In my previous blog I wrote about vitamin C being a threshold treatment. Below the threshold nothing happens. At the threshold, your symptoms usually decrease 50 to 90%. A little above he threshold you get a lot of gas and/or your bowels get loose. Don't worry if you get a little diarrhea. It doesn't last long: it's about like having taken a laxative. The bowel flush brings its own detoxifying benefit.
The question that comes up for most people at this point in the discussion is, "Isn't it dangerous to take such large doses of vitamin C?"
My response is: everything is toxic at some level including air and water. Too much water kills people by the hundreds of thousands every year. Too little water, known as dehydration, also kills a lot of people. Yet, there is an amount of water that is optimal for good health. The operational question is how to find what that optimum amount is. In the case of vitamin C, the body wisdom knows the right amount. As stated in the previous blog, it will tell you plainly what that is. And now you know how to listen for the answer.
You may still be wondering, "But is taking that much vitamin C dangerous? Is my body really smart enough to know what the right amount is?" I think so. For the past 25 years I have been taking the amount of vitamin C my body told me I needed each day. That is usually between 20 and 25 g. Sometimes, when I am sick the dose goes above 50 g. My personal best is 99 g (that's 99,000 mg) in 24 hours when I had a really severe case of flu. If taking that much vitamin C is going to harm me it's taking a long time to show up. Occasionally I have tried reducing that does to see if I could feel and function as well with less. Each time, the answer was "No" until the last few months when I have been working on improving the balance in my body’s electrical system. Just recently I have been able to reduce my daily vitamin C dose from 24 g. to 18 g. and have felt and functioned as well or better. Just wait until we get to the electrical system balancing discussion!
My experience over the past 25 years is that it is far more dangerous not to take optimum dose vitamin C than it is to take it.
I'll wrap this discussion up in the next blog which will include my advice on who should NOT take optimum dose vitamin C.
