Paul Makepeace wrote: > > Je 2003-09-02 18:01:12 +0100, Ben skribis: > > I mean, the RDA for vitamin C is only, what, 60 milligrams? > > That's right -- at the same time there's plenty of dissention about > whether that's enough, and in what circumstances. Dousing your > bloodstream in anti-oxidants (C, E, polyphenols, etc) during & following > intense anaerobic activity is thought to help mop up free radicals that > are a product of (amongst other things) heavy lactic acid production, > e.g. sprinting, weights, i.e. any short duration high intensity bout. > > You can buy 1g megadose Vit C tablets at $chemist[rand @chemists] and I > haven't read any contra- indications on them ("may result in pissing > shards" or somesuch).
There's got to be a difference between ingestion (where most of it probably would pass straight through your digestive tract) and directly injecting it into your bloodstream. 10 grams of vit c intravenously sounds utterly barking to me. Surely a typo, or mis-hear or something. Jasper