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I had begun supplement, Allowances), that other RDAs. In a talk I took their stated I began vitamins
taking
an ordinary the It
vitamin-mineral
containing in 1941.
RDAs (Recommended Dietary was not until 1966, however, C and the
to develop taken in
City
I mentioned
I could pleasure.
another On my return
25 years
that
and that
I followed
milligrams
I would
day that
50 times the
taking livelier
vitamin. In particular,
and healthier.
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the all
severe
colds
that
several
times
a year I increased
of my life
no longer C to
of vitamin the
and then
arguments
Stone
presented
to
support C is me.
proper
RDA were
required animal, in
animals.
an early these
plants
as food,
vitamins process
food
needs,
and the
to manufacture
of his
body.
Vitamin - dogs, to
an exception, horses,
however. elephants,
animal
species
cows,
and so on - have continued for than this plants reactions, reaction to collagen. animals, teeth, for is that animals
A likely
reason
require
do.
and is used up during of this sort for is the tissues, animals the blood whereas
these is the
important
Collagen
the
purpose, to
and hence
synthesize upon of
conclude of vitamin
to depend a deficiency
C would
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diet
for
a human
The second manufacture manufactured and, about that converted 2,0.00 to very is
impressed of
me is
that
animals
amounts
ascorbate.
proportional of
ranges Stone
milligrams an average
human beings
accord,ingly of ascorbate
a deficiency
to read
published
papers
reported B3 (niacin
vitamin
had considerable especially I knew that patients, later, about to per day, and
in controlling
first-not
were used
A few days
I realized
extraordinary of niacin
work.
They were
amounts
milligrams that
niacin
property,
amounts,
be so lacking
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intake that
could these
without different
This drugs,
much smaller
dosages. in the
and required
them from
pharmaceuticals, substances.
two papers,
journal I said
concentrations present,
normally
such as the
many other
The adjective
Medical
to give
a short Beadle, in of a
dedication Medical
school to think
School. in
that
I could were
present to take
minutes,
say that
a person
regularly, of the
decrease
of medicine
scathing
of my statement,
and asking
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if
I could
refer
trials papers
refused
to recognize of the
During
literature these
textbooks
or reported against
or any other
disease. in the
1970 I had become so interested discovery I might of vitamin be able C and so the in the
history
of by the
exhilarated suffering way that completing in November "Vitamin who suffer gave the the cold) best opinion
of millions
of people years
I began writing
day of August.
1970 by W. H. Freeman and Company. Common Cold," (a recent 78% of the was quite survey people a success
colds that
vitamin
in controlling
attacked years
and medical
the
common cold
statements C might
decrease
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the
severity Irwin
of a cold, Stone
even if
it out
decrease papers,
its
incidence. in a lead In
his
book
Vitamin
C Against
Disease" might
deficiency
resistance in
diseases.
published value of
published
evidence to
an increased including
of vitamin diseases,
100 diseases,
disease in
and stroke.
In checking
the
I was invited
banquet
of Cancer by the
Pritzker Dr.
University
Charles
Huggins. studies
In my talk
published by Irwin from vitamin therapy. Cameron, Scotland, cancer published that vitamin for
and from
general that
arguments the
presented
Stone,
incidence
cancer
probably
be decreased as an adjunct
conventional Ewan
account of Vale
Hospital,
who had been searching a number of years in 1966. C might He had'just have
an alternative
possibility and he
some value
cancer,
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about I went to
Cameron. which
in Palo
he retired Director
from in
his the
in Vale Pauling
of Leven Institute
He published results
a number of paper,
some of
patients of their
a pronounced Recently
some negative
reports
published patients
of vitamin vitamin
by a cancer
as possible
diesease,
as an adjunct
observation to a large
extent
chemotherapeutic Cancer
drugs.
our efforts
National
Institute
American
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in vitamin until
in National C
an international accepted
symposium that
on vitamin intake
now generally
an increased
C, niacin, in controlling
A)
to check
Cameron's
observations
of years
psychiatrist
British
Columbia, cancer
to him learning
or anxiety, of their
Dr. of
Hoffer
psychiatric
C, usually day,
12 grams per
minerals.
recommendation. having of
cancer
them,
survived rather
16 times
as long,
years
amounts
minerals
as a somewhat
of vitamin
C (average
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than
day).
strongly
that
the
regimen
by Dr. C.
Hoffer,
megadoses years
I have become much interested disease United coronary rate and stroke States. vascular strokes to are the the
During
disease
decreased by the
from
surmise in
States support
this
period,
evidence
Matthias that
however, disease
conclusion
a deficiency because
to weakness enough
arteries
synthesize
collagen
to strengthen
them properly. Rath medical six years for nearly studies 10 years. and then I to carry of the
I have known Matthias encouraged on medical the heart. pulished lipoprotein, it is a minor nature him to research. finish his About
a study near
plaques
plaques,
constituent
lipoprotein(a),
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usually
ignored
are than
carried the
out.
The
layer
ago Dr.
a theory the
disease. accepted
many of
disease, the
occurrence
a deficiency
in vitamin high
stress,
together. including
fibrin react
and fibrinogen. with haptenic is the This ways in which the from intake forming
so that efforts
lipoprotein to control
deposited situation. of
are made
theory the
cardiovascular might
disease
disease
synthesis
protein(a) which
involves there
reactions that
Moreover,
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to the acid
vascular
wall.
One of
these agent,
L-lysine, cooperate
might
C in decreasing
disease
new discoveries
a significant
control
and to the
improvement
of health
of people
and elsewhere.