Supplements can feel kind of complicated.

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How does the body use vitamin C?

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First, a reminder about what vitamin C does.

Josey Murray

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“Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin that also serves as an antioxidant.

How is vitamin C absorbed?

That’s easy enoughso what’s all the fuss about vitamin C absorption, then?

Ashley Jordan Ferira, Ph.D., RDN

Well, the vitamin C in foods (and many supplements) is a form calledascorbic acid.

Alternatively, excess water-soluble vitamins are discarded, leaving you to start fresh every day.

“Take it in two or three doses,” he reports.

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And boomthe result is a233% higher cellular absorption rate4of vitamin C than ascorbic acid.

as well as a greater reduction of oxidative stress markers.

  • When you know more about your supplements, your supplements can actually do much more for you.