For those with an interest in high doses of Vitamin C, a few notes.
1) Typically, Vitamin C is too acidic for many, but this can be overcome by consuming pH neutral versions of vitamin C, or “buffered” versions with other ingredients.
2) Vitamin C is a water soluble vitamin, which means it can be absorbed and excreted too fast to be effective at the cellular level. The way to overcome this is a “Liposomal” Vitamin C. It involves mixing the vitamin C with lecithin.
Lecithin is a generic term to designate any group of yellow-brownish fatty substances occurring in animal and plant tissues, which are amphiphilic - they attract both water and fatty substances (and so are both hydrophilic and lipophilic), and are used for smoothing food textures, dissolving powders (emulsifying), homogenizing liquid mixtures, and repelling sticking materials.
While there are recipes for DIY Liposomal Vitamin C on the Internet, they are not as good or effective as *some* of the commercial Liposomal Vitamin C out there.
Ironically, because fats like lecithin are not directly absorbed into the blood, but the lymphatic system, Liposomal Vitamin C will likely never reach the peak levels of Vitamin C in the blood that water soluble does. But much higher doses will remain in the body for much longer.
This means that Liposomal vitamin C may actually be more effective than IV Vitamin C.
Thank you for posting that info. Now I remember, my friend said he was taking the “Liposomal” Vitamin C. I heard him say Vitamin C, which I recognized, and forgot the Liposomal part.