probably good for getting rid of all the pseudo-estrogens from the environment
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Vitamin C - any dangers?
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probably good for getting rid of all the pseudo-estrogens from the environment
Gondwanaland
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AFAIK it inhibits endogenous conversion
Snookum96
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I can't tolerate it at all. 500mg is past my bowel tolerance limit. My doc wanted me to take it three times a day and I tried for quite a while with the same result.
Gondwanaland
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Me neither. It's mainly due to endogenous conversion of vit C into oxalates ( http://www.lowoxalate.info/ ). An additional factor could be lowering of copper.
Dr. Lam loves vitamin C. I'm not sold on it just yet, however if excess free radicals are causing fatigue, Vitamin C might help. But I know some people said Lam had them up to 50 grams a day for "adrenal fatigue."
Your adrenals are tired. So while every other organ in the body just does what it's told based on signaling, the adrenal's are the only organ that gets tired. Damn those lazy adrenal glands! Get on the treadmill lazy glands!
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Dr Lam had me on massive doses of vit c and it never had effect. Adrenal fatigue isn't a problem with the adrenals, it's signaling problem in the hypothalamus.
What to do about a sore anus, itchy, blood spotting. I started at 3 g (1 g 3x/day) and now up to 6 g/day. No diarrhea so GI seems to tolerate, no blood in stools. I'd hate to bail at the first sight of blood, but don't want to continue if this is damage causing. I'll take a day off and cut back down to 3 g and see what happens. Anyone have experience with this?
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One downside of vit c supplementation that I recently found out about is it can increase risk of kidney stones.
PeterPositive
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I wouldn't be too sure about that:
http://www.sott.net/article/258192-What-really-causes-kidney-stones-and-why-vitamin-C-does-not
slysaint
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Thanks for putting that straight.
Interesting. Did it improve any of your symptoms at all? I can't seem to find any one with confirmed adrenal fatigue that has benefited from vitamin c supplementation in the long term, or any contribution towards recovery.
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Who knows? Sigh. My symptoms HAVE improved quite a lot recently, but who knows if it's vit C, or the adrenal cortex, or the Moon in Uranus? I just don't know.
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i can tolerate vit c only for a few days, then it turns the opposite.
lemon/citric acid in water gives me headache.
im not sure, if vitamin c is an aromatase inhibitor, i think the whole fruit is. but no less.
and it might be not the best one, then.
but it seems not fully understood which one is the best (natural).
lemon/citric acid in water gives me headache.
im not sure, if vitamin c is an aromatase inhibitor, i think the whole fruit is. but no less.
and it might be not the best one, then.
but it seems not fully understood which one is the best (natural).
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