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Re: Vitamin C megadosing

Posted by NKP on October 20, 2009, at 13:24:43

In reply to Re: Vitamin C megadosing, posted by BrainDamage on October 20, 2009, at 7:50:27

I am megadosing with vitamin C to see what it does to me. I read that most animals can synthesize their own vitamin C, and that, relative to their body mass, they synthesize substantially more vitamin C than what humans consume in the average diet.

Also, the 70mg/day for men, 90mg/day for women, and 135mg/day for smokers, that is typically listed as the RDA of vitamin C, is merely what is necessary to prevent obvious illness like scurvy. I saw some papers where the authors distinguish between overt vitamin C deficiency, where obvious illness sets in, and subclinical vitamin C deficiency, where the person is not obviously unwell, but where their health is less than what it could be. They basically argued that many people have subclinical vitamin C deficiency.

I'm not on any meds, but I am taking fish oil, SAM-e, tyrosine, TMG, methylfolate, B vitamins, and now also vitamin C. Of these, I know for certain that the fish oil, SAM-e and tyrosine help me. The TMG, methylfolate and B vitamins I take in part to protect against poor homocysteine metabolism that is a risk of SAM-e supplementation.

I don't take my supplements over weekends; I've found that when I take them too many days in succession, I become hypomanic, anxious, and have insomia.


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