All about vitamins-----please read this!!!

[wedgewood]

I think that everyone should read this article!

the doctorwithin.comvitaminc/ascorbic-acid-is-not-vitamin-c

[shellywidga]

Hi, this link doesen't seem to work? x

[wedgewood in reply to shellywidga]

Sorry about that! I just tried ---

the doctorwithin.com/vitaminc/ascorbic-acid-is-not-vitamin-c

and it worked OK.

[humanbean]

This link might work :

thedoctorwithin.com/vitamin...

Edit: It does.

[wedgewood in reply to humanbean]

Thabk you humanbean! You are better at this than me!

[helvella]

Disregarding everything else, I find it very odd that the article mentions "vitamin B" more than once, adds (thiamine) after in one place. And appears to think that adequate.

[wedgewood]

I really only wanted to say that it's better to get Vitamin C from natural sources! What I ask of you is that if you were suffering from SCURVY, would you want to be treated with ASCORBIC ACID? (Instead of lemons or limes? )

[fbirder in reply to wedgewood]

It would make no difference. Ascorbic Acid *is* Vitamin C and Vitamin C *is* Ascorbic Acid. As a chemist I couldn't possibly tell if the stuff in your body was synthetic Ascorbic Acid or natural Vitamin C, even with the millions of pounds worth of equipment I used to use.

Because there is no difference.

The only difference between 'natural' and synthetic is that I know that the synthetic material will be pure and I'll know just how much I'm taking.

So, if I were suffering from SCURVY then I'd prefer to be treated with ASCORBIC ACID, unless the limes included TONIC water and GIN.

[wedgewood in reply to fbirder]

Well, you would not survive. Ascorbic acid does NOT cure Scurvy. If you put enough lemon /lime in you gin and tonic, it would help!