Conducted over several decades and including more than 11,000 people who took daily doses of at least 200 milligrams, the review also shows that vitamin C (ascorbic acid) does little to reduce the length or severity of a cold, according to the researchers at the Australian National University and the University of Helsinki.

However, they found that people exposed to periods of high stress — such as marathon runners, skiers and soldiers on sub-arctic exercises — were 50 percent less likely to catch a cold if they took a daily dose of vitamin C.*

Personally, I’m not aware of any major health risks of taking a daily vitamin C supplement, so I’m going to do it anyway. Who knows, I might be a marathon runner in my sleep without knowing it, and I’ll then reduce my cold risk by half.

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Vitamin C May Not Be As Healthy As We Thought