{"id":3058,"date":"2020-10-04T15:02:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T15:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alshahba-pharma.com\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2020-10-04T15:02:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T15:02:46","slug":"vitamin-c-time-to-take-this-supplement-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alshahba-pharma.com\/en\/2020\/10\/04\/vitamin-c-time-to-take-this-supplement-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin C: Time to take this supplement seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vitamin C has always been a controversial supplement. To some, it belongs firmly in the alternative medicine basket, with apparently no substantial evidence to support its use.<\/p>\n

To others, it holds promise, particularly if you are talking about certain groups of people who are likely to be low in vitamin C.\"\"<\/p>\n

Because we NEED vitamin C. It is an important antioxidant and crucial for our immune system function among other things. Studies have also shown our bodies excrete less vitamin C when we are sick, meaning we hold onto vitamin C when we are unwell because we use more.<\/p>\n

But no disease has put vitamin C in the spotlight as much as COVID-19<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n

With no definite treatment and thousands of people dying from respiratory diseases such as pneumonia associated with COVID-19, medical staff are scrambling for treatments that might make a difference.<\/p>\n

And vitamin C has the potential to make a difference<\/a><\/u>. Despite what some may say.<\/p>\n

Why? Well firstly, there is an unnerving similarity between those people who are likely to have low levels of vitamin C (which is around 7% of the U.S. population by the way), and those people more at risk of severe COVID-19. Let\u2019s list them:<\/p>\n