If You Think You’re Getting Enough Vitamin C…Think Again
Vitamin C is well-known for its immune health benefits, but is vitamin C really a vitamin at all? In this video, I’ll cover health facts about vitamin C, including the benefits, the symptoms of vitamin C deficiency, and how you can increase your levels.
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0:00 Introduction: What is vitamin C?
0:16 Vitamin C explained
1:16 Vitamin C deficiency
1:53 Vitamin C supplements
3:00 Vitamin C science
3:34 Vitamin C deficiency symptoms
6:01 Sources of vitamin C
7:32 How to increase your vitamin C levels
What if I told you that vitamin C isn’t a vitamin at all? Vitamin C is a stress survival molecule! The body uses vitamin C when it’s under certain types of stress, such as:
• Infection
• Inflammation
• Injury
• Emotional stress
• Physical stress
• Low oxygen
If you’re on a high-sugar or high-carb diet, vitamin C will not work as efficiently in your body. Humans cannot produce vitamin C, and rely entirely on dietary sources.
Around 90% of vitamin C supplements are synthetic and produced from corn sugar in factories, mostly manufactured overseas. Synthetic vitamin C is incredibly cheap, costing the producer around 30 cents per bottle. Check your vitamin C labels to ensure it’s not just ascorbic acid.
The vitamin C molecule is structurally similar to sugar and enters the cell in the same way. So if you consume a lot of sugar or carbs, you won’t be able to adequately absorb vitamin C.
Vitamin C supports the mitochondria, which is why you might feel fatigued if you’re deficient. It helps you handle stress, recycle other antioxidants, and absorb iron, leaving you feeling tired, weak, foggy, and unable to recover if you don’t have enough. Vitamin C also helps your cells properly respond to oxygen.
Scurvy is the end-stage of a severe vitamin C deficiency. Subclinical scurvy is a modern-day issue characterized by slow healing, easy bruising, frequent infections, chronic fatigue, and chronic inflammation. Bleeding gums are also a common symptom of vitamin C deficiency.
Some of the best sources of vitamin C are bell peppers, papaya, and raw sauerkraut. Heat and oxygen exposure degrade vitamin C, so pasteurized orange juice often lacks it. Fermented vegetables, especially sauerkraut, are loaded with vitamin C.
To increase your vitamin C levels and avoid vitamin C deficiency:
• Consume ½ cup of fermented vegetables daily
• Consume bell peppers
• Reduce stress
• Reduce sugar intake
• Go on a low-carb diet
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Thanks for watching! I hope this helps you better understand vitamin C. I’ll see you in the next video.
Just so you know, my full line of high-quality supplements is available on Amazon — search Dr. Berg Supplements.
So are your books!
How is Quercetin? I take that rather than vitamin C. I also eat broccoli, oranges and peppers.
A single Indian Gooseberry (Amla) contains on average contains 12 times or more Vitamin C than an orange. Widely consumed in India, seasonally of course.
@abh1yanBroccoli contains more C than oranges too. I have no idea what a goose berry is. Never saw one. I will look closer. 👍
Sprouts are a great source of vitamin C, low in actual sugar
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What’s a doctor? Is it an animal or a fruit?
My favorite source of vitamin C is the black currant berry. By the way, it also has more anthocyanins than blueberries
Have you heard of wild blueberries probably similar to black currants
There will still be way less vitamin C, besides, currants can also be wild
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Sugar is just like a cheap bad street drug that messed up so many people’s lives Thank you Dr.berg
That is such simplification… That is the fuel that our body uses, the brain “lives” on sugar… The problem is when we start consuming too much of it.
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@ozymandiasultor9480 Yes, we need it but there’s too much, and the industrial one is mostly nit good. Saccharine is 100 times sweeter than sugar and some industry uses that.
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Indian Guava has lot of vitamin C
Vitamin c is also great for depression like vitamin d not much people talk about this
My holistic doc just told me yesterday that depression is more about needing vitamin a.
Yes! I feel mentally different without my vitD3. I take Dr.Bergs. now I need to start his vitC also.
what about your own thing ;P
blending a whole lemon for a drink!
Hey doc what’s your take on Ester-C, is it good. Thx
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Vitamin C & cannabinoids are both underrated & not understood nearly enough.
Dr Berg only person took care of my problems…….I was tired of being overweight and sick for so many years. Especially when you are going to different types of doctors and they just keep you running around in circles. Thanks to Youtube Videos like this and Keto fasting
I have had much success with Liposomal Vitamin C.
Same!! Helps with absorption. Without liposomal, most of it would just pass through your system.
The best form
Same. More expensive but worth it.
It’s so good that in some ways it almost mirrors the miraculous benefits of I.V. Vitamin C.
But what if it is ascorbic acid? Mine is liposomal but is also ascorbic acid? I was thinking it was good.
Kiwi’s are high in vitamin C, and thry taste so good. 🤤
Kiwis are great for vitamin C! And they really do help your gut biome and all kinds of other processes as well… Along with blackberries
Kiwi is also high in oxalates which bind to calcium and give people kidney stones.
Not good for those with arthritis with its oxalates
Kiwi’s also help with sleep.
I tried them for a couple of wks & they really did help… but i got sick of the taste 🤢
@mindfulmaximalismIf you pair them with a yogurt or a cheese… It will absorb the oxalates
I don’t think I’m buying anything from China ever again😢
Most seasonings come from China. Just learned it plus they irradiate before distributing it 😢. I guess maybe spices would get mouldy? Anyway irradiation kills bacteria. FYI
Not flossing will also causes the gums to bleed when brushing the teeth and gums. Flossing is like exercise for strengthing the gums.
Not true at all
I stopped eating fruit, veg and other plants and my gums stopped bleeding. No flossing.
Bloodwork showed my Vitamin C as nonexistent. Been using frozen blackberries and tangerines to supplement. Did order some Liposomal Vitamin C – fingers crossed.
About 60 yrs ago I had blood poison in my arm. I had lump in my armpit and a streak running from my elbow to my armpit.
The infection was in my elbow.
We didn’t have a “family doctor” but my friend’s dad was a doctor. When I discovered the streak I went to my friends house to find out what it was and what I should do.
He said he didn’t have any penicillan (sp?). He told me to go buy the largest bottle of 1000mg Vc and orange juice. To take 10K all at once and take 1k every hour after, with orange juice, until the bottle was gone.
When the bottle was gone so was the infection.
I’ve been a Vc believer and Vc preacher ever since.
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