godlovesatrier
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Have you tried buffered vitamin C? One form has calcium, magnesium and potassium, and there's another form called sodium ascorbate (with no calcium, etc.) You might tolerate these better.
Taking a bit of a high dose of vitamin C (plain ascorbic acid) at night is making a world of difference for my sleep. A "bit of a high dose" is 2000 mg after dinner and 3000 mg. before bed and 3000 more in the middle of the night. Vitamin C ameliorates glutamate-induced excitotoxicity.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25701025
http://web.stanford.edu/group/hopes/cgi-bin/hopes_test/vitamin-c/
I'm not trying to derail your thread here, I'm explaining all this as a lead up to the fact that sodium ascorbate did NOT help me with sleep, despite being a form of vitamin C, and it left me feeling flat. And I didn't try the buffered form with calcium because calcium was part of my problem in not sleeping.
Which leads to my point that if you try a buffered form of vitamin C, you might tolerate it and it might work, or it might not work the same as regular ascorbic acid did for you. I don't know why the sodium ascorbate did not help me with sleep, unlike plain ascorbic acid, but that's what happened (or, rather, didn't happen).
I wonder if you would tolerate liposomal vitamin C better? I know it's pricey. Here's a thread on making your own: https://forums.phoenixrising.me/ind...o-make-liposomal-vitamin-c-for-viruses.38867/
Didn't see this reply sorry. So Vitamin C - well firstly I think I must be intolerant to it - is that even possible? I take buffered in small amounts, or even drink fruit juices high in vitamin c (say 1 litre for example) and I get irritation. Essentially the only form I think that would work for me is topical or IV. However before I reached Vitamin C tolerance - which took one week at 3000mg per day. I noticed that my symptoms almost disappeared overnight when I took this dosage level. I now use trans-dermal patches as it's the only way I can (supposedly) get large amounts of vitamin C into my body. Problem is there is no scientific proof these even work and I am not even sur emyself!!
I wish there was a way I could be sure the trans dermals do work, even though they appear to have lowered inflammation overnight, I really cannot be sure if it's just my imagination. Also my chronic dehydration has only been helped with the trans dermal patches. Large amounts of vitamin C are the only thing that help my dehydration. So I do think they must work, but it still feels anecdotal.
As for buffered vitamin C I tried that and it had the same effect.
How does the home made one differ from buffered and absorbic @Mary ? I am just intrigued as I am happy to give this a go but want to be sure it's worthit I checked out your link, I just can't see the difference between crystals and absorbic powder? Although my Nutritionist did recommend crystals so maybe I am missing a trick?
Thanks,