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Thanks OP. Very good price
this is an A grade deal on some Cs
Gotta buy 7 to save extra 5%
I don’t know how long it’s gonna take to finish that many
Be sure to rinse your mouth with water after chewing vitamin C tablets. They're quite acidic and sticky. Or just swallow the tablet.
Just swallow don't chew. Says chewable which isn't good for that
I needed to rinse my mouth after just seeing the photo of the bottle.
I always tell em to rinse after swallowing
Nice, thanks!
Flintstones chewable morphine!
I'll miss Sheriff Lobo…
Flavoured by Saccharin - might be relevant for those with sensitive gut biomes
It says I bought this in 2020, but I don't remember eating 300 of these. Bottle must be floating around somewhere still.
You live on mars? 😁
just eat fruit - it’s better for you
Inflation
What do people buy this for?
I eat it like lollies personally
Deoxidising the body.
Probably to boost vitamin C levels.
Are you an astronaut, eat some fresh fruit or veggies my man
Those are too expensive
@wisdomtooth: Nah, cbf clicking on a yt video without seeing the title, not my fault your hypertext sucks
Whole food source is better for bio-availability
True, but if one needs a Linus Pauling dose (of 3-6g/day) to deoxidise the body from the onset of some health condition, it's pretty hard — if at all healthy! — to do that eating copious amounts of fruits (or even veggies!).
This is overkill really. In a 24 hour period for absorption in humans it's at the limit with this 500mg dose. It's better to take them in divided doses during the day, but if not, in the evening isn't a bad idea.
I experimented with taking 2x of these in one go and had nausea….only as an experiment. Probably would have been ameliorated by eating food beforehand, if i had done so. If you have a sensitive stomach, you can buffer these with magnesium or calcium (or even drink some milk).
Personally I'm switching to liposomal and only using on days I haven't had anything from my diet that would cover me.
Completely unnecessary for those of us who have pretty decent diets.
There's only a small list of supplements even remotely worth taking.
If you have a sensitive stomach, you can buffer these with magnesium or calcium (or even drink some milk).
I doubt the nausea you felt was from the acidity of the vit C. The human stomach is pretty acid (1.5–3.5 pH), and ascorbic acid (synthetic vitamin C) has pH 2.4–5.0. Rather, it's low acidity in the stomach that causes nausea, e.g. taking minerals — iron, magnesium, etc — on an empty stomach. The point of buffering vit C is rather avoiding the body from pulling minerals from bones and tissue to balance the pH in the blood, which the human body keeps tightly regulated between 7.35 and 7.45.
Personally I'm switching to liposomal
The point of that is increasing bioavailability, as the liposomes get more readily absorbed through cell membranes, which are adipose (made of fat), and preventing excretion by the kidneys, which normally pull out the vitamin C with the water into the urine, since it's water soluble (it doesn't do that with vits A, D, E and K, that are fat soluble).
Nausea is a common side effect of Vitamin C, especially in the cheap and cheerful forms in these supplements. 2g per day is pushing it (some organisations say it is the USL, others say 1g), but even I'd say that's too high from the literature (various reasons, unwarranted large doses etc). I can take 500mg with or without food and have no issues.
I'd say that's too high from the literature
For maintenance, sure (in which case, I agree with people here who said: just eat fruit and veg); but for a treatment dose (preventing a viral infection, whooping cough, etc), 1-2g/day is nowhere near enough. "To bowel tolerance," is the usual recommended dose (with no actual toxic dose), as too much vit C does cause loose stools (but nothing else).
@wisdomtooth: You can't prevent the "catching" of a viral illness with vitamin C.
Where are you getting your information from?
Regarding vitamin C, regular supplementation (1 to 2 g/day) has shown that vitamin C reduces the duration (in adults by 8%, in children by 14%) and the severity of CC. (PMC5949172)
Basically, vit C, as an anti-oxidant, helps by reversing the oxidative stress caused by viral infections, allowing our bodies, particularly the immune system, to work closer to full capacity at eliminating the infection and recovering health (it doesn't 'kill' viruses, if that's what you think I meant).
Btw, infection is not synonymous with "catching of a viral illness," as mostly all viral illnesses are all around us mostly all the time. Rather, it's synonymous with being overtaken by a viral illness (i.e. becoming infected).
@wisdomtooth: I remember reading the average person has ~ 84 different types of virii in their lungs. Then add in fungi and bacteria. It is a miracle that we are all alive in an environment full of microbes.
It is a miracle that we are all alive in an environment full of microbes.
Not really. Microbes aren't synonymous with disease; that's a myth pushed forward by hygiene fanatics such as Louis Pasteur, a pharmacist, and his backers and promoters, especially in the petrochemical industry and puritan circles. Rather, over 90% of the genetic material in our bodies are not ours, but of these microbes you mention. We are walking ecosystems, not biogenetic monoliths. Mostly all our diseases — including chronic, metabolic ones, such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases, the top two human killers, 3rd being iatrogenic, i.e. the medical-industrial complex (according to Johns Hopkins Medical School) — are caused by dysbioses, i.e. imbalances in said ecosystems. Proper nutrition, including supplementation if necessary, much like with growing food, is that which promotes a good balance between microbes in our microbiota.
@wisdomtooth: Your reply referenced nothing about preventing the contraction of a viral illness. Because it can't.
@Oofy Doofy: The problem is you misunderstand what infection is. Viral illness is not something one "contracts," but rather something one develops. We are constantly in contact with mostly all viruses in our environment (so, not counting those artificially developed in labs, or from remote locations) mostly all the time. Therefore, becoming infected doesn't mean coming into contact with them — that's a myth pushed by hygiene fanatics like Louis Pasteur, a pharmacist, and their sponsors in the petro-medical industry — but rather being overrun by them (or rather by an imbalance amongst them). Taking vit C — even synthetic vit C — helps reduce the debris of oxidation caused by that imbalance, thus clearly the way for our immune systems to restore microbiotic balance in our bodies. Hence why it reduces length and severity of illness. Maintaining a plentiful supply of antioxidants in the diet works the same way, not even allowing illness to take hold.
@wisdomtooth: The amount of vitamin C you think you need, versus what you actually need and can even absorb, are completely different things.
In my experience, I've found Vitamin C before bed (Along with a lot of water) is a great mitigator for a hangover.
At least, works way better than just a lot of water.
Thanks OP.
Grabbed a couple