Vitamin C
Vitamin C is a great and versatile vitamin to make the body function optimally. Vitamin C is found in many foods, but it is not made or stored in the body because it is a water soluble vitamin. Interesting fact is that humans and some other ape species are the only living creatures that cannot convert glucose (blood sugar) into ascorbic acid (vitamin C).
The human body and vitamin c
Despite the body's own unable to produce vitamin C, hundreds of biological systems rely on it. Vitamin C is considered an essential antioxidant because it protects the structure and integrity of cells when exposed to free radicals, among other things. Vitamin C is also described as the vitamin that holds the body together because of its important role in collagen production.
Ascorbic acid
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is a compound that is comparable to glucose and comes mainly from fruits and vegetables. In the better dietary supplements, vitamin C is obtained as ascorbic acid from natural sources, cheaper forms can also be extracted synthetically as from GMO corn.
Liposomal vitamin C
Liposomes are a kind of hollow balloons. The advantage of liposomes is that they make dietary supplements more effective as carriers of active substances. This allows vitamin C to enter the cell directly.