Vitamin C

“But we brought in the smartest people in the world and they taught me as if I was a third grader. And one of the examples they gave me that stuck with me was: there's no vitamin C in nature. There's an orange. When you eat that orange, a bunch of stuff in that orange allows you to absorb that vitamin C.”

“So you got to go less ingredients and it doesn't work properly. Or reduce the amount of stuff in there. So like reduce your amount of vitamin C or deduce your B12. And again, you're not getting a clinical dose needed to do what you're saying you do. Those are the only three ways you can do it. And that I think a lot of supplement companies are screwing up.”

“We know that. But also I'm making sure that I'm not deficient in any minerals or vitamins. And so I'm taking in things like vitamin D, vitamin C as well, and some nutrients that I know I can become deficient in. What do you think is happening inside of your body after from day four until day 14?”

“it's excessive and it can actually be toxic if you have too much. So vitamin C can be pro-oxidation, not antioxidant, if you take a lot continuously. So overall, I'm not for multivitamins.”

“people who do a lot of cardio and don't do much resistance training, they tend to have much high cortisol levels. And you can buffer that with vitamin C. Vitamin C can decrease the effect, but chronic cardio doesn't always serve people.”

“here. Oh, vitamin C. Vitamin C, I actually like to take with the collagen because it can enhance its absorption. And then this is just a general antioxidant that I think, there's no harm in taking vitamin C, right?”

“It's pretty basic. I learned this from my dermatology friends. So. So some vitamin C, uh, in the morning, some, uh, SPF, um, and in the evening, uh, there's some kind of vitamin A, uh, I actually really like NAD.”

“and then stuff came out on specifically vitamin C combined with vitamin E.. Vitamin C in general, vitamin E, we want to default to food..”

“particularly in high volume training, endurance athletes. Yeah. We use vitamin C very judiciously not to get us back there, but you start actually looking at iron, what it does when you co-ingest iron with vitamin C, if you're going to go after iron, you probably should bring vitamin C along.”

“with dinner? What's a, what's actually, what do you think a half-life is on 500 milligrams of caffeine or vitamin C? Um, it's not very long. No, it's going to be pretty transient. It's like a couple hours in the plasma. Um, I bring that up cause I don't know the answer to it.”

“you don't need, you know, 400 IUs of, of alpha tocopherol. Um, but all these studies that are coupling vitamin C with the vitamin E, it's like, hmm, well, are we seeing this because their vitamin E was there? I think I, there was like one, maybe one study I recall, um, I have a topic page on vitamin C and I think it's on that topic page and it was maybe 500 million.”

“I don't, I just, again, it's like I, I, it's, it's good to know because for, for one, I like to take high dose vitamin C when I've been exposed or when my son has been exposed, it helps me. And so it'd be nice to know for athletes as well. It's like, okay, can I take that, you know, high dose vitamin C at a certain time?”

“I'm also was the reason I asked you that half-life question was I was thinking the same thing. I don't know. I don't know anybody that's actually run any even light trial on timing of vitamin C for exercise adaptations. So I don't know. I don't know if you took it later in the day and you train, took it 12 hours away.”

“a different if it may, it could, could To answer your question, here's how we handle Vitamin C. We're not just giving it to people. It's not like a standard like magnesium or omega-3. We will use it judiciously in different things, but I'm also, I'm not worried about it. If you ask me what am I concerned more about, the small amount of adaptation that I miss versus not being sick?”