Vitamin C info from Owen plus Edit

Hi Hanna,

Thank you for your reply.

As "grist for your [health] mill," the following two quotes from Dr. Robert Cathcart, M.D., the man with more experience "prescribing" daily Bowel Tolerance doses of ascorbic acid to patients than any other in history [over 30,000 in a 35 year career], may be of interest:

"...the dramatic effects are always with ascorbic acid orally and sodium ascorbate intravenously. I have not been able to achieve the ascorbate effect with mineral ascorbates orally. Mineral ascorbates are fine forms of vitamin C, but when you are really sick, the mitochondria are failing in their refueling of the free radical scavengers with electrons. The ascorbic acid carries 2 extra electrons per molecule, where the mineral ascorbates seem to carry only one (plus, per molecule, the mineral ascorbates are heavier due to the mineral weighing more than the hydrogen the mineral replaces. So the mineral ascorbates are not potent enough to accomplish the ascorbate effect. There may be other reasons that we do not appreciate additionally." 

"I have found that vitamin C in the ascorbic acid form is the best form to take orally. I have been able to achieve, what I call the ascorbate effect, with only ascorbic acid by mouth. Mineral ascorbates by mouth, while being a fine source of vitamin C, do not seem to carry the same punch, probably more electrons." [all emphasis mine]

Just trying to help.

Best regards,

David