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Two hundred mg of vitamin C (vertical dotted line) as optimum daily intake based on a) near-saturating plateau plasma vitamin C concentration of ≥ 70 μM (shaded area) and b) first dose beyond the steep, linear increase in plasma concentration at vitamin C intakes of 30–100 mg/day (from Levine et al44 and Frei et al17).
