# Are you taking more vitamin-C?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-taking-more-vitamin-c/850255>\
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [March 25, 2020, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-taking-more-vitamin-c/850255 "2020-03-25T15:33:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-taking-more-vitamin-c/850255/21 "2020-03-26T00:14:37Z")

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> [@Esprise\_Me](#):
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> I’m not saying that Vitamin C will send your immune system into overdrive and thereby kill you. It’ll probably do nothing at all. But I wanted to address this persistent underlying belief that anything that revs up your immune system is always a good thing, because the latest thinking in medicine seems to be almost the opposite.

Do you want an immune system in overdrive? Isn’t an immune system in overdrive what causes allergies and autoimmune disorders?

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**Author:** ![Esprise\_Me](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprise_me/32/2947_2.png) [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-taking-more-vitamin-c/850255/22 "2020-03-26T02:05:09Z")

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…I get the impression you think I said the opposite of what I said.

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