Vitamin C for diabetes? What you didn’t know

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Vitamin C is an antioxidant that helps protect your cells against the effects of free radicals — molecules produced when your body breaks down food or is exposed to tobacco smoke and radiation from the sun, X-rays or other sources.

Free radicals might play a role in heart disease, cancer and other diseases.

Vitamin C can be an awesome nutrient, but it also can hurt you.

Research shows that supplementing with high amounts of vitamin C can lead to adverse effects, such as digestive distress and kidney stones.

If you have diabetes and trying to get high blood sugar under control you better know these facts.

This video talks about the best and worst sides of vitamin C for diabetes. Let’s find out whether vitamin c work to lower blood sugar and help your immune system and more.

Benefits of vitamin c, vitamin c deficiency symptoms, vitamin c foods and supplements, foods high in vitamin C, and more are to be discussed in this video as well.

This is not professional advice, please seek out a professional if you need help.

This video is created for educational purposes and awareness around different topics. Video may or may not be able to go fully in-depth in such a limited time.

If you care about health, please read studies this diet may reduce neuropathy pain in diabetes, and vitamin K may lower your heart disease risk by a third.

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