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The Miracle in the Cell Membrane

ness to infection, chills and bronchial infections, joint
pains, lack of energy, digestive disorders, healing delays,
easy bruising, and tooth loss.
Vitamin C enables anti-stress hormones to be pro-
duced, assists in the prevention of cancer, protects
against infections, strengthens immunity, increases iron
absorption, can lower cholesterol levels and high blood
pressure, and protects the body against blood clots and
bruising.
In the absence of Vitamin C, the collagen fibers pro-
duced in nearly all the tissues become defective and
weak. It is therefore necessary for subdermal tissue, car-
tilage, bone and teeth fiber growth and resistance. The
speed of wound healing drops when Vitamin C is lack-
ing, because of a lack of collagen fiber accumulation in
the cells and the insufficiency of intercellular binding
substances. It takes months to heal a wound that should
heal in a matter of days.
The absence of Vitamin C also stops bone growth. In
the absence of new collagen accumulation between
growing cells, bone growth is insufficient, and bones can
easily break at their growing points. New bone matrixes
cannot form in those whose bone growth is completed
but who lack ascorbic acid, as a result of which their frac-
tures fail to heal.
In the past, scurvy stemming from Vitamin C defi-
ciency was often seen in sailors who spent long periods
without fresh fruit and vegetables. In that disease, since
the endothelial cells are unable to bind properly to one

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