So do cashews. In their raw form, cashews contain 82.5 milligrams of magnesium per ounce. Yummy!

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Could you point me in the direction to where you found your info that straight (synthetic) ascorbic acid is fine? I'm really interested in finding out the truth about all this. Ascorbic acid is a bigggg money maker for Hoffman-LaRoche.

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early 90s Lol

And he probably would have lived longer had his body not been in a constant state of acidosis from all the synthetic ascobic acid

It is a weak acid and with very high doses it is recommended you take it as an ascorbate as opposed to the acid form.

My opinion as a chemist and someone who believes strongly in alternative medicine.

Well, opinions are great, but I'm really hoping to find documented evidence. Thanks anyway.

Pauling did die from cancer, however, at age 93.

Lets not forget he had prostate cancer in his 40's and didn't begin taking large doses of ascorbic acid til he was in his 60's or 70's.

Ascorbic acid is vitamin C, however, it is not complete vitamin C, that is why I recommend taking ascorbic acid with the bioflavonoid Quercetin, as well as bromelain, rutin, rose hips, and a combination of lemon/orange/grapefruit.

That makes it a complete C.

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It seems to me that you are here just to stir the pot.

Pauling was a brilliant man. he won two unshared nobel prizes, which nobody else in history has done. He was also a scientist, which means he did several studies to back up his claims.

On the other side of the scale is you.

I think I'd trust Pauling!

Because I'm questioning the safety of synthetic ascorbic acid I'm stirring the pot? Lol Sorry, but I see something terribly irresponsible with goin' with the flo over promoting the use of big pharma's chemical vitamins to enhance health.

As far as the rest of your response goes.. uhhh, well, aren't you charming!


This all began after reading several snip-its about chemical vitamins recently. And it really grabbed my interest. So I just started researching the history of synthetic ascorbic acid as I truly believe there's more to this than meets the eye. It's pretty interesting.. people such as Walter Haworth, who won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1937 for determining the structure of ascorbic acid. Albert Szent Gyorgyi's studies of the biological functions of L-ascorbic acid.
Dr. Royal Lee... who challenged the economics of synthetic vitamins and was persecuted by the FDA. Money talks, and you know big pharma paid someone off as he was made to burn all his research from a 20 year span by the courts.

When it comes to vitamin C, the bottom line is that you can't possibly take 20,000 mg per day without taking at least some synthetic.

It is my opinion that taking 3 or 4 grams of C several times per day is beneficial to health. Your opinion may differ, and thats ok, however, I'll still take Paulings advice over yours.

Eating an orange or even taking 500mg per day just isn't enough. Vitamin C stays in the body for only a few hours, thus the need for divided doses.

On a final note, it is my job to stir the pot.

hmmm.. I don't remember offering any advice, but after reading several posts in this thread, I do agree that it's important to injest natural Vit C several times daily



And you do a fabulous job!

Yeah, almost all of it is...camu camu is also a good source for vitamin c...and if you are looking for the full C benefits, you want a vit c complex, not just ascorbic acid, you need the full spectrum of bioflavanoids, etc