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Can i eat consume more than 500grams of vitamin c per day?
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Overdoing it: It has been proved over and over and over that when it comes to medicine more is not better. And, in fact, too much of anything an be harmful. Follow the recommendations on the product you are using.
Answered 9/8/2013
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Perfectly safe: Vitamin c is incredibly safe. Humans are one of the only animals who do not make vit. C. Other mammals the size of humans produce 2-6, 000 mg of c a day, and up to 10 times more when ill or stressed. I advise my patients to take 1-2000 mg 2x/day. See http://www.Vitamincfoundation.Org/bsardi.Html & http://www.Vitamincfoundation.Org/ & http://lpi.Oregonstate.Edu/infocenter/vitamins/vitaminc/.
Answered 9/18/2013
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