Why magnesium ascorbate?
Your immune system uses vitamin C in great quantities during an infection. A typical immune system cell’s vitamin C concentration ranges from 20x to over 100x greater than the concentration of vitamin C in the blood.
Vitamin C is also one of the best anti-inflammatories known. An out of control immune response can be as bad or worse than no response at all depending upon the disease. Vitamin C helps manage the inflammation caused during an immune system response. Furthermore, vitamin C helps to regenerate oxidized glutathione in a cell.
I want to give my lungs the best fighting chance possible by feeding my immune system what it needs and also to keep inflation under control and vitamin C fits this bill.
In addition to helping the immune system and regenerating oxidized glutathione, vitamin C also has potent antiviral replication suppression properties. These occur when cellular concentrations of vitamin C are very, very high.
Will I be able to get the concentration of vitamin C in my lungs high enough to turn on vitamin C’s antiviral properties? I don’t know, but I’ll do my best to try (more on that in a future video).
Why not nebulize ascorbic acid?
Ascorbic acid has a pH of 2 and would almost certainly damage delicate lung tissue. Whereas, most ascorbates (magnesium, calcium, sodium and potassium) have a pH that is neutral (about pH 7). This means ascorbates are much safer, but one must still take care as to not purchase any ascorbate with fillers, flavorings, sugar or other additives or preservatives. I tested mine on my tongue to ensure it was not overly sour and it wasn’t.
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