Antioxidants - Vitamine C
Vitamin C is an antioxidant necessary for at least 300 metabolic organism functions: for tissue growth and recovery, for the normal function of several glands and for healthy gums, too. Its assists also the anti-stress hormone and interferon production (protein important for the immune system) and is necessary for the folic acid, tyrosine and phenylalanine metabolism.
The vitamin C assimilation can relieves asthma symptoms. Vitamin C protects from the destroying effect of the environment pollution, also assists the anti-cancer prophylactics, protects from infections and increases the immunity. Organism iron absorption increases at vitamin C availability. This vitamin can binds toxic substances, like heavy metals, and returns them in form suitable for throwing out from the organism. Even the “black widow” spider’s poison can be making harmless with huge vitamin C doses application.
Vitamin A deficiency - How to avoid it ?
Vitamin A is very important for the skin elasticity, bones, teeth and normal sexual functions. The same as vitamin C and vitamin E, vitamin A acts as an antioxidant (destroys harmful free radicals). Vitamin A has a preventive role against cancer and atherosclerosis. It promotes the rodopsin formation, which is very important substance for the good vision, especially for the so called “night vision”.
Vitamin A strengthens the immune system and protects all the tissues form different infections. Ninety present of it deposits in the liver. It is a fat-soluble vitamin important for our body.
Vitamin A has two forms: retinol and retinoid (beta-carotene). Beta-carotene promotes the formation of vitamin A in our body (precursor of vitamin A) and contains in yellow vegetables such as pumpkin and carrots. The active type of vitamin A is found in fish oil, in eggs, liver and milk. Also you can find it in every drug store as a preparation.
Vitamin A is found in every multivitamin preparations (MultiTabs, Supradin / Supradyn , Supravit, etc.), and also like a single preparation in a tablet form. For body-builders especially is produced a unique preparations containing vitamins and minerals.
On the contrary, the beta-carotene is not toxic in any doses, because the body uses it to produce vitamin A only when it needs it. So you can accentuate to beta-carotene consumption.