Vitamin C Deficiency (Subclinical Scurvy) – Causes, Symptoms, and Remedies – Dr. Berg

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hey guys in this video we’re gonna talk about something called subclinical scurvy now what does scurvy mean scurvy is a severe vitamin C deficiency ok subclinical is something that doesn’t show up on a blood test or a usual test so it might be that you’re kind of slowly developing a vitamin C deficiency you’re not quite a full-blown but it’s just before that phase kind of like a pre-diabetes type situation in another word for that is called latent scurvy where you’re have deficiencies but it doesn’t show up yet okay because you just don’t end up one day with a scurvy it kind of slowly starts to happen and a lot of people are deficient in vitamin C in fact one out of five men are deficient in vitamin C one out of nine women are deficient in vitamin C one person might have it in there like gums is bleeding gums another person could have it in their muscles as a weak inflamed muscle where someone else could have it in the arteries of the heart okay so it could be different for different people so that’s why sometimes it’s hard to have this you know perfect diagnosis of vitamin C deficiency and go oh you have these three things that you have it okay because it could be actually have a wide range of things so I wanted to kind of give you an overview kind of just a general idea of what could occur if you’re starting to become deficient in vitamin C and maybe you’re not a full-blown scurvy case but you have some of the symptoms okay here you’re some of the symptoms fatigue you feel weak irritable leg pain inflammation achy joints muscles I mean this is very very common now instead of going out there and getting very expensive tests to figure this out all you have to do is start consuming foods high in vitamin C and see if you get better see if these things clear right up and you’re probably going to find they do that’s actually the easiest thing to do but the tissue in your body that is most susceptible to vitamin C deficiencies is your vascular system because vitamin C has the purpose of keeping the collagen in the arteries nice and strong and elastic okay when you don’t have you get certain like little lesions or holes in the arteries so vitamin C is intimately involved in vascular integrity okay and so you have capillary damage which really happens with high levels of sugar in the blood or glucose in the blood being a pre-diabetic or a diabetic and then you end up having high insulin what happens is that high amount of sugar competes with vitamin C so you’ll actually when sugar goes up your vitamin C goes down then you become susceptible to getting capillary damage and so you have little areas of bleeding in the artery in inflammation and then comes the cholesterol and the calcium as a band-aid this can also happen in your skin as rosacea it can happen on the gums as bleeding gums it can happen in your nose as a nosebleed so really you need vitamin C to protect you against high levels of sugar because this can also affect the capillaries to the nerves as well another nutrient that will protect this as b1 but vitamin C will do it too so you want to start increasing your vegetable content dark leafy greens the bell pepper is loaded with it cabbage sauerkraut fermented actually has a tremendous amount of vitamin C berries have vitamin C other vegetables now citrus also has vitamin C but when you buy bottled lemon juice or lime juice it’s pasteurized so there’s hardly any vitamin C in there so the key with this is have actual lemons and get your juice from the lemons if you’re trying to get your vitamin C from it okay so I just wanted to bring this up you may have these symptoms you want to prevent this right here and the way you do it is through the foods having foods higher in vitamin C and also keeping your Sugar’s low by doing keto and intermittent fasting hey if you haven’t already subscribed press the button below and I will keep you in the know hey that runs