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We also wanted to verify that we can indeed read vitamin C in liposomes (before I deprive myself of coffee waiting 2 to 3 hours for the results). Answer: We can measure liposomal vitamin C (Emek Blair's reasoning can be found: (See Post #12 http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=11219 )
Method
Increased water from 100 grams to 1000 grams
Increased salt (as NACL) from 320 mg to 3.2 grams
Increased Dextrose from 90 mg to 900 mg
First measured at room temperature then all measurements at body temperature
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Room Temp Body Temp
Meter A 112 51
Meter B 34 89
Meter C 43 110
Meter D * 49
Not sure why the wide variation. Decided to add a 4th meter D, (but the water had already been warmed so no room temp reading.) If you look at body temperature, and throw out the high and low readings - not too bad.
I added 5 ML China-Free True-lipsomal Vitamin C to the mixture (according to label, this is one serving with 1000 mg or 1 gram vitamin C). Stirred and let the mixture sit for 5 minutes.
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90 mg/dl dextrose + 1000 mg liposomale vitamin C (Same as adding 100 mg/dl vitamin C)
Meter A 232 (difference from body temp 181)
Meter B 228 ( '' 139)
Meter C 228 ( " 118)
Meter D 272 ( " 223)
It appears that we can mesaure liposomal vitamin C.
We were curious what would happen if we replaced the liposomal with ultrafine ascorbic acid. So we started over.
1000 grams of water
3.20 grams of NACL
900 mg of dextrose
Heated to body temperature.
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Baselines.
Meter A 45
Meter B 60
Meter C 37
Meter D 51
Consistent low readings makes us think we made an error, perhaps adding glucose, but we can still examine the difference between the baselines and lipo or aa.
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90 mg/dl dextrose + 1000 mg ultrafine ascorbic acid vitamin C powder (Same as adding 100 mg/dl vitamin C)
Meter A 215 (difference 170)
Meter B 227 (difference 167)
Meter C 226 (difference 189)
Meter D 224 (difference 173)
What have we learned? We have again demonstrated that adding vitamin C, either as ascorbic acid or liposomal to simulated blood (320 mg salt, 90 mg/dl glucose) the readings increase proportionately to the relatively small amount of vitamin C added.
So one of the next two experiments will be 10 grams of liposomal vitamin C over two to three hours in vivo.
As far as the calibrations, I think the meters and test strips (as well as the measurements off the finger) are subject to such error, that there isn't much benefit from going to liter versus the deciliter.