Ascorbic acid is not "Vitamin C"
by Jim West (please share and cite)
Others have argued this, but I'll argue with some different angles.
The commonly used form of vitamin C is ascorbic acid, a synthetic popularized by those such as Linus Pauling, a famous scientist.
Ascorbic acid is not actually real vitamin C.
Ascorbic acid is a synthetic chemical, an anti-oxidant related to vitamin C. Ascorbic acid is toxic, because it mindlessly disrupts the dual options of oxidation and anti-oxidation that the body uses for the purposes of detoxifying and removing pollutants and microbes. See "Oxidative burst".
These two opposite functions must be under dynamic control of the body's autonomic protection and stabilization systems (the immune system in a sense). Ascorbic acid is a dead synthetic "vitamin C", an anti-oxidant that lacks the ability to cooperate with the body. This is also the problem with refined sugars, as natural sugar is an energy "hormone", which the body understands.
The "immune system" has many beneficial oxidation options, such as superoxides, peroxides, and sulfuration processes, which can handle pollutants. The body may strategically decide to oxidize a pollutant, but ascorbic acid (as an antioxidant) would render oxidation difficult or impossible.
Toxic ascorbic acid
Given that ascorbic acid neutralizes biological oxidation agents, if the body were to attempt to oxidize a pollutant, it would be required to expend energy to overcome the anti-oxidant action of ascorbic acid.
Thus ascorbic acid is toxic at any dose.
Mainstream Medicine says that the probability of toxic effects correlates with dose.
I take no stimulants or depressants and avoid pollution (air, EMF, and medical), thus I have accurate and sensitive symptoms. After taking a vitamin C pill that contains ascorbic acid, I show a fever. A fever is a sign of toxicity.
I do not have a fever after eating an orange.
Upon encountering air pollution (which depletes vitamin C), I crave citrus not a pill. The craving begins before I am aware of the pollution. The craving is a symptom of air pollution. It is a signal to me that the air is polluted.
I assume that sulfur is similarly needed, but it is already present in my diet when I have raw dairy, fruit, seeds and eggs.
Primates (such as humans) recycle vitamin C and do not normally (in an unpolluted world) need to generate it like other animals.
Example of toxic ascorbic acid
During the earlier era of Captain Cook and even back to Ancient Rome, a common toxic pollutant was arsenic trioxide. Ascorbic subverts the immune system, rendering the body more vulnerable to arsenic trioxide.
"...ascorbic acid... a sensitizer... to arsenic trioxide."
https://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/69/9_Supplement/5479
See my related post about scurvy, viewed as a disease of arsenic poisoning.
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Thanks to Justin for his recent comments which lead to this post.
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