How can vitamin C help keep my skin healthy?

Vitamin C is a key anti-aging nutrient that can help your skin stay young looking and healthy. Weight management specialist Caroline Apovian, MD, explains how vitamin C helps produce collagen, which is important for healthy skin.

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Vitamin C provides the building blocks for collagen. If you have a good layer of collagen

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within your skin, you look very, very young and healthy. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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Vitamin C is a very important nutrient. It is found in lots of fruits and vegetables, especially

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fruits and citrus fruits. But also, papaya has very, very high levels of vitamin C. It can help your skin stay young and healthy.

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Why is that? Because vitamin C provides the building blocks for collagen. If you have a good layer of collagen

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within your skin, you look very, very young and healthy.

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When you don't have enough vitamin C, guess what. Remember, it's called scurvy. Your skin breaks down and you get bruising.

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And if you have a cut, for example, you can't heal it, because to heal those cuts and wounds,

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you need collagen formation. Vitamin C is going to make sure the collagen forms under the skin, providing a stable layer for

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to have that nice sheen. So you need a lot of vitamin C. And again, you're gonna get that from your fruits and vegetables.

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So make sure you're eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, even if you're on a low-carb diet. [AUDIO LOGO]