Quote from Bruce on October 13, 2026, 6:56 am

Quote from Jiří on October 13, 2026, 6:34 am

@bruce look how much vit C can synthesize animals that can synthesize their own vit C. In normal state and in stress/injury/infection etc. state and how much vit C are eting animals in nature that can't synthesize vit C. Healthy dog can synthesize around 40mg per kg of bodyweight. Other animals like goats even 200mg or more per kg. Primates who can't synthesize their own vit C have intake around 10-40mg per kg of bodyweight.

Taking this to account. Don't you think that it is really weird that they recommend for people only around 1-2mg per kg of bodyweight? Especially when you consider that we no longer live healthy natural life and it only makes sense that we probably need constantly higher intake like those animals under stress who can synthesize much more vit C???

If I just use my common sense to me it looks like we should have at least 30mg per kg of bodyweight. So for 83kg dude like me it is around 2500mg as normal intake and during some stress/injury/illness it should be probably 2-3 times more at least..

Buffered version is probably best as we probably don't want that acidic load on the body. I mix vit C with baking soda to make sodium ascorbate... 

@jiri yes, why are the RDAs so all over the place. It's like some are too low and some are set way too high. There seems to be no rational explanation for it. The ONLY reason I do not supplement vC is that I have heard it can induce kidney stones? So I try to get it naturally, but that accounts for only about 100 mg per day (I can only eat so many lemons and steamed cauliflower).