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Vitamin C Understanding The Importance Of It
Vitamin C is perhaps the most important single vitamin the body needs, appreciating that all the vitamin complexes are necessary for normal body function. Over the years, vitamin C has become known as Ascorbic Acid, which is a simple chemical compound composed of six carbon atoms, 12 hydrogen atoms and six oxygen atoms. The significance of that fact is important because anyone who has a basic understanding of chemistry can create that quite easily. Unfortunately, Ascorbic Acid is hardly equivalent to the vitamin C Complex, as it is only the outer covering or shell that nature creates in an effort to keep the vitamin C Complex from oxidizing, as well as being eaten in nature. Considering that by having an acid covering, once you touch it, it would have the tendency to burn, thereby causing it to be avoided.
Sticking with the theme of this column, "Understanding the Importance of It," I wanted to continue with our discussion of the various vitamins based upon Dr. Royal Lee's original research and writtings. Again, this information is taken from Vitamin News, Volume 2, No.3; March 15, 1934, republished by The International Foundation For Nutrition and Health from Part of the Royal Lee Library Series. I hope you enjoy the information.
Vitamin C has lately been identified chemically as "ascorbic acid" according to Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi. (Nature, London, December 10, 1932, p. 888) (Previously announced as hexuronic acid)
Vitamin C is one of the most necessary vitamins, and its deficiency results in a wide category of pathologies, the most conspicuous probably being damage resulting from loss of integrity of intercellular substance in various connective tissues, blood vessel walls, teeth and gums, friability of bones, etc. These are all indications of the loss of strength of the intercellular substance.
Black and Blue spots without traumatic cause are due to "C" deficiency causing weakness of blood vessel walls. Vitamin C deficiency is no doubt athe major systemic cause of pyorrhea (gum infection).
Hypertrophy of adrenals with reduced secretion occurs in "C" deficiency. Low blood pressure is the consequence, with fatigability and impaired heart action, tachycardia and shortness of breath.
As vitamin B as well as "C" are known to be necessary to the proper function of the adrenals (see above reference in Nature, London), and "B" is also known to be necessary to the nervous control of heart action, it is evident that here we have an explanation of the present-day high mortality rate from heart disease.
Most heart pathology begins as functional weakness, with enlargement, valvular lesions, and coronary disease as secondary developments. Infection can, of course, play an important part, which may be due to vitamin A deficiency. The valvular trouble in many cases can probably be attributed to enlargement and consequent distortion. The use of vitamin concentrates ("Catalyn") is indicated in such areas. The improvement is usually definite and progressive. Enlargement and heart weakness are the most responsive to this treatment, coronary disease the least. "Catalyn" is the drugless successor to digitalis.
Vitamin C also factors in some anemias.
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