Vitamin C-1500 mg Time Release

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is a vital part of good health. The body is unable to store Vitamin C because it is water-soluble, and so it is your responsibility to provide your body with this essential vitamin daily. Vitamin C can be supplied either through your diet or with supplementary means.

Vitamin C is an important part of your body’s basic building functions and its disease prevention and protection system. Vitamin C is an antioxidant that can help block damage from free radicals. Vitamin C also increases the absorption of iron. Vitamin C is critical to collagen production, a protein that binds cells together and is the building block of connective tissues throughout the body. It’s necessary for growing and repairing tissues all over the body. Vitamin C boosts your immune system and increases white blood cell production as well. It even aids in healing wounds and the repairing and maintaining healthy cartilage, bones and teeth. When your body is healing from infection, injury, disease or surgery, the body needs large amounts of vitamin C.

Studies are ongoing on how Vitamin C can better help our bodies heal. Recent research indicates that vitamin C and vitamin E work synergistically having a greater effect together than separately. Studies also show that Vitamin C is a powerful protection against many illnesses and medical conditions, including heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, common cold, osteoarthritis, obesity and weight loss, cataracts, age-related macular degeneration, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and other kinds of dementia. Research shows that while vitamin C will not cure these conditions, it may help prevent them from occurring, or slow progression.