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Is 6,000mg of vitamin c too much to take daily? i am a 5 foot 102lbs petite female. can kidneys still remove it?

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Be careful: High doses of vitamin C are lithogenic (increased risk of kidney stones). I would avoid and just take daily multivitamin. That's all you should really need.

Answered 8/6/2015

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