What is “whole food Vitamin C?”

So, what is whole food Vitamin C? Whole food Vitamin C includes an ascorbic acid “shell” and bioflavonoids. It also contains tyrosinase, a copper-based oxidase enzyme that is critical for the production of melanin in our bodies.

Without sufficient tyrosinase, we cannot produce melanin, which is essential for healthy skin pigmentation and overall wellness.

From Dr Robert Thompson, author of the ‘Calcium Lie II’:

“Vitamin C complex molecules also contain P, K and J factors, the tyrosinase enzyme, at least 14 known bioflavonoids, various ascorbagens, five copper ions, iron, manganese, zinc, selenium, phosphorus, magnesium and yes, ascorbic acid.”

Did you know?

We, along with guinea pigs, cannot make our own Vitamin C! Did you know this?

Whole food Vitamin C includes tyrosinase – a copper-based enzyme. Without “functional” (bioavailable) copper, this component cannot function, and metabolic pathways are disrupted.

Are you getting enough?

One of the biggest storage locations for Vitamin C in humans is our adrenal glands. When our adrenal glands are stressed due to external/internal stress sources (or both), we often end up without enough Vitamin C complex available to do even basic tasks.

Tyrosinase must also be present for our white blood cells to do their job, which is connected to our immune system.

The bioflavonoids and p-factors from tyrosinase (again, part of the whole-food-c complex), are needed for collagen and elastin in our connective tissue – those who have skin, muscle, fascia and/or other connective tissue problems, NEED more bioavailable copper within the tyrosinase, to regain this function.

Tyrosinase is needed for steroid hormones in the adrenal tissue, too – it is VERY important!

If you don’t think you’re getting enough, you might like to read more about adrenal cocktails. Adrenal cocktails are the first recommendation of STARTS in the Root Cause Protocol.