Paul Saladino· MD
if you have a level of vitamin C which is too low and when I would say too low it as it turns out and it will become clear from this discussion that too low is a lot lower than what the RDI will tell you
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if you have a level of vitamin C which is too low and when I would say too low it as it turns out and it will become clear from this discussion that too low is a lot lower than what the RDI will tell you
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there's studies from conscious objectors from 1940 that say ten milligrams of vitamin C a day is enough to prevent scurvy
what we know with people in a carnivore community is that moderate amounts of vitamin C appear to be able to convince scurvy just fine
now the question then becomes is more vitamin C than is needed to prevent scurvy beneficial for humans from an antioxidant perspective vitamin C does a number of things in the human body the most commonly referenced one is regeneration of glutathione at the aqueous layer of the cell membrane and there are a number of things that can do that so we don't know how much vitamin C is needed to regenerate regenerate glutathione or regenerate vitamin e in the membrane but if you look at the literature it a lot of it is done in people who are diabetic or insulin resistant and they might be able to show that 70 milligrams of vitamin C is better than 30 milligrams of vitamin C but I referenced the study earlier today in which you know an improvement in the noël not an improvement but a change in the diet that led to an increase in vitamin C from 7-0 to 270 milligrams of vitamin C despite increasing blood levels of vitamin C 30% led to no changes in markers of oxidative stress DNA damage or inflammation