Approaching Infinity said:
Question: in the recipes I've found online the ratio for lecithin to vit C is 3:1 (2 cups water, 1 tbsp vit c, 3 tbsp lecithin). Would increasing the vitamin C concentration affect how well the liposomes form?
Actually, the recipe I found was:
1 cup water with 3 TBSP vitamin C
added to
1 cup water with 3 TBSP lecithin.
Those were the ratios I started with though I was doing triple batches, i.e. 3 cups water, 9 TBSP Vitamin C added to 3 cups water with 9 TBSP of lecithin.
But then, I experimented with the sodium ascorbate version which allows for higher concentrations in the solution since you can dissolve more ascorbate in a given amount of water than pure ascorbic acid. That means I double the amount of ascorbic acid to 18 TBSPs and add 10 or 11 tsps of sodium bicarbonate to the Vitamin C mixture (incrementally) and stir and dissolve that until bubbling has stopped before I add it to the SAME proportion of lecithin, i.e. 3 cups water, 9 TBSP of lecithin.
You can't increase the vitamin C much over 3 TBSPs per cup of water and get it into solution without the bicarb. BUT the same amount of lecithin handles this doubled amount in ascorbate form quite well. The solution is rich and milky and never settles.
So, with ascorbic acid:
1 cup water, 3 TBSP acid form of vitamin C to 1 cup water and 3 TBSP of lecithin.
But with sodium ascorbate:
1 cup water, 6 TBSP vitamin C, 3 or 4 tsps of sodium bicarbonate added to 1 cup water with 3 TBSP dissolved lecithin.
As I said, I triple it every time and end up with 6 cups of product which takes about 25 minutes in the ultrasound chamber. I have found that I have to make this amount every other day to keep the supply available for everyone.
As I wrote earlier in this thread, I weighed a legal TBSP of vitamin C (level) and it was 10.67 grams. So that would be 32 actual grams of vitamin C per cup of water which is around 130 EFFECTIVE grams of vitamin C taken up by the liver.
BUT that amount is doubled in the sodium ascorbate variation to 64 actual grams of vitamin C per cup and well over 250 EFFECTIVE grams taken up by the liver. (Obviously, you only need a shot of this about two or three times a day!)
