Is too much Vitamin C bad for you?

[JBAR]

Too much Vitamin C will give you an intestinal crisis.

 

[jonmullen]

Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
vitamins are water soluble, which means excess will essentially be pissed out and such. however, its still advisable you dont megadose on a certain vitamin because it can cause vitamin defeciencies in other vitamins, creating a vitamin imbalance. thats why you should take a vitamin c complex if you want to bulk up on a specific vitamin c.

so, no, nothing will happen with you eating that much grapefruit, and nothing will probably happen either if you at 10g of vitamin c from 20 capsules of vitamin c. the question is why.

Thats not totally true, C is water soluble and will be pissed out, however A, and E for example are fat soluble and excess will be stored up in the body.

 

[habib89]

of course eating too much is bad.. that's sorta the definition of "too"

Main Entry: too
Pronunciation: 'tü
Function: adverb
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English tO to, too -- more at TO
Date: before 12th century
1 : BESIDES, ALSO <sell the house and furniture too>
2 a : to an excessive degree : EXCESSIVELY <too large a house for us> b : to such a degree as to be regrettable <this time he has gone too far> c : VERY <didn't seem too interested>
3 : SO 2d <"I didn't do it." "You did too.">

 

[dolph]

Originally posted by: jonmullen

Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
vitamins are water soluble, which means excess will essentially be pissed out and such. however, its still advisable you dont megadose on a certain vitamin because it can cause vitamin defeciencies in other vitamins, creating a vitamin imbalance. thats why you should take a vitamin c complex if you want to bulk up on a specific vitamin c.

so, no, nothing will happen with you eating that much grapefruit, and nothing will probably happen either if you at 10g of vitamin c from 20 capsules of vitamin c. the question is why.

Thats not totally true, C is water soluble and will be pissed out, however A, and E for example are fat soluble and excess will be stored up in the body.

i'm know what you mean, but when taken in excess, some water-soluble vitamins do bind to minerals and prevent their absorption, making them not so good to od on.