The Importance of Vitamin C

Vitamin C is an important nutrient that most other mammals are able to produce. When there is trouble in the body, those mammals begin to produce mega-doses of vitamin C and end the trouble immediately. These mammals don’t get sick as easily as people do. Guinea pigs are one of the other few mammals that don’t produce their own vitamin C. Thus, guinea pigs are used for research because we can easily make them sick… Continue reading