Vitamin C: Ascorbic Acid vs Natural Vitamin C - Dr Ekberg

Vitamin C ascorbic acid versus natural

is there a difference and what do you

need to know to not get hurt coming

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so that you don't miss anything. Ascorbic

acid is not the same thing as vitamin C

and here's how this works

early research nutrition genius Royal Lee

found that in nature the things that

they call vitamins is a working process

it's a complex it's a machinery that

contains a nutrient enzymes coenzymes

antioxidants and that it needs to be

activated by trace minerals so if any of

these pieces are missing then the whole

machinery falls apart so in the case of

vitamin C for example it contains

something called ascorbinogen,

bioflavonoids, rutin, tyrosinase there's

a factor J K and P it has mineral

cofactors and ascorbic acid in it so

think about this as a clock if you will

a clock is a mechanical or used to be a

mechanical device now it's more of an

electronic but think of it as a

mechanical device back when they had

lots and lots of pieces and it's

something that tells time you have the

hands and you have the face and you have

all little cog wheels and all little

pieces and now someone comes up and they

ask you which piece tells time is it

this one that tells time is it that one

that tells time that's a ridiculous

question because it's the sum total it's

the pieces working together that results

in the ability to tell time and that's

how it is with nutrients that in nature

nothing ever occurs in an isolated

fraction form but unfortunately once

they started

nutrients they were more concerned about

synthesizing nutrients they wanted a

cheap way of mass-producing something so

they said okay which one of these can we

mass produce and they found for example

the antioxidants in vitamin C was easy

to mass-produce so they said oh that's

the ascorbic acid and we can turn it in

we can mass-produce it from corn starch

and glucose and sugar and and

hydrocarbons in doing that along the way

they equated they said ascorbic acid is

the same thing as vitamin C but they

were mistaken and test after test have

shown that pure ascorbic acid does not

have the biological effects that the

complex has the ascorbic acid is

important it's the wrapper it's a

protective an antioxidant is a

preservative it's there to preserve and

protect the other nutrients from

oxidative damage while they're still

growing the antioxidant is not the

nutrient it's the protector it's just a

wrapper so if you just eat the

antioxidant it's like you're just eating

the wrapper and throwing away the

content so what happens in the body is

these things have a certain affinity for

each other they have a liking for each

other they fit together and they attract

each other over the course of the years

you have accumulated a certain amount of

these in your body you're using them but

you also have a certain amount now if

you eat a large amount of ascorbic acid

by itself in its isolated synthetic form

then it will have a tendency to attract

these other components it will pull them

to itself it will fit in a certain way

and by eating an excessive amount of

ascorbic acid you're depleting yourself

of these other components that's why

it's so important to get all of these in

a certain balance and in nature they

always provide the right balance so

isolated ascorbic acid is not

vitamin C and it's not a good idea so

then there are some companies that call

themselves natural that say oh well we

can do better than that so we'll take

the ascorbic acid and then we'll take

some natural things we'll sprinkle some

acerola cherry powder on it will isolate

some bio flavonoids and some tyrosinase

and we'll add it to the ascorbic acid so

now it's natural again we took these

pieces and we just gave you more of all

of them or more of some of them so they

change the proportions maybe and thought

that they had improved on something but

what they're really doing is they're

taking the cogwheels they're taking the

pieces of the watch out and they're

saying okay well I don't think that

one's so important I think this is

important and that's important and

that's important so let's let's take a

bunch of that and we'll throw it in a

bag for you and shake up the pieces and

and here you go here's your clock but

it's not gonna tell time okay it's not

going to tell time if you have

disassembled it and scramble the pieces

nature put things together in a certain

order and it's the it's the context that

your body recognizes it wants the pieces

in the order that they occur in nature

that's how they can be beneficial that's

how they sustain life nutrients come

from things that were alive to keep

things alive so what about antioxidants

aren't they a good thing well let's talk

about what it means accident means that

something is under the influence of

oxygen so oxidation in the body means to

use oxygen to turn fuel into energy

that's how we get energy we oxidize the

fuel that's why we need to breathe all

the time an antioxidant is something

that interferes with that process it

makes it harder for the body to utilize

the oxygen and turn fuel into energy so

therefore and is you probably know

oxygen is the most important new

that we have and if you don't agree with

that then I suggest the following

experiment you put a piece of duct tape

over your mouth and then you hold your

nose for a couple of minutes and let's

see if you don't change your mind and

agree that it's the most important

nutrient we have because without it we

can't make energy and if you take large

amounts of antioxidants it is the same

as suffocation therapy you might just

sort of take every other breath and try

to conserve oxygen to get healthy it's

not going to work so what about all

these healthy foods the vegetables and

the berries that have all those

antioxidants and they tell us that's why

those foods are healthy it's because

they have a lot of antioxidants and

that's not true they are healthy despite

the fact that they have a lot of

antioxidants blueberries for example

have such a significant amount of

nutrients in them that they need a

significant amount of antioxidants to

protect those nutrients so blueberries

are healthy for you despite the fact

that they have antioxidants not because

of it so eat whole food eat things that

nature have produced eat lots of berries

and plants and good quality meats and

stay away from anything synthetic

anything man-made anything fractioned

anything processed because when you

change the perfection of nature you make

it worse it doesn't get better than what

nature made in the first place

supplements can still be a good idea

because even with the best of diet it

can be difficult to get whole food whole

organic food that has all of the

nutrients in sufficient quantities

depleted soils pollution added stress

means that a lot of us are still needing

a little bit of supplementation and if

you get something a nutritional

supplement then make sure that it has

all of these pieces in it the ones that

we use primarily a standard process

because they concentrate food they do it

below body temperature

they retain all of these nutrients

enzymes coenzymes etc that were present

in the original food so please share

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munching down massive amounts of

antioxidants they are shortening their

lives and they're reducing their energy

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