LivOn Laboratories Lypo–Spheric Vitamin C – 3 Cartons (90 Packets) – 1,000 mg Vitamin C & 1,000 mg Essential Phospholipids Per Packet – Liposome Encapsulated for Improved Absorption – 100% Non–GMO

***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.

Ok here is my honest review. To me, it tastes like the malaria medicine I had to take before the trip I went on, positive thing is, if you follow instructions given by the company, and put it in liquid and then take it, its a million times better. Also, the taste doesn't linger in your mouth at all like malaria medicine so that part is GREAT. Super easy to use and travel with, especially for someone who doesn't swallow pills. Great quality product. I do notice a positive difference in post weight lifting recovery taking this. Very happy and would purchase again.

Love these! I mix into a quarter glass of organic apple or pineapple juice and it's become part of my morning breakfast ritual. It's rather thick but liposomal Vit C is the way to go, especially if you're looking to enhance your collagen absorption. I tried CORE, but it was way too sweet, so I returned to LivOn.

Now, more than ever, it's important to take care of our health and do our best to avoid illness. Lypo-Spheric Vitamin C is a big part of my wellness plan. Most people associate vitamin C with the immune system and know we need sufficient vitamin C to ward off colds and other viruses and to fight them if and when we do get sick. But vitamin C does a lot more. It reduces the risk of chronic disease as well as acute, it can help protect the heart and blood vessels, it helps prevent anemia, and it may prevent dementia in older persons. And that's just the beginning of the list of benefits. If you simply swallow a vitamin C tablet or capsule each day, it's better than not taking any vitamin C at all, but most of the vitamin (up to 97%) can be lost as it passes through the acidic environment in your stomach. Liposomal vitamin C is encapsulated in a layer of fat that allows it to pass through the acidic environment of the stomach without being destroyed. According to LivOn, this means that liposomal vitamin C delivers 200% more vitamin C than the standard tablet or capsule, and you, of course, are the beneficiary. According to LivOn's Website, the liposomes, themselves, contribute to our nutrition. As someone who doesn't like to take large pills, I like the fact that I can simply open a packet of this liposomal vitamin C, pour it in a glass, and down it in one swallow. I was a little reluctant, at first, to take 1,000 mg., since 75-90 mg. is the usual recommended daily dose, and I'm no believer in mega-vitamin therapy for anything. However, I've suffered no ill effects from the high dose, and I don't expect to. Due to an accident, I've had two cornea transplants (one in each eye), and due to the cornea transplants, I've developed dry eye syndrome in both eyes. Drops do help greatly, but after taking Lypo-Spheric Vitamin C for a few months, I find I usually don't even need the drops. I also feel I sleep better and have a lot more energy during the day, though it's calm energy; I'm never nervous and jumpy like some people are if they drink too much caffeine, etc. I also love it that this vitamin C contains no GMOs, sugars, starch, artificial flavors, artificial colors, flavors, gluten, hexane, or meat or dairy products. It's suitable for vegetarians like me and even for vegans. Some people say it tastes terrible, but it really doesn't. Just put some water in a shot glass, pour in the vitamin C, and swallow. There won't be any taste at all. If the health benefits aren't motivation enough to take this, your skin needs vitamin C to look its best. It needs a lot more than vitamin C, of course, but vitamin C plays a huge role in bright, beautiful skin. Many of us use expensive vitamin C serums on our face, but unless we have adequate vitamin C in our body, our skin isn't going to be able to glow, and we won't be able to make adequate collagen and elastin, two substances that keep our skin young and bouncy looking. I love this vitamin C, and I'm trying to get everyone I care about to take it daily. You should be doing that, too. (I also take LivOn's L-Carnitine to counteract the aging effects of sugar, since I don't eat meat.)

I’ve tried many different vitamin C supplements, but LivOn Lypo-Spheric is by far the best. You can really feel the difference in energy, immune strength, and skin within the first week. The absorption is amazing — no stomach discomfort like with other forms, and I feel stronger and less tired overall. I take it on an empty stomach with a little water, and it goes straight to work. The taste isn’t great, but it’s quick and absolutely worth it for the results. My skin looks brighter, and I’ve gone through weather changes without getting sick. I’m just finishing my first box and already placing an order for the next one. LivOn is and will continue to be part of my daily routine. Highly recommend it if you want real, fast results! Es de los mejores suplementos que he tomado en mucho tiempo, aunque el sabor no es agradable no me importa porque puedo dar testimonio del cambio que dio mío piel, notado por mí y por los de mi alrededor. Me encanta, ahora voy a pedir mi segunda caja y ya para mí es y será parte de mi 😍🙌🏻 voy hasta a revisar que otros productos tiene la marca porque me siento muy feliz con el resultado de esta vitamina C.

This stuff is absolutely amazing and we take it on every trip. Good portability for cruise ships or flights. It can be added to water and slogged back like a shot. Whatever you do, try not to get the stuff on your tongue. The orange, jelly like, texture is off-putting, but it's well worth not getting whatever plague it is that people travel with these days. Look at it as a shield of immunity in a convenient little packet. I only gave it 4 out of 5 due to the gross taste/texture. It does the job and gets a 10/10 for efficacy. You can take on package daily for support or double up when actively fighting off illness.

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.]

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..

Nice and very beneficial product

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.

Good product .Received item in good condition,NO exploded.

I use this product for overall well being. Soft Packaging slightly damaged, but product undamaged. Very fast delivery for international shipping.

I just ordered this and multiple packages had already exploded in the box leaving behind some odd brown residue. Half the box needed to be thrown away. When I tried using one clean packet there were brown specs in the water. The seller was not willing to offer any concession or take their product back which is obviously of bad quality and unsafe for consumption. I highly recommend you find another seller if you want this.