> For ascorbic acid (vitamin C) specifically, there is such a thing as too much of it.. in humans, the level that is too much is when it gives you loose stools.. if you back off that, then the body is likely using what it needs.
You’re describing absorption tolerance, but the body doesn’t need anywhere near that much Vitamin C.
The idea that you need to “titrate to bowel tolerance” as the alternative medicine practitioners say is rather nonsensical. Nothing in the diets we evolved to consume has anywhere near enough Vitamin C to cause loose stools (from Vitamin C excess)
You can consume more than enough Vitamin C for your body to ever use with regular food. Taking these megadose supplements at unnaturally high doses may get some absorbed into your body, but it just gets excreted back out.
You’re describing absorption tolerance, but the body doesn’t need anywhere near that much Vitamin C.
The idea that you need to “titrate to bowel tolerance” as the alternative medicine practitioners say is rather nonsensical. Nothing in the diets we evolved to consume has anywhere near enough Vitamin C to cause loose stools (from Vitamin C excess)
You can consume more than enough Vitamin C for your body to ever use with regular food. Taking these megadose supplements at unnaturally high doses may get some absorbed into your body, but it just gets excreted back out.
Absorption and use are two different things.