Vitamin C for Winter Immunity

Vitamin C is a well known and very important nutrient for immune function. The body’s disease fighting white blood cells depend on Vitamin C for normal functioning. It also acts as an anti-histamine and will reduce sneezing (it’s a great nutrient for those with allergies).

• Dosage: During winter take 2000mg a day as a preventative and increase the dose if you have a cold to about 6000mg per day. 

• You can get Vitamin C as a chewable or tablet or powder. All will do the trick although watch the sugars in some chewable ones.

• Ascorbic acid is the real name for Vitamin C. Or you can find it as Calcium or sodium ascorbate. This just means the vitamin c has been buffered by a calcium or sodium molecule to reduce it’s acidity. I like Blackmores Bio C as they also include Rosehip and Acerola fruit which contain natural vitamin C, and also rutin and hesperidin flavonoids which help the absorption of vitamin C. 

Tip: Vitamin C is best taken split through out the day, since it is a water soluble nutrient and large quantities at once may not be absorbed. 


You may experience mild diarrhoea initially when increasing the dose – just reduce the dose and then slowly increase it until your tolerance is increased.