People who get tired easily

Vitamin C is related to the breaking down of fatty acids, which releases energy. Its deficiency decreases the energy burned from fatty acids and would make you experience muscle weakness. Taking adequate amount of vitamin C will burn fatty acids and increase the source of energy that will boost your energy level and also help you fight fatigue.

People who do intense physical activity and hard working

Those people who do intense physical activity and do hard work sweat excessively. Vitamin C is lost as sweat is emitted from the body. Since a large amount of energy is consumed, vitamin C in the system is rapidly used up and significant level of it is excreted in the urine and then this will lower the stamina. Players of high school baseball matches that are done on an exceptionally sunny day in summer consume a huge amount of vitamin C. People who do intense physical activity and do hard work should replenish the vitamin C level in their body.

Stressed-out people

Heat, cold, noise, and fear trigger stress. Technostress, stress on fluctuation of stock prices, stress to maintain human relationship, and stress while driving are examples of psychological stress. Vitamin C is involved in the mechanism to reduce stress, and consequently decrease in level whenever you get stressed. Based on the experiment made on animals, vitamin C depletion is 3-8 times of when there is no stress. We live in a stressful society and it is impossible to escape stress. Take vitamin C depending on the degree of the stress you are experiencing, and drink alcohol to relax in the evenings could help reduce stress.

Elderly people

The level of vitamin C in our system decreases as we age. Ageing makes people eat less for reasons such as bad teeth, which reduce the vitamin C level of our diet. The demand of vitamin C in our body increases due to: decrease in vitamin C absorption in the intestinal tract, destruction of it in the digestive tract, decline in kidney function, and slowing down of vitamin C retention capacity. Elderly people tend to have low levels of vitamin C in their bodies. Compared to those who live in their houses, people who stay in nursing homes and hospitals need to take more vitamin C as they tend to show a remarkable decreased level of it. Data on giving vitamin C to long-term hospitalized elderly people show an increase of protein in the blood, a weight gain, less bleeding into the skin, and improvement on their overall conditions. Elderly people should constantly take vitamin C. It can contribute toward delaying the aging process, preventing various diseases, and helping you live longer. Vitamin C is necessary to achieve “healthy aging” and “graceful aging”.

People who are in regular medication

Most of the medicines are synthetic chemical compounds that are not biological substances. When taking a medicine, there is a mechanism wherein non-biological materials that have entered the body are excreted immediately. This mechanism utilizes vitamin C. Although it depends on the type of medicine, the level of vitamin C of people that have been taking medications for a long period of time tends to decrease. In the U.S., it is a common sense to take medicine together with vitamin C. For example, women who take pills place them beside the vitamin c supplement container. In this way, they will not forget to take it. Taking ample amounts of vitamin C does not only restore the depleted level of it, but also helps the effectiveness of the medicine and reduces side effects.

People with illnesses

People that are hospitalized for a long period of time, especially the elderly people, have lower levels of vitamin C. It decreases due to age, illness, medications, stress of being hospitalized, and eating hospital food that lacks vitamin C. Vitamin C level of cancer patients is notably low. In addition to them, people who have various ailments have also low level of it. People who have illnesses should take an adequate amount of vitamin C not only to restore the consumed amount level of it, but also to activate the body’s natural healing power and help cure the illness. You can also rely on its pharmacological action.