Re: What to do if you meet a wolf

On 2008-05-12, Paul Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <CGLVj.133682$Cj7.31553@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (Karl Johanson) wrote:
>
>> At Least Vitamin C has some physiological effects, even if not 
>> the ones the consumers claim it is having. The people shelling 
>> out good money for tiny bottles of water that someone says they 
>> shook, are even further down the rabbit hole.
>
> Although isn't there a problem with vitamin C overdose, or am I
> mis-remembering something?

Probably misremembering something.  Vitamin C is water-soluble, so the
body can eliminate it really, really, fast.  I have heard of "rebound
scurvy", where the body gets used to eliminating it really fast, so if
you stop taking as much, you run out.  This doesn't seem very plausible
to me.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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