I'm sharing it here because I wish I knew about vitamin C 30 years ago.
1- buy it in bulk powder form this will be much cheaper (I paid 38€ for 1 kg)
Source: http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vitamins-minerals/Pages/Vitamin...
It might have annoying effects but you can't "overdose" (sure, getting a large dose is still not recommended)
You can overdose on some fat-soluble vitamins, notably Vitamin A. And by overdose I mean you can die from it
Take a daily supplement which ensures you are getting a sufficient amount, and nothing more. Anything beyond that is literally getting flushed down the toilet in your urine.
I take your point, but I think it's important to say that this isn't strictly true. Your daily requirement is what you need for normal functioning, not what you can absorb.
For vitamin C, this isn't a huge distinction - it's water soluble, and the excess will be flushed, as you say. But for fat soluble vitamins, you absolutely can absorb more than a 100% dose. This is usually bad, and comes about from things like home overdosing or extremely narrow diets. It's occasionally medicinal, though, with something like isotretinoin being very similar to a major overdose of vitamin A.
I wouldn't suggest overdosing on vitamins to anyone unless a doctor tells you do, but it's worth noting that it does cause an effect - usually a bad one.
Who cares if it's a placebo, as long as it works I'm taking it.
For the record, homeopathy did absolutely nothing for me, so I'm not sure I have much of a placebo gullible body ;-)
Yes, because it's proven basic science.
If it was a placebo, why would I need varying doses to suppress symptoms and why homeopathy didn't work as a placebo ?
Then explains me why vit C works better than regular medicine for my allergies (no symptom at all with vit C but they are just reduced by half with antihistamines).
But I didn't find (doesn't mean it doesn't exist) a single story about someone that had a problem with it. All the negativity is by people that didn't try.