Aspirin Depletes Vitamin C

"There is incontrovertible evidence that a shortage of vitamin C, emanating from poor diet, smoking, overuse of alcohol, aspirin, or vitamin-depleting drugs (the very drugs they treat flu patients with – steroids, antibiotics, etc.), is likely the primary cause of flu-related mortality.”   Bill Sardi Health Researcher, Note dehydration and low vitamin D and selenium  levels can do you in also 

"Aspirin depletes the body of vitamin C. Aspirin is known as one of the most powerful drugs at depleting vitamin C in normally healthy individuals."      Journal Clinical Pharmacology 1973; 13: 480 

Aspirin drastically depletes the vitamin C from your body. This leaves you at risk for many serious problems to include CVD and others. Most people are carrying much less than optimal levels of vitamin C to begin with and cannot afford to lose ANY vitamin C. This will drastically weaken your arteries as well as MANY body structures as it impedes your collagen production.  

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