Vitamin C supplaments...who here takes em

[Sub-Zero]

it says to take 500 mg twice per day, but some recommend up to 3-8g per day!

i have 500 mg tablets, so i guess ill be spreading that throughout the day with each meal.

how do yall do it, and how much do yall get

vitamin C is essential

 

[jnevin]

Essential for what?

 

[bran987]

I've heard about negative effects of taking that much. you can have negative effects from taking too much of anything (except drugs). 500mg in the morning and 500mg after your workout should be enough bud.

 

[Sub-Zero]

I've heard about negative effects of taking that much. you can have negative effects from taking too much of anything (except drugs). 500mg in the morning and 500mg after your workout should be enough bud.

okay thats what i was thinking, but it says up to 3g...

whats wrong with taking that much? what negativbe effects?

 

[jnevin]

okay thats what i was thinking, but it says up to 3g...

whats wrong with taking that much? what negativbe effects?

It could cause you to misspell supplement.

 

[Sub-Zero]

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.

 

[bran987]

okay thats what i was thinking, but it says up to 3g...

whats wrong with taking that much? what negativbe effects?

going up to 3g probably won't hurt you, but it probably won't help you much either.

it's like the law of diminishing marginal returns in economics. you know about that right

 

[RaoulDuke..]

3g shouldn't hurt you...check out vitamin c research by linus pauling, interesting stuff.

 

[bran987]

make sure you buy organic or it causes some forms of cancer

 

[Sub-Zero]

going up to 3g probably won't hurt you, but it probably won't help you much either.

it's like the law of diminishing marginal returns in economics. you know about that right

bump for this statement.

is 3g relaly necessary, or is 1g like bran suggestions optimal