Let's talk about the immune benefits of vitamin C. Now, vitamin C does a lot of different

things, but its influence on your immune system is quite amazing.

Let's talk about it.

Now vitamin C deficiencies are actually very common.

You can have what's called a subclinical vitamin C deficiency where you're not majorly

deficient, but you're just efficient enough to cause a weakness within the immune system.

I'm going to talk more about that.

Vitamin C is a water soluble nutrient, so it has a low storage capacity.

So unless you're constantly getting vitamin C, you can be deficient within weeks.

Vitamin C is a very powerful antioxidant.

So when you have free radicals, which are basically molecules with unpaired electrons,

so you're supposed to have two to balance it out.

Let's say you just have one, and it becomes a free radical, so it can damage certain things

in the body.

Vitamin C comes in there and donates an electron to stabilize the molecule.

So it can actually help counter free radical damage.

As far as immune benefits, it can enhance antibodies.

Antibodies are proteins that fight pathogens, microbes that shouldn't be in your body.

Also it will increase neutrophil motility.

Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell.

It's like a phagocyte that cleans things up.

It engulfs and kills certain microbes, and it speeds up the motility of these little

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