Fix Whatever Ails You

Got a health complaint? Chances are, vitamin C can help

- Vera Tweed

 

It’s easy to take vitamin C for granted and underestimate its potential. But that’s a bad idea, says Thomas Levy, MD, author of Curing the Incurable: Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins. “It’s your most vital antioxidant,” he says, and one that can improve “whatever ails you.”

In decades of practice and research, Levy has seen just about every annoying symptom improve with vitamin C supplementation, from difficulty getting out of bed in the morning to muscle aches to energy sags, minor joint pain, arthritis, and tension headaches. “I’m not saying that they all go away,” he says, “but they improve.” And some symptoms can, literally, disappear. Surprisingly, says Levy, “Studies have basically shown that vitamin C by itself will help reverse osteoporosis, but there’s no way you can possibly get enough vitamin C strictly through diet; you need supplementation.”

Studies have also shown that people with higher levels of vitamin C are less likely to suffer from heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, bone fractures, cancer, loss of mental faculties in later years, cataracts, gout, type 2 diabetes, asthma attacks from exercise, lingering colds, and even early death.

WHY IT’S A SUPER ANTIOXIDANT