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Ascorbic acid is not vitamin c - hogwash!

Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:28 am
by Ralph Lotz
Natural News has a new feature called Naturalpedia.com. Imagine my surprise when I clicked on vitamin C and this came up:

Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means
Ron Garner (See book keywords and concepts)

The drug industry calls it vitamin c. Ascorbic acid is not vitamin c, but rather a fraction, the outside layer of the biologically utilizable vitamin c complex, as shown in Figure 16.1. i- ASCORBIC ACID -1 ASCORBICEN BIOFLAVINOID COMPLEXES TYROSINAS E P FACTORS K FACTORS J FACTORS 1- ASCORBIC ACID -1 Figure 16.1 Complete vitamin c complex Likewise, alphatocopherol, which is sold as Vitamin E, is only part of the Vitamin E complex. As Richard Murray points out: ... synthetic vitamins are not vitamins at all but synthesized FRACTIONS of a vitamin complex ...


It is unfortunate that this mythical disinformation continues because of ignorance and/or greed.
Here are some keys to understanding the nature of ascorbic acid/vitamin C:

Owen's paper, The Nature of Vitamin C
http://vitamincfoundation.org/NaturalC.htm

Szent-Gyorgyi A. 1937. Oxidation, energy transfer, and vitamins. Nobel Lecture. [online].
Available from:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medi ... ecture.pdf.
(See pages 446-448.)