Because the physique’s major water-soluble antioxidant, vitamin C supports beautiful skin, immune response, mobile resilience, cardiovascular well being, cognitive perform, and extra.*
“Vitamin C works as an antioxidant in every single place within the physique—it’s discovered within the blood, physique fluids, and your whole cells and tissues,”* explains Alexander Michels, Ph.D., medical analysis coordinator on the Linus Pauling Institute.
On a mobile degree, C fulfills its free radical-scavenging duties within the intracellular and extracellular fluid (i.e., inside and outdoors of cells), reasonably than within the cell membrane, like fat-soluble antioxidants.*
Vitamin C helps defend a formidable, numerous, and completely important array of enzymes, molecules, and sophisticated compounds within the physique—resembling proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids (DNA and RNA)—by combatting free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS).*
