Comments about ‘Vitamin C has many helpful benefits, few side effects’

There are few things in medical as misunderstood as the pharmacokinetics of vitamin C.

Vitamin C is a nutrient, and if taken for it's nutritional value then taking above 1 Gram per day is pretty much a waste of vitamin C. Most people will receive maximum benefit at 1 Gram.

However Vitamin C can also be a therapeutic treatment, but you must take much larger doses than you took (6 gram/day is not enough). For me, it's about 24 g/day when I feel a cold coming on, 12g in 6 am, 12g at 6 pm. If I only take 10g in either the am or pm I will receive no therapeutic effect and my cold will progress. At 24g/day I can lick almost any cold within 24 hours.

Everyone has a different therapeutic threshold. To determine yours, start out with 10g/12hrs. If no diarrhea, then increase to 12g/12hrs, then 14g/12hrs. If you get diarrhea back off 2 g. That's what you need to get over a cold, and the process is called bowel titration.

Vit C + Tumms is more effective than calcium ascorbate. Ascorbates aren't effective as Vit C.