Let's talk about the importance of vitamin C and something called a subclinical vitamin C

deficiency.

You may have heard the term scurvy before, which is a very serious vitamin C deficiency.

Another term for that is called classical vitamin C deficiency, but subclinical is that you

have a sub vitamin C, but you don't have the full amount. Now, what does vitamin C do?

Well, mainly it works as an antioxidant, protecting against free radical damage.

It has a real big important purpose in college and growth and repair. I'm talking about

connective tissue, ligaments, tendons, fascia, cartilage, all the things related to your joints.

It's also necessary to make noradrenaline, and when you're low in noradrenaline,

you're just not awake. You're tired all the time. It's also necessary in the function of

carnitine, which has to do with delivering fat to the mitochondria, the furnace to burn fat.

Fat oxidation. If you're low in vitamin C, you're not going to get the full

fat oxidation to make energy. Also, your white blood cells, part of the immune system,

are saturated with vitamin C. If you don't have enough vitamin C, your immune system cannot work.

When you have a very severe deficiency as in scurvy, you have wounds that won't heal.

You'll get gingivitis, inflammation of the gums. You'll get perifilicular hemorrhage.

Now, what is that? That is the little red dots on the follicles on your skin. It could be in your

butt. It could be certain places in your body. That's about in the C deficiency. Fatigue,

red purple blotches, similar to spider veins, but sometimes you see them on the lower leg.

You'll see them very commonly with diabetics, and there's a lot of other symptoms as well.

Now, how do you get vitamin C? These are the foods that have a lot of vitamin C.

Papaya, which I don't recommend. Kiwi, which I don't recommend.

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