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What the hell is this stuff???

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

I've been drinking it like crazy to vainly ward off an apporaching cold sore and now I feel like I've been doing coke all day. Is it possible to OD on Vitamn C?

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Mandee asked this on another thread and the only warning is that of OD'd it can give you the runs.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm... I do have to shit all of a sudden. Oh cord sore go away! I have a new girlfriend. This isn't the time.

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

When I feel a cold coming on it gives me an excuse to down lots of "Super-Cee" juice from Trader Joe's. Has like 1,000,000,000,000% daily recommended Vitamin C.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

There is no point in taking huge amounts of Vitamin C. Your body can only absorp so much, and the rest it gets rid of. If you take too much Vitamin C for too long, you body, accustomed to getting rid of so much excess, can begin to get rid of the stuff you *do* need once you stop the overdosing. This is bad.

There are no serious risks, though, I don't believe. It's just not necessary.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

There are no serious risks, though

You seem to be contradicting yourself... So which is it, and how much can your body absorb?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

I have been waiting for someone to start this thread for years. I buy entire boxes (~50 packets) at a time... soooo good. I can't stop myself from starting to drink it before the fizzing activation process has stopped.. I wonder if this is bad for me, like somehow the popping droplets are going to explode my esophagus.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

only if you drink it with pop rocks

― matlewis (matlewis), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

You seem to be contradicting yourself

Well, there are risks, but none of them involve cancer or anything.

how much can your body absorb?

I'm sure it depends on your body, but probably not 1000 times the recommended daily intake, like there is in one of those "C Monster" drinks.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

i prefer kool-aid. i think it has vitamin c in it, and i drink about 9000 servings per week and never get sick!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

ILX: Talking Out of Our Asses Since 2001.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Tracer otm.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

No doubt.

xpost

I imagine the only way that Kool Aid positively impacts your health is that it makes you happy.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Soon I will be freebasing this. :(

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Ooh. This sounds bad.

http://www.annecollins.com/diet-news/vitamin-c-risks.htm

The researchers measured the thickness of neck arteries in more than 500 patients, then interviewed the patients about their supplement use and tested their blood. They found that the men who took more than 500 milligrams a day of vitamin C supplements had arteries that were more than twice as thick as those who didn't take supplements. Thick arteries are one sign of arterial disease.

That's alarming. For no reason, maybe, but still.

Look -- how can taking enormous amounts of anything be good for you?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

i take enormous amounts of all VMS

because i get them free from work

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

xpost: Probably because those men were taking extra Vitamin C to make up for their unhealthy lifestyles??

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

don't take more than two emergen-c's a day!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Maybe they were using OJ to wash down eggs and bacon and sausage and all that suicidal breakfast food that everyone seems to eat like crazy!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

but what kenan said about vitamin c is pretty much true for all vitamins; you really only need them if you have a deficiency. any excess will not create a surplus, or anything.

unless i'm wrong

because i might be!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

can you snort this stuff? if so, can someone do it and check back in? thx.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

BTW RASPBERRY IS THE BEST FLAVA

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

does this really even do anything at all?

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

It was Emer'gen-C #3 that put me over the edge ... BUT THIS IS AN EMERGENCY.

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

does this really even do anything at all?

No idea. All I've got is anecdotal evidence from people who "haven't had a cold since I started drinking this stuff!" But like Tracer says, it fizzes! What else do you need? I usually take a packet to work with me and start off my shift with a cup. (And I haven't had a cold since!)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I freaking love Emergen-C. Probably have two packets a day of it. It keeps me level-headed and alert... although I did get a cold a few weeks ago, it was gone within a couple of days.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

i think when you take too much of something, your body is less inclined to make it on its own. not too good, i'd say. not too good.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 8 July 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

So that's why my body stopped making chianti...

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 8 July 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

1 glass Emergen-C + 1 glass Gatorade (or iced green tea) + 2 Excedrin = the closest thing to a hangover cure that I know of.

Electrolytes. Yum.

― elmo (allocryptic), Friday, 8 July 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Haha gypsy

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 8 July 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

you body makes vitamin c?

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Friday, 8 July 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

xpost - I know that is not true because when I eat too many turds, my body seems to keep making them!

― elmo (allocryptic), Friday, 8 July 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

well, if you stop eating meat, your body stops producing the enzymes neccessary to digest it.

― Tigerstyle Shamanic Vision Quester (sexyDancer), Friday, 8 July 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

my wife swears by this stuff. she was turned on to it at a homeopathic shop where she used to work. when she's sick she'll ask me to pick it up on the way home. if we don't have any on hand, cuz sometimes we'll just have a box lying around.

me, i just go for a clove or two or raw garlic. like billy dee williams used to say, it works every time. granted he'd say that in a totally different context, but still...

― john'n'chicago, Friday, 8 July 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

there's disagreement about vitmain & mineral absorption. The problem with the "we need more than mainstream science folks say we do" crowd is that they tend to be the same people who wanna heal you through light on your chakras and whatnot. still, stranger things have happened than for prevailing models of absoption & metabolism to be more complicated than we thought they were.

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Friday, 8 July 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Linus Pauling famously took like 10,000% of the US RDA of Vitamin C every day and lived to be 215 years old.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 8 July 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

he did atkins too!

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 8 July 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

xpost well our chakras aren't gonna light themselves

― matlewis (matlewis), Friday, 8 July 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

1 glass Emergen-C + 1 glass Gatorade (or iced green tea) + 2 Excedrin = the closest thing to a hangover cure that I know of.

SO OTM. that is my cure.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 9 July 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

My wife and I are totally addicted to the stuff.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 July 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

massive doses of vitamin C = an abortifacient, i think

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 9 July 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

my wife and someone I work with force this on me every time I sneeze. I think it smells like vomit

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 9 July 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

BTW RASPBERRY IS THE BEST FLAVA

-- cutty (holle...), July 8th, 2005

i concur. i'm not a fan of the cranberry, and i generally love cranberry things.

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 9 July 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

I prefer "Tropical," because it has the word "tropical" in it

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

They say that Americans have the most expensive piss.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 9 July 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

but what kenan said about vitamin c is pretty much true for all vitamins; you really only need them if you have a deficiency. any excess will not create a surplus, or anything.
unless i'm wrong

because i might be!!

There are two types of vitamins: Water soluble and fat soluble. The water soluble vitamins you just piss away any surplus of (except for B12, which stays in your liver); the fat soluble ones (A, D, E, K) linger in your body and can cause various types of toxicity.

"The livers of certain animals, especially those adapted to polar environments, often contain amounts of vitamin A that would be toxic to humans. The first documented death due to vitamin A poisoning was Xavier Mertz, a Swiss scientist who died in January 1913 on an Antarctic expedition that had lost its food supplies and fell to eating its sled dogs. Mertz consumed lethal amounts of vitamin A by eating the dogs' livers." -- from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_A

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 9 July 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

Chris! I was just about to say that! No, seriously!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 9 July 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

Well, with less detail. You did better.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 9 July 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

it's true about eating raw garlic!! it burns but it CLEANSES!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 9 July 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

Also, too much vitamin e can damage your thyroid as well as your liver.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 9 July 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

But yeah, I'll concede this point: next to that, too much vitamin C isn't proven to do shit. Neither good nor bad.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 9 July 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

this is my favorite thread of the year.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 9 July 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/emergenclitecombo.gif

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 9 July 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

One of the B vitamins (6 I think?) is also toxic in large doses, at least according to the Oliver Sacks book I read, in which it was said that B6 overdose poisons the nervous system and leads to failure of proprioception (the ability to be aware of where your body is, basically - how you're moving, where your limbs are etc, without having to look at them all the time).

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 9 July 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

Also, I dont imagine consuming the large amt of sodium that's in a fizzy vitamin drink like EmergenC would be terribly good in large doses!

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 9 July 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I tht 60 mg was a lot, too, but 3% of yr daily intake seems like practically nothing.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 9 July 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

I am drinking one of these right now! I almost put it in a beer!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 10 July 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

if you eat this stuff straight from the packet it tastes like lik-m-aid!

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 22 January 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

i'm out of emergen-c. and i've had two colds in the last month. coincidence?????

really need to buy some more.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 22 January 2006 00:59 (twenty years ago)

That stuff makes me so bloated omg.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥, passin gas (Je4nne Fury), Sunday, 22 January 2006 01:09 (twenty years ago)

ohhhhhhhhh shit this stuff rocks!

― howell huser (chaki), Sunday, 22 January 2006 01:11 (twenty years ago)

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― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Sunday, 22 January 2006 01:52 (twenty years ago)

damo suzuki's wang

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 22 January 2006 01:57 (twenty years ago)

why cant you people just let a cold run its course? are you people that afraid of blowing your nose for 2 or 3 extra days? jesus.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Sunday, 22 January 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

some of us have work to do! not me, but some of us do!

― howell huser (chaki), Sunday, 22 January 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

i can't function when i'm sick. i'd rather not be.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 22 January 2006 21:59 (twenty years ago)

wait, t0dd, are you PRO cold virus???

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 22 January 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Maybe Todd doesn't work in an office.

― account settings (account), Sunday, 22 January 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Emer'gen C-where did you go? Two packets of you were on the table and now they're gone. I'll come home and find the cats snorting this stuff.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 23 January 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

t0dd swiss's international "tough it out" s.w.a.t. squad has confiscated them?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 23 January 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

aren't these more of a placebo than anything else? i thought that no study was ever able to prove that vitamin C at any level actually prevented colds or lessened their effects.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 23 January 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

If I thought it would head off my currently swollen throat at the pass, I'd even snort lik-m-aid. Halloo the pharmacy.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 23 January 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

start with the cold-eze.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 23 January 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

no study's ever proved it DOESN'T have an effect.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 23 January 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

i just ran out of my big box last week. i think i may be an Emer'gen-C abuser.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 23 January 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

are you people that afraid of blowing your nose for 2 or 3 extra days?

More like 2 or 3 weeks in my case. Actually, it's been about a month since my cold, and I'm still coughing.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 23 January 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

wow, the hot sauce on this shawarma is blasting my sinuses wide open. is there a hot sauce flavored emer'gen-c yet?

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 23 January 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I'd just stick with the hot sauce. I'm not a believer in these herbal remedies. I took some "Airborne" when I was coming down with this cold in December, and it didn't do any good.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 23 January 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

the hot sauce has more herbs in it than Emer'gen-C, which is made from the ground-up bones of river-sprites

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 23 January 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

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