Day 39: Naturopathy

[rebeccmeister]

Today at a rowing event, a naturopathic doctor and rower whose perspective I respect recommended taking additional vitamin C to help my immune system fight off the virus. This will sound familiar to my mother. After she made a similar recommendation, I basically said it wasn't clear to me if vitamin C would make much of a difference and so I made no effort to acquire supplemental vitamin C. But guess what? Today I marched off and bought some giant horse-pills and am going to give it a shot. It's a good thing I never make any claims to rationality.

On Monday, I plan to try rowing. It seems feasible if I get enough sleep the night before. Lack of sleep and super-busy days seem to be what still manage to drag me down towards the mono-cave.

Comments

[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

And if it doesn't work, at least you can make the claim of having urine with the highest vitamin content in the metro area. :P

[rebeccmeister.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, that will be me. ;)

Actually, since the horse pills I found look like they give me "only" 1600% the RDA for vitamin C, I bet there are some people out there who take even larger amounts. And I also selected a supplement that was just C, nothing else.

[earthlingmike.livejournal.com]

Be careful., my father took huge pills, vitamin C, and calcium, he got a kidney stone from doing it.

Vitamin C is necessary for seemingly an infinite number of things.

[rebeccmeister.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that particular winning combination. Hopefully I won't be taking it for long enough to incur such nasty side effects...and I am not taking calcium supplements anyway.