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Thank you Rich. Wonderful advice as usual! I have this book. I also have an excellent one just about Lipoic Acid! I now take ALA MAX by Xymogen as my doctor wants me to. I was just taking the Lipoic Acid Supreme. I still take that also.I just want to mention that vitamin C is part of the antioxidant network, as defined by Prof. Lester Packer in his book "The Antioxidant Miracle" (a hokey title, but a good book).
But at dosages short of those near bowel tolerance, taking vitamin C in the presence of glutathione depletion probably worsens this situation. Oxidative stress may be lowered this way, but the buildup of toxins, the immune dysfunction, the methylation deficit, the lack of folates to make new DNA and RNA, etc., will likely not be corrected.
Best regards,
Rich
Thanks for this Rich. Sounds worrying though. All the doctors I've ever seen have told me to take a few grams of vit c each day. I've never heard that this could be damaging. We get so much conflicting information about supplements generally but up till now I had thought that vit c was the one uncontentious supplement - can't do any harm and likely to do some good whatever the dose! It is really so difficult to know what to do.
Jenny
Hi Rich,
Thank you for the info, as always a gold mine of wisdom!
So just to be certain I understand perfectly, are you saying that, if we take Vitamin C up to bowel tolerance, that is OK, even if we don't have enough glutathione? And if we DO have our methylation cycle working properly with all the methylation supplements, then it is also OK to take high-ish doses of vitamin C?