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Most animals can synthesize Vitamin C on their own
Primates, including humans, cannot synthesize it
The three most important roles of Vitamin C in the human body are:
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First: it helps the body detoxify -
Second: it helps the body form collagen -
Third: it directly fights viruses and bacteria, significantly impacting the body’s immunity
In nature, most animals have the ability to synthesize Vitamin C. Therefore, you will see dogs eating things from garbage and even, as a joke, eating feces.
Why can they eat such dirty things without getting sick? Because dogs have the ability to produce Vitamin C in their bodies, which they synthesize when encountering viruses and bacteria.
Goats grazing on hillsides eat grass that has not been disinfected or washed, so sometimes they consume spoiled or contaminated food. How do they handle this? Their bodies can also produce Vitamin C, and in emergencies, they can produce up to 50,000 mg of Vitamin C.
Almost all animals can produce Vitamin C, except for a series of animals that belong to the primate family, including gorillas, apes, monkeys, and humans. Why is that?
During the evolution of nature, primates, apes, and humans gradually chose vegetables and fruits as their main food source. Humans cannot produce Vitamin C, but their fruit intake is far less than that of gorillas, resulting in their Vitamin C levels often being in a state of depletion.
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Symptoms and Harms of Vitamin C Deficiency
Vitamin C deficiency makes humans very susceptible to bacterial and viral infections, and the skin tends to sag. Therefore, when Vitamin C is deficient, people age more easily, are more prone to infections, and develop wrinkles and spots on their skin.
Symptoms of Vitamin C deficiency include: dry mouth, susceptibility to colds, stretch marks, and bleeding gums, along with a series of symptoms including purpura, scratches, weakened bone tissue, melanin deposition, and cataracts.
All the symptoms mentioned above point to one factor: the degradation of the body’s capillaries, which is due to Vitamin C deficiency leading to insufficient collagen tissue.
Collagen formation requires Vitamin C, and once it is deficient, collagen will also be lacking, making the body’s tissues prone to brittleness and rupture.
Many girls often notice numerous red spots on their bodies, which we call petechial bleeding, referring to the sudden rupture of micro-capillaries in the body.
Why do they rupture so easily?
They rupture with slight pressure because the micro-capillaries are fragile. Additionally, many girls often feel bruised without knowing who pressed or pinched them. This is also due to the fragility of blood vessels.
Thus, Vitamin C deficiency has a significant impact on the body; when Vitamin C is deficient, your immunity will continuously decline.
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The Immune-Enhancing and Antioxidant Effects of Vitamin C
As you know, the occurrence of any disease is related to a decline in immunity!
If we can enhance the body’s immunity, we can rely on it to combat various diseases. However, once immunity declines, any disease can occur.
The effects of Vitamin C include preventing the harm of reactive oxygen species, inhibiting the production of free radicals, thus preventing age-related cataracts, preventing anemia, alleviating stress and fatigue, quickly recovering from colds, maintaining the elasticity of muscles, blood vessels, and intestines, and enhancing the tension of mucous membranes and bones.
It can suppress allergic reactions, lower blood cholesterol, prevent scurvy, and inhibit cancer. Similarly, if Vitamin C deficiency leads to the aforementioned diseases, it is quite disadvantageous for you.
If you can supplement with some natural Vitamin C daily, for instance, if you take 200 mg, you might only spend 3-4 yuan, but such a small investment can help reduce your risk of cancer, maintain skin elasticity, help you keep your bones strong, prevent scurvy, and help you avoid many painful and troublesome diseases. I believe this habit is very beneficial for modern people.
If you often eat fruits, consuming a lot daily, you may not need to supplement Vitamin C. However, in today’s society, most people only eat one or two fruits a day, and the Vitamin C intake from fruits is very minimal, at most fifty to sixty mg. This amount of Vitamin C can be quickly depleted; just a bit of stress can use it up. Just a moment of distraction, feeling pressure, or exposure to viruses and bacteria can rapidly deplete it, making it far from sufficient.
Modern air pollution and significant environmental degradation, along with many people being in a state of fatigue for extended periods, make them particularly susceptible to infections because fatigue means a large accumulation of dead cells in the body, which cannot be metabolized in time. The accumulation of dead cells provides abundant nutrients for bacteria and viruses.
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Where Do Infectious Diseases, Colds, Fever, and Inflammation Come From?
The human body generates a large number of dead cells every day. When your immunity is normal, the body quickly phagocytizes and processes these dead cells. However, if your metabolic rate slows down and new cells cannot grow in time, and the immune level continues to decline, dead cells will accumulate in certain corners of the body.
If this corner is in the microcirculation of the eyes, then your eyes will become inflamed. Inflammation, in this case, is caused by bacterial infection; the bacteria do not infect you but instead find abundant nutrients (dead cells) in that area.
Bacteria cannot harm your normal cells; they can only damage already damaged or dead cells to use them as components. Therefore, when dead cells accumulate in a certain area of your body, it means that area is at risk of inflammation and infection at any time.
If dead cells accumulate in the liver, you may get hepatitis; if they accumulate in the renal capillaries, you may get nephritis; if they accumulate in the mucosal tissue of the tail, you may get gastritis; if they accumulate in the mucosal tissue of the lungs, you may get pneumonia. Thus, the primary task is to eliminate dead cells.
[In a garage, if there are many rats, if you kill ten of them, another ten will quickly come back because there are more rats in the world than humans, and you cannot kill them all. To keep the garage free of rats, it is simple: remove the food that attracts them, the garbage, and they will not come back.]
[If your home is clean, there will be no cockroaches or mosquitoes. If a certain corner of your house is often piled with garbage, it will breed bacteria, mosquitoes, flies, and cockroaches.]
The most important thing is not the bacteria but to deal with the source. The key to all inflammation lies in the accumulation of dead cells, and the large accumulation of dead cells occurs when the body cannot metabolize in time, leading to a decline in immunity.
If you are in a very good mental state, you can eat without washing your hands, grabbing food without any issues; all animals in nature eat this way, and no one washes. [It is very difficult for a tiger to catch a rabbit, let alone wash it afterwards.]
All animals are not afraid of bacteria and viruses; only humans are afraid!
Because humans cannot produce Vitamin C themselves and do not adequately supplement it, Vitamin C is the most straightforward way to help you enhance immunity.
True hygiene is not about washing hands or avoiding contact with viruses; appropriate contact with bacteria and viruses does not harm the body.
Vaccination itself is about introducing appropriate bacteria and viruses to stimulate the body to produce antibodies. True cleanliness is not about washing hands and feet; true cleanliness refers to having a strong immune system and a good physical state.
If your body has been exposed to certain bacteria and viruses and has produced antibodies, then further exposure to those bacteria and viruses is no longer a concern!
Bacteria and viruses are similar to the foods we know; if the body can process them, it means the body has a system to handle them. If such food is consumed in excess, it does not harm your body; it merely causes waste, and the body will automatically expel the excess.
[If you eat too many bananas, you will naturally feel nauseous at the sight of them. If you consume too much fatty meat, you will instinctively fear the word ‘fat.’ It is hard to overconsume; even if you do, the body will expel it through diarrhea.]
Compared to excess, deficiency is more frightening! Excess can be expelled, but deficiency means the interruption of chemical reactions in the body, leading to insufficient materials needed for bodily structures, causing bodily harm. Deficiency can cause immediate damage, while excess merely results in waste.