Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to increased risk of asthma, cancer and chronic pain, among other conditions. Now, new study associates low vitamin D levels with greater risk of seasonal affective disorder.
Over 75 years of medical research and clinical practice reveals, overwhelmingly, that vitamin C has the power to ignite the ‘self-healing response’. I know what you’re thinking – if vitamin C is so good for us – why haven’t you been told about this .
Scurvy is a disease caused by a diet that lacks vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Patients develop anemia, debility, exhaustion, edema in some parts of the body, and sometimes ulceration of the gums and loss of teeth.
I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. ‘God-nose’ was not more successful, so in the end ‘hexuronic acid’ was agreed upon. To-day the substance is called ‘ascorbic acid’ and I will use this .