Nutraceuticals and nootropics for anti-aging

Vitamin C was misrepresented by the U.S. government, professors claim

In the 1970s Linus Pauling made some very strong claims about the value of high doses of vitamin C for preventing and treating diseases, including cancer. Because so many people paid attention to him, the medical establishment within the U.S. government conducted some studies, ostensibly to test Pauling’s claims, but more likely to debunk them. Now, two pharmacology professors say that the government’s studies were done so poorly that the official dosage recommendations that came out of them are worthless. In fact, the official Recommended Daily Allowance for vitamin C may be too low by more than a factor of twenty, and may have cost millions of people their health and their lives.

The arguments seem persuasive — at least, at first glance. We should bear in mind, however, that professors Steve Hickey and Hillary Roberts have recently written a book on this subject, and that book sales stand to benefit from dramatic claims of government blundering.

Link to press release:

Has the U.S. government misled us about Vitamin C?

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