0_Apprentice
I try to get enough vitamin C, but sometimes I feel like I don't. Do you get enough?
1_Wizard
I try to, I remember that the disease scurvy is prevented with vitamin C.
0_Apprentice
Ha, yes it is. There were not a lot of ways to get that vitamin stranded on ships in the middle of the ocean back then. Foods tend to perish. Luckily we have more diverse food now
1_Wizard
Funny enough evidence does not support that vitamin C cures the common cold.
0_Apprentice
That's true. I'm skeptical that it does much at all for colds. The typical person does not have a major vitamin c deficiency, so it most likely wouldn't do much unless they did
1_Wizard
Well some research shows that in regular use it does seem to help.
0_Apprentice
Every vitamin helps to have regularly in the right amount. But, in more quantities than necessary the body either gets rid of it (pee), or it builds up in the body (like iron) and can be dangerous. This is why you don't see typical vitamin packs with iron except for targetted ones
1_Wizard
It also functions as a great antioxidant!