We are used to considering vitamin C as essential for immune resistance during a virus attack. But he has other, no less important tasks for the body, one of which is preserving youth, maintaining skin tone and renewing tissue cells. Since vitamin C is an antioxidant, it helps to ward off the harmful effects of free radicals and prevent damage to all body systems.
If vitamin C enters your stomach along with vitamin E, its effect as a rejuvenating factor is greatly enhanced. You can also enhance the effect with the help of cosmetic preparations containing these vitamins – so to speak, attack the body from all sides.
The aging process of our cells depends on many factors, and vitamin C acts on each of them.
For example, with age, our vessels wear out – the walls become thinner, and periodic blockages occur. Vitamin C affects the blood, prevents blood clots and strengthens vascular tissue.
Or the problem of excess weight, which adds age, stretches the skin, toxins and fat pollute the subcutaneous layer and internal organs. With an adequate intake of vitamin C in the body, the rate of calorie burning increases by 30 percent.
Vitamin C, as an antioxidant, has sunscreen properties. Cosmetics, which contain a lot of this vitamin, will help to avoid burns and the risk of melanoma – skin cancer. Also, the use of vitamin C with food will reduce such risks from the inside and increase the body’s resistance to hot rays.
Melanoma is not the only type of cancer that vitamin C can help against. Many types of oncology, thanks to this vitamin, do not develop, and with chemotherapy, they enhance the effect of treatment – it is administered intravenously for quick action.
How to know if you are lacking vitamin C
With a lack of ascorbic acid, there may be the following symptoms:
– frequent and prolonged colds;
– feeling tired;
– dry skin;
– bleeding gums;
– joint pain;
– irritability and tearfulness.
The norm of vitamin C per day is 50-100 mg for adults and 40-50 mg for children. Foods richest in vitamin C: dried rose hips, barberry, sea buckthorn, parsley, dill, oranges, lemons, tangerines.