Originally Posted by wehateporn

The Pharmaceuticals don't make as much money if you have lots of Vitamin C, that's why they set the daily limit so low

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C_megadosage

"A tolerable upper limit (UL) of vitamin C was set at 2 grams for the first time in the year 2000, referencing this mild laxative effect as the reason for establishing the UL.

? Stone and Pauling calculated, based on the diet of primates (similar to what our common ancestors are likely to have consumed when the gene mutated), that the optimum daily requirement of vitamin C is around 2,300 milligrams for a human requiring 2,500 kcal a day.

Pauling criticized the established US Recommended Daily Allowance, pointing out that it is based on the known quantities that will prevent acute scurvy but is not necessarily the dosage for optimal health.

?the doses required to achieve blood, tissue and body "saturation" are much larger than previously believed. "