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Introduction

DEDI's research has shown L-Ascorbic Acid, administered in varying amounts, to be effective in reducing risks of Cancer at an average of 20% in males and 14% in females, and in reducing risks of Heart Disease by 40% in men and 20% in women. DEDI's research also shows L-Ascorbic Acid as being effective with regard to: depression, cataracts, pallor, lethargy, infections, flu, common cold, bruising, healing of wounds, strength, chelating, as well as nominal life extension.

Strictly Supplements has extensively researched all aspects of Vitamin C. We constantly remain alert to any new scientific developments concerning L-Ascorbic Acid.

Vitamin C Stability

Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) is not a stable substance as some people believe, and the L and D sides are subject to change with moisture and if water is added.

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In an orange, the Vitamin C is primarily the L side, and remains so in the surroundings of the orange. However, when the juice has been extracted from the orange for a period of days, the L side changes to D and the juice will eventually even off at 50% D and 50% L Vitamin C content. Frozen concentrate orange juice, when thawed and water added, will produce exactly the same action. The exact same action takes place again when Vitamin C is added by manufacturers to juice or drinks.

The public remains under the assumption that when Vitamin C is added as a supplement during the manufacture of any liquid, it is beneficial (which is a myth). The facts are that adding Vitamin C to drinks may constitute only 50-60% L, with the remainder being the D side. Although it is believed that the body discards the D side of Vitamin C, further research should be undertaken to confirm this theory, as it may reveal that in some individuals an abundance of the D-Ascorbic Acid could conceivably be detrimental to a person's health.

Continuing on, Strictly Supplements Vitamin C is 99.9% pure L-Ascorbic Acid. It contains only 1 of the 2 chemical sides that make up Vitamin C. High purity L-Ascorbic Acid is essentially very stable. Tremendous evidence suggests it will remain forever stable if it is by no means exposed to moisture. However, when people administer Strictly Supplement's L-Ascorbic Acid, it is only natural (as the bottle is opened and closed) that miniscule amounts of moisture reach the powder. It will still remain completely stable for quite a long period of time, the difference being: not forever.

Purity

A number of companies produce Vitamin C with varying degrees of L-Ascorbic Acid purity levels. However, in our research, we were only able to come up with one producer that manufactures L-Ascorbic Acid at an average consistent 99.9% purity level. In turn, we found only a few companies using the 99.9% L-Ascorbic Acid when producing Vitamin C pills for sale to the public.

Purity Increases Effectiveness

Vitamin C is a product that is so competitive in pricing that many manufacturers cut quality (purity) and produce a cheaper, less pure, and much less effective product, unbeknownst to the consumer.

The general public and doctors are unaware of the "L" and "D" sides to Vitamin C, as well as it's reduced effectiveness when added to juices. Most importantly however, they are unaware of the purity to effectiveness ratio that exists with L-Ascorbic Acid.

Purity levels are not required by the F.D.A. on labels of any food products, vitamins, or pharmaceuticals. That, in itself, is detrimental to the public in most instances.

Most of the public and a majority of doctors remain unaware that it takes a considerably lower amount of L-Ascorbic Acid at 99.9% purity to produce the same effect as high doses of a less pure, less stable Vitamin C. The volume price of Vitamin C at 99.9% pure L-Ascorbic Acid may be higher, however it is most certainly a better deal, as the amount ingested is considerably less.

A study was conducted by GHI/MRI (outlined below) to determine how stable 5 randomly selected Vitamin Cs were. Results showed that all samples proved unstable and "went off" in a relatively short period of time, while effectiveness decreased accordingly. However, L-Ascorbic Acid at 99.9% purity remained extremely stable after being opened twice daily for two years and six months.

Pill Fillers - Information and Reactions With Vitamin C

Additionally, most all of the pill manufacturers add ingredients to the L-Ascorbic Acid with the most prevalent being rose hips, along with other so-called nutrients. In the manufacture of pills, there are a variety of substances added, such as starch, sucrose, talc, povidone, and a battery of other foreign body substances to bind the pills together. We have found that the average make-up of a pill being manufactured today, for anything, is comprised of at least 25% pill fillers which hold the pill together. These pill filler substances are comprised, for the most part, of products and chemicals not normally ingested into the human body as food.

These pill fillers are not in the best interest of the recipient, and may very well be detrimental to overall health in the long term. They, in themselves, may cause side effects. On average, Vitamin C is taken by many people in doses of 1,000 mg per day, as such these people also ingest 2,500 mg of pill fillers. Pill filler purities go virtually uncontrolled by the U.S. F.D.A. Pill fillers added to Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) can, and usually do, cause the Ascorbic Acid to break down and "go off". The same instance occurs in a majority of cases when so-called nutrients are added. This further causes side effects and causes a less beneficial effect from the Ascorbic Acid.

The Study of Vitamin C Stability

Discount houses and mail order firms, as well as the majority of pharmacies, sell Vitamin C under all kinds of names at very competitive prices. The producers of these Vitamin C pills range from people in working in their garage manufacturing tablets to real legitimate companies.

GHI/MRI purchased, at random, 1,000 mg Vitamin C tablets from three different nationwide discount stores and pharmacies, all different brands. They also purchased mail order Vitamin C powder from two different so-called "legitimate producers", selling powder to the public. They purchased Vitamin C with additives and without. All five samples of Vitamin C proved unstable and "went off" in a relatively short period of time; effectiveness decreased accordingly.

The very worst product Discovery purchased came from a large nationwide discount chain and was produced by a laboratory in the western part of the U.S. This Vitamin C tested had no additives, other than pill fillers at 250 mg per tablet. Our investigation showed the product was pilled on or about January of 1999. By June of 1999, the product was proving unstable. By December of 1999, the product should not have been ingested. By December of 2000, anyone even looking at the product would have thrown it out. Stamped on the label of this Vitamin C was an expiration date of July 2003.

L-Ascorbic Acid at 99.9% purity is, in itself, an extremely stable substance subject only to high moisture. In GHI/MRI's testing at 99.9% purity, under normal conditions at room temperature in an unsealed bottle being opened twice daily for 2 1/2 years, the product proved to be exceedingly stable.

In most cases (with very few exceptions), GHI/MRI has found that the purer the active ingredient is in products, whether it be a pharmaceutical or a vitamin, the more potent and stable the product remains, and thus the more effective the product is.

GHI/MRI has found that very rarely there will be active ingredients that, when extracted and synthesized, prove to be unstable at their highest purity levels. However, GHI/MRI stabilized some of these active ingredients with a stabilizing compound kept at it's highest purity. In doing so, GHI/MRI found using a stabilizing compound at it's highest purity will produce a much more stable active ingredient, then using a less pure stabilizing compound.

Administering 99.9% pure L-Ascorbic Acid Powder

Our research indicates that Vitamin C should not be pilled. It should be dispensed by the producer at a humidity level not exceeding 40% either capsules or powder, and sold to the public.

to be most effective, the 99.9% L-Ascorbic Acid should be taken once or twice daily from 200 mg to 3,000 mg, mixed or taken with condensed orange juice that is mixed with distilled water only. People allergic to orange juice should mix or take it only with distilled water.

Discovery Experimental & Development Inc.'s (DEDI) research indicates that if L-Ascorbic Acid is taken in this manner, it is at it's highest potency and highest effectiveness, without the majority of side effects attributed to it.

For years, DEDI has research clinical trials regarding Vitamin C, and has additionally conducted private trials with doctors and scientists using L-Ascorbic Acid at 99.9% purity, taken with concentrated orange juice and distilled water.

This page will be updated as new research is published concerning L-Ascorbic Acid