Vitamin C supplaments...who here takes em

[Sub-Zero]

I think its a great idea.....spread the vit c over a couple/three dosings

should i take 1.5g per day? and do like 3 500mg dosages?


or u really think 1g is plenty to block cortisol levels and aid in being healthy

 

[gjohnson5]

Ascorbic Acid is an acid. Ester C, which MM is advocating, neutral PH

Vitamin C is an acid so my guess is constantly taking that much of it could possibly lead to an ulcer or throw off your stomach pH or something like that. It's water soluble though so you'll urinate most of it out. Minerals are not.

Do you honestly believe you can get 8g of vitamin C from food alone daily? Or anywhere near that? I doubt you need to add and 8g of vitamin C on top of what you already get from your diet. You'd probably be fine without any. So my guess is 1g a day should prove plenty beneficial.

 

[bran987]

how will it affect his overall jackedness? remember he wants lean mass bros

lmaaaooo

 

[gjohnson5]

They use to think that until they identified that H. pylori bacteria was the culprit.
Though stomach acid does harm the stomach lining as well. Ph is very important to maintain.

Stomach acid only harms the stomach after the bacteria have eaten a hole in the lining...

But the reason the bacteria eat a whole in the stomach lining in the first place is low stomach acid

 

[PICK3]

By Vitamin C do you mean Xanax?

 

[Sub-Zero]

By Vitamin C do you mean Xanax?

no

 

[RottenWillow]

In healthy adults, oral doses up to 3 grams daily of vitamin C are unlikely to cause adverse reactions. The most common adverse reaction in those who take oral doses greater than 3 grams daily are gastrointestinal and include nausea, abdominal cramps, diarrhea and flatulent distention. These reactions are attributed to the osmotic effect of unabsorbed vitamin C passing through the intestine. Some advocates of megadose vitamin C use recommend titrating the daily dose of vitamin C to what they refer to as "bowel tolerance", i.e., the point at which the user begins experiencing diarrhea. This is not recommended.

Rare adverse reactions have been reported in healthy individuals taking high oral doses of vitamin C. These include elevation of serum glucose in an adult male taking 4.5 grams daily, a gastrointestinal obstruction in a 66-year-old woman taking 4.5 grams daily of ascorbic acid and esophagitis in one person taking a single 500 milligram dose.

You got it. The primary side effect is catching the poops. Apart from that, some peeps may get some transitory stomach pain from too much of the acidic form.

I take 4 to 6 grams daily in divided doses.

 

[Wulfgar]

I take clen

 

[GoldenDelicious]

Vitamin C is an acid so my guess is constantly taking that much of it could possibly lead to an ulcer or throw off your stomach pH or something like that. It's water soluble though so you'll urinate most of it out. Minerals are not.

Do you honestly believe you can get 8g of vitamin C from food alone daily? Or anywhere near that? I doubt you need to add and 8g of vitamin C on top of what you already get from your diet. You'd probably be fine without any. So my guess is 1g a day should prove plenty beneficial.

while vitamin c is an acid, its weak and youre not about to go acidotic from having a lot of it. youll just piss out the extra H+ ions you dont want, along with the (very soluble) parent molecule. its a non issue, relaly, even at higher doses

ulcers are caused by a lot of things, acid alone being one of them - while H. Pylori (a bacterium) is implicated in many ulcers, ulceration can occur from simple reflux of stomach acid (sometimes the oesophageal sphincter doesnt close properly, or you can have a hernia, or you can eat large volumes, causing seepage etc) leading to erosion of the oesophagus and eventually ulceration

so you werent wrong but yah, bugs and drugs help ulcers form a lot faster...common causes being NSAIDS, H Pylori and somtimes alcohol

sublime, taking vitamin c isnt going to help you out in the gym. sure you might have some slight clinical differences etc but the long and short of it is that your gym results are going to come from hard training and regular ingestion of appropriate amounts of macronutrients. most supplements/vitamins etc etc yield bullshit results compared to those. try not to get caught up in the "supplements = results" mentality, it can be expensive and frustrating

cheerios

 

[RottenWillow]

ulcers are caused by a lot of things, acid alone being one of them - while H. Pylori (a bacterium) is implicated in many ulcers, ulceration can occur from simple reflux of stomach acid (sometimes the oesophageal sphincter doesnt close properly, or you can have a hernia, or you can eat large volumes, causing seepage etc) leading to erosion of the oesophagus and eventually ulceration

Good post, homie. The acidic stomach/ulcer myth is very common. H. Pylori is actually reponsible for the vast majority of peptic ulcers.