Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin, otherwise known as ascorbic acid. Vitamin C is responsible for many functions in your body. It is an antioxidant and can protect your body from free radicals, which may cause heart disease and cancer. It is also important for connective tissue repair. Vitamin C is good for protecting your body. For vegetarians it is even healthier. When combined with iron, iron becomes more absorbable allowing an increased iron intake.

More Vitamin C Benefits:

• Tissue Repair
• Protection from free radicals
• Promotes a healthy immune system
• Helps in producing collagen
• Keeps your gums healthy
• May help to prevent the decrease on immune functionality that might occur right after exercise

Country Life's Buffered Vitamin C has been manufactured with natural alkaline Calcium Carbonate and Magnesium Oxide, which buffers and neutralizes the excess acidity of Vitamin C. It is well known that Vitamin C is important for connective tissue repair. Not only is Vitamin C is beneficial for athletes performing in field activity sports but Vitamin C is also extremely beneficial for body builders who under go extreme training which causes the most connective tissue damage. Being an antioxidant Vitamin C may help reverse some of the oxidative damage that might occur due to exercise