Vitamin C

To avoid suboptimal Vitamin C and long term adverse health outcomes, I strongly recommend that you add the use of a vitamin C stick urine test strip to your practice.

Patients will show up with marginal levels of Vitamin C in urine and those with the color unchanged (still green)and who fail to go to the BRIGHT YELLOW color, can actually have Scurvy like problems from bleeding gums to sore joints. Anyone with marginal vitamin C levels will not respond optimally to your treatment programs.

43% needed more vitamin c in young Canadians in this study if they are to have better long-term outcomes. 33% had suboptimal, and 14% had deficient levels of serum ascorbic acid. Subjects with deficiency had significantly higher measurements of mean C-reactive protein, waist circumference, body mass index, and blood pressure than did subjects with adequate levels of serum ascorbic acid.

BioE’nR-G’y C will keep patients in the bright yellow excretion level with less frequent dosing than other vitamin C products because it is better tolerated and better absorbed.  See vitamin c research reports at http://www.gordonresearch.com/category_vitamin_c.html and more about Vitamin C Urine testing, as well as the one attached here.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 170(4):464-471; doi:10.1093/aje/kwp156

Vitamin C Deficiency in a Population of Young Canadian Adults
Leah Cahill, Paul N. Corey and Ahmed El-Sohemy

Correspondence to Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, FitzGerald Building, Room 350, 150 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E2,

A cross-sectional study of the 979 nonsmoking women and men aged 20–29 years who participated in the Toronto Nutrigenomics and Health Study from 2004 to 2008 was conducted to determine the prevalence of serum ascorbic acid (vitamin C) deficiency and its association with markers of chronic disease in a population of young Canadian adults. High performance liquid chromatography was used to determine serum ascorbic acid concentrations from overnight fasting blood samples. A 1-month, 196-item food frequency questionnaire was used to assess dietary intakes. Results showed that 53% of subjects had adequate, 33% had suboptimal, and 14% had deficient levels of serum ascorbic acid. Subjects with deficiency had significantly higher measurements of mean C-reactive protein, waist circumference, body mass index, and blood pressure than did subjects with adequate levels of serum ascorbic acid. The odds ratio for serum ascorbic acid deficiency was 3.43 (95% confidence interval: 2.14, 5.50) for subjects who reported not meeting the recommended daily intake of vitamin C compared with those who did. Results suggest that 1 of 7 young adults has serum ascorbic acid deficiency, in part, because of unmet recommended dietary intakes. Furthermore, serum ascorbic acid deficiency is associated with elevated markers of chronic disease in this population of young adults, which may have long-term adverse health consequences.