Vitamin C "Amazing Substance for Human Metabolism"

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Vitamin C is one type of vitamin that is soluble in water and has an important role in warding off many diseases. This vitamin is also known by the chemical name of the main forms of ascorbic acid. Vitamin C group vitamins including antioxidant that can counteract a variety of extracellular free radicals. Some characteristics include very easily oxidized by heat, light, and metal. Fruits and vegetables like oranges, tomatoes, strawberries, strawberries, asparagus, cabbage, milk, butter, potatoes, fish, and liver, the main source of this vitamin.

Vitamin C is required to maintain the collagen structure, which is a type of protein that connects all fiber network, skin, tendons, cartilage, and other tissues in the human body. Collagen structure is good to heal broken bones, bruises, minor bleeding, and minor injuries.

Vitamin C also plays an important role in helping the absorption of iron and sharpen awareness. As an antioxidant, vitamin C can neutralize free radicals throughout the body. Through the influence of laxatives, this vitamin may also increase the disposal of faeces or excrement. Vitamin C is also able to counteract cancer-causing nitrites. Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that the formation of nitrosamines (the end result of digestion of foods containing nitrite) in the body a number of students who were given vitamin C reduced to 81%.

Hipoaskorbemia (ascorbic acid deficiency) can result in thrush, both in the mouth and stomach, rough skin, gums are not healthy so easily shaken and loose teeth, bleeding under the skin (around the eyes and gums), fast fatigue, muscle weakness and depression. In addition, ascorbic acid also correlated with other health problems, such as high cholesterol, heart disease, arthritis (rheumatoid arthritis), and colds.

Requirement of vitamin C is different for each person, depending on their living habits. In adolescents, the influence of these habits are smoking, drinking coffee, or alcoholic beverages, consumption of certain drugs such as medication antikejang, tetracycline antibiotics, antiartritis, sleeping pills, and oral contraceptives. Smoking habits eliminate 25% of vitamin C in the blood. In addition to other compounds that affect nicotine as bad is caffeine. In addition, stress, fever, infection, and exercise also increases the need for vitamin C.