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From: ed@gargoyle.UUCP (Ed Friedman)
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Subject: Re: How much Vitamin C is necessary.
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Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 14:14:25 EST
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The question is not how much Vitamin C does someone need, but rather how much
Vitamin C produces optimal results.  To answer this question, you might want
to read an article published in the early 1970's in PNAS.  In this article,
scientists described how the punched holes in the backs of guinea pigs using
a paper punch, and then correlated healing time with the dosage of Vitamin C
given.  They found that increasing the amount of Vitamin C given, hastened
the healing time up to a certain limit.  Any more Vitamin C given above this
limit seemed to cause no further improvement.  The scientists tried to estimate
what this maximum dosage would be in humans (using standard methods to
extrapolate from the body weights and dosages in the test animals) and came
up with a figure of 1500mg per day.  Of course this figure has no meaning
unless one assumes that experiments carried out on guinea pigs may have
some validity to human beings.