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Comment by SergeAx | Hacker News Reader

This is not smells good for me. The entire text sounds overly emotional and inaccurate for a medical professional. One example:

> the body can only absorb a maximum of 100 mg a day, with the rest creating the world's most expensive urine

An adult can absorb up to 500 mg of vitamin C: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12134712/

And vitamin C is one of the cheapest supplements, at least in that part of globe I currently in. The entire line about "expensive urine" is taken from a handbook of party conversations.

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The human body absorbs 70-90% of Vitamin C taken daily at levels up to 1000mg, at which point absorption falls to 50%, the safe upper limit being 2000mg per day.

As your own source explains, “High intakes of the vitamin are generally well tolerated; a tolerable upper level was recently set at 2g based on gastrointestinal upset that sometimes accompanies excessive intakes.”

The OP’s reference to 100mg daily was evidently a typo; he probably meant 1000mg rather than 100.

FYI: I’m currently taking 1000mg daily on the advice of my primary care physician.

Very elaborate writing exercise if it’s just a story, check his post history.

I'm checking their post history.. I'm honestly not sure what to make of it.

https://redditmetis.com/user/thanosrain

Account created October 14, 2019

135 total comments

102 of which are in /r/QAnonCasualties

Other top subreddits include HermanCainAwards, CovIdiots, and Quit_Headquarters.

Some comments in AskReddit and others, almost exclusively about covid.

This doesn't say much about the persons identity, but they're clearly not coming to the site to have fun.

Submission by weekday is also interesting, high on weekdays, low on weekends, highest on Monday.

I hate to be skeptical because I have doctor friends that have similar covid stories, but this post is quite sensational, newsworthy even. I wonder if the user would be receptive to verifying themselves with the mods.

edit: their first comment is March 3rd, 2021 and first submission is March 2nd, 2021. Nearly a year and a half after the account was created.

Further down thread, there's multiple folk calling out similar disbelief, and stating they've looked at OP's comment history, and saying they believe it's a genuine post by an MD.

I haven't check thoroughly, but quick skimming shows nothing beyond informed common sense to me.

Thank you! There is no way to prove it definitively, but I'd bet this is a writer's account with an agenda.

The whole things reads like an airport novel, adjusted for a specific subject. It's what people who believe about a certain world view expect to see in that world. A tear-jerker for sure, but in practice, for example, I have a lot of anti-vaxxer friends, and even though I don't agree with their choice (but I agree with their choice to have a choice), none of them behave like the people in the story. They are not insane, they just strongly adhere to a certain set of believes.

People would point out to the writer's history, but in fact, their account is only 9 month old, with an average of a few posts per months. It's completely not unreasonable to believe that someone spends this effort to create an illusion of credibility. Heck, I know people with two dozen "active" hacker news accounts, doing the same thing, but in their case so they could promote key tech articles, instead of vaccines.

Internet is a lovely place, isn't it.

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