Vitamin C with Flavonoids 180 Vegetarian Capsules

This Vitamin C with Flavonoids supplement by Thorne Research supplies a synergistic combination of ascorbic acid (more commonly known as vitamin C) and citrus flavonoids in an easy-to-digest vegetarian capsule.

In this supplement, you’ll find pure, crystalline vitamin C without any magnesium stearate, corn starch or other diluents or lubricants. One thing you won’t find in Thorne’s vitamin C with flavonoids is inhibiting flowing agents that interfere with the supplement’s natural bioavailability.  Unlike other vitamin C supplements, these vegetarian capsules contain natural flavonoids as you would find in citrus fruits.

Benefits of Vitamin C

Vitamin C is one of the most well-known nutrients throughout the world. This is so because it is a common vitamin, but also because it has so many health-promoting qualities. Vitamin C is an important antioxidant, which means that it protects your body’s cells from damage caused by free-radicals, but it is also involved in synthesizing important neurotransmitters (such as norepinephrine and dopamine), and it plays a role in producing cellular energy. The body needs vitamin C in order to properly metabolizing carbohydrates and synthesizing proteins and fats. Vitamin C also helps break down cholesterol and helps keep your immune system healthy and functioning properly. In addition to all this, vitamin C helps with wound healing because it is used in the body’s synthesis of collagen and connective tissue.

You may find the terms vitamin C and ascorbic acid used interchangeably, but it is important to note that ascorbic acid only refers to vitamin C in its purest form, not vitamin C bound to any other compound. In addition to being pure, this vitamin C is mixed with citrus flavonoids, which are a combination of naturally-occurring flavonoids. Such flavonoids include hesperidin, quercetin and rutin, which are also 100 percent pure.

In addition to supporting the immune system, connective tissue and cellular energy production, many people take vitamin C for its antioxidant activity.

The Thorne Research Difference

As you have come to expect from Thorne Research, this vitamin C supplement is of the utmost quality. Not only is the vitamin C pure (in the form of ascorbic acid) and the citrus flavonoids are pure, but Thorne takes its quality assurance to another level. This supplement does not contain any corn starch or other fillers. To get the benefits of vitamin C, you don’t necessarily need the added flavonoids, it is believed to help improve the efficacy of vitamin C supplements. The presence of flavonoids in the cells spares the vitamin C and boosts antioxidant activity.

Vitamin C is a water-soluble antioxidant that helps stabilize collagen. This function is essential to maintaining health and wellbeing. If you have a deficiency in this vitamin can cause poor collagen cross-linkage and weak connective tissue.

Most people can benefit from vitamin C supplementation, but those with certain habits medical conditions may have a greater need for supplementation. Among such habits and conditions are smoking, alcoholism, chronic stress, pregnancy, diabetes and drug use.