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Vitamin C BASICS – 00:29
Vitamin C & COVID-19 – 01:24
No evidence that taking high doses of Vitamin C can protect people from corona virus
NEW COVID A to Z study mild to moderate symptoms (non hospitalized patients). Patients allocated in 1:1:1:1 ration – zinc, vitamin c, both, or none. 8,000 mg vitamin C. 50 mg zinc gluconate.
The end goal of the trial was to track the amount of time it took each individual to reach a 50% reduction in sx severity score and the number of days required to reach a total sx severity score of 0. At the end of this study a bunch of fancy calculations were performed and found that there was no difference in all 4 groups for number of days to reach 50% reduction in sx severity. The study was subsequently stopped early because the first end goal didn’t see promising results with vitamin c and zinc.
Recommended intake is 500 mg twice a day either from supplementation or dietary intake
– 2 things are important here: most people especially in the united states get enough vitamin C through dietary intake alone. Anything extra that the body is unable to use (like taking 1000 mg everyday), your body simply excretes through the urine. So more is not better
– Again highly unlikely that you are vitamin C deficient if you eat food on a daily basis
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