Ascorbic Acid /Vitamin C experience

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" croberts_01 " <bizpro01

 

Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:03 PM

Ascorbic Acid /Vitamin C

experience

 

 

> Without getting too heavily into the debate whether or not Ascorbic

> acid is vitamin C, I wanted to report my results. After reading

the

> good reaction Alobar had and someone else recommending buying it at

> Trader Joe's, I picked up a bottle on my last visit. I normally

take

> a pill form of Ester-c at about 4000 mg a day. I used the same

> amount of ascorbic acid mixed in water.

>

> Day 1: First reaction was slight stomach pain and upset. It wasn't

> too major though. I thought after a few hours I felt a little bit

> more alert, but wasn't really sure.

 

Were you taking the 4 grams all at once? Or spaced

throughout the day in small sips? How concentrated did you make

your solution? I started at about 2 grams per pint but sometimes

go to 6 grams per pint when I feel I need a lot of C at once. These

days I normally use 4 grams per pint of pure water (not tap water).

>

 

> Day 3: By the third day I had a light ivory colored stool...which I

> had never had before. This alarmed me because it was an indication

> of bile not present in the stool. I was wondering if my bile duct

> was blocked and that was causing the pain I was feeling.

 

I have never seen that reaction. Does not seem good to me.

 

 

> I also got a severe reaction on 2 fingers of my left hand. A bunch

> of little blisters that look like when you burn yourself and were

> extremely itchy. I quit taking the ascorbic acid. I begin upping

my

> gallbladder and liver support herbs to remove suspected stone

> blockage. The rash/blisters would also really burn under warm/hot

> water.

 

The vitamin C powder is an acid. If I get some on my hands

& do not wash it off thoroughly, it can leave burns. Likewise I

drink it thru a straw so as not to get residual solution lingering in

my mustache. But I never had blisters or burns from drinking the C

solution.

 

>

 

>

> Alobar, I wonder

> if you are low in blood plasma cysteine and that is why you have

such

> good results?

 

 

To my knowledge, my blood plazma cysteine levels have never

been masured, so I can't comment on that.

 

Alobar