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Vitamin C Test Strips (vitamin C urine test strips)

How They Work, What to Use Them For

One of the best things for maintaining good health is peace of mind. Regular exercise, a healthy diet, a smoke-free environment, and safe personal behavior all contribute to this peace of mind. But are you really getting the supplemental nutrition you need to maintain good health? With teststrips, you can be assured that the nutrition you need from a supplement is being absorbed by your body around the clock!

How do you know the supplements you take are being absorbed by your body? Urine teststrips offer proof that your supplement is working. First, the teststrips provide you with proof that supplements work - the nutrition in these supplements is proven to be absorbed into your system. Second, the teststrips permit you to monitor that you are getting a sufficient amount of the antioxidant protection, in your personal circumstances, so you can be sure that you are reducing your risk for the age-associated diseases caused by free radicals.

1. How they work - The teststrips contain a pad of chemicals which react with vitamin. By dipping the strip in your urine, the pad reacts with the vitamin C there to indicate what level is present. It provides a quick, easy method to monitor how much vitamin C you are excreting. The strips are approved by the Food and Drug Administration to be used for this purpose.

2. What they show - Prior to the published, patented research conducted by the site author, there was no clear information about how much or what kind of vitamin C for people to take to reduce the risk of age-associated diseases. Should one take 10,000 mg per day as recommended by Linus Pauling? What about time-release vitamin C? What about other forms of vitamin C? Scientific studies carried out on real people taking various dosages and types of vitamin C were conducted to determine how much vitamin C different individuals require to provide a saturating level of vitamin C. The basis for the study was quite simple. As vitamin C is not made by people, the only way to obtain vitamin C is from supplements or food. So vitamin C in the urine comes exclusively from an excess of vitamin C excreted from the body. In order to maintain a high level of vitamin C in the body to protect against age-associated diseases and free radical damage, we should maintain enough vitamin C in the body so that there is "a little extra" always being excreted in the urine.

Subsequent research carried out at the National Institutes of Health demonstrated that the levels shown in urine correspond to actual blood levels. Those who regularly excrete high levels of vitamin C as indicated by the teststrip also had saturating levels of vitamin C in the blood. At levels above 500 mg twice a day, oxalic acid, a potentially hazardous byproduct, was produced. Thus, 500 mg vitamin C supplements contain the maximum level for individuals concerned about their present and future health.

Many individuals who have not taken vitamin C regularly will not get even the medium level during the first week or two of taking supplements. This is because their bodies are so depleted of vitamin C that the initial supplements are absorbed completely into the tissues to provide antioxidant protection. You should not be concerned if over the first month, your teststrip indicates a low level of vitamin C in the urine. This simply demonstrates that your body is absorbing all of the vitamin C, building up the storehouse of protection vitamin C can provide.

3. How to use the teststrips - They can be used whenever you wish to prove you are absorbing the Vitamin C in our supplements. But the following is the strategy we recommend to get the best proof of efficacy, to prove you are reducing your risk of age-associated diseases like cancer and heart disease:

The first month:

During the first month, use the teststrips once each morning when you get up. Depending on whether you have been taking vitamin C previously, it is during this first month that you will see your level of vitamin C increase steadily to the medium to high level.

The second month:

By the second month, your body should be fully saturated with vitamin C, providing continuous protection. Your goal should be to obtain continuous protection from the damaging effects of free radicals. How important is it to take 500 mg vitamin C supplements regularly throughout your lifetime? Clinical trials and carefully-monitored studies show that it takes about two years to get the optimal protection from heart attacks provided by vitamin E, reducing your risk by nearly half. Similar studies show that people who have taken vitamin C regularly for 10 years reduce their risk for cataracts by more than 70%, while those who have taken vitamin C less than 10 years do not have a reduced risk.

To demonstrate that you have continuous protection, try using the teststrips at different times during the day, not only in the morning but any time from morning throughout the night, whenever you care to try. Now that your body is saturated, you should get a medium to high response 24 hours each day.

The third month:

Now that you have seen proof that your body is saturated with vitamin C and that you are absorbing the nutrition provided by 500 mg vitamin C supplements, you can, if you wish, use the strips to monitor yourself more thoroughly on a periodic basis. One option is to use the strips one day a week, every time that you go to the bathroom. This way, you can check to be sure that you are getting round-the-clock protection all day. Another way the teststrips are useful is during especially stressful times when you may need extra protection - when you are overtired, ill, or in locations with high pollution levels that might deplete your vitamin C levels. Checking periodically with the 30 teststrips provided monthly will allow you to check whenever you wish to ensure that you are getting the full time protection which 500 mg vitamin C supplements are designed to provide.