VITAMIN C

Yesterday's blog related to Vitamin C and MONONUCLEOSIS. The blog talked about vitamins and minerals and growing children. Expect the posts to be related over the next several days while Old Trunks gets her Vitamin D from the sun on the lake somewhere in Minnesota. As an experiment for arthritis pain, I will take one 500 milligram tablet with each meal and one before I go to bed. I do not consider it toxic, I may just have healthy urine and if I take too much, I may get diarrhea, but it is worth a shot to put the concept under the microscope, don't you think?

The use of vitamin C as an immunization supplement became popular after 1970, when a study by Pulitzer Prize-winner Linus Pauling concluded that large doses of vitamin C could ward off colds. Since then, multiple health organizations have conducted their own surveys, with results that contradict Pauling's findings."The research has gone back and forth about vitamin C," said Jayne Carey, a nurse at the health center's Nurse Specialty Clinic. "It's not going to kill a cold, and I don't know that there's hard and fast scientific data that proves it will prevent one either."Some students, Carey said, regularly come into the health center with colds they weren't able to relieve with any manner of supplement, including vitamin C, zinc and echinacea . Still, said Wolfram, it can't hurt to regularly take a modest amount of vitamin C, especially if you're deficient. That may be what you think. I am not hear to change your mind. We are, after all, not suffering from scurvy!

We do know, and should agree on that sources of Vitamin C come from citrus fruits, (lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruit), seeds from wild roses, (BUT DOC, I DON'T HAVE ANY FLOWERS), bell peppers and cabbage, tomato juice, and strawberries AND MORE.

One of the functions is to help form and maintain a strong cement-like material called collagen, which holds together all the cells in our body. Some sources say if your tooth brush is pink after brushing, you may be deficient, although dentists will tell old people they have a mouth disease and you will find yourself at a special dentist! BUT, if your mouth is free of diseases and your tooth brush has blood on it, and you aren't brushing that hard....perhaps!

Another source states Vitamin C plays a role in maintaining normal vision. Does that mean that if one is deficient they get cataracts? An eye surgeon would argue this point as he puts in manufactured lens.

It is said that a healthy person needs an in take of 75-90 milligrams of Vitamin C daily to sufficiently nourish the body.

36 calves liver
90 Turnip greens

After a meal of calves liver and turnip greens, then I am nourished, right? Other sources state a greater amount of milligrams, hopefully all from foods. Look at the products you buy, has Vitamin C been added? When the bottle states 100% daily allowance for C, what does that mean? If I am scurvy like, does that mean I will be efficient after 40 glasses of fresh squeezed orange juice? Remember to squeeze the sweetest oranges, they have the most.

But what if I don't live in a place that has oranges? What if I am in a snow bank in North Dakota? We don't have orange trees here, only snow balls. (If they are yellow, don't eat them).

Are you saying you can get it from other sources? Yes, but what if, like mother and grand mother, you cook it to death before you eat it and the nutrients are all gone? Are you saying, drink the water the veggies are cooked in? You are probably right, even if it tastes worse than liver!

Now, if my sweet Thomas bruises NOT from the medication to keep his blood from clotting, rather because of Vitamin C deficiency, then should he be taking supplements? Or more vitamin C products? What if same said Sweet Thomas has an acid reflex problem; will 40 glasses of orange juice set that off?

Does Vitamin C detox? Could one take it instead of applying detox pads to their feet? Does Vitamin C really play a part as a complement while taking antibiotics? Is Vitamin C the good Christian ready to soothe the aching brow for people with infections and virus?

Report of Vitamin C intake to follow.

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