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And here's your host, Robin Openshaw.

Hey, everyone, it's Robin OpenShall.

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Today, I want to share a little excerpt with you from my new book called Take Daily, How Supplements Hijack Our Health. This one's called vitamin C, this supplement that isn't what you think it is. Okay, so let's talk about vitamin C versus acorbic acid. It's just vitamin C, right?

Vitamin C is the supplement nearly everyone has taken. We keep it in our cabinets for sniffles. We believe it to be

immune boosting. Popping a pill makes us feel better about travel or stress or when we feel

like we're coming down with something. It's the safe one. It's the harmless one. It's the one we give

to our children without thinking twice. I did it too. But what if the vitamin C you've been taking

isn't actually vitamin C? What if it's a chemical impersonation, manufactured

in factories, not found in nature, and that calling it vitamin C is kind of like calling chaff wheat?

The shocking truth about escorbic acid. Look at your vitamin C label.

What does it say?

Chances are it says ascorbic acid.

But ascorbic acid is not vitamin C.

It's the outer shell of the vitamin C molecule group.

It's a protective antioxidant layer. But true vitamin C as it exists in Whole Foods is a complex

containing bioflavinoids, rootin, J factors, P factors, enzymes, and trace minerals,

a bunch of things. Your body's designed to use the whole complex,

not one isolated chemical fragment. Ascorbic acid is to real vitamin C, what a plastic orange peel

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