Re: What to do if you meet a wolf

Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Paul Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Although isn't there a problem with vitamin C overdose, or am I
> > mis-remembering something?
>
> Vitamin C has perhaps the widest range between dangerously too little
> and dangerously too much of any nutrient:  At least a factor of a
> thousand.  For some forms of vitamin A, the range is only about a
> factor of two.

Certainly at least an order of magnitude of 1000; I've seen some
therapeutic
vitamin C studies suggesting 10 grams every two hours IV, and the RDA is
60mg/day orally.

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