Update on Vitamin C. Information Immediately Useful to All

#26 Part 1, 2025 The Rowen Premium Report

Dear Subscriber,

I recently attended a class on vitamin C and was so pleasantly surprised to find out all I did not know about this amazing molecule. Lessons were valuable to both Terri and I as physicians, but also to the lay person. My goal in the next few posts is to bring you up to speed on both vintage and newer information.

The primary discoverer of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) was the Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi, who first isolated the compound in 1928. He called it hexuronic acid. He won a Nobel Prize for his discovery. Walter Haworth deduced its structure. He likewise won a Nobel Prize. The molecule was later named ascorbic acid for its specific ability to prevent and cure scurvy.

What is interesting it that ascorbic acid is not really the best form of vitamin C.

Here is ascorbic acid (AA):