Vitamin C & Collagen

Scientists and doctors who have done research on vitamin C agree that we don’t get near enough. Basically, we are getting just enough to keep us from getting scurvy. Without enough vitamin C, our bodies can’t build the collagen that we need. This all translates to more sagging and wrinkling skin.

Owen R. Fonorow says, “Among its many metabolic functions, vitamin C as ascorbate is required in the manufacture of the protein collagen. (Pauling 1986) Collagen provides strength and structural integrity to animal tissues (that includes us humans as well). The repair and maintenance of tissue induces a daily need for new collagen. In human scurvy, the body disintegrates from a lack of collagen and the disease only appears in the few animal species which do not synthesize vitamin C.” Click here to read more about Vitamin C from Fonorow’s web site.

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Did you know that humans are one of only a few species that can not produce their own vitamin C? It takes 4 enzymes to make vitamin C in the human body; we have 3 of the 4 needed. Scientists are working on a way to introduce the 4 th enzyme into infants so they could make their own vitamin C. It is believed that humans once were able to manufacture their own vitamin C but a mutation occurred and we lost the ability.