Can you eat too much Vitamin C?

[goiinallin]

From various sources:

"Vitamin C also known as, ascorbic acid, L-ascorbic acid, dehydroascorbic acid, the antiscorbutic vitamin, L-xyloascorbic acid and L-threo-hex-2-uronic acidy-lactone, is a much talked about vitamin..."

"Ascorbic acid is an organic acid with antioxidant properties. The L-enantiomer of ascorbic acid is commonly known as vitamin C..."

And a damn fine site on ascorbate here.

Laugh away

Each are still a synthetic compound, and Not naturally occuring Vitamin C, and not the same in their entirety, and you named what 4 compoounds, each are not the same, example, one you named is found in mineral salts, and tends to be easier on gastrointestinal pain, if it is the SAME compound, please explain why that is...

"Vitamins are not individual molecular compounds. Vitamins are biological complexes. They are multi-step biochemical interactions whose action is dependent upon a number of variables within the biological terrain. Vitamin activity only takes place when all conditions are met within that environment, and when all co-factors and components of the entire vitamin complex are present and working together. Vitamin activity is even more than the sum of all those parts; it also involves timing.

Vitamins cannot be isolated from their complexes and still perform their specific life functions within the cells. When isolated into artificial commercial forms, like ascorbic acid, these purified synthetics act as drugs in the body. They are no longer vitamins, and to call them such is inaccurate"
"A vitamin is

" a working process consisting of the nutrient, enzymes, coenzymes, antioxidants, and trace minerals activators."
- Royal Lee "What Is a Vitamin?" Applied Trophology "

maybe this.. www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/ 2003/11/17/ascorbic_acid_is_not_vitamin_c.htm - 111k

or this...

Those said...
There have been two studies saying the composition of synthetic and naturally occurring ascorbic acid, yet each were gov.'t funded, being that the gov.'t has such high involvement with pharmaceuitcal companies in the US, and synthetic "Vitamin C" is found in nearly everything nowadays, the integrity of the studies must be called into question, at least IMO, I will admit...

 

[goiinallin]

Forgot to mention, I do appreciatte you more reverting to backing up your statements with sites/info rather than name calling and disrespect, and here, for you...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[NorgePrecision]

Those chewable tabs still have sugar in them too. Calorie wise, I doubt they're much better than sweet tarts. You might want to check it out.

They have less than 1 g. Unless he eats like 50 of them, I don't think he'll have to worry about sugars. Actually, he'd have to worry about a lot more things if he took 50 in one day.

 

[mastermidas]

I bought this container of like 500 tabs of 500mg of Vitamin C. They taste damn good so I eat em like candy since Im cutting and dont actually wanna eat candy and throw off my diet. Could this be bad for me? They taste really good...like sweet tarts almost...and i love my sweet tarts, yes i do.

I love chewables, but my dentist said that they are really bad for your teeth.