The Vitamin Industry's Dirty Little Secret
 

Vitamin C is not what you think it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY1sIcTYN3I

Well that's a scary bit of information.

Certainly is enlightening isn't it? I never know that this is how Vitamin C supplements were made.

Most are from unnatural sources. I was getting hints about this before, but this proves it. Thank you for posting this!

Also the frontline documentary on supplements was eye opening as well:

https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline...nts-and-safety/

Ascorbic acid might be just a "piece" of the vitamin c complex, but it's the part of the complex that's, um, vitamic c. They didn't just willy-nilly pick out a fraction of the complex and declare it to be vitamin c, they did experiments showing that ascorbic acid specifically did prevent/cure scurvy. In a similar manner, "niacin" is just a fraction of the more involved NAD and NADP molecules, but it certainly does resolve pellegra.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ar...j00519-0122.pdf

This study from the 30's in infants with scurvy using ascorbic acid rather than whole food sources of vitamin c did show that it was effective. The study was unethical, but it did show that ascorbic acid is indeed vitamin c.

I'm so lost. :help: Is the ascorbic acid found in most vitamin c supplements a synthetic form of vitamin c?

I read on the linus pauling institute webpage that synthetic vitamin c does help as well as real vitamin c :

Edit: ok, I went and read the 1935 scurvy study. It sounds like vitamin c is the one vitamin that works better than most as a synthesized form.