Vitamin C
Fruits are not my main squeeze, no pun intended (actually very much intended and thought it was a rather smart one, no?) I feel as though the natural sugars don’t always serve us well - our energy specifically.
However then enters my third child Isla, who we’ve deemed the snack queen and alllllll she ever wants to eat is fruit! So my temperature has changed and so has my perspective.
It’s well known that vitamin C is a number one nutrient in oranges. So eat ‘em up. Here’s the scoop on vitamin C…
Did you know?
Vitamin C is a water soluble vitamin AND an essential nutrient. That means that we actually have to have it in our diet and supplements in order to get it in our system as the body can’t produce it and nor is it stored in our body.
Vitamin C is important as it helps our immune system to keep functioning. This is because it’s an antioxidant. Antioxidants help to ‘clean up’ the free radicals in our body. We need antioxidants in order to prevent us from getting sick or getting more severe illnesses like cancer.
Vitamin C comes in many forms. Liposomal has gained legs in the last decade. This is where the vitamin C is served in a liposome - a protective layer such that increased absorption can occur when it gets to our digestive tract. Ascorbic acid is the most prevalent kind. It isn’t absorbed as well as liposomal and can be a bit hard on the digestive lining. This is synthetically produced. Calcium ascorbate is a subset of ascorbic acid types and this can be the least rough on the belly.
I love vitamin C and typically suggest we get most of our intake from food. AND when a little tickle in your throat comes on, vitamin C can be great to high dose (this is where advisement from your healthcare practitioner comes in) so as to eliminate the tickle or clear the congestion up quickly! I also love using this in IV form for chronic conditions.
