A viewer asks: “In a worst-case scenario, commercial vitamin C can become completely unavailable quickly. Pine needles are plentiful, almost limitless in fact, and pine needle tea is said to be high in vitamin C. In the case of commercial vitamin C unavailability, can pine needle tea, or a pine needle reduction or tincture be enough delivery to provide adequate protection from the coronavirus?”

The fact there is vitamin C in pine needles does not mean there are high enough concentrations to make a realistic brew that could achieve potential therapeutic concentrations within the tissues where it would need to be present to deal with virus making its way into the body. While it is conceivably possible to concentrate the vitamin from such a source, it would be a time consuming and greatly inconvenient process. There are much more effective ways to work with the vitamin to formulate a bioavailable form.