Vitamin C And Acne

[marsaday]

Vitamin C is supposed to affect the adrenals quite strongly. It is supposed to boost adrenal function.

Well my wife has been having colds quite frequently this year as she mixes with lots of babies.

She decided to try higher dose Vit C usage to stop the colds and it seemed to help. She would take 5 x 1000mg tablets on the first day and then usually 3 x tablets per day over the next 4 days. This has gone on now for most of this year on and off. So it hasn't been constant, but she has been having these colds pretty frequently.

Anyway she noticed she was getting an inflamed facial skin and spots recently. I noticed her face was much more shiny. So this week she got another cold, but this time she decided not to continue with the Vit C usage.

Her skin has calmed down a lot and is back to normal. Her cold has also gone pretty quickly.

So while i think the Vit C was helpful at the start, i think it has in some way prolonged her cold spells and given her an inflamed skin.

Can anyone comment on what has actually happened here. I am thinking the Vit C has affected her adrenal function in some way. So causing a spike in testosterone output and bringing out the spots.

Any insights would be appreciated.

 

[Pet Peeve]

Have you seen this thread? Ascorbic acid

Ray Peat's experiences and work with C:
The alteration of production processes in vitamin E manufacture when the
evil soybean monopoly bought the industry from Eastman Chemical is
analogous to what happened earlier in the vitamin C industry, as profits
were maximized. The dramatic vitamin C studies in the 1930s often used
only 15 or 25 milligrams per day. In 1953, my first experience with it
(which was still sold as "cevitamic acid")involved 50 mg per day, and
over a period of just 2 or 3 days, my chronic awful poison oak allergy
disappeared. Up until this time, it was still too expensive to sell in
large doses. Around 1955 or '56, new manufacturing methods made it cheap
(and, for some reason, the name changed from cevitamic to ascorbic) and
the average tablet went up to 500 mg. The first time I tried the new
form, around 1956, I developed allergy symptoms within a couple of days.
Over the next 20 years, my own increased sensitivity to synthetic
ascorbate led me to look for such reactions in others. The same
people who reacted to it often reacted similarly to riboflavin and
rutin, which were also made from cornstarch by oxidation. I ascribed the
reaction to some industrial contaminant that they had in common,
possibly the heavy metals introduced with the sulfuric acid. The heavy
metal contamination of synthetic ascorbate is so great that one 500 mg
tablet dissolved in a liter of water produces free radicals at a rate
that would require a killing dose of x-rays to equal. The only clean and
safe vitamin C now available is that in fresh fruits, meats, etc. The
commercial stuff is seriously dangerous.

 

[Steven Bussinger]

It's definitely possible that the supplement was contaminated with something.

It's also possible that her body was detoxing. The skin is a very common route for detoxing, so it's quite common to see skin reactions. Nathan Hatch has said that iron from the brain is likely detoxed through the face.

Perhaps there are some other supplements or foods she can use to support herself during detox. I'm not sure yet what could help, but I'm sure there are guides. She could simply take a lower dose, or switch to a different product. I use buffered ascorbate from C-Salts.

So many people have benefited from vitamin C therapy that scare-mongering from Ray Peat and Morley Robbins should be taken with a grain of salt.