Thanks all, here is a message on both sides

Thanks everyone, here is the text of a message that I'd like to hold on to, to post every now and then on the vitamin C forum - so that new readers will know that there are different versions of C and different opinions on them, and maybe will then go read more about it all before jumping in.

2 opposite opinions on what form of C to take

Opinion #1:

“don't take the ascorbic acid version of vitamin C! That version, so prevalent on shelves of stores everywhere, makes your body so overly acidic that your bones leach calcium in an effort to rebalance your blood ph.
To read more on this, do an internet search on:
+acidic +blood +"calcium from bones” and you may see more results supporting this than negating it. Also, scout through the curezone "Alkaline/acid" forum. The posts there where they use ascorbic acid involve combining it with baking soda to alkalize it, so as not to become acidic in the blood. The forum also describes using ph strips to test your saliva, if you aren't sure if you are currently overly acidic.
Use a mineral ascorbate version of vitamin C instead of ascorbic acid. For example, use sodium ascorbate, or calcium ascorbate. Some other Ok products are labeled as “buffered Vitamin C” and then when you turn the label over and read the back, they will describe one of the mineral ascorbates.
I once overdid ascorbic acid, before I knew about this, and got so acidic I broke out in canker sores on my mouth.
Note: acid in the stomach and colon is normal and good, but in the blood and elsewhere is bad - and is what is referred to an overly acidic body."

Opinion #2:
“Since I ingest so much hydrogen ascorbate, i.e. ascorbic acid, daily (30 to 60 grams for the last 12 years), I also used to be worried about leaching minerals from my bones and/or teeth, etc. And finally I decided to do some research, and that put my fears to rest. I do not remember all of the technicals, but basically it had to do with the fact that our bodies (actually our cells themselves) produce their own sodium bicarbonate as an alkalinizer, and our kidneys have a process whereby if our blood is too acidic, they simply excrete more acid in our urine (and vice versa, for too alkaline). I read nothing (if I recall it was primarily in a few online encyclopedias) about needing to leach [needed] calcium and/or other minerals from our bones and/or teeth in order to alkalizize our blood/tissues.
For what it might be worth, Dr. Robert Cathcart, M.D., the person with more clinical experience prescribing megadoses of ascorbate than any other on earth (over 20,000 patients, last time I checked), wrote that his clinical experience was that ascorbic acid orally was much more effective than the 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'"

As for sources to buy the C, opinion #2 is easy – ascorbic acid is on every store shelf and very cheap. To buy C that follows opinion #1, try http://www.swansonvitamins.com and search there for the word BUFFERED there are several there in capsules or tablets. If you’re more into powder, for cost effectiveness or mixeability, try http://www.valuenutritioncenter.com
They have 8 oz of sodium ascorbate powder on sale for $4.99.


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