{"id":547,"date":"2019-04-04T16:32:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T16:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apisbull.com\/blog\/?p=547"},"modified":"2019-04-04T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T16:35:53","slug":"what-the-dont-tell-you-about-vitamin-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apisbull.com\/blog\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"What the don’t tell you about Vitamin C"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Vitamin C: what they don’t tell you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Vitamin C is widely regarded as the safest vitamin. However, for me, sometimes C gave me problems. Here’s how I learned to fix these problems, over the last 28 years. (I still take Vitamin C.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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My mom gave me chewable vitamin C tablets when I was a kid. When I was about 5, I had two problems already; nosebleeds and sweating. Vitamin C can deplete copper, and copper can stop nosebleeds and sweating, thus indicating that vitamin C may have created a copper deficiency in me at such a young age. At age 13, I went to live with my dad. By age 18, I was getting bad nosebleeds, and I “rediscovered” vitamin C to fix my nosebleeds on the advice of a family friend. I took 1-2 or even 3 tablets of 1000 mg. of vitamin C. It worked. But then, sometimes it didn’t work, and the nosebleeds got worse, but I still had not figured out why.<\/div>\n
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It took me a lot of trial and error and further learning until I read that the Vitamin C was giving me “rebound scurvy” when I would forget to take it for a few days. What happens in theory is the body makes more enzymes to digest and use up the C, and then, when not taking C, the body moves quickly into deficiency mode. That might not be accurate. Maybe the Vitamin C acts as a chelator, removing metals such as copper, and without copper, bleeding problems begin.<\/div>\n
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Vitamin C was good for my nosebleeds because it strengthens the walls of the blood vessels. But the rebound survey effect, or copper depletion effect, caused excess bleeding from time to time.<\/div>\n
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I found two ways to beat the “rebound scurvy” effect, besides trying to be more consistent with taking C regularly without forgetting, and besides taking smaller more consistent doses of only 1,000 mg\/day.<\/div>\n
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First taking bioflavonoids with the C helps keep the Vitamin C in the body longer, and this helps to prevent the effect of the rebound scurvy. But note, it did not completely eliminate it, and if the theory is wrong, then the solution will be wrong, too. Perhaps copper depletion is the better theory.<\/div>\n
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Second, I found out about the herb Cayenne pepper, which stops bleeding. Cayenne Pepper also contains vitamin C and biovlavonoids, so it’s a really good in combination. Today, I either try to eat hot sauce on my food, or take Cayenne pepper at least a few times a week.<\/div>\n
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Cayenne is said to be a great source of copper. But it\u2019s not. 1 capsule, 1 gram of cayenne pepper contains 0.0037 mg of copper. Source: https:\/\/www.nutrition-and-you.com\/cayenne-pepper.html<\/a><\/div>\n
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This helped me get through my ski racing days up to age 23 or so, but nosebleeds were still somewhat of a problem.<\/div>\n
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I had heard also that Vitamin C can deplete zinc, and taking zinc can deplete copper, and that both copper and zinc should be taken with magnesium, so for years I took the minerals on and off from time to time. I was never a big fan of calcium supplements.<\/div>\n
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When I was in my late 30’s, I created my own herbal formula that contained over 240 different herbs in it. As a happy side effect, this greatly helped prevent my nosebleeds. This product is not for sale.<\/div>\n
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