Vitamin C
Full lectures with Dr Suzanne Humphries and Dr Thomas Levy
Elaine Godley
Last Update 7 months ago
Lecturer Suzanne Humphries is a doctor from the United States, a specialist in internal medicine and kidney diseases, who has been interested in the importance of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) for a variety of functions in the body and that there is research that has often been forgotten, denied and doubted in healthcare.
The lecture is about how vitamin C is important for children and during pregnancy, in diseases of the cardiovascular, skeletal and skin and in cancer.
But should you take extra vitamin C?
How much and in what quantity and form?
Are there dangers and problems with this?
We all need vitamin C and it is best known for its importance for the immune system. It is important as part of the prevention and treatment of a variety of diseases.
A common belief is that a balanced diet contains enough vitamin C, but is this true?
How much do we need?
In what form should it be used?
Is it good to take in higher doses for different diseases? Can it be combined with common medicines?
Could it be important for you and your health?
Dr. Humphries has a historical perspective on vitamin C and its importance in various diseases, but also describes its role in health in general.
Original source Video: Why is vitamin C important? – Swedish Society for Orthomolecular Medicine (ortomolekylar.se) September 2014
Dr Levy further explains how our body runs on energy and the role of vitamin C
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