This item is listed as Ascorbic Acid, but not all Vitamin Cs are the same. As the previous reviewer asked, "Why not just eat an orange...?" Well, an orange or two everyday will prevent scurvy...

Imagine that...a disease can be prevented with a vitamin...Are any doktors listening?

But an orange, or two every day isnt nearly enough to maintain body metabolism, regardless of age. Heres an interesting side note about vitamins: When sunlight reaches our skin, it is turned into Vitamin D and unless you get 3rd degree burns from the Sun, our body has a mechanism that will create exactly as much D as it needs and no more. With few exceptions, D is the only vitamin that you can OD on. Aside from that, our bodies stopped manufacturing all other vitamins around 40,000 years ago and we are completely dependent on food sources for all the rest of them. The catch is that we would need to eat around 100 pounds of high quality foods everyday to get what we need, thus, supplements.

Vitamin C is one of the most powerful antioxidants in nature and has many functions, but the primary function if C is to oxygenate the blood. The fruitcakes at the FDA claim that the RDA is around 60mg/day for women and 90mg/day for men. This wouldnt supply a gnat with enough of it. Actually, there is no known upper tolerance level for Vitamin C, if you take the right stuff. Ascorbic Acid found in pills and powder is, basically, synthetic C and limits are created by how tolerant your stomach is to it. Most people can't handle very much of it. There are better sources and the one that I use is Calcium Ascorbate, extracted from rose hips and acerola. The calcium is a buffer to protect your stomach and, unlike Ascorbic Acid, nearly 100% of Ascorbate gets adsorbed and absorbed and used in our bodies. I'm currently taking 25,000mg/day with nothing but positive results; after 10 years of struggling with asthma, it is completely gone and I have no more use for inhalers, for one.

All of the free oxygen floating around has enormous benefits. The most important benefit is that it raises the bodys pH into the alkaline range, where diseases die. Heres how this works: It releases the excess oxygen from the naturally occurring hydrogen peroxide in our body. This oxygen seeks out pathogens like cancer, viruses and tumors and dissolves their protective coating and flushes them out of the system. It has been proven beyond any doubts...beyond any doubts... that massive doses of Vitamin C will kill cancer cells (faster if injected) Ghee...thanks for telling this to us.

Another important function of this powerful antioxidant is that it destroys free radicals. These are nasty little buggers that need an additional ion and they rape healthy cells for them.

I could write for hours on the benefits of taking high doses of a quality Vitamin C, but I think I made a good case for it here. Anything that keeps our bodies in the alkaline range is worth its weight in oranges...