Quote:
Originally Posted by Maximum Rocknroll
Plus thousands of millis of Vitamin C.
I've been sick twice in the past 13 weeks with colds, it sucked but it was probably my own fault for drinking too much, staying out late, and being in crowded rooms with hundreds of filthy college students. I looked into this and it appears that Vitamin C for prevention or alleviation of colds is mostly broscience:
http://www.quackwatch.org/01Quackery...DSH/colds.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C_and_Common_Cold
There's one interesting passage from the less than scholastic wikipedia entry though:
"However, in a subgroup of marathon runners, skiers, and soldiers training in the Arctic doses ranging from 250 mg/day to 1 g/day decreased the incidence of colds by 50% (Jane Higdon & Balz Frei, 2006). Therefore, the majority of studies of non-athletic people, when looked at collectively, led researchers to conclude that vitamin C does not prevent or treat the common cold"
I don't really know if that means it has any application for people who lift weights, as I'm guessing training for marathons/soldierly duties/skiing has very different effects on the endocrine and immune systems when compared with lifting weights.
There's some evidence that low levels of Vitamin D are linked to upper-respiratory viral infections, but there's no definitive causal relationship.
http://www.eatmoveimprove.com/2009/1...-at-vitamin-d/
Last edited by Evoken; 12-07-2010 at 01:49 AM.