Lypo-Spheric Vitamin C - Pack of 30,1000 mg

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.

***UPDATE: 1-30-13 Well, 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: 1-24-13 Well, 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.

I am aware of all the benefits of taking a good vitamin C supplement, and have regularly taken a highly bioavailable vitamin C for years to combat various colds, flus and similar such viruses with great success. But I recently came down with shingles, and after 100,000mg of a high quality and highly bioavailable vitamin C powder supplement spread out over 3 days, I was somewhat disappointed that it didn't seem to be working. While my shingles seemed to not be worsening, the high dose vitamin C powder definitely wasn't reversing it. Plus I was getting the dreaded side effects of high dose vitamin C. Ain't nobody got time for that! Enter LivOn Labs liposomal vitamin C. On day four of my shingles, I started taking this liposomal vitamin C. Literally within an hour of taking 3,000mg, the areas where my rash was felt warm and tingly underneath the skin, but in a good way. I literally could feel the vitamin C doing its job; something I had never felt before. I continued to take between 15,000 to 25,000mg of this stuff per day (spread throughout the day). And by day 7 of my shingles (day 4 of liposomal vitamin C), the pain was totally gone, the rash and blisters were totally scabbed over, and in many instances the scabs had already fallen off. I continued on a high dose regimen for the next week, slowly tapering down to between 5,000 to 10,000mg per day. Literally within two weeks of having shingles, this liposomal vitamin C did what other extremely high quality vitamin C products couldn't do, completely eradicated the virus. Oh, and I should mention that my shingles presented on my forehead above my eyebrow, on my eyelid and throughout the top of my scalp. Not the most convenient of places to have ugly looking rashes. The rash on my eyelid honestly had me worried, and had it not been for this product, I'd have had to go to a specialist. It has been well over a month now, and the redness left behind by the rash is fading day by day - and I have zero pain or sensation left over as many people unfortunately do long after shingles. It's actually barely noticeable which is remarkable given the location. I can't recommend highly enough this particular liposomal vitamin C. I am not paid to write this, have zero affiliation with this company and have zero ulterior motive. I'm simply an average guy who experienced incredible results with this product. I'm a fan for life, and I will never take another vitamin C supplement that isn't made by LivOn. The last thing I will say is that if you've tried this particular product (not other "so-called" liposomal vitamin Cs) and have not gotten results, it's because you likely aren't taking a high enough dose. Yes, it is expensive, I totally get that. But I didn't go to a doctor, and instead spent about the same amount of money on this product. However, I had markedly better results than going the doctor route I firmly believe. It took about 150,000mg of this particular product spread out over a week, give or take, to eradicate the shingles virus from my body. That's in addition to the 100,000mg of powder vitamin C I took in 3 days before discovering this product. So a total of 250,000mg of vitamin C! That's a ton! I've continued to take 2,000 to 4,000mg of liposomal vitamin C per day just as maintenance, and I feel great. Best of luck to you..

Update March 2015: pretty much stopped buying this because I make my own much cheaper now. About ten cents a gram versus 1 dollar for these packets. It is a bigger hassle to make my own, but when I do I can take 5-10 grams a day for less than a dollar. I would buy this Amazon offering again if the price was cut to $10 a box of 30. If money is not a problem buy this professional version, but you really need to eat $5 worth a day to get the best benefit. Great stuff, homemade or Amazon stuff. End of 2015 update Great product...impossible to find in my fairly large city in any health food stores. The best way to take this vitamin is get a small 2-3 oz. cup of orange or grapefruit juice. Get a water glass as backup chaser, but for most non-squeamish users that is not necessary. It can have a minor globby taste, but to me it is not an unpleasant taste. It helps to stir it well (use the handle of a spoon down in the cup briskly for 10 seconds). Use scissors to cut the end off completely at the tabs and then multiple fold and squeeze it down like a toothpaste tube. As for my own experience of the benefits as opposed to cheaper oral vitamin C...I can only offer anecdotal evidence. After about 5 days of taking it at least twice a day (one day 3 packets) I feel a little different in a good way. No massive infusion of extra energy, but there is some indication of improved energy. My blood pressure seems lower (haven't monitored it, but I know when I am hypertensive). The bad thing is the dollars go pretty quickly with 2-3 people in a household taking it, but hey...what price do you put on improved health? I read today that blood travels a complete circuit in your body every 60 seconds. It is comforting to know I have this new blend of Vitamin C traveling around nonstop every day. [Update after 70 days of use]: I would swear my facial wrinkles are half what they used to be! I don't forget to take this vitamin very often...usually the first thing in the morning for my wife and I before we have our lovely home-brewed coffees (I buy country of origin coffees as my only vice. *;-) We also found grapefruit juice by far masks the slightly squishy texture and slightly funky smell better than any other juice. I really like grapefruit juice and my wife is not so big a fan, but she likes the liposomal vitamin in grapefruit juice better than other juices she prefers to drink alone. (Update after about 4-5 months of use). Facial wrinkles even more reduced. I don't forget to take this vitamin every day. It gives me more energy also. My wife has decided she likes it better in orange juice now so I buy some Brazilian blended with Mexican orange juice and she likes it better than my Rio Grande Valley grapefruit juice.

I truly love this product. It helps you get better faster from any respiratory virus. Sometimes even in a day! I wish it was less expensive though.