You don’t need more than 1-2 500mg tablets a day. Anything more is in the realm of useless.
[quote]Josh Rider wrote:
You don’t need more than 1-2 500mg tablets a day. Anything more is in the realm of useless.[/quote]
Saying that is stating you don`t believe in having constant flow of vitamin C in the body. Why do you think this is optimal?
Theres quite a bit of contradictory research out there showing negative, positive and no effects of high dose vit C. I wouldnt be taking anti-oxidants after training after reviewing what research i’ve seen, but how beneficial it is if taken in the morning for example is still up for debate. It has even been shown to have pro-oxidant effects when administered in high doses.
It was recommended to me once to take vitamin C for tendonitis. I started taking 6-8 grams a day until I got over my tendonitis. Now I take 2-4 grams a day. I can’t prove that vitamin C cured my tendonitis, but it seems likely that it was the cause.
Okay, all I was saying was Linus Pauling took 18g of the stuff a day and obviously didn’t die from it.
also looking at a single individual is a scientific approach, it’s called a case study.
chemo worked for the first cancer patient to undergo it but everyone is different yes, and it didn’t save every cancer patient, but it did make a huge difference in many people’s lives. dealing in absolutes is dangerous and I never claimed everyone should be taking 18g of VitC a day, the OP asked if anyone has experimented with high doses of VitC, Linus Pauling is the man to ask/look at when it comes to high doses of VitC, so I directed him in that path.
but I bet if I said “Linus Pauling took 18g of VitC a day and he died at the age of 32” you’d all be throwing out your timed release capsules the second you finished reading my post.
I’m not spoon feeding, if the OP thinks it’s interesting Pauling took 18g a day and lived to 93 and wanted to look into Pauling’s research to see if there is a way to correlate it, that’s up to him.
So I found it interesting he took 18g a day and also lived to 93, maybe there’s a correlation there, never did I claim there was and I’m sorry if it seemed I implied it.
[quote]MODOK wrote:
I take 3 g every morning, not so much for the vitamin c, but the chewable tabs are tasty little orange candies and its the only candy I have these days.[/quote]
Loll ! I bought some going 2g/day in 4 doses of 500mg
They really do taste like candies
personally I take anywhere between 2-6g/day by 1000g dose pills
when I’ve been sick I’ve gone as high as 12g a day, no adverse effects here
whether it does speed up recovery from sickness or not, I’m not about to make a control trial @ 0g/day any time soon
[quote]zraw wrote:
[quote]MODOK wrote:
I take 3 g every morning, not so much for the vitamin c, but the chewable tabs are tasty little orange candies and its the only candy I have these days.[/quote]
Loll ! I bought some going 2g/day in 4 doses of 500mg
They really do taste like candies[/quote]
The grape one`s taste good as well.
I take a few grams a day, started with it after reading Christian Thib’s article Supplementation for Newbies:
It recommends 1 - 1.5g pre and post workout to blunt cortisol and increase fat mobilization.
Since then, though, I’ve heard it’s best to avoid C after workout because it can hinder the insulin spike we desire. It does act as an antioxidant, though, so there’s no reason to not have a higher intake. I’m a fan of taking it before bed so it can do its mysterious vitamin voodoo all night.