Vitamin C dosage and the fear of high supplementation

Frederick admits he did not follow the recommended 12,000 mg per day of vitamin C because he feared diarrhea.

The Wonders explain that divided into six doses this does not occur, and that if it does one should start lower (2,000, then 1,500, then 1,000 mg) until there is none.

They describe vitamin C as primarily cleansing — cleansing the body and colon, clearing yeast and bacterial infection, activating cellular energy — so diarrhea at low doses is a sign the body is cleansing; tolerance rises as the body begins to use rather than flush the vitamin, improving cell replication, reducing mutations, lengthening cell life and improving skin and hair.

They state the average human body can accept roughly 18,000 to 22,000 mg per day, and 12,000 was chosen for him because of his diet.

They criticise the pharmaceutical push in Europe to cap vitamin C near 50 mg per day, noting 60 mg merely avoids scurvy rather than nourishing the body, and ask how many of the people warning against high doses are truly healthy.

They recommend he look up Dr. Pauling, who took 15,000-18,000 mg daily, sometimes 25,000, and up to 50,000 when ill, and lived to about 94 — though they add that the real answer is for Frederick to simply choose and explore it himself.