When we talk about cardiovascular disease, we tend to focus on the heart and heart disease, but the typical adult body contains some 100,000 miles of blood vessels.¹ Just as accidents are bound to occur over that many miles of highway, problems can develop in the arteries and veins far from your heart.

Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin that is essential to humans because we are among the few mammals incapable of producing it from glucose. Vitamin C is one of the body’s most important water-soluble antioxidants and acts as a cofactor in numerous important enzymatic reactions in the body. Vitamin C is present in all fruits and vegetables.

You know that vitamin E is an essential vitamin, maybe you know that it’s an antioxidant, but do you know why it’s important for your health? And are you getting enough? (If you’re in the majority, you’re not.)