Re: bone-jointformula question

Hi James, i'm just curious about the ingredient in your bone-joint formula: Vitamin C crystals

maybe i'm wrong, but, it is not the same as synthetic ascorbate acid?

i think there are some reasons for it's use

i'm just curious about it   cause you always say that vitamin C in most of natural forms (excpt camu camu) contain synergistic compounds that protect this antioxidant from oxidation.

There are natural vitamin C sources in the formula as well because I do not use the ascorbic acid for the vitamin C activity.  It is actually added as an acidifier to help increase absorption of the nutrients in the formula.  The vitamin C in the herbs does not always provide the acidity since the vitamin C is generally buffered by the minerals in the plants.   When I first started making the formula I did not have access to other acidifiers such as malic acid so I went with the ascorbic acid.