A client of mine called quite late one night to say that he was travelling in Asia for an extended period, had run out of C and now was getting very sick. He had experienced the vitamin C crash. It had happened to me once before, when we were hit by a category 5 hurricane which shut down everything for a month and my C finished.
The processes in which vitamin C is involved in the body are not well understood, no one really cares enough to undertake the sort of study that figuring this all out would require. Here is what we know from experience. The body prioritises the immune system for supply of vitamin C. As that supply goes up, the body waits a few days to see if this increase is sustained, then it begins using C in other areas. If this supply is suddenly curtailed, it takes the body time to recognise that this is a new environment, and that it has to abandon supply to other purposes and focus on the immune system.
During this time, a few days, we are much more susceptible to infections as the immune system becomes depressed.
You have to monitor your supply of C, and if you suspect a shortage, then you have to deliberately lower your consumption, back to the levels not supported by supplementation. As we lower over days the body has time to adjust its usage and our chances of getting sick reduce.
I often wonder what happens to all the other things your body was doing with Vitamin C when we return to micro doses.
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