Which is silly , because it's so easy, not to mention inexpensive, to put right.
Also, if your intake is low, your body will grab every bit of vitamin C it can get just to support life.
Which means the beauty bonuses don't get a look in:
More than the Vitamin C RDA is needed to produce the collagen that keeps your skin young and lovely! Personally I never take less than 2 grams (2000 mg), divided throughout the day as this vitamin is quickly lost.
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Some natural sources of vitamin C are:
Oranges.
Grapefruit
Lemons
Rosehips
Potatoes
Green Peppers
I've been taking at least 2000mg per day for about four years. In that time I'd never caught a cold. Recently I ran out of my vitamin C, and before I got round to replacing it....
Abracadabra!!...
A cold!
Dooctor Linus Pauling was known to successfully treat his cancer patients with 10,000mg per day. I have never heard of anyone who has had a problem with a vitamin C overdose. Good advice I heard is that the more unwell your body is the more it needs. So how do you know how much to take? Easy! You take it to the point that it starts to cause slight diarrhea.
As you start recovering from your cold, or whatever, gradually lower the dose.
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