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by Johnwen » Sun Nov 12, 2017 12:29 pm
By following Paulings rec’s on taking his therapy method it figures out for your intake of 6 grams of V-C.
VC = 6000mg.
L-Lysine = 5400mg. (90% of V-C amount)
L-Proline = 600mg. (10% of V-C amount)
These are the basic ingredients he has recommended. Most of the marketed commercial products based on his theory have additional ingredients such as sweeteners and other vitamins which are sold as a powder to be mixed in water to be drank as a liquid.
On the L-lysine our experience has shown us that a Max. intake a day should be limited to about 6Grams a day. The reason being is that over this amount stomach related problems start to occur. This is not always the case, some people can take higher amounts but the 6Gram has proven out to give zero side effects. Now this is for the powder form taken with water mix.
Well on the powder form, most of the L-Lysine powders sold are lysine hydrochloride, now this is not a bad thing but does reduce the amount of Lysine to about 80% of the total weight. So to get 5400 mg. you would have to take 6800mg. Of this powder. Which gives you 5440mg. Close enough!
The hydrochloride part is expelled by the kidney’s and has a slight diuretic effect.
On pills and capsules they contain a lot of fillers that could cause these types of problems at even lower doses.
Example; I once bought some L-Lysine pills at a big box store and the pills were 500mg. L-Lysine. However the pill itself weighted 1200mg. And started giving me problems after taking just 3 of them a day.
So using your need of 5400mg. (Say 5500mg) you would have to take 11 pills. That would give a total pill weight 13.2grams
13200-5500= 7700mg. Of fillers that would definitely cause some problems.
So there it is, remember this based on a daily consumption amount taken in smaller amounts throughout the day to equal your total daily requirements.
Remember also what Pauling said;
“don’t miss not even a single day!”
Hope this helps!
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