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Why doctors are advising 1000 mg of Vitamin C when your body needs only 40 mg

With the rise in recovery rate of patients from corona virus, the line of treatment what most of doctors have followed included Vitamin C. Among other drugs used for treatment, Vitamin C supplement is commonly used and its benefits are highly accepted by doctors. Therefore, as an advisory by most of doctors to all individuals is to include 1000 mg of Vitamin C on daily basis. Not only it fights with infections, bacteria, foreign substances as an antioxidant but also helps collagen synthesis, wound healing, helps keeping our skin, bone and gum healthy. RDA recommends that humans require only 40 mg of Vitamin C daily, for all the functions to run smoothly. However doctors are advising approx. X200 more of Vitamin C than what RDA has prescribed. Why doctors are advising such a high amount of vitamin C? The reasons are as follows: 1. Corona is highly infectious; to fight it off our body needs good supply of vitamins to make antioxidants. 2. Vitamin C is highly destructible; it c...