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Injections are also an invasive procedure. It breaks the skin. The biggest danger from injections is not so much a dirty needle as it is dirty skin. Needles can push bacteria and other contaminants that normally reside safely on the surface of the skin beneath the skin causing a nasty and ugly condition called orbital cellulites. Cellulites is only treatable by intravenous infusions of antibiotics, takes a long time to cure, leaves nasty scars and can result in amputation if the infection travels to the bone.

Don’t mess with unnecessary injections.
Vitamins have been used for assassinations.

If you eat a regular balanced diet (a good mix of fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains and meats) get enough exercise and rest and keep stress levels down, you do not need to take vitamin supplements.

The body’s absorption of vitamins through supplemental oral means (pills, liquids, gels) is minimal and most of the vitamins taken this way are excreted through urine and feces without ever being absorbed into the body.

Vitamin C injections…regular does of 1000 mg or more, are used in many third world countries for skin whitening or bleaching. It is used mainly in places where the lighter your skin, the better your job and life opportunities are. Unfortunately, it is a life shortening process and is being declared illegal in more and more countries. South Africa banned the practice almost 20 years ago and it has never been legal for use in the United States.

Yes, ascorbic acid assists in the biosynthesis of many connective-tissue components. These are: collagen gene expression, elastin, procollagen secretions, fibronectin, proteoglycans, bone matrix and elastin-associated fibrillin. Injecting vitamin C into the skin does not assist with this process.

Vitamin C comes is a couple of forms known as L-ascorbic acid and L-dehydroascorbic acid. It is critical in iron absorption, storage and movement. If you look at the chemical matrix you will see how ascorbic acid reduces ferric iron to ferrous iron. This reduces the amount of cell damaging oxygen in our bodies through oxidation of the iron. Too much vitamin C and your risk reducing the amount of oxygen our bodies need to survive. Another risk factor, especially in older males, is that it can increase to toxic levels, especially for the prostate, the amount of iron stored in the blood.

You really only need about 5 to 10 milligrams a day of vitamin C. Can you see the danger of regular 1000 milligram injections? You are looking at over 100 times the amount your body needs n a day! While the body can typically get rid of an over abundance of vitamin C in its regular processes, can you imagine how you would overtax you bodies ability to remove waste by-products by over indulging?

About 5% to 10% of the total vitamin C content of fresh fruits and vegetables is comprised of dehydroascorbic acid. In the case of processed foods, dehydroascorbic acid makes up about 30% of the vitamin C content. D-ascorbic acid (erythorbic acid or isoascorbic acid), the epimer of L-ascorbic acid, is frequently added to food as an antioxidant preservative. Erythorbic acid has very low vitamin C activity.

The molecular formula of Vitamin C is C6H8O6. (Six atoms Carbon, 8 Atoms Hydrogen and 6 atoms Oxygen.) It is a very organized and relatively stable crystal. But when you look at 6.022 x 10^(-23) you can begin to see where some carbon bumping will occur. This is good for the most part in amounts the body can handle, but start exceeding this and where will the excess carbon manifest?

When taking 30 to 150 milligrams of supplemental doses of Vitamin C, 70% to 90% is absorbed. At doses up to about 500 milligrams, absorption still occurs but as the dose of supplemental ascorbic acid increases, the percentage of its absorption proportionately decreases. At doses over 500 milligrams, absorption ceases, replaced by diffusion. Storage then occurs in the pituitary gland and other areas of the body and its antioxidant properties are reduced.

Let us review some of the side-effects of large dose vitamin C intake.

Remember, like any supplement, using Vitamin C in supplemental manners elevates it to the status of a drug and has commensurate side-effects. Vitamin C derived from grapefruits and used in supplements can have even more detrimental effects.

If you have or have had kidney stones taking more than the daily allowance of Vitamin C is dangerous.

If you have renal system problems (serum creatine levels) also be careful of excess amounts of Vitamin C.

Because ascorbic acid plays an important role in iron absorbtion, an overload of vitamin C can cause problems in people with anemia, sickle cell anemia, hemochromatosis, erythrocyte G6PD deficiency, thalassemia, or sideroblastic.

If you are pregnant, intending to get pregnant within six months, or nursing avoid high amounts of vitamin C.

In healthy adults the most common adverse reaction when taking oral doses greater than 3 grams a day are gastrointestinal. Symptoms are nausea, abdominal cramps, diarrhea and farting a lot. This comes from unabsorbed vitamin C passing through the intestines.

Rare adverse reactions include elevated serum glucose levels in males, intestinal obstruction in females and esophagitis.

Antacids don’t mix well with high doses of vitamin C and can cause urinary track problems, usually of great concern to women. High dose aspirin can also cause problems when combined with high vitamin C use.

While some research suggests that vitamin C and its antioxidant properties can help prevent certain types of cancers, vitamin C supplements or high levels in the blood can counteract chemotherapy, thus interfering with the treatment of existing cancer..

Aspirin: Chronic use of high dose aspirin may lead to impaired vitamin C status in mega dose vitamin C users.

Ascorbic Acid can increase estrogen inhibition of oxidized LDL formation (remember how we discussed vitamin C reducting oxygen levels in the body?) an important consideration for women entering menopause.

High doses in some research actually suggests an adverse effect on collagen. This is the glue that holds your skin to your body. Lose collagen and your skin starts to sag and wrinkle. Vitamin C is an important part of the chain that causes amino acids to coalesce into pro-collagen, the pre-curser to collagen. In this process a molecule of ascorbic acid is destroyed…one reason why we need to continually ingest vitamin C. Once again, however, continuous mega doses can create problems in the collagen function.

You can also get bloating (not good for models), a disease called rebound scurvy and create infantile scurvy in your new born child from mega doses.

WIth injections, inflammation of the veins is a concern and, for women especially, a thinning or weakening of the bones.

Overall, vitamin C may be the most important and useful chemical reactive agent in our bodies. However, like anything else, overuse and misuse is bad news. Generally in healthy adults high amounts of vitamin C is not considered toxic. The excess is passed through the urine without being used but can cause high stress on the urinary system.

Injecting vitamin C is a very, very very bad idea with long-term effects that you may experience ten or 20 years down the line. Is this worth it for whiter skin? Vitamin C should only ever be injected for medical purposes in the treatment of certain ailments and never ever for cosmetic purposes.

It is my hope that in presenting this long summary of medical indications that it can convince you to avoid these injection which have been recognized by every serious medical establishment on the planet as an unsafe and often illegal practice. It may be the current fad and craze in Malaysia and some South Pacific nations but it is definitely not worth your health. Vitamin C injections are a scam.

There is a lot of false advice and bad science about vitamin C out there, especially in our so-called health stores. Please be careful when taking any dietary supplement.

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