How much vitamin C should an adult with a cold take?
Posted by admin on Nov 7, 2009
Vitamin C doesn’t reduce the onset or severity of colds, but it reduces the duration of them.
What’s the max amount of Vitamin C I can take before it plateaus or becomes dangerous for me?
As much as you want really. Vitamin C is one of the least toxic vitamins out there. They’ve injected rats with the equivalent of 500,000 mg of vitamin C with no ill effects other than diarrhea. I take 5,000 mg everynight for it’s anti-oxidant properties.
But it does increase the ability of your body to absorb iron, so don’t get too crazy.
As much as you want really. Vitamin C is one of the least toxic vitamins out there. They’ve injected rats with the equivalent of 500,000 mg of vitamin C with no ill effects other than diarrhea. I take 5,000 mg everynight for it’s anti-oxidant properties.
But it does increase the ability of your body to absorb iron, so don’t get too crazy.
References :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C
read the "mega dosage" section
It takes a long time and lots and lots of consumption of vitamin C to make it dangerous. Just don’t down the entire bottle of pills.
References :
When it’s too much your body should eliminate it by itself (you’ll get diarrhea) at which point you should lower the dose…
References :
http://dariasworld.info/blog/2009/11/vitamin-c/