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Arrive and stay well while indulging yourself during holiday travel. Don't allow the myriad of viruses out there get you down! Fact: stress creates susceptibility to getting sick! Stressful work deadlines, too many late nights, emotional struggles, injuries, heavy duty workouts, even excessive joy puts you at risk. Fact:  An effective way to compensate for immune suppressing stress is to ramp up your intake of immune supportive nutrients particularly high doses of vitamin C! Vitamin C works exceptionally well as an antiviral, but the key is to ingest sufficient amounts. Humans lost the ability to produce vitamin C due to a gene mutation. We don’t make it anymore, but we sure do need it! So much so that a 150...

Vitamin C is an essential vitamin with tremendous antioxidant properties. It is famous for trying to combat the common cold. However, we can go so much deeper to uncover its virtues, but for today's blog we are only going skin deep :) It's time we learned how to hold it together (to obtain tight, firm skin that is...) Collagen is the main structural protein in your skin akin to a girdle. It not only holds your skin together, it does the same for your ligaments and tendons too! Before I start going on a tempting tangent that would take us deeper than the skin and start focusing on the joints and immune system at large, I'd like to pull myself back...