Whole Food Vitamin C 

Written By Lilyanna Eide

This is why you should be taking whole-food vitamin C every day: (not ascorbic acid)

👉🏼What do you mean by “whole food” vitamin C? Whole food means instead of taking an isolated vitamin supplement, you are consuming a food that is naturally high in that vitamin. For example, acerola cherries. By doing this, you are getting whole vitamin molecules (which is KEY) as well as the wide range of minerals your body needs to process the vitamin. 

👉🏼REAL Vitamin C is essential for:

  • Optimal cell health 

  • Copper mobility & function

  • Hormone health & balance 

  • Immune function

  • Preventing iron overload & toxicity 

  • Keeping sodium & potassium in balance  

  • Ceruloplasmin (CP) production 

  • enzyme tyrosinase

  • Adrenal health (they store 95% of our vitamin C)

❤️Take 400-800mg/day of whole food vitamin C

👉🏼Where to get it:

  • Acerola cherries

  • Rose hips

  • Citrus fruits

  • Kiwi

  • Peppers

  • Papaya 

  • Pineapples 

❤️ I take acerola cherry, whole food Vitamin C from Perfect Supplements. You can use the code LILYEIDE10 to save 10%

👉🏼You want whole-food Vitamin C, not Ascorbic Acid. Why? Ascorbic Acid is actually just a very small part of the larger Vitamin C molecule (think 1 of the dots on a golf ball) 

In this processed, isolated state, Ascorbic Acid is only able to do a few things & can actually do more harm than good. Ascorbic Acid is a pro-oxidant & the molecule C or whole food vitamin C is an anti-oxidant. Aka they are in direct opposition to each other. One helps your cells (anti-oxidant), and the other hurts your cells (pro-oxidant)

While it is one of many nutrients in the Vitamin C molecule, the Whole C molecule is what we really need. Where do you get that? From whole food forms of Vitamin C!

👉🏼Why ascorbic acid is bad: 

  • it causes iron & copper to oxidize (rust) our tissues

  • causes copper to separate from Ceruloplasmin, making copper unable to function  

  • neutralizes antioxidants in the body

  • depletes the molecule Vitamin C in the body, by blocking its absorption in the gut.

  • competes for the binding sites for Vitamin C in our cells and causes the excretion of the real C molecule in the urine.

  • Ascorbic acid’s pro-oxidation effect is what makes it known for its antiviral and antibiotic-like effects (good in the short term, but has a long-term negative effect on the body). The whole C molecule contains ascorbic acid so it is able to effectively do these functions without depriving the body of other minerals.

❤️I take Acerola cherry whole food Vitamin C from Perfect Supplements. You can use the code LILYEIDE10 to save 10%

Lilyanna Eide
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