5 Benefits of Taking Liposomal Vitamin C Everyday
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Why vitamin C?
Vitamin C might be one of those vitamins that only comes to mind when you suddenly get a bad cold but it’s actually an essential micronutrient with a surprising and wide range of benefits. This is not a vitamin you want to skip when it comes to your overall health and well-being. Moreover, although vitamin C is absolutely essential for the human body to continue functioning – without it, you’d get scurvy! – our bodies can’t make their own vitamin C and don’t store it well either. This means that you need to regularly receive enough vitamin C from an external source. Here are five reasons you should be taking vitamin C everyday:
- IT SUPPORTS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
This could really be several points in its own right since vitamin C plays a number of important roles in maintaining a healthy and functioning immune system! Without enough vitamin C, your immune system would be weakened and you might find yourself getting sick more than you normally would.
Vitamin C is thought to support your body in the killing of foreign microbes like viruses and bacteria. Both antibodies, which are produced by white blood cells, and the white blood cells themselves are involved in destroying these foreign microbes, and research indicates that vitamin C plays a role when it comes to antibodies and white blood cells. Studies have suggested that vitamin C may stimulate antibody production. Antibodies then help to find foreign invaders and get rid of them. Vitamin C is also thought to be involved in helping white blood cells move to the site of infection and in helping them to actually kill the viruses or bacteria. To find out more about the ways in which vitamin C supports the immune system and the science behind it, you can read this 2017 review of the research.
- IT’S AN ANTIOXIDANT
Antioxidants play an important role in helping to protect the body from damage caused by oxidants. Free-radical oxidants are unstable molecules which are naturally produced in the body. They, in turn, cause chemical reactions known as oxidation. Although oxidation itself is needed within the body, too many free-radical oxidants can cause oxidative damage to cells and DNA. Vitamin C is an antioxidant which means it helps to neutralise free-radical oxidants and prevent this damage occurring! A 2020 article said that natural antioxidants – like vitamin C – “play a major role in scavenging free radical and non-radical oxidants, and protect cells from oxidative stress and damage”.
- IT ENHANCES COLLAGEN FORMATION AND PROMOTES HEALTHY SKIN
Vitamin C is also involved in maintaining normal skin health – and skin which is healthy should contain a lot of the vitamin. It promotes the production of collagen and also wound healing. The fact that it is an antioxidant comes into play again here since it can help protect the skin from oxidative damage caused by environmental pollutants and UV radiation (which is found in sunlight). If you want to know more about the science behind vitamin C’s role in the skin, check out this 2017 research review.
- IT LOWERS CHOLESTEROL LEVELS
A 2008 meta-analysis of 13 trials demonstrated that taking a vitamin C supplement significantly reduced LDL cholesterol, also known as ‘bad’ cholesterol, by 7.9 mg/dL. The same research demonstrated that it also significantly reduced blood triglycerides, by 20.1 mg/dL. High levels of LDL cholesterol and blood triglycerides are thought to increase the risk of a stroke and heart disease.
- IT HELPS KEEP BONES STRONG
Vitamin C also helps to promote normal, healthy bones. Remember we said that vitamin C promotes collagen production? Well, that’s not just important for the skin. Collagen is one of the main components which your bones are made of! Not only that, but oxidants can be extremely detrimental to bone health and are thought to contribute to the occurrence of bone diseases such as osteoporosis. Because vitamin C is an antioxidant, there is some indication that it can help to prevent oxidative damage to your bones occurring – although more research is needed on this.
Why liposomal vitamin C – and what is it?
Now that we’ve (hopefully) convinced you of the benefits of vitamin C supplementing, is it best to use liposomal vitamin C supplements or standard oral supplements? Well, digestion begins the moment you put something into your mouth and it comes into contact with your saliva. This process continues in the stomach where strong acid breaks down the stomach’s content. This can mean that large amounts of the nutrients in supplements – sometimes up to 80-90% – are simply broken down and got rid of as waste material without you reaping the benefits. That’s where liposomal supplements come in.
Liposomes are tiny bubbles made of the same material – phospholipids – as our cell membranes. Inside each liposome, you’ll find the vitamin or mineral you are supplementing. When a liposomal supplement is taken, because the body recognises the phospholipids the liposomes are made from, they are absorbed into the circulation, engulfed by cells in the body, and release their payload directly into the cell. Plus the phospholipids help to protect the vitamin or mineral supplement from the stomach acid. This all means that much less of the nutrient is wasted.
At lipolife, we’ve carried out research which indicates that our liposomal LVC2 Vitamin C achieves over 200% of the absorption of standard oral supplements. Plus, we have a wide range of liposomal vitamin C supplements so that you can take it in a way that works for you – whether you like your supplements unflavoured or want to choose from a variety of tasty fruit flavours, whether you’d prefer to take a vitamin C supplement on its own, combined with D3, K2 and zinc, or in the form of a comprehensive multivitamin! Why not get started today?
