Naturemade makes Vitamin C 500/1000mg in "Timed Release" versions, but they are hard to find and more expensive because the uneducated population keeps buying non-timed release versions like these. Non-timed release versions serve to avoid "scurvy" (useful during the 18th century on long sailing voyages with no fresh fruit) and can be useful for urinary tract issues much like Cranberry Juice is, but probably less than 100 mg of a 1000mg tablet non-timed release Vitamin C tablet are actually absorbed to provide, as Naturemade calls it, "immune defense".

In a recent hospital stay, I was shocked that they actually gave Vitamin C 1000mg (non-time release) along with a useless, oral form of Vitamin B-12 (zero absorption through the GI tract), so instead of declaring Vitamins to be "useless" as they did just a few years ago, "Evidence Based Medicine" now tolerates, useless, non-absorbable forms so as not to impact the sales of pharmaceutical drugs.

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