that is RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance). it is different from ODI (Optimum Daily Intake).

RDA is the minimum required to prevent us away from disease symptoms, not to keep us healthy. You want healthy, ODI is required. (1000mg~3000mg)

diarrhea is not the toxic effect. it is a signs telling you that your body is enough for vitamin C currently and you need to stop taking it and reduce portion of the dosage.

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Added on December 9, 2009, 11:01 amRedoxon vitamin c is a synthetic vitamin C. There won't be overdosing in natural form of vitamin c but synthetic i am not sure.

Try to replace synthetic vitamin C to a natural one if u are affordable.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redoxon

This post has been edited by basSist: Dec 9 2009, 11:01 AM

That's why i am recommending organic and natural vitamin c from natural sources. but most of the people concern 'health' supplement in terms of price but not quality for their health. How much can you save for 1 bottle? save money or save body, that's the choice.

I am agree on this.

@caerulln

For RDA standard, 1000mg is overdosed. but for ODA, it is not.

Stone[97] and Pauling[75] calculated, based on the diet of primates[74] (similar to what our common ancestors are likely to have consumed when the gene mutated), that the optimum daily requirement of vitamin C is around 2,300 milligrams for a human requiring 2,500 kcal a day. Pauling also criticized the established RDA as sufficient to prevent scurvy, but not necessarily the dosage for optimal health.[84]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C

gosh, the physician and pharmacist are here again to talk about nutrients that they not really study on