 Hello everyone. Today we are talking about Vitamin C foods. Yes, foods that are rich in vitamin C and we are going to talk about what does really vitamin C do anyway and we are going to talk about how to get the maximum benefit from vitamin C especially from the foods. I am Dr. Ahmed Ergin. I'm an endocrinologist, a diabetes expert and today we are going into vitamin C. So guys before we jump to the topic I want to encourage you to take the quiz in the description below to win a chapter from my diabetes book. Let's move on. So guys vitamin C is involved in growth and repair. It helps the collagen formation. It helps your body's immune response. It's a great antioxidant so it prevents cancer and so forth and it helps with insulin resistance as well. Now, do you really need vitamin C? Well, the vitamin C is common in foods, in good foods. What are they? Let's go over them right now one by one because I know not all of you are the same. Some of you like some foods better than the other foods. So let's dive into the foods rich in vitamin C first and we will go over some concerns or I'm going to caution you with certain things about vitamin C that you need to know so you do not overdo it. But let's get into the foods first. So guys vitamin C is found in berries, citrus fruits, green vegetables. Well the great sources among the green vegetables are asparagus, avocados, the beets, black currants, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cantaloupe, collards, dulls, grapefruit, kale, lemons, mongos, mustard greens, onions, oranges, papayas, green peas, sweet peppers, persimmons, pineapple, radishes, spinach, strawberries, tomatoes, turnip greens. So guys or the girls or the ladies, one of my viewers said, you always say guys that's so annoying. When I say guys I mean all of you you know guys and girls and ladies and gentlemen just to make it informal. So but the bottom line is yeah so most people go for when I say vitamin C they go for orange juice. Well freshly squeezed orange juice is okay but when you have diabetes that can really hit you hard so you have to be very careful about the amount you're getting so but as I said the vitamin C is so common in so many other foods you don't necessarily need to drink that orange juice plus we talked about this before we don't want to do processed oranges or I mean orange juices at all. So if you've comments about the vitamin C you know a lot of people use vitamin C to help prevent the common colds but the studies again and again shows that actually it doesn't really help much with the preventing the colds but if you have the cold and having vitamin C extra can help reduce the number of days that you're having cold and as you know when you have cold your diabetes goes off the chart you know anytime you're sick your body is under stress when you're under stress your body squeeze a lot of cortisol, when you squeeze a lot of cortisol, any physical or mental stress you are in trouble your blood sugar will be high and anytime you're under stress your body needs more antioxidants and there you go vitamin C helps there it can help you or let's say your common cold instead of seven days you can reduce it down to five days which is if you think about it two days of not having a common cold is pretty good deal actually. Now who are believe vitamin C deficient or more likely? Well the guys and girls who drink alcohol and the smokers are more likely than anyone else if you are on analgesics like painkillers if you are on antidepressants, anticoagulants, contraceptives, the steroids all these things can deplete your vitamin C levels and that as a result if you are on these agents you may want to use more vitamin C. So what are the caution? Well the caution is this when you overdo the vitamin C especially more than 2,000 milligrams actually it can turn it against you and do the exact opposite instead of becoming an antioxidant it creates oxidative damage. Again I always talk about the moderation moderation moderation you know if you are deficient you're in trouble if you overdo it you're in trouble so you don't overdo it so never ever exceed more than 500 milligrams. Now what is another problem with vitamin C? Well if you are taking more than 500 milligrams of vitamin C especially glucose sensor users you know those sensors that you don't have to do finger sticks and stuff they are affected from excessive vitamin C more than 500 milligrams a day tend to cause high blood sugar readings are falsely high so actually you may be low but it may actually show high so that may not be great for you because you know you want to know when you're low and it may cause under treatment of low blood sugars or if you're taking aspirin for example for cardiovascular risk reduction and if you take vitamin C together it can cause a lot of stomach irritation can cause ulcers reflux and problems like that which you may already have so you may want to make sure that if you're an aspirin at least take vitamin C in low dose or just eat take it from the food instead of taking a supplement which can cause stomach irritation if you're pregnant you don't want to take too much vitamin C because you may cause your baby to become dependent on vitamin C if you're taking excessive vitamin C during pregnancy then your baby may end up with problems like scurvy these are dependence on excessive vitamin C and avoid using chewable vitamin C because they can cause enamel problems like gum line problems so that's another thing that I have to caution you about but the bottom line overall having around 100 milligrams of vitamin C especially from the foods we discussed definitely helps if you are not a vegetable and food person and your steak and potato type of guy or girl you may want to take some some vitamin C as certified vitamin C appears to be a little bit better but guys vitamin C it needs to be taken in moderation not too much less than 500 milligrams a day in total and that can help lower your blood sugars a little bit as well not drastically by any means but if you're especially deficient can help your insulin resistance and we talked about other benefits and risks so guys I hope that video helps remember to give a thumbs up and share and we'll see in the next video hey guys I hope you're enjoying this channel so far and I hope you subscribed already if you didn't do it and if you did watch this video right there I think that will help you too