Good work! Vitamin C is a really underestimated nutriment that we all need. Here is a few points that I wanted to add.
Other mammals like dogs or wolves do not rely as much as we do from nutrition to make their own vitamin C. That is one of the reason (among plenty) why on average dogs don't get as much sick as we do.
Today fruits and vegetables are not even as nearly nutritious as they were 50 years ago in terms of vitamins and nutriments. This is due to poor agricultural choices that impoverish soils (deplete them from minerals , carbon and microorganisms), pesticides, herbicides (glyphosate) , GMOs, heavy metal contamination (aluminium, mercury and other metals from mining ...). Here is a good link that explains that https://www.soscuisine.com/blog/orange-1950s-equivalent-21-todays-oranges/.
Luckily, we can still find good vitamin C if we eat supplements (organic non-GMO Camu Camu powder) or if we grow our own food and make good agricultural choices.
For those that are sick, synthetic vitamin C called "L-ascorbic acid" can be used at high dose intravenously. Linus Pauling who was a Nobel Prize published many research on that. Also Dr. Frederick R. Klenner use L-ascorbic acid many times clinically, including on his own son. Below are some links that detail it and detail some of the diseases that have been cured by L-ascorbic acid.
http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html
http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/
I have resteemed this post, as I think that it is of very high importance and value. More and more people need to know about the benefit of vitamin C.
Thank you so much and I appreciate all the information! I agree with everything you have said. We as humans can not make our own Vit C and must get it from food or supplements. All it takes is a stressful situation and it literally zaps Vit C as well as many other nutrients.
Oh thank you! :) Let's all spread the knowledge that we know :)