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High doses of Vitamin C

Beenie
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A few years ago there was some talk about high doses of Vit C being very good for your health and immune system. The research work was done by Linus Pauling, a Nobel prize winner.
I have now discovered that he is not a medical doctor and the research was flawed (poor controls etc) but a recovering cancer patient I spoke to on Monday swears by this vitamin. She also says that many of the people she has come into contact with in the past few years take this vitamin and it has done them good.
I would like to try it on the basis that it can't do much harm and may even be beneficial, so my question is this: where do I get vit C powder (all the supermarkets and B**ts stock capsules or tablets only, in my area at least) and are all the powders/tablets the same --same ingredients etc -- despite the brand names?
I have now discovered that he is not a medical doctor and the research was flawed (poor controls etc) but a recovering cancer patient I spoke to on Monday swears by this vitamin. She also says that many of the people she has come into contact with in the past few years take this vitamin and it has done them good.
I would like to try it on the basis that it can't do much harm and may even be beneficial, so my question is this: where do I get vit C powder (all the supermarkets and B**ts stock capsules or tablets only, in my area at least) and are all the powders/tablets the same --same ingredients etc -- despite the brand names?
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Hi Beenie,
Seeing as no-one has replied yet I'll just say hello!
I do not know about the effect of high doses of Vit C, or indeed the safety of it. I have however ordered stuff from several online retailers including Zipvit, Simply Supplements and Healthy Direct and had very good service from each of them. Google them and make sure to check quidco if you use them.
I'm sure one of them must do what you are looking for.
Hope that helps. Si0 -
Why does it need to be vitamin C powder? If you don't like taking tablets you could get the dispersible tablets that you put into water and they dissolve. You can buy them everywhere.
Vitamin C is Vitamin C. It's just a very simple molecule (scientific name: Ascorbic Acid). There won't be any difference at all from one brand to another.
Btw, this thread probably won't last long as it's not strictly money saving.0 -
Why does it need to be vitamin C powder? If you don't like taking tablets you could get the dispersible tablets that you put into water and they dissolve. You can buy them everywhere.
Vitamin C is Vitamin C. It's just a very simple molecule (scientific name: Ascorbic Acid). There won't be any difference at all from one brand to another.
Btw, this thread probably won't last long as it's not strictly money saving.
I did wonder about that, but the 'moneysaving' is in steering people (me, at least :rolleyes:) away from brand name products. Thanks for the explanation about the scientific name - I'll be sure to look for that as the main ingredient.0 -
Any vitamin C that the body doesn't use/need comes out in the urine.0
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as it goes, most of the research into medical treatments won't be necessarily be done by 'medical' doctors, it will be researchers who have got PhDs... and full time researchers will set up better studies as they have more experience of doing it - don't worry about that part!
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002404.htm
that is a link to a page from the National Institutes of Health with some guidelines.
i bought it from nutricentre who are affiliated with tesco so that i could get clubcard points and the price, at the time, was competitive. this was a few years ago when i was on a restricted diet and needed supplements. as long as you buy from somewhere reputable, then there is no point going for branded stuff! i liked the powder as opposed to tablets and sprinkled it over my cereal. less precise of a daily measure though and it shouldn't make a difference how you take it. i think i went for that as it was the cheapest option....:happyhear0 -
The powder is much cheaper than tablets. To start with, if you take too much it will come out in the urine; if you increase the dose further, it will give you the runs.0
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