Hey guys, today we're going to talk about vitamin C in relationship to cardiovascular health.

Now since heart attacks are the number one single cause of death worldwide,

it's a good idea to just understand all the different pieces of this puzzle

so you can then minimize the damage that could happen to your body and prevent the problem.

Now you have this thing called atherosclerosis, hearting of the arteries.

Sometimes people think it's caused by consuming too much cholesterol.

It's not. It's been proven that is not caused by cholesterol,

cholesterol is made by your body in large amounts.

It's going to come in there to heal something, but it's not the actual cause.

The cause is a structural weakness within the blood vessel itself.

Now the very most interlining of the artery has something called endothelial cells.

These are kind of collagen cells and you need vitamin C to keep these really, really strong.

Vitamin C is a co-factor to help support the production of collagen in vascular smooth muscle.

You actually have muscles around the arteries that make it contract and relax.

That elasticity is very, very important.

You don't want it to be stiff and rigid.

I've already done videos on how insulin can make your arteries very, very rigid and thick.

But just realize that too much insulin, which causes insulin resistance,

can be one of the key factors of causing a vitamin C deficiency in the first place.

Now there's been over 478 clinical trials involving supplementing with vitamin C

that shows significant improvement and endothelial function.

So it's definitely one of the key factors involved with cardiovascular disease

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