If I take too much Vitamin C, will there be any adverse effects on my teeth and bones?

Question

I'm almost 23.

Answer 1

anything to , too much is bad

Answer 2

No Vitamin C is water soluable and anything you don't use will be excretted. Same with B So taking a lot of C which I have always done helps you and does not hurt you.
Now with Vitamins A, D and E you can get an overdose which can have adversed effects on your body because they are not water soluable but collect in your body and are not excretted very much.

Answer 3

Hi! I would think anything taken in over moderate amounts is doing something out of balance. Some people get cold sores and stomach upsets from too much vitamin C. Good Luck!

Answer 4

It will not have an adverse affect on your teeth and bones. It may have you running to the bathroom a lot, as what the body doesn't need it gets rid of (in this case in the urine).

Answer 5

Too much of anything will be bad.

"Excess vitamin C excreted in the urine produces a false positive test for glucose. Excess vitamin C has also been implicated in the formation of orate and oxalate stones. However, current evidence suggests that large doses (nine grams per day) produce only a small increase in urinary oxalate." (http://www.springboard4health.com/notebook/v_c.html)

Answer 6

No. Your body will take care of any excess vitamin c by eliminating it in the urine. You do need to be careful as too much ascorbic acid can cause an upset stomach in some individuals since it is acidic. Also excess acid in some individuals can cause joint pain.

Answer 7

To your teeth and bones probably not...to other parts of your body yes.

Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is one of the most commonly taken supplements in the United States. Generally, it is safe, but avoid taking large doses of this vitamin. As a matter of fact, an upper limit was set in 2000 as part of the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs). For adults, this level was set at 2000 mg per day. Taking doses this large can result in diarrhea, stomach cramps, and nausea. These unpleasant symptoms are from the vitamin being unabsorbed in your intestinal tract.
Besides, it's a waste to take such a large amount because the more vitamin C you take, the less your body absorbs.

Other purported possible side effects associated with high vitamin C intake include:

kidney stones
reduced Vitamin B-12 and copper status
increased oxygen demand
becoming a pro-oxidant (a substance thought to promote cancer, heart disease, and stroke, the opposite of an antioxidant)
The Food and Nutrition Board, the committee that sets the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) and DRIs, examined the evidence for each of these claims, but couldn't find enough research to prove any of them.

One noteworthy precaution is for people with hemochromatosis, an iron overload disease. Since vitamin C increases iron absorption, supplemental C is not recommended for them.

"If you have a bruise, a muscle sprain, an inflammatory disease or if you take iron supplements, exceeding 100 mg per day of vitamin C may be damaging to your body, according to a study by University of Florida researchers.

That's because all of those conditions produce free iron, which reacts negatively with vitamin C in much the same way that the iron on bicycles and fences reacts with water and oxygen.

"You will rust inside, so to speak," said Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, the senior author and an assistant professor in UF's department of exercise and sport sciences."
People should limit their vitamin C intake until we know more," he said. "Everyone agrees that after 80 to 90 milligrams, about the recommended daily allowance, it goes out of your body since measurements show that white blood cells are saturated completely after this dose. You'd think that if it goes out of your body it isn't harmful, but maybe the high transient levels do react in a negative way. There's no benefit to taking more than the RDA, and it could actually harm you."

Furthermore, he said, "Vitamin C is believed to prevent cancer, but instead it may be damaging. Studies performed in humans actually show that it may increase DNA damage.”

Because vitamin C and NAC in the body appear to react most negatively with iron, Leeuwenburgh said, those with inflammatory diseases and those who take more than the recommended daily allowance of iron should be particularly vigilant about limiting their vitamin C and NAC intake(N-acetyl-cysteine)..
http://www.napa.ufl.edu/2001news/vitaminC.htm

"Here are just a few things we have found associated with excessive ascorbic acid intake:

1. Ascorbic acid pills can speed up the process of hardening of the arteries. This was published in an Associated Press release (3-3-2000) from an epidemiological study presented at the American Heart Association.

2. Cancer thrives on glucose and ascorbic acid. Studies from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center showed that tumors do better in a high ascorbic acid environment..
3. Ascorbic acid is excreted via the kidneys in 24 hours. (European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1990 June;44(6):447-60).

4. Five hundred mgs. of ascorbic acid daily can damage genetic material (DNA). (New York Times, April 8, 1998-quoting the journal Nature of the same month)." ( http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=350)

Taking too much vitamin C daily throughout pregnancy may harm the fetus (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/uspdi/202071.html)

Answer 8

It almost impossible to OD on vitamin C. It is water soluble and any excess you pee right out.

Answer 9

Vitamin C is water-soluble, so you don't retain what you don't use. There won't be a problem. If you take too much you just pass it in your urine.

Answer 10

I don't think 1000-2000mg. a day will hurt at all. I've heard that smokers should take it. The juices (like orange) are a good source.

Answer 11

as i understand it, the body sends to waste any it does not want, therefore should be no harm to teeth and bones