2006-08-08 18:09:33 · 9 answers · asked by rachel 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
There's been a lot of controvery over this. Studies claim to show that it has no effect, but Linus Pauling (the only scientist to win TWO Nobel prizes) attests to its effectiveness and I have found that to be true in my own experience.
I am NEVER sick. I used to take 500 mg/day but because I'm a smoker I now take 1000 mg/day. That keeps me healthy. Occasionally I feel a sore throat coming on, and then I take 1000 mg every 2 hours, along with one Echinacea capsule, and one zinc lozenge/day. If I keep this up until bedtime, all symptoms have disappeared by morning.
Because C is water-soluble and thus not stored by the body, it's very difficult to overdose on it. The regimen I just outlined is not an overdose. The worst that can happen is a case of diahhrea, but you'd have to take a lot more than I mentioned for that to happen.
Once you have a cold, Vitamin C cannot cure it, but it can lessen the severity and duration. And BTW, humans and guinea pigs are the only mammals that don't manufacture their own Vitamin C.
2006-08-08 23:54:49 · answer #1 · answered by keepsondancing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a participant in hydroxylation, vitamin C is needed for the production of collagen in the connective tissue. These fibers are ubiquitous throughout the body, providing firm but flexible structure. Some tissues have a greater percentage of collagen, especially: skin, mucous membranes, teeth and bones.
Vitamin C is required for synthesis of dopamine, noradrenaline and adrenaline in the nervous system or in the adrenal glands.
Vitamin C is also needed to synthesize carnitine, important in the transfer of energy to the cell mitochondria.
The tissues with greatest percentage of vitamin C — over 100 times the level in blood plasma — are the adrenal glands, pituitary, thymus, corpus luteum, and retina.
The brain, spleen, lung, testicle, lymph nodes, liver, thyroid, small intestinal mucosa, leukocytes, pancreas, kidney and salivary glands usually have 10 to 50 times the concentration present in plasma.
Vitamin C is an antioxidant and acts as a substrate for ascorbate peroxidase.
2006-08-08 18:14:05 · answer #2 · answered by catzpaw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Vitamin C is water soluble, so is passed through the urine daily and not stored as some vitamins are.
2006-08-08 18:14:33 · answer #3 · answered by bettyboop 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that if your feeling the onset of a cold, that vitamin c, along with zinc and echinacea(sp?) can stop the cold before it actually fully hits you and it can cause the cold to just go away.
I don't know about daily, but when needed, yeah, it seems to help.
Love as always,
Sebastian
2006-08-08 18:14:32 · answer #4 · answered by octo_boi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a multi-vitamin, do a lot of streching and walking excersices, eat a healthy diet with veggies and lean meats, drink green, black or white tea
2016-03-27 04:46:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Up to a point, yes. After that it just gives you the runs.
2006-08-08 18:22:59 · answer #6 · answered by dukefenton 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-08-08 18:13:55 · answer #7 · answered by Kaokamoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what I heard
2006-08-08 18:14:48 · answer #8 · answered by Izzy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES AND IT HAS ANTIOXIDANTS
2006-08-08 18:15:09 · answer #9 · answered by alice b 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋