is a shrub that grows in the
Rainforest jungles along the Amazon River in Brazil. It contains the highest
amount of natural vitamin C of any source on the planet, approximately 30 times
more vitamin C than what is found in Oranges.
Natural food components are much more bioavailable to the body than the synthetically
processed vitamins that are common to most dietary supplements. While a chemist
may tell you that if a synthetic molecule is identical to a natural molecule,
it will perform identically in the body; the reality is that in nature, the
natural molecule is attached to scores of other molecules that participate in
its action within the body.
Nutritionists believe that a scorbic acid by itself is not Vitamin C, it is
only ascorbic acid. It is only one component of an entire vitamin C complex.
As a result, vitamin C is a very misunderstood vitamin. Unfortunately, back
in the 1930s when RDAs were established, government scientists decided that
you rate vitamin C according to the amount of ascorbic acid it contains. So,
ascorbic acid became the marker, ignoring all the other nutritional bonds ascorbic
acid is attached to. In nature, ascorbic acid is an antioxidant that preserves
and protects the vitamin C complex, along with the whole plant. To synthesize
out the preservative, without the other components, in our opinion, was a mistake.
The vitamin C complex found in nature consists of enzymes, bioflavonoids and
scores of other components that are collectively referred to as the P factor.
These P factors serve the body in numerous other ways besides antioxidant activity.
The P factors strengthen the vascular system. They make the vessels tougher
and more durable. They improve the integrity of the capillaries. The bioflavonoids
are anti-inflammatory, helping to improve wound healing and particularly effective
in reducing the inflammation of ulcers.
Vitamin K is another part of the C complex. It promotes prothrombin, which
means it helps in coagulation (blood clotting). Other components of the C complex
increase the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood. This is extremely significant
since oxygen is probably the one essential nutrient we absolutely can not live
without, and the oxygen levels of our environment continue to decline. Additionally,
if you have a cold or flu, you want to get oxygen to your tissues where it oxidizes
the toxins and carries them off as carbon dioxide and water.
As previously mentioned, the natural C complex contains enzymes, the most significant
being tyrosinase, which is organic copper. Copper is a cofactor in several enzyme
systems in the body. It is a catalyst in the creation of hemoglobin in red blood
cells. It synergistically assists vitamin C in collagen and elastin formation
which improves the integrity of connective tissue.
A complete vitamin C complex has much more nutritional value and therapeutic
potential than synthesized ascorbic acid which is common in most other dietary
supplements. Harmonic Innerprize’s Camu-Camu All Natural Vitamin C Complex
is the way nature intended vitamin C to be delivered into the body. It is complimented
in a base by two other highly concentrated vitamin C fruits; Amla fruit from
India and Goji Berries from Tibet. Monatrace™ minerals energetically harmonize
the formula.
