[Sheriff Rhys Chatham]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

you know that any vitamins you take over the daily dose your body can absorb get peed out right? it is wasteful and pointless. the vitamins that do NOT get peed out get stored in yr fat reserves and can build up a very unhealthy level, causing a toxic shockof sorts.

yes I realise, which is the good thing about vitamin C. the fact you urniate it out, instead of going through the whole digesting process.

from wikipeida.org
Vitamin C exhibits remarkably low toxicity. For example, in a rat, the LD50 (the dose that will kill 50% of a population) has been reported as 11900 mg/kg.[35] For a 70 kg (155 pound) human, this means that 833,000 mg (0.833kg or 1.8 pounds) of vitamin C would need to be ingested to stand a 50% chance of killing the person. However, vitamin C could not result in death when administered orally as large amounts of the vitamin cause diarrhea and are not absorbed.[36] An extremely large amount of vitamin C would need to be rapidly injected by IV to stand any chance of killing a person. Robert Cathcart, MD, has used intravenous doses of vitamin C of 250 grams and reports that he has had no problems.[37] The Council for Responsible Nutrition has set an Upper Level (UL) of 2 grams, based on transient diarrhea. Their publication on vitamin C safety notes that [38]
“...very large doses of vitamin C have been taken daily over the course of many years, and only minor undesirable effects have been attributed with any certainty to the vitamin’s use[...] Clearly, vitamin C has a low order of toxicity.