Posted on Friday October 21, 2005 in Life
I did some reading today in an attempt to discover how taking vitamin C helps clear up dark circles under eyes.
It seems to me (once again, I must stress that I am no chemist) that the vitamin C helps in the body’s production of collagen. This collagen is used by the body to maintain skin elasticity.
I have assessed my diet and I am pretty sure that I am not vitamin C deficient, but I have decided to start taking mega-doses of vitamin C for a while to see what happens.
There is a Vitamin C Foundation which look to extol the wonders of ingesting vitamin C (it will even help in the battle against avian flu – they say:
Various U.S. and U.N. agencies and the Council on Foreign Relations are spreading the word that the Avian Influenza, if it breaks out this fall or winter, could be as severe as the worldwide Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918, and they are predicting hundreds of millions of deaths worldwide. This influenza, currently isolated in China, is a hemorrhagic illness. It kills half of its victims by rapidly depleting ascorbate (vitamin C) stores in the body, inducing scurvy and collapse of the arterial blood supply, causing internal hemorrhaging of the lungs and sinus cavities
I’m not sure about the truth of this claim as I am not a disease expert, but I guess I can rest easier now that imported pigeons have tested positive for avian flu in Australia
Sounds like some good research to be doing, I have the same problem; let me know if you find a rememdy that works well.
I have another post to make tonight with some more home remedies.
And yes, all unused vitamin c comes out as urine. Eating too much will also give you diharrea. Loverley.