Good info but how much Vitamin C should a person take? I take 2000 mg per day and have been for years. I have heard some people take as much as 6000 mg per day.
I guess you’re good until you pee OJ.................
I think Pauling took 10,000 mg per day. Can’t argue with the Godfather of Vitamin C who lived past 100 years old.
“Good info but how much Vitamin C should a person take? I take 2000 mg per day and have been for years. I have heard some people take as much as 6000 mg per day.”
I’ll offer this FWIW ... I had upped my dosage of Vit C to 2000mg per day. I did that for many years. It worked well in reducing symptoms of colds.
However I developed a kidney stone which was no fun. I read that excessive Vit C can contribute to kidney stones. Of course peanuts and other foods can contribute as well.
But I read that if one has issues with kidney stones they should limit Vit C intake to 500mg per day.
The interesting thing is that after cutting back from 2000mg to 500mg for six months now I haven’t noticed any change. Of course I had started taking more Vit D3 along with the Vit C. I take 5000 units a day of Vit D and occasionally take 10000 units a day.
No mention in this article that high dose Vitamin C can end up making kidney stones. Better to teke C that is not ascorbic acid (Rose Hips, etc. are better).
On the other hand, vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin which can be stored in the body. Your body needs vitamin D to absorb calcium from the diet. If you do not ingest enough vitamin D, your body has hormones which will cause calcium to be withdrawn from the bone so that the amount of calcium in the blood remains normal. In people whose diet is very low in vitamin D and who do not ever go outside without sunscreen, this low vitamin D level can lead to osteoporosis. Even if I did not teach anatomy, I would know this because it happened to my husband. Even though men do not usually develop osteoporosis until their mid-70s, he was not even 65 when he developed severe osteoporosis.
“I take 2000 mg per day and have been for years. I have heard some people take as much as 6000 mg per day.”
another widely held idea is taking Vitamin C to match bowel tolerance, which varies widely from person to person ... some people can take only a gram or two before the vitamin C induces diarrhea, yet for me, i’ve yet to find a dose that will induce diarrhea ...
no matter, vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin, so bowel tolerance aside, it would be hard to overdose, EXCEPT for folks with a rare genetic condition in which a key enzyme for metabolizing Vitamin c is deficient ...