Heard from the local nutritionist that our body can only absord 60mg a day for vitamin C?
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Get the book by Bruce Miller, DDS, CNS.Cancer. Nutrition Answers. In it he talks about Vitamin C. Or Books by Dr Kenneth Cooper. The Anioxidant Revolution.60 mg is WAY too low. After you've read any of these books, pass it to the sadly misinformed nutritionist!
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Yup - and smokers need a lot of extra vitamin c
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The craze over vitamin C's power to prevent and treat colds started with the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling's 1970 book Vitamin C and the Common Cold. Pauling advised taking 3,200 to 12,000 milligrams per day, far higher than conventional standards. The latest recommendation from the Institute of Medicine is 75 milligrams per day for women and 90 for men, with an extra 35 milligrams daily for smokers, who suffer higher levels of oxidative stress and cellular damage. This is a far cry from Pauling's original proposals. And studies testing Pauling's cold theory indicate that vitamin C probably does not prevent colds but may make them milder and shorten their duration.
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Yes! Get hold of a Supper B Complex (make sure that the mg of each B is round 50mg) And never overlook the power of Vitamin C! Good luck with your efforts.
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full of vitamin C, but everything should be eaten in moderation.
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Please check out this website for good vitamin info. You can search your condition on there. Im sure your friend means well and is trying to help but the daily RDA's of vitamins in multis are not sufficient for anyone. People need more vitamins. There is no way to get the nutrients you need from diet today no matter how well you try to eat.\n\nhttp://www.doctoryourself.com/index.html\nhttp://www.doctoryourself.com/arthritis.html
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Do keep in mind Vitamin-C is a water soluable vitamin.It is also recommended to use vitamin C with BIOFLAVINOIDS it improves the absorption and bioavailablitiy of the Vitamin C.  Also 500 mg of vitamin C is not a lot. The ODI (Optimum Daily Intake) of Vitamin C is 1000-2000 mg a day. Plus when you say Vitamin C please remember that  there is 4 types of commercially available Vit.C. ASCORBIC ACID which is the most acidic and the most irritating  to the stomach and it isn't recommended that you do more than 1000 mg a day of ascorbic acid unless it's buffered.Which leads us to BUFFERED Vitamin C usually a generic unpatented form of Calcium Ascorbate(Calcium Carbonate+Ascorbic Acid)Incidentally Cal. Carbonate lowers acid Ph. A well known form of Buffered Vitamin C is ESTER-C which can remain in the body for 24 hours.The best form of Buffered Vit. C is MULTI-MINERAL ASCORBATE VIT.C(usually Zinc,Calcium,Magnesium,Manganese,Chromium,&Potassium Ascorbate)Also there is Ascorbyl Palmitate(Ascorbic Acid+Palmitic Acid) which is a fat soluable form of Vit. C which can stay in the body for a long time. Then there is FOOD STATE Vit. C which is Vitamin-C supplements made from fruits and other food sources and over all the best form of Vitamin -C. Ascorbic Acid by itself is usually SYNTHETICand is the poorest choice of Vitamin C. I hope this isn't too much info for you.
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Take 2000 mgs of Vitamin C all at once. You should notice a difference in about 20 minutes.  If you don't, take another 1000 mgs of Vitamin C.  If it gets stuffed up again, do this again.\n\nDr Linus Pauling, who won a Nobel prize, used to take 10,000 mgs of Vitamin C per day and 20,000 mgs per day when he had a cold coming on or a flu.  He lived to be around 95 years old and took care of his ranch near Big Sur until he died.  If it is good enough for him, it should be good enough for us.\n\nI have been taking a minimum of 3000 mgs of Vitamin C for 35 years.  I am fine.  I take no medical drugs.  When I have a cold, I take 3000 mgs every 3 to 4 hours to keep my nose from running and to stop sneezing so much.  \n\nI rarely get a cold because as soon as I notice a cold coming on, I immediately (within an hour, if possible) take 3000 mgs of Vitamin C and then again in 3-4 hours and if I don't forget, I take another 3000 mgs of Vit C at bedtime. In most cases, I never get that cold.  If I don't take Vitamin C within the hour from when I first notice a symtom of the cold, it is likely that I will have to suffer through the cold but taking the Vit C every 3 - 4 hours helps to make me less miserable.\n\nzhebee
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vitamin c and i heard that stuff airborne works...
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well, i read previously in an article that vitamin C is actually not useful when it comes to boosting immunity. in fact, the study on that article was done on a group of 400 people, 200 of whom eat 3-4 times as much as vitamin C as the other group and in the end, their immunity are the same. The group who took the 3-4 times vitamin C only can shorten the time they got sick like 1-2 days. So it really doesnt help. i cant rem when i saw this article, but it was in the Singapore major newspaper months back.\n\nLike yourself, i am very sick prone, i have 2-5 ulcers (canker sores) a month, fever every 2 months. Its almost like a routine to me. I am a non smoker, i dont drink alcohol, i dont club, no drugs. \n\nAnyhow recently i am getting so better (i hope it aint gonna go downhill again). Its my change of environment i guess. Much cleaner air now, i drink more than 2 litres of plain water everyday, do some long distance walking every week (40 to 60 mins fast walk each time), sleep 8 hours a day. Been doing this for 3 months already and i feel so much healthier, and not much problems i mention previously.\n\nHope i helped! :)
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Echninacea helps boost your immune system.  If possible, buy it from a health food store as opposed to something like Walgreens.  There is a wide variation in quality.  \n\nDitto regarding the comment from the person about taking vitamin C.  Vitamin C is water soluble so you technically can't overdose on it, but try to space it out throughout the day as your body can only absorb so much at a time.  \n\nIf you do get to go to a health food store, buy vitamin C from a naturally derived "whole foods" source.  I have tried at least a dozen brands and find the "whole food" source is most effective.  It's made from real food, so your body recognizes it and seems to utilize it better.  One brand I recommend is Garden of Life Living Vitamin C.
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I don't know if it has any truth in it, but when I used to get them as a child, I was told it was lack of vitamine C.\n(Could be they were trying to make me eat more fruit though ....)
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John Hopkins did a study that showed statistically that taking an extra 250 mg vitamin C and 400 Units of E every day would reduce the incidence of Alzheimer's, if I remember correctly. :-0
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what if you just do one slide for each vitamin, and go into more specifics on the individual vitamin on it's slide, including foods that supply it, types of supplements like ascorbates, etc. which works, amount daily dose recommended and maybe the effects of that vitamin's deficiency (like scurvy). if you did the main vitamins and maybe combined all the Bs on one that would be about 15.
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The recommended daily allowance for vitamin C varies. The current recommendation for adults is 120 mg daily, although a dose of 60 mg daily is all that is required to prevent scurvy. Some experts think the level should be as high as 200 mg daily to match the level present in 5 servings of fruits and vegetables daily, a diet shown to decrease cancer risk.\nMegadoses of vitamin C have not been shown in clinical trials to reduce viral illnesses such as colds. Large doses of vitamin C, ie, more than 1 g/d, may increase the risk of certain illnesses such as kidney stones, particularly oxalate stones.
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No - you won't die!  Just stop eating the vitamins...get some candy instead!!
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I think men should be getting a mutlivitamin with lycopene and not too much iron.  Also, high amounts of B vitamins.\n\nIm no nutritionist but I did research before buying my multivitamin.  I take OneSource for Men btw