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Thank you Ann for adding the dosage information about L.glutamine.

Here is another interesting response regarding vitamin C / ascorbic acid:

I'm a firm believer in Vitamin C/ascorbic acid which is essential to 
maintaining stomach acidity, along w/ the HCL the body makes.

Stomach should have a ph of ~3 or less  This makes it inhospitalbe for most 
of the germs/bugs, making the stomach one of the body's first lines of 
defense.  With the addition of digestive juices & fluids, the ph gradually 
rises in the rest of the GI track.

Healthy bacteria in various parts of the GI track are adapted for the 
conditions, including ph, in those areas. If the system doesn't start out at 
the right ph, the good guys can't survive where they are supposed to be & 
are replaced by bad ones.

In the reading I've done, bacteria/fungi seems to generative energy to 
reproduce by oxidiation/breaking less stable compound down into more stable 
one.  One of these is is nitrates, found naturally in most 
vegetables--sometimes in very high amounts, which in converted to nitrites 
which are cytotoxic-kills cells & are known to increase cancer risk...

In addition to promoting acidity, ascorbic acid/Vit C is also an 
antioxidant. It readily gives up molecules that stablize compounds before 
the bacteria which is supposed to be lower in the GI track gets to them.

Interesting little test for stomach acidity at 
http://www.drdebe.com/BAKESODA.htm

I've been taking a time-release Vitamin C for ~5 years now. I find I only 
need 500 mg/day since it's not flushed out w/in 2 hours after taking like 
regular Vit C.  Vitamin Source from KMart is inexpensive & readily 
available.  Nature Made also makes a 500 mg time release....

Before I started taking Vitamin C daily, I was dx w/ gastritis & pur on rx 
acid reducers. While the pain resolved, the rest of my syptoms went from bad 
to worse when the unchecked bacteria went wild converting the nitrates I was 
ingesting (most veggies--esp. potato starch, cured meats & sensitivity 
protection toothpaste at 30,000 pmm of nitrates)  to more potent nitrites & 
even peroxides, I suspect.

Since nitrates/nitrites circulate in all bodily fluids & irritate mucous 
menbranes symptoms were varied (affecting GI, skin, sinus, urinary tract, 
blurred vision0) & defied dx by various doctors.  Ater months on the 
internet I connected the dots but am still very sensitive to 
nitrates/nitrites, with reactions to a trace amount still take about 6 weeks 
to resolve.  Taking extra doses of regular Vitamin C with meals when 
nitrates can't be avoided does seem to lessen the effect... 

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