Also a dud?
After the run I looked at the expiration and today's test strips were old. Lot 1473927, Expire Feb 2016. In the past, the test strips had at least 2 years, for example, the last run (5 gram gulp) the expiration was May 2017 (lot 1511213). If the strips are changing drastically, that potentially puts Kabash on this. I wish I had recorded all the lot numbers from the previous runs.
And the UltraOne Touch meter is, well horrible. It was mentioned in the other paper as being reactive to C in the blood, so I bought it.
It is very hard to use. There is no audible signal. All other meters beep at the appropriate time. And the channel for the blood on the test strip is so narrow, that a lot of blood is required for "capillary action". I have only gotten about 50% to work properly.
And after today's results, I was reminded of Hugh Riordan. As a medical student he was giving himself small IV/C and measuring his blood as part of some study. Then he was bitten by a spider, gave himself an IV/C, but no vitamin C was then measured in his blood. It took 3 or 4 days of the IV before he started measuring any vitamin C in his blood. The point is that if a person is fighting something, or under stress, we know that the tissues can almost immediately absorb large amounts of ascorbate administered IV.
One of the reasons for doing today's run so close to the last run was to minimize differences in my stress levels. I feel fine, but while the blood measurement did rise from 117 to a high of 172 (+55 points), the experiment did not record anywhere near the early high spikes of the earlier 10,000 mg measurements. We'd need to see the 5, 10 and 15 grams gulp graphs, side by side. Not what I expected at all..
Test strips?
My insulin levels?
My stress levels?
Nov 17 - 15,000 mg gulp of ultrafine DSM ascorbic acid.
Baseline TrueResult 112 Meter A 117, (Water) Meter B 120, Meter C 126 UltraOneTouch 2 141
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Time 0 - Gulp half glass of water with 15,000 mg AA
Meter Time Reading
A 1 124
B 2 125
C 3 120
A 4 125
B 5 120
C 6 131
A 7 122
B 8 117
C 9 162
A 10 128 (One Touch ultra2 - 137)
B 11 124
C 12 131
A 13 122
B 14 127
C 15 136
A 16 130
B 17 129
C 18 132
A 19 128
B 20 126
C 21 138
A 22 133
B 23 129
C 24 151
A 25 135
B 26 134
C 27 144
A 28 146
B 29 141
C 30 135
A 31 135
B 32 172
C 33 142
A 34 136
B 35 142
C 36 134
A 37 142
B 38 147
C 39 131
A 40 146
Notes. Did not see the early "3 minute" spike that we had measured previously? And the curve is probably more like the 5 g than what I would have expected for 15 grams. But the numbers are rising...
Intuition or experience tells me that these old test strips have lost something.
Ideally, we would calibrate the strips with the simulated blood solution prior to a run with a particular batch.
Question, it will probably be easier to see with a graph, and we know there is considerable error, but why would blood levels go up, but then back down right away? When you reach a certain concentration of AA in the blood, why wouldn't that stay constant, i.e., when more AA enters the blood stream, shouldn't the concentration keep rising?
The answer seems to be that something is drawing the ascorbate out of the blood.
We know Hickey/Roberts have calculated a 30 minute half-life, meaning that in 30 minutes, the kidneys should be able to reduce a high concntration by 50%. But the shorter fluctuations may be a clue that tissues, rather than the kidney, are taking in the vitamin?
Maybe the morning isn't the best time, since cells deprived of vitamin C all night long, especially as winter approaches, may have a larger appetite for vitamin C in the blood.
The problem with any other time of day is that the stomach may not be empty and the acidity, etc. may vary.
Maybe the way to do this properly is to take a good time release vitamin C before bed. Keep the tissues well fed with vitamin C and happy?
Anybody have any thoughts on what happened today, I am "all ears."