There are roughly about seven ways to know if you are low in vitamin c, okay but I first want to cover some confusion about vitamin c the first one is between synthetic vitamin c and natural vitamin c if you look this up you'll be told that they're the same there's no difference between synthetic vitamin c and natural vitamin c chemically they're the exact identical molecules well these studies if you actually read them mainly talk about absorption rate okay it's absorbed the same well they might be the same but in nature, they're very very different in fact ascorbic acid which is now called vitamin c really is just one little piece of the vitamin c complex in nature you never see just plain ascorbic acid but when you see the studies that show there's no difference between synthetic versus natural they're really only talking about absorption rate okay they're not talking about if vitamin c created an effect in the body they're mainly talking about well it absorbs at the same rate in the same amount but i want to know will it actually fix my problem right well even the gentleman who discovered vitamin c okay back I think it was 1939 said that you can't cure scurvy okay with isolated ascorbic acid okay you can't cure scurvy scurvy is a severe vitamin c deficiency and i'm not saying that there's no benefits from synthetic vitamin c i just want to let you know there's a huge difference between synthetic versus what you see in nature that is part of the vitamin c complex and most of the synthetic vitamin c that is sold out there is made by china and they make it from sulfuric acid in corn starch okay and you're going to tell me that's the same thing as what they have in nature well i don't think so in nature vitamin c comes as a complex you have ascorbic acid as one part you also have vitamin p which is the bioflavonoids part and p stands for permeability because it's related to vascular permeability and this is why if you're deficient you tend to have more bleeding because there's more leaking through your capillaries okay and then you also have vitamin k as part of the vitamin c complex too so that's included in a lot of functions and the j factor has to do with increasing oxygen in the lung and you also have copper as a trace mineral within the vitamin c complex in an enzyme form called tyrosinase which is involved in rebuilding collagen okay in connective tissue so this is why vitamin c is very very important in collagen formation connective tissue joint health and a lot of vitamin c is stored in the adrenal glands okay and your white blood cells also need vitamin c as part of the immune system when you take vitamin c the duration of your cold can be a little bit less but your immune system needs vitamin c vitamin c is good for connective tissue and also supporting the walls of the capillaries to make sure they don't leak vitamin c is a very powerful antioxidant in one study which i'm going to put down below they tested in a lab okay so they took vitamin c and they wanted to see if it was a really good antioxidant and they found it actually was a pro-oxidant okay in this study well what does that mean well very simply if you envision a free radical okay which is it's kind of an unpaired electron let's say you took this little plate that's spinning on my my finger and you had two different weights on either side to balance it out as it spins right and then you took one of these these weights off you can compare that to a free radical because it's an unpaired electron so we have uh something that's not going to balance and since this thing is spinning you can have a lot of damage with this unstable radical molecule an antioxidant comes in and donates that missing electron so now it can be balanced and spin and be more stable but if you're going to take uh ascorbic acid okay or any synthetic antioxidant and what's going to happen it's going to donate its electron and then it itself is going to be unpaired it becomes a free radical in nature and in your body you always have networks of antioxidants so when one donates electron it can then receive another electron from another antioxidant and they can share their electrons in fact vitamin c helps to regenerate vitamin e with this very same mechanism because let's say for example you have a lot of problems in your arteries and vitamin e is donating the electrons and you also took vitamin c vitamin c can help recharge the vitamin e so it can then start donating more of these electrons to help with this antioxidant effect all right what are the ways that you can determine if you're low in vitamin c well number one the big one is bleeding gums right if you brush your teeth and it's these red little streaks on your toothbrush and your bleeding and your gums chances are you're low in vitamin c number two you might have these small little red and purple dots on your skin sometimes you see them in the lower leg sometimes they can be anywhere on the body okay but this is an indication of low vitamin c another one number three is bruising now remember i talked about this k1 right here in the vitamin c complex well vitamin k helps to prevent bleeding okay so it's kind of coagulation so it's going to help you prevent this excessive bleeding when you injure yourself but if you have a vitamin c deficiency without any injury no no reason for bruising and you get a bruise you might want to look at a vitamin c deficiency next one is dry rough scaly skin okay that can be a vitamin c deficiency and as a side note the chemical structure vitamin c is very similar to glucose okay and so if you're consuming sugar at the same time you're consuming vitamin c guess what's going to take priority the glucose this is why kids adults who consume a lot of sugar are usually always low in vitamin c also if you're a smoker you're going to be deficient in vitamin c because the need for vitamin c goes way up okay chicken skin like maybe in the back of the arms you see these little little uh bumps that you have okay and they're slightly red or it could be on the legs or your thighs that could be a vitamin c deficiency it could also be an omega-3 fatty acid deficiency as well nose bleeds are a symptom of low vitamin c okay and then we have dry splitting hair which is another indication that you are low in vitamin c now the best way to get vitamin c is from food or food concentrates from lemon or lemon juice the problem with lemon juice is that it's heated and heat destroys vitamin c so if you're going to use lemon juice to get your vitamin c make sure you get it from actual lemons that you juice or blend the whole lemon like i do in the morning with a glass of water and a teaspoon of my electrolyte powder it tastes great but you can get vitamin c from peppers any type of peppers green peppers red peppers vitamin c is in cabbage vitamin c is in the berries but the highest vitamin c is in sauerkraut okay sauerkraut one cup of sauerkraut could give you up to like 10 times the vitamin c that your body requires each day now since vitamin c is an interesting topic.
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