We often receive a question about converting the amounts of our Vitamin C from recommendations based on supplementing with ascorbic acid (sold as Vitamin C). Many will ask, "How do I equate the mega-dosing of 1,000 mg of ascorbic acid to your Vitamin C?" The 'logical' answer would be, "(4) X 250 mg Vitamin C complex tablets will give you the equivalent" but, that would be wrong.
We can not simply convert one dosage to the next as we are not dealing with equivalent materials or similar materials. The ascorbic acid method (chemicals), taken in high doses, becomes a *pro-oxidant , as it is a chemical.
Rather than focusing on: "How much of the food do I need to equate to the same recommendations based on chemicals?' the question should be: "how much of the food supplement will I need to take to receive my desired goal with the vitamin?"
(*Pro-oxidant is the opposite of Antioxidant, Pro-oxidants work in the development of Free Radicals and could be a causation towards Cancer development)
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