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by davids » Thu Dec 22, 2005 12:52 am
Hi Hyper,
There are 2 points I think are worth your consideration:
1) Your "bowel tolerance" will vary [somewhat] from day to day. In my own case, diet is the single biggest factor involved, e.g. the larger the percentage of raw food in my diet, the lower my "bowel tolerance" [point] is.
2) If you ingest no ascorbate overnight, while you sleep, you can assume that you are at your lowest "base" point of the day [and just "build" from there], i.e. typically, you should be at approximately the same ascorbate levels each day after 8+ hours of no ingestion.
The idea Hyper, with the "bowel tolerance" method of dosage determination, is to "let" your body "tell" you at any particular time how much it wants/needs. We do not have the luxury of the animals, who produce it for themselves, "24/7" according to their need(s) of the moment, so we must constantly be determining that for ourselves. And that is the great benefit and beauty of the "bowel tolerance" method, i.e. we don't have to take a blood and/or urine sample to try and figure out if we need more, i.e. when some passes through to our colon, we know it was not absorbed into the body "proper" and therefore can assume we need no more for the moment. It is not as complicated as it may at first seem. A little experimentation/practice will get you comfortable with your dosage needs in a few weeks (or months, at most).
Dr. Cathcart recommends using ascorbic acid powder to start with, as it is easier/faster to establish your "bowel tolerance" [point] than with tablets (because the powder is more readily absorbed). But once you have a general "feel" for what your bowel tolerance [amount] is under different circumstances, he then feels the tablets are perhaps a better permanent method of ingesting (they are more convenient and pose no tooth enamel risk).
And by the way, if you fear the "inconvenience" of having to put up with "diarrhea" to find out how much ascorbate you need each day, my experience has been that relatively quickly I got to the point where intestinal gas beccame the primary, and now virtually sole, indicator of "bowel tolerance," and I have found over the years that I've gotten much better at "guessing" my needs at any particular time, so as to avoid too much excess flatus. So that probably will not be much of a concern [after awhile].
If you have any other questions and/or concerns Hyper, I don't think you can "beat" this forum in terms of the amount of experience and knowledge that is represented here.
Best wishes,
David
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