C & L-lysine

[w6nrw]

Is it best to take divided doses of lysine along with divided doses of C or can
lysine be taken in larger doses less often?

[ofonorow]

Great question. We don't know.

I do know from my conversations with Pauling's daughter, Linda Pauling-Kamb, that Pauling's recommendations were not made lightly.

He spent many hours mulling over all the information available about lysine before making his recommendations, including calculations of half-life.

In our experience, both with products that combine the two, or people that have taken both as pills, they have been taken in roughly equal amounts and at the same time - up to 6000 mg of each daily - with unbelievable results.

[ofonorow]

This triggered a memory. Something I may have forgotten to add to the book.

Sherry Lewin was one of the world's great experts on vitamin C and he wrote in VITAMIN C: Its Biology and Medical Potential (1976) that while carbohydrates in the gut tend to break down ascorbate before it reaches the blood, proteins (amino acids) actually chelate and preserve the vitamin and more ascorbate will enter the blood stream intact.

This knowledge was available to Pauling. I think it may explain the great success of taking vitamin C and lysine (which is an amino acid) together, and I would recommend taking at least some lysine with your vitamin C.

[Ralph Lotz]

There is no consensus of what optimal lysine requirements are.
lysine requirements for humans:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ly ... gle+Search

I would argue in favor of a minimum of 50 mg/kg, or 3,500 mg for a 70 kg human.
Is it a coincidence that this mirrors some experts minimum requirements for ascorbate?
Lysine is reported by Dr. Rath to be safe up to 14 grams daily.

Lysine is the limiting essential amino acid in many enzyme systems.
Lysine is destroyed by overcooking of food.
Most important. Lysine is required for collagen synthesis.

Without sufficient lysine, the body simply FALLS APART

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[ofonorow]

And God said, Let there be light