donald Layman | The Proof Podcast EP 236
Optimal Protein Intake for Health and Muscle Function Explained 48:21 0
“vitamin C at 60 milligrams per day the RDA it prevents scurvy but in the last two years of covid I would say most people have been taking five grams or more”

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Zone 2 Training: The Science Behind Peak Metabolic Health | Dr Inigo San Millan | The Proof Podcast
Enhancing Metabolic Health Through Exercise: Complete Guide for Beginners 2:32:56 0
“I think that we have to be careful with some of these supplements which more and more are sophisticated and can really do biological actions more than just having like the typical vitamin C or vitamin A or even D.”

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Biomarkers For Slowing Eye Aging, Featuring ‪Joseph J. Allen
Optimize Eye Health: Insights on Aging and Preventative Measures 13:55 0
“people who are malnourished uh who are low on vitamin C because vitamin C content of the aquous humor that's the clear liquid that develops inside the eye and actually surrounds the lens because there's no blood flow to the lens.”

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Biomarkers For Slowing Eye Aging, Featuring ‪Joseph J. Allen
Optimize Eye Health: Insights on Aging and Preventative Measures 14:35 0
“taking supplements of vitamin C is probably not going to significantly affect your your rate of cataract formation.”

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Joe Rogan Experience #1735 – Peter Attia
Nutrition, exercise, genetics, disease prevention, and health discussion highlights. 2:50:11 0
“the cocktail that i used the the what i called the kitchen sink was monoclonal antibodies ivermectin um iv drips with a high dose of vitamin c glutathione zinc and then i did nad every other day”

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