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How much Vitamin C is too much?

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Vitamin C is water soluable -- it will be pissed away. The more you have, the more will go away. Other vitamins such as A are fat soluable and cannot be pissed away. That's why eating things high in vitamin A will kill you (polar bear liver).

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<< BTW, vitamins (in the form of supplements) are the #2 biggest scam in the history of mankind...right behind bottled water. >>



This is a bunch of BS. In "theory" we should be able to get all the vitamins and minerals that our bodies need from our food. HOWEVER, soil that is used to grow these fruits/vegetables is soooo depleted in vitamins and minerals, that this is not longer true. 100 years ago, maybe, but definitely not today. Vitamin and mineral supplements are a good idea.

As far as Vitamin C overdosing goes - there's a study to prove everything gives you cancer. Next thing you know carrots and apples will give you cancer. Vitamin C is a water soluble vitamin. Whatever your intestines don't absorb will be pissed out.

BTW, Skoorb is correct. Since Vit C is acidic, it is not good for your teeth. It wears away the enamel. That's a small price to pay for not getting scurvy, though 😉

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Real answer follows:

Vitamin C is water soluble. As such, it is only hurting your liver in large quantities. Your liver processes it and sends it out as urine. Thus taking too much Vitamin C will harm your liver. How much is too much? Your body can only process 250mg at a time. It can do this 2-3 times a day. Taking a 500mg tablet will just waste 250mg. Taking two 250mg tablets (spaced out) will give you 500mg of Vitamin C. I just take one 250mg tablet a day, that's more than enough.

MissSuperb: DO NOT OVERDOSE ON IRON! Seriously bad things can happen while your body begins to store iron. Iron is not water soluble, it is fat soluble, so it ends up stored in your body. This causes free radicals, just don't take too much. Menstruating women do need extra iron, but not too much.
 
Nt just any university Professor . . . It was Dr. Linus Pauling who won the Nobel Prize in his field, that recommended and himself took at least 10,000 miligrams of vitamin C a day. He published books on it that are still considered contraversial (he got the last laugh . . . he lived well into his 80s and never got a cold).

If you are going to take maga dosages of vitamin C make SURE it is buffered or you will get a very upset stomach. Some forms of vitamin C are evidently more effective than others (the inexpensive crystaline sodium ascorbate the least effective and most acidic).

I take lots of vitamin C (1-5 or more grams daily, depending how I feel) and have been doing so for many many years. I have researched much and don't care what the detractors say or what the (rather incomplete) studies have concluded so far.
 
Megadoses of vitamin C isn't a new phenomena. I had a bio prof that use to talk about his early days in medschool, where it was a fad to take megadoses of C. He advises against it now, since research has shown a higher dosage of it doesn't really give any more benefits, and side-effects increase.

 
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