The Importance of Vitamin C

The body systems of humans are made up of chemicals. The raw materials these systems use to keep our bodies healthy are acquired through the food we eat and the essential substances that our bodies produce. If our diet doesn’t contain enough of certain vitamins, our body systems can’t work properly. This causes our optimum health to decline and we become undernourished or ill.

One of the most important vitamins our bodies need to stay healthy is Vitamin C. The shortage of this vitamin in our diets is universal. Most people don’t eat enough foods rich in Vitamin C, to supply their body with even the minimum amount required to stay healthy. Vitamin C is essential to life. It is used by our bodies for almost all essential functions. The brain, lungs, lymph glands, saliva glands, thyroid, kidneys, small intestines, retinas and pancreas all need ten to fifty times the amount of Vitamin C that is produced by the plasma in our bodies. The heart muscle, the skeleton and erythrocytes require at least ten times the amount of Vitamin C that is produced by plasma.

These statistics show that we need to take Vitamin C supplements in order to keep our bodies at optimum health. A daily dosage of a minimum of 250 mg was recommended by doctors in the US, according to a recent poll. Supplement intake for optimum health was 500 mg a day.

You cannot overdose on Vitamin C. What isn’t used is passed from our bodies through the kidneys.

To keep your body at a healthy performance level, be sure to take at least 500 mg of Vitamin C daily. When you are ill with a cold or flu, take 1000 mg. This will help you to keep healthy and, according to statistics, live longer.