Heard from the local nutritionist that our body can only absord 60mg a day for v!
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Is this statement correct? Then why we have Vitamin C tablet that consist of 1000mg or 500mg and to be taken once daily. Will all this excessive vitamin C discharge from our body?
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Get the book by Bruce Miller, DDS, CNS.Cancer. Nutrition Answers. In it he talks about Vitamin C. Or Books by Dr Kenneth Cooper. The Anioxidant Revolution.60 mg is WAY too low. After you've read any of these books, pass it to the sadly misinformed nutritionist!
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True, what your body donsn't need it gets rid of. The tablets are there to get you to buy them. It's like calcium, if you don't take or get Vitamin D, the calcium with leave the body without being used.
First of all, yes all this excessive vitamin C will discharge from our body via urine. And secondly, 500-1000mg tablets are way over than what our body daily need. However, when we are about to get sick, more Vitamin C is needed (still not as much as 500mg). Therefore we have 500 and 1000 mg tablets. Since excessive Vitamin C has no harm, and since many people believe the more is the merrier, they still go and buy 1000mg tablets.
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