I took some emergen-c the other day because I was starting to feel sick. It has 1000 mg of vitamin c in it, the recommended daily dose is only 75 mg. So I started thinking isn’t 1000 mg a little bit of overkill and I’m pretty sure that it is. Vitamin c is water soluble and is easily washed out of the body. It is additionally easily washed out of the food we cook. So maybe the excess vitamin c is to make sure that the body gets all of it in it’s system. But then the question comes to mind of why the recommended daily dose is only at 75 mg. I am really curious as to how much vitamin c the body actually uses from intake versus what it gets rid of or is unable to use. I’m not convinced that emergen-c actually help your immune system, I think that a cup of orange juice would have the same effect. The cup of orange juice actually has over 75 mg of vitamin c in so you should be all set. I also saw that for smokers the vitamin c recommended dose is increased by 35 mg daily. I wonder if your body processing the smoke takes away from the vitamin c that your body needs.
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