That's why I believe that vitamin C doesn't harm viruses directly - it's not aggressive and virus hulls are too similar to the hulls of our cells. Vitamin C helps our immune system to fight viruses (and the immune system has a ton of friend-foe detection mechanisms).
How much vitamin C do you "believe" is peak benefit?
100 mg per day is enough to saturate the storage capacity. The body gets rid of excess vitamin C fast and there must be a reason for that mechanism.
Maybe high-dose vitamin C makes sense to protect from oxidative stress during the early stages of an immune response. High-dose vitamin C induces a shift of immune responses from Th2 (against extracellular parasites) to Th1 (against intracellular bacteria and protozoa). This means that the usefulness of vitamin C depends on the pathogen the immune system is fighting against.
100 mg per day is enough to saturate the storage capacity. The body gets rid of excess vitamin C fast and there must be a reason for that mechanism.
That's what I figured. You don't know what you're talking about. Go read Linus Pauling's work and come back.
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