LivOn Laboratories Lypo-Spheric VitaminC - 1000mg VitaminC & 1000mg Essential Phospholipids Per Packet - Liposome Encapsulated for Improved Absorption - 100% Non-GMO, 1 Carton, 0.2Fl.Oz(Pack of 30)

This vitamin C has become a part of my morning ritual. I usually take it with juice, and sometimes even with coffee, and it makes me feel energized and supported throughout the day. The flavor is not my favorite, but the results are worth it.

The best Vitamin C ever! It’s worth the money.

i ordered 6 box for my stocks. And i regularly ordering this item most of the time but i was so disppointed that this time the taste is really bad and here were some like crystals inside.I demand a replacement of refund of this items!

***UPDATE: 1-30-13Well, I'm still going strong. It's been a little over a week and I must say, I'm still very pleased with the results delivered from this product. In fact, my work load coincidentally increased over the past few days AND I have been subjected to two different, very sick children (goop hanging out of noses, coughing all over me) and I DID NOT pick up any of their illnesses. Plus: I still have increased energy everyday. Amazing. I had a few time constraints in the mornings too and have had to take this product on the road. I just love the accessibility of it. I can't imagine not taking this Vitamin C ever again. I have increased my rating to Five Stars. Earned and well-deserved.Note: I would love to hear from those who have been ingesting this long-term as I have a few questions about use: should I be increasing the dosage over time and if yes, when should I start doing so and for how long? Should I be taking some form of Vitamin D with this to ensure optimum delivery/absorption? If I stop taking this, should it be a gradual process, like weening oneself off? I can't ever imagine wanting to stop taking this however I don't know if there are any side effects to being on this product long-term...and I read another post here about how someone got very sick after stopping their usage immediately. Due to my poor immune, I simply cannot afford to have that happen. So any other suggestions and comments are very welcome! Thank you all ~ stay healthy!!***UPDATE: 1-24-13Well, I didn't get better in a week using this product. I got better in THREE DAYS. That's just short of a miracle for my body. I'm back up to speed physically by 100%! I'm at full productivity without any signs of having a scratchy throat or low energy. I would have written sooner but I've been busy working! I'm still amazed. This product saved me. In case there is interest, on Day One, I only had a slight feeling that I could experience a loose bowel. But that never happened. That feeling has not been back. The consistency still makes me gag a little but following up with the juice shot completely gets rid of the short-lasting, bad-tasting moment for me. I also noticed I have quite a bit of energy on this stuff and I'm still only taking 1 packet a day. That is a comfortable amount for me and for now, I will stick with that dosage. I may write one more update should anything change but for now I will take this every day for good preventative care. I am forever grateful for this product.Original review:I have a weak/poor immune system that is getting worse as I get older (just turned 38). If I'm near someone with a common cold, 9 times out of 10 I'll catch it. Where it might put that person out for 1-2 days, I'm out of commission for 1-2 WEEKS with swollen glands, a lasting sore throat, itchy/runny eyes/nose, low energy, etc. It always hits my head, throat, glands. Anyhow, I've been to so many doctors over the past few years without much to show for it except numerous ENT visits, prescriptions for anti-biotics, and large medical bills. So, I've decided to try this out as I'll try anything at this point. I happen to be sick today and my symptoms are slowly getting worse. Therefore, I am on Day One for this Lypo-Spheric Vita C. My rating may be premature but for now, it is based on ease, taste, and cost. I will update my review once I have some results (or lack thereof).Ease: Using this packet is a cinch. I like that I can take it on the go if necessary. Just cut off one edge of the packet and insert into mouth and swallow or into liquid and drink.Taste: Well, it's not so much the taste than the texture I think that puts people off. I took it by itself (tilted head back, squeezed orange-looking gooey contents to back of throat) and chased it with some water. A little got onto my tongue and the taste reminded me of a grain/wheat-like taste (one person said it was card-boardy tasting. I can see that...). On the plus side: atleast it doesn't take like raw vitamins or have a bad aftertaste. In fact, there isn't really much of an aftertaste. The texture is mucous-like, and to me anyway, put me off a little (only slightly grossed me out). The water helped. Use the cold juice if you need to but I can see how that process is more work (like mixing oil and water; don't bother if you can muster taking the packet alone).Cost: Some may say this is costly, especially if you're using more than one packet a day. I only took one today, in the morning, on an empty stomach, to see what results I get that are measurable. I may increase it to two packets (1 morning, 1 evening) if needed. Ultimately, you should decide what's worth your money (and time): Preventative Health Measures or Emergency Visits/Missed Work?The Big Test: I work with children in private homes. Yes, they have their sick moments. Yes, this is cold/flu season. So in short, if these packets keep me healthy when I'm around an adult or child who looks sick, is sick, or is even thinking about becoming sick, I will be SOLD. FOREVER.I will report back when I have been using this product for atleast a week and can share my personal results.

======= Update April 2020 =======Was it COVID-19? We may not know for over a year...but we think it probably was.It started on our wedding trip to Hawaii, my (now legal) husband had a sore neck so bad he couldn't turn his head and when he tried to drink our regular nightly wine, he vomited immediately each time for 3 days. This went on despite several envelopes of Lypo-spheric C throughout the day - that said, he credits it with being able to get him to the church on time. I'm so glad I brought a box with us! By the time we left Hawaii, he was feeling pretty normal again, but two days after our arrival back home, his neck moved into my lower back for no apparent reason. Neither of us ever had anything like a fever or chills - just these odd-ball pains out of nowhere and my husbands puking and a couple of other "that's never happened before" symptoms. Within a week or so of the onset of my back pain I woke up with a sore throat. I did what I always do, taking 3 envelopes per/day to kill the crud. It did not kill it. 3 days later my mother whom we live with woke up with a sore throat and, although my throat was no worse, it was still tickling and I started feeling 'tight' in my chest. I started my mother on the same amount of envelopes that weren't working for me along with some plain ascorbic acid. The next day, my husband woke up with a sore throat....of course you realize - this means war.By this time it was mid/late-March and I was very concerned. for my 87 year-old diabetic mother. I stumbled onto a protocol of mega-dosing A/D/aspirin and added it to our C regime. 50,000iu D3/k2 + 50,000iu A (not beta carotene) - that combination taken once and repeated after 12 hours if there are still symptoms (not to be done more than two days or if you are on immunosupressant meds, though I'm not sure why about the latter, just what I read).In addition we took 500 to 1,000mg ascorbic acid & a plain aspirin (do not substitute another nsaid) every hour that day. We also upped our envelopes to 4. The next day neither my mother or husband had any symptoms, and none of us had any issues with the protocol we had followed. Since I had been dragging on for days with it, I repeated the procedure for a second day just to be sure, and importantly, we all kept up the lypo-spheric C envelopes at 3/day for the next 3 days to make sure whatever it was didn't resurface.We can't be sure it was COVID-19, but we will never travel again without two boxes of envelopes with us.======= Original Review =======My husband hardly ever gets sick and powers through it when he is, but I get sick when someone just mentions that there's a crud going around and I can't manage to power through it, when I get hit, I get hit hard. I've been a believer in Vitamin C, but regular ascorbic acid supplements only worked for preventing illness if I took it every hour or two throughout the day AND there wasn't any excess physical or mental stress going on at the time. That's a cost effective approach, but only when it works. Also, I can't say for sure that plain ascorbic acid ever really shortened something when it already had a hold of me, though absolutely it could scare off the symptoms a bit taken in the right quantity and timing. Then there is Lypo-Spheric C which is AMAZING and hardly even compares - it will stop the common cold dead in it's track. Yes, it's spendy - but think of how much misery you will avoid. Husband and I have been taking these packets for over a year, but just yesterday it was again so obvious how worth it they were, I just had to come and write a review. We both knew we'd been fighting off some crud that was going around, and we were being pretty successful with just one packet/day - then one day I did a lot of physical work and right after dinner, my throat hurt and I felt like crap. I took one packet (I'd forgotten it that morning, no doubt why the crud got the better of me in the first place) and went to bed. When I woke up in the night I took another. The next day I was functional, but I could still feel the crud trying to take me down - I took several throughout the day and felt 100% better/normal after dinner that evening. Others with this crud have been walking around for over a week sounding and looking like death-warmed-over. This product is so worth the money to us since I catch everything that comes along. THANK YOU for making it! I wish Linus Pauling could have lived to use this product.

Every time I start to feel sick I take one of these in the morning and at night, and I swear I never get sick. These are amazing! My husband is also hooked and has worked wonders for us. They are so easy to use and don’t upset my stomach. The taste is not the best; therefore, I like to act like I’m in college again and take it like a shot. If you never want to get sick again, I’d suggest you get you and your family some of these!

I doubt many people are buying this for their pets, but for anyone who is considering it, here is my story.My 19-year-old toy poodle came down with pneumonia. I took her to a vet with an ICU on Friday asking if she could stay with them as an inpatient until Monday morning.As of 8 PM Friday night, the vet thought my dog had at best a 50-50 chance of surviving until Monday morning, even with ICU care. Finally I made the decision to let her come home and die surrounded by family, in her own bed.We also discussed renting an oxygen tent for the home or purchasing a portable oxygen provider for dogs, but the vet thought the dog would likely be dead before either of those arrived.Dogs make their own vitamin C internally and normally do not need any supplementation, but in acute, emergency cases, some claim it can help if given in massive doses. Having nothing to lose, as she had a high likelihood of dying anyway, I gave her 1 packet of this every 2 hours. By the 5th packet she reached "bowel tolerance"-- meaning, she had reached saturation, causing diarrhea to begin. (She is 3.2 kg, which is 7 lbs.) By that time she was clearly and obviously breathing easier.I then fell asleep and woke up 4 hours later (5 hours after she received the 5th packet). By that time, she had fallen back into labored breathing again.Again, I gave her 1 packet every two hours until she had diarrhea again, and again her breathing improved. The improvement was marked and very obvious. We repeated this for two days.By the end of the weekend, she was very obviously "out of the woods" and although she was still very, very sick, I could see she was going to survive.Twelve days later, she is now walking around the yard and enjoying the spring.The vet says it is a "miracle." The dog herself acts like nothing whatsoever has happened.To be clear, she was also receiving subcutaneous fluids once a day (which I administered to her at home) to keep her from getting dehydrated, and I also used a vaporizer (Vicks Personal Steam Inhaler) on her, which she hated at first but became able to tolerate whenever the vitamin C kicked in and her breathing passages opened up a bit. Every time the vitamin C wore off, she had a hard time tolerating the vaporizer even for brief periods.One lesson here is that you need to have it ON HAND for use in an emergency. In my case, if I had ordered it even with Prime and waited a day or two for it to arrive, it likely would have been too late. It expires 18 months after being manufactured, so keep that in mind as well.As for its effects on humans, you can search for "vitamin C New Zealand" (or H1N1 or swine flu) on You Tube and watch a "60 Minutes" TV show episode talking about the use of massive doses of vitamin C. These packets can be seen there in the video.Incidentally, a neighbor with chronic HCV (hepatitis C) knows my dog very well and basically watched this dog with one foot in the grave somehow come back to life. Amazed by this, she immediately purchased a box of this lypo C for herself. She has been combining these with regular vitamin C tablets because the lypoC itself is too expensive to rely on exclusively. 21 packets and 120 vitamin C tablets (60 grams) later (that is her self-reported total after 3 days, taking it to bowel tolerance), she says she suddenly has more energy than she has felt in years and was able to clean her house. Until this time, she was so sick that she was unable to get out of bed and had lost 30 lbs in a year from being unable to eat. She also says she no longer thinks the lypoC tastes funny, because now her body craves it. So that is a human endorsement I can add. [Edit to add: It is now 1 month later and this neighbor says that her hair used to fall out in clumps from her treatment, and that has now stopped.]

これを飲むようになってから肌が白くなったと褒められるようになりました！顔のシミまでは薄くなりませんがトーンは明るくなった気がします。