The Dark Side of Linus Pauling's Legacy (Vitamin C & the common cold)

Quack Watch ^ | updated 10/24/08 | Stephen Barrett, M.D.

[Domestic Church]

He was off by one letter of the alphabet...vit D is anti microbial.

[RedWhiteBlue]

Did the guy have a way to tap your own sinuses at home to drain them? Everything is clogged, it even hurts behind my eyes.

When I'm stopped up, a good dose of hot salsa always drains and opens up my sinuses.

[TypeZoNegative]

“Vegetarians die of cancer too.”

Yeah, but at least we know where all the good Chinese and Indian deliveries are so we can have better food in hospice.

[count-your-change]

Would that be hotspice in hospice? Or carry out and curry before carry out and bury? Or.....no, that’s enough, I have to get up bright and early at noon. Nite.

[Undertow]

You’ll still have them but you’ll be sweating like a dog in heat.

[dangus]

Not mutating so constantly, actually. There’s about 130 colds out there, and once you’ve had each one, you don’t likely get the same one again. That’s why the number of colds the average person gets declines dramatically as get older.

[Scythian]

These studies are so Bogus, the pharmasuiticals are always putting out stuff like this. You want to believe them fine, here's something to think about, how they fake and intentionally skew stories ...

Vitamin E
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NCI's Flawed SELECT Study Attacks Vitamin E
http://www.naturalnews.com/024639.html


Vitamin C
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The mainstream media is at it again, trying to scare people away from Vitamin C. The latest absurd attack comes in the form of "cancer research" that claims Vitamin C might cause cancer patients to die!

In Cancer Scare Story, Medical Researchers Admit Vitamin C Protects Cells from Free Radical Damage.

"But in stating that Vitamin C prevents chemotherapy chemicals from doing their work (of poisoning cells), what they're really doing, in effect, is admitting that Vitamin C is really, really good at protecting cells from free radical damage.

"Vitamin C appears to protect the mitochondria from extensive damage, thus saving the cell," said lead researcher Dr Mark Heaney. A BBC article adds, "Vitamin C appeared to protect tiny structures inside the cancer cells called mitochondria from damage. More ..." "