extreme excess dosages of vitamin C

[desolation]

[Dolev]

That is not why "Linus Paulings super vitamin C dosing strategy ...has been largely abandoned as a treatment by modern medical practitioners."

More than that, you can't abandon something you never took possesion of.

[DanSco]

It's time again to ponder the question that we always ask: If ascorbate is so bad, then why aren't all of the ascorbate producing animals in the world extinct?

I will agree that too much glucose or too much iron is bad. Do vitamin C tablets come loaded with iron and sugar?

Let me get this straight. In the first case they artificially increased the amount of iron in mouse cells and got iron toxicity. So why is it the ascorbate's fault, not the artificial amounts of iron?
Same in the second case. Here we see human lung cells in a petri dish bathed in iron solution. They found DNA strand breakage and again it's supposed to be because of ascorbate. When I get to the point in my life where my cells are in a petri dish, at that point I don't care if my DNA strands are broken!

[ofonorow]

DanSco - Bravo!

There is no Lethal Dose Level for vitamin C. Period. In other words, there is no dose which can kill a laboratory animal.

[Dottore]

I agree. As Abram Hoffer says: Where are the bodies?
Dottore