Re: What to do if you meet a wolf

Nate Edel <archmage@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 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,

What's that supposed to accomplish?  Well, at least it's evidence that
that amount isn't terribly dangerous.

> and the RDA is 60mg/day orally.

And most people can probably get by on less than a quarter of that.
So perhaps I should have said a factor of 10,000.  I don't think
that's true of any other substance, except substances that people
don't need at all.
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