Vitamin C is an antioxidant. Which might be an easy way to say it gives itself up for the intruder. The intruder which could be a chemical, harmful portion of sunlight, virus, bacteria, mycoplasm or hormone (the bad, recycled type).  These are all looking for an extra electron. It is like when you rub your sock-feet on the floor and touch someone to shock them. You are the “intruder” here and you stole an electron from them to make up for the ones you rubbed onto the floor.  What is the point? Vitamin C gives up the electron instead of one of your cells! If you have enough vitamin C, you will not be damaged in an attack by these intruders.  Here is the big question: ” How much Vitamin C is enough?”. Let’s let Linus Pauling, a Nobel prize winner for his work on (ascorbic acid)Vitamin C, answer this question. He suggested that you take enough  to cause diarrhea and back off a little. In other words, without ruining your day- as much as you can! It has more benefits than I can outline here. It should be one of your first considerations for enhancing your immune system. Come in for a customizing of your nutritional profile.