Vitamin C Deficiency

Your gums are bleeding. Your wounds heal more slowly than before. You feel exhausted even though you sleep enough. Your joints ache, your skin becomes dry and rough, bruises appear even though you have not knocked yourself anywhere. Medically the matter is clear: vitamin C deficiency. Your body is not getting enough of the substance that holds it together — literally, because vitamin C is essential for collagen production, wound healing, and immune defence.

But here is where the real question begins. Because often the deficiency is not simply due to insufficient vitamin C intake. Your body can also fail to absorb available nutrients — it does not assimilate them, even though they are there. And that is an interesting mirror: something nourishing is present, but you cannot let it in. The resource exists — yet your system blocks access to it.