Little-Known Substance Turbocharges Your Vitamin C

A top seller for decades, vitamin C remains a popular nutritional supplement, but is there more to the vitamin C “story” you may not know?

Most people identify vitamin C’s history with scurvy and have heard the British are called “limeys” because their famous navy incorporated the idea of bringing fresh citrus aboard for the men to eat, which prevented scurvy.

Scurvy is a horrible condition in which the mucous membranes hemorrhage, cell membranes lose permeability and integrity, the gums swell and bleed, the body loses strength and energy and the lower leg muscles grow hard and weak. People would die a …read more