I wonder if maybe the rate of infections is vastly underestimated (most fungus/bacteria/protozoa/archaea/animals don’t show up on most tests) and just keeping your body very acidic indefinitely could be worth it overall. If most of the benefit comes from preventing initial infection from a handful of nasty permanent things (eg toxoplasmosis) then you probably wouldn’t observe benefits to vitamin C supplementation in studies except over very long time scales or with very young children
I wonder if maybe the rate of infections is vastly underestimated (most fungus/bacteria/protozoa/archaea/animals don’t show up on most tests) and just keeping your body very acidic indefinitely could be worth it overall. If most of the benefit comes from preventing initial infection from a handful of nasty permanent things (eg toxoplasmosis) then you probably wouldn’t observe benefits to vitamin C supplementation in studies except over very long time scales or with very young children