Benefits Of Vitamin C

The benefits of vitamin C are increasingly the subject of many different research projects by medical experts and others who want to find out just what all this seeming wonder vitamin can do. Vitamin C has been known to be necessary to good health for centuries, but there have been a lot of fantastic claims made for it in the last fifty years by alternative health writers and heterodox medical experts. One of the most famous advocates of the benefits of Vitamin C was the late Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Linus Pauling. In his later years, he practically turned into an evangelist for vitamin C.

Linus Pauling claimed that vitamin C, if strong enough doses were taken, could prevent a person from coming down with cancer. For years he was laughed at, called a crank, crazy, a lunatic, etc. The medical establishment declared with one voice that Pauling didn’t know what he was talking about and that vitamin C offered no more protection against cancer than a sugar pill. Pauling went to his grace as something as a scientific outcast, in spite of the fact that he had won not one, but two Nobel Prizes.

But it looks as if Linus Pauling is having the last laugh from the other side. Because since his death, research has confirmed that one of the benefits of vitamin C is indeed cancer prevention. Much work is still ongoing in this exciting field, but the basic point has been established. No one is saying that it’s 100 percent effective, but it definitely seems to have a big impact on the chances of a person getting cancer if they take large enough doses every day for a long enough time. So far, it doesn’t seem to show much effect on cancer cells that have already formed. It seems to be much better at stopping them from forming at all, however. We’re still waiting to hear an official apology to Linus Pauling from the AMA!