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The orthomolecular literature suggests that the more common dose range should be between one and three grams daily taken after meals; but for many diseases much more is recommended. The best way of determining one’s optimum dose is to increase the dose until it causes loose stools and then to decrease it. It is a very good laxative and since at least one-third of any population over 65 suffer from constipation, this may a very effective and safe way of dealing with that.
Vitamin C can be taken as pills, capsules or the free powder dissolved in juice. It should not be stored in pure water as the copper in water will destroy some of it. It can also be used intravenously in doses going as high as 100 grams given over a 4 to 6 hour period.
The use of vitamin C was given a very powerful impetus by Dr. Linus Pauling, twice Nobel Laureate, after he published his book “Vitamin C and The Common Cold”. Following these books there was an amazing increase in sales of this vitamin, but at the same time an amazing increase in hostility toward him and his use of the word orthomolecular, which he used in his famous report in Science Magazine in 1968. More misconceptions were developed about vitamin C than about any other single nutrient. These factoids (in plain language, lies), are based upon hypotheses. There is no clinical data to support any of them and almost all studies show that they are not true. They are not supported by research.
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