Vitamin C

[Fortress Maximus]

Started yesterday on 3g a day. My energy levels have risen, no doubt about that.

 

[JustLurk]

I used to eat a ton of those Vitamin C supplements, like they were candy. Long story short I had to go see the doctor and I don't anymore.

EDIT: @ china vitamin c comment: And antifreeze in medicine, drug-laced frozen eel, poison in toothpaste, etc etc etc. More regs pls?

 

[EA Gold]

Its called propylene glycol, check your food. You'd be surprised how many foods have this antifreeze additive.


Eating oranges is the safest bet and a food made by God, you can't always trust man.

 

[Alle_Gory]

Its called propylene glycol, check your food. You'd be surprised how many foods have this antifreeze additive.

It's not just an antifreeze additive. It's used in everything from food to perfumes to cigars. It's also not toxic to humans unless you ingest jugs of this stuff in one sitting.

Propylene glycol is not the toxic part of antifreeze, there's worse additives in the stuff.


Please educate yourself.

edit:
Look into Ethylene Glycol and Methanol. Those are some really nasty and toxic antifreeze additives.

 

[EA Gold]

close enough

propylene glycol bad or not, I wouldn't want to ingest the stuff anyway.

 

[Alle_Gory]

propylene glycol bad or not, I wouldn't want to ingest the stuff anyway.

You're getting it anyways, and its not a harmful additive. I think its an alcohol.

 

[Alle_Gory]

It holds the cells together.

No it doesn't. That would be collagen. But it is involved in alot of biochemical reactions in the body. Mostly the energy metabolism... respiration.

 

[Quiksilver]

Unless they're tainted with heavy metals.

Yeah well you get what you pay for. I buy high quality supps and try to use them efficiently.

There are so many environmental toxins these days it's hard to avoid them, I do the best I can but don't fret about the rest.

Send me a message when the government stops poisoning my water with sodium fluoride and it's derivatives.

Send me another message when corporations stop using BPA-laced plastics as packaging for all our food.

 

[Alle_Gory]

Yes, vitamin C is essential to help fight the disease. I also think it is good to buy a multimineral-vitamin A for over 50 years, and the specificities of children, and other personal health conditions, including high cholesterol, heart problems or anxiety. Since the products are very different - the multi-task to individual needs.

Vitamin A is fat soluble, that means it can and does accumulate in your body if you take too much. It becomes very toxic after a certain point.
It's better to eat lots of carrotenes instead. Your body makes vitamin A from beta-carrotene. It's an orange pigment found in plants and fruits... carrots.

If you're seriously in need of Vitamin A supplements then you need to get a blood test at the doctor's office.



And stop making user accounts kevinjones1, DevarksMcsxip, nicodemusliam or whatever you want to call yourself. Post reported.

 

[Alle_Gory]

beneficial effect with regard to delaying the onset of cataract.

What odd sentence structure. Oh, wait I know!

"beneficial effect with regard to delaying the onset of cataracts"

from this page: http://www.healthyfellow.com/144/vitamin-c-deficiency/

Can you mods please do something about the spam bot problem?

 

[Alle_Gory]

Many of the old reports on use in colds used daily doses of 4000 mg, and even that rarely caused kidney stones.

Vitamin C doesn't cause kidney stones. It dissolves them. Vitamic C is also called ascorbic acid.
http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v01n07.shtml

By Steve Hickey, PhD and Hilary Roberts, PhD.

(OMNS) It is strange how some medical authors seem desperate to show that vitamin C causes harm. One recurrent scare story is that vitamin C might cause kidney stones. However, although such warnings pop up regularly, these reports do not demonstrate an increase in the number or size of stones; instead, they rely on vague indicators of improbable risk.

The authors of such uncritical papers have probably not read the literature, for this is an old story. Decades ago, the idea that vitamin C causes kidney stones formed part of the medical attack on Linus Pauling. While it was initially a reasonable hypothesis, unexpected kidney stones are not found in people taking large amounts of vitamin C. (1,2)

There is no evidence that vitamin C causes kidney stones. Indeed, in some cases, high doses may be curative. (3) A recent, large-scale, prospective study followed 85,557 women for 14 years and found no evidence that vitamin C causes kidney stones. (4) There was no difference in the occurrence of stones between people taking less than 250 milligrams per day and those taking 1.5 grams or more. This study was a follow up of an earlier study on 45,251 men. This earlier study indicated that doses of vitamin C above 1.5 grams reduce the risk of kidney stones. (5) The authors of these large studies stated that restriction of higher doses of vitamin C because of the possibility of kidney stones is unwarranted.

 

[ArcBound]

Vitamin C doesn't cause kidney stones. It dissolves them. Vitamic C is also called ascorbic acid.
http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v01n07.shtml

AlleGory if you look at maxmartan's post history you can tell he's a spambot or advertiser, even his signature is selling things.

 

[ArcBound]

Actually Chase and stanley probably are too..

 

[TheAsianLoverReturns]

I haven't been sick in almost 4 years since I started taking vitamin c. I used to get sick once a month.

500mg vitamin c. Another 300mg from my multivitamin. Another 200mg from fresh fruit, so I get 1000mg a day.

If you take it when you get sick, it is useless. The trick is to take it everyday so your body's immune system stays strong.

 

[Alle_Gory]

AlleGory if you look at maxmartan's post history you can tell he's a spambot or advertiser, even his signature is selling things.

I know, but other people might not.

 

[Alle_Gory]

If you take it when you get sick, it is useless. The trick is to take it everyday so your body's immune system stays strong.

I don't know about that. Might make a small difference. Your body needs Vitamin C all the time, even when sick.

The thing with Vitamin C is that it's water soluble, so it always flushes out of your system. If your body needs it... too bad. This could be why megadosing works. You're constantly pumping in more Vitamin C into your body so it never runs out.

 

[TheAsianLoverReturns]

I don't know about that. Might make a small difference. Your body needs Vitamin C all the time, even when sick.

The thing with Vitamin C is that it's water soluble, so it always flushes out of your system. If your body needs it... too bad. This could be why megadosing works. You're constantly pumping in more Vitamin C into your body so it never runs out.

Mega doses might reduce the duration of the illness.

The best thing is to never get sick in the first place. That's done by daily vitamin c supplementation with daily fruit servings.

 

[CrashOverRide]

Some good information here...... If it is water soluble though and the dosage doesn't matter.... why is the standard recommendation no more than 2000 mg per day? I thought I read that somewhere...

 

[Alle_Gory]

Some good information here...... If it is water soluble though and the dosage doesn't matter.... why is the standard recommendation no more than 2000 mg per day? I thought I read that somewhere...

Why are protein recommendations so low based on the RDA?

 

[Marvin Gaye]

I'll never forget the Florida Orange Juice commercials I used to watch..I feel like a gangster for loving Vitaminc C when everyone around me drinks pepsi & coke.


Thanks also @the water soluble thing, I thought maybe Vitamin C had pigmentation issues like carrots or tomatoes. (as in eating too much makes you orange) Do you guys know any good brands for the suppliments?