Re: What to do if you meet a wolf

Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.

Selectively kill cancer cells.

Not the same study I saw before, but here's a web page which in turn cites
a
study listing the safety of up to 150g/day:

http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/199x/riordan-nh-etal-med_hypotheses_1995-v44-p207.htm

> > 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.

Yes.  It's a very unusual substance, in that sense.  

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