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Vitamin C and HIV/AIDS

I know you'll be wondering what has vitamin C got to do with HIV and AIDS virus.

Well truth be told vitamin C has a lot of potential I can actually solve a lot of things.

You look at them today with our focus and attention.

Lymphocytes are also white blood cells and like phagocytes, B- and T-cells also accumulate high level of vitamin C. However, Vitamin C has been shown to have a more pronounced effect on cell mediated response than its humoral response.

This is attributed to studies which suggests that the vitamin enhances the differentiation and maturation of T-cells and natural killer cells in response to infection. Remember the T-cells (the CD-4 cells) are involved the fight against HIV.

Vitamins C administration after surgery, why?

Vitamin C doesn't only prevent against aging, it also maintains barrier integrity. It is very important during tissue remodeling and wound healing since it decreases the expression of pro-inflammatory mediators and enhances the expression of various wound healing mediators.

Infact, following surgery, patients require relatively high intakes and doses of vitamin C not to only normalize their plasma vitamin C status (which falls due to the oxidative stress) but to aid healing of the wound. This is the major reason why they are administered to surgery patients.

The heat lability of Vitamin C

One of the biggest shortcomings associated with vitamin C is its heat lability. Vitamin C molecule is heat labile and very susceptible to heat. It begins to degrade at a temperature as low as 86 degree fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius).

So exposing some of your fruits and vegetables to heat ultimately leads to the degradation of their vitamin C content. What does this tell us avoid exposure of your fruits, vegetables etc under sunlight.

Don't be deceived by the concentration labelling on some nutraceuticals or pharmaceutical vitamin C you buy, most of them are slightly increased in concentration because the manufacturers do take cognizance of the fact that the vitamin C content of their product degrade over time, so in order to ensure that it does not degrade below standard concentration written on the label they slightly increase the concentration of their products.

Vitamin C and HIV/AIDS

I know you'll be wondering what has vitamin C got to do with HIV and AIDS virus.

Well truth be told vitamin C has a lot of potential I can actually solve a lot of things.

You look at them today with our focus and attention.

Lymphocytes are also white blood cells and like phagocytes, B- and T-cells also accumulate high level of vitamin C. However, Vitamin C has been shown to have a more pronounced effect on cell mediated response than its humoral response.

This is attributed to studies which suggests that the vitamin enhances the differentiation and maturation of T-cells and natural killer cells in response to infection. Remember the T-cells (the CD-4 cells) are involved the fight against HIV.

Vitamins C administration after surgery, why?

Vitamin C doesn't only prevent against aging, it also maintains barrier integrity. It is very important during tissue remodeling and wound healing since it decreases the expression of pro-inflammatory mediators and enhances the expression of various wound healing mediators.

Infact, following surgery, patients require relatively high intakes and doses of vitamin C not to only normalize their plasma vitamin C status (which falls due to the oxidative stress) but to aid healing of the wound. This is the major reason why they are administered to surgery patients.

The heat lability of Vitamin C

One of the biggest shortcomings associated with vitamin C is its heat lability. Vitamin C molecule is heat labile and very susceptible to heat. It begins to degrade at a temperature as low as 86 degree fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius).

So exposing some of your fruits and vegetables to heat ultimately leads to the degradation of their vitamin C content. What does this tell us avoid exposure of your fruits, vegetables etc under sunlight.

Don't be deceived by the concentration labelling on some nutraceuticals or pharmaceutical vitamin C you buy, most of them are slightly increased in concentration because the manufacturers do take cognizance of the fact that the vitamin C content of their product degrade over time, so in order to ensure that it does not degrade below standard concentration written on the label they slightly increase the concentration of their products.

Take fruits in addition with pharmaceutically produced vitamin C tablets when need be, because you cannot really get the full recommended daily average needed by the body per day by consuming only fruits unless you have to eat as many as possible to meet the daily requirement.

According to the report by Sharma et al., 2019,

The highest content of total ascorbic acid obtained by the Spectrophotometric method was found in samples of lemon (3.14 mg/100 ml)>apple (2.78 mg/100 ml)>orange (2.62 mg/100 ml)>grapes (2.2 mg/100 ml)

Not everyone can possibly afford buying fruits in such larger quantities for consumption. On the average, fruits contain alone contain less than 4mg of vitamin C.

So, to stay live longer and ensure state of good health, if you cannot afford taking much fruits, you could buy Pharmaceutically produced vitamin C to supplement the fruits and meet up with the 90mg/day recommended daily dosage for adults generally.

Take fruits in addition with pharmaceutically produced vitamin C tablets when need be, because you cannot really get the full recommended daily average needed by the body per day by consuming only fruits unless you have to eat as many as possible to meet the daily requirement.

According to the report by Sharma et al., 2019,

The highest content of total ascorbic acid obtained by the Spectrophotometric method was found in samples of lemon (3.14 mg/100 ml)>apple (2.78 mg/100 ml)>orange (2.62 mg/100 ml)>grapes (2.2 mg/100 ml)

Not everyone can possibly afford buying fruits in such larger quantities for consumption. On the average, fruits contain alone contain less than 4mg of vitamin C.

So, to stay live longer and ensure state of good health, if you cannot afford taking much fruits, you could buy Pharmaceutically produced vitamin C to supplement the fruits and meet up with the 90mg/day recommended daily dosage for adults generally.

With all the above said, it is obvious that vitamin C has huge role to play in the keeping the human physiological system healthy. Take enough fruits if you can or but vitamin C tablets to stay healthy.

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