Posted by bluedog on December 6, 2002, at 11:24:06
In reply to Re: What are you taking Larry?, posted by Larry Hoover on December 6, 2002, at 10:48:06
> Vitamin C is vastly under-rated as a nutrient, IMHO. The new DRI (Daily Reference Intake) is below 100 mg, even for pregnant and nursing women! Give me a break. 2 grams a day is more like it. Split the dose up for best effect.
>Larry, I agree that up 2g of Vitamin C would be OK but this would probably be a safe upper limit. However for anyone with chronic fatigue symptoms I would be VERY careful about taking too much Vitamin C as it can actually have the opposite effect to that desired and can act as a PRO-Oxidant under certain conditions. For example see the following link:
http://www.cfsresearch.org/cfs/
> I tend to link atypical depression to burnout, but I may be totally off on that. All the things I mentioned would help with that.
>I have the same philosophy. If you have CFS and burnout I don't think you are far off base with this view. Really I consider this view much more in line with ancient medical systems as practiced by Chinese medicine practitioners or Ayervedic medicine practitioners who have made this connection for thousands of years. I think it is ironic (and arrogant) that modern medical researchers have only recently started to "discover" this philosophy and then have the nerve to take the credit for their so called discoveries.
Keep well
bluedog
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