Welcome back to another episode of health hack as I continue talking about key nutrients, and today I am turning to talk about vitamin C. Now I know that you all know that vitamin C is really beneficial for your immune system when you're fighting a cold, etc. However, it has so many other benefits as well that I really want to bring it to into your awareness, because it's something that I enjoy taking year round as a preventative to support my immune system. And then I will increase it and high dose it as needed as well. So Vitamin C is excellent for your immune system. It is also an antipyretic and that it will help bring down a fever, if that is what is needing to be done. Remember that If your body is triggering a fever, as long as it's not getting into dangerous levels, that that fever is actually part of the process of your body going through the healing and getting rid of whatever is triggering the illness in your body. It's also an anti histamine, and I've used this very powerfully at high doses with my own daughter, when she had an allergy from babysitting at a house with a large dog and a lot of fur, and it was just too much for her body to be able to cope with, and it's antiviral as well. So it has so many uses. And what's really important to know about Vitamin C is that it is water soluble, meaning that your body, when you take it in, your body, uses it up very quickly, and then you need more, rather than if you take a whole lot at once, you're giving your body too much for it to be able to cope with. You will pee a lot of it out, and so you're much better giving it to yourself in divided doses. So when I just use it on a daily basis, I will take 1000 milligrams in the morning with my breakfast and 1000 milligrams in the evening with my dinner, and I use an ascorbic acid, high quality vitamin C. Now, if I feel like I'm starting to come down with something, that's when I will start to high dose it. And I will take 1000 milligrams every half hour and do that for a couple of days until those symptoms go away, the sore throat. I've even used this with strep throat, and had strep throat completely go away after two days of high dosing. And what I talk about high dosing, I'm talking about taking 20,000 milligrams in a day, and so that's every half hour I'm taking another vitamin C, 1000 milligrams for 10 hours during the day, and it's highly effective. You can't overdose on vitamin C. What will happen if you have too much is you will get loose stool. And so what's really fascinating is that if, on a regular basis, on a regular day when I wasn't feeling sick, I took 20,000 I would highly likely have loose stool. However, in that moment when I'm fighting strep throat and I have that, you know, sense of like I'm swallowing glass is coming on. I don't ever get loose stool. My body needed all of that vitamin C in order to boost my immune system to be able to fight that. And then on the third day, I go down to about 10,000 and then by the fourth day, when my symptoms are gone, I'm down to, you know, maybe 4000 and then by the fifth, fifth day, I'm back at my 2000 that's what I do. This is not medical advice for anybody else. I just want to talk to you about the power of good quality vitamin C and how it can be supportive in many ways in your health journey. It also helps to kill off cancer cells in your body. High dosing vitamin C, and that's the work of Dr Linus Pauling, who's shown that as cancer cells think that first off, they have 15 times the sugar receptors of a healthy cell, and vitamin C and sugar have a very similar chemical structure. And so when we take vitamin C, the cancer cells. Believes that it's sugar, and it draws it all to them, and the vitamin C will kill off the cancer cells while not damaging your healthy cells. And so it is a powerful tool in anybody's cancer journey. And if you'd like to learn more about that, look into the work of Dr Linus Pauling, and of course, talk to your oncologist wishing you a wonderful day. If you'd like to know more about vitamin C or vitamins in general, please reach out Melissa at your guided health journey.com.