What do you guys think about Linus Pauling and Vitamin C?

Ray Peat Fanboy

Thank you!

I take Progest-E and drink 2 quarts of milk a day. I also eat a high carb diet.

Should I buy Thornes Vitamin K? And what brand do you recommend for a vitamin E supplement?

LucH

@Ray-Peat-Fanboy said in What do you guys think about Linus Pauling and Vitamin C?:

Should I buy Thornes Vitamin K? And what brand do you recommend for a vitamin E supplement?

For vit E, 20-25 mg is required, but 100 mg after 40ies. Must be at least 2 tocos.
I take 2x/wk 400 UI. Mind this: too much of a good thing is bad.
Now foods - Advanced gamma E complex 120 caps.

For Vit K:

once a Wk Life Extension super K (all forms of vit K, high dose)
1 drop Thornes Vitamin K2 MK4 (1 000 mcg) every day. Must be taken with high dose fat. 35 g optimal.
Avoid if under 24 g fat. Postpose.
At midday, I take 5000 UI vit D (from November till April) (winter time).
For details about posology , how and why, I can give a link if desired.

Ray Peat Fanboy

@LucH

I read on the ingredients of NOW Foods Advanced Gamma E complex that this vitamin E supplement contains rice bran oil (a high PUFA oil)

"Other Ingredients: Softgel Capsule [bovine gelatin (BSE-free), glycerin, water, carob] and Rice Bran Oil. Contains soy."

Ray Peat Fanboy

@Ecstatic_Hamster

Intresting! Whats the reason for combining vitamin C with aspirin? Do they have a synergistic effect?

ThinPicking

The systemic mega dosing didn't work out for me. His obsession with it probably needed more work on competition with glucose and surrounding fluid movements (salt probably has a lot to do with it too). There's probably a perfect dose and delivery in there somewhere for miraculous effect. The 'bowel tolerance' or more is better strategy couldn't cure a cold in my experience.

Other work of his institute on micronutrients and phyto's is really useful. A great resource. Also the details on pH/concentration for topical absorbtion of AA can do miraculous things for skin problems.

LucH

@Ray-Peat-Fanboy said in What do you guys think about Linus Pauling and Vitamin C?:

this vitamin E supplement contains rice bran oil (a high PUFA oil)

Are you kidding?!
Only the dose makes a poison.
https://afcd.foodstandards.gov.au/fooddetails.aspx?PFKID=F006185

34.7 % PUFA / 100 (1 ml)) / 20 (20 drops) = 0.0174 mg.
=> not even 1 tenth of a milligram.
Less than 2 hundredths of one mg.

the_black_jew

if i ever have the beginnings of a sore throat, 750mg of vit c in OJ knocks it out
maybe the OJ by itself would work idk

Sunniva

@LucH

At midday, I take 5000 UI vit D (from November till April) (winter time).

What vitamin D do you use?

Ray Peat Fanboy

@LucH

Oh if the dose of PUFA is that low then its fine

LucH

@Sunniva said in What do you guys think about Linus Pauling and Vitamin C?:

What vitamin D do you use?

Now foods softgels.
,+ Once a week 10 000 ui vit A (retinyl palmitate).

Sunniva

@LucH
Thank you.
In regards to Vit A, if I am drinking about 40 ounces of raw milk daily would the supplemental A be necessary?