Re: best times to take C and B5 with AF

 Dr. Lam and Wilson (in his book) say that one can't get the major doses of Vit. C from food, so supplementation is mandatory. I know you say that food sources are the best...

They are correct that food sources are lower, but they are overlooking a few critical points. First of all we do not need massive doses of vitamin C. How many people around the world use no supplements and still manage to remain very healthy? And if you want to look at an extreme look at where the term limeys came from. Sailors in the old days would develop scurvy because their diets did not provide much vitamin C. Of course that diet did not include things like fresh fruits and vegetables. To solve the problem of scurvy, which is a vitamin C deficiency, the sailors were given limes to eat for the vitamin C. Thus the term limeys and the problem solved. So how did limes solve the problem if foods are not a good source of vitamin C? Simple, vitamins are not needed in excessive amounts. Personally I think that people who take more than 2 grams (2,000mg) of vitamin C daily are overdoing it, and the megadosers are putting their health at risk. Secondly, there is a major difference in strength between natural vitamin C and synthetic vitamin C (ascorbic acid). For example the vitamin C from amla was found to be 12 times more active than its synthetic counterpart. This is actually true for many vitamins. Natural vitamin Es have been found to be stronger than their synthetic counterparts. So we don't need near as much natural sources of vitamins as we do from synthetic vitamins. 

Lam recommends this liposomal delivery system, which supposedly gets absorbed by the small intestine, offering a "dramatically improves bio-availability and is by far the best oral form of vitamin C delivery system available."

He also says to take it in the asorbic acid form. Wilson says to take asorbic acid w/ bioflavanoids to be absorbed correctly.

I don't buy in to the liposomal delivery system concept. I think it is just more sales hype and the further they get away from natural the more I dislike it.  And it is still a synthetic vitamin C, which is very unstable. As far as the small intestine claim goes where do they think vitamin C is absorbed from anyway? Food and nutrients are not absorbed from the stomach and once these things leave the stomach there is not a lot of choice of where to be absorbed from.