If Pauling was correct, vitamin C could help overcome the major killers in the industrialised world. However, when he explained these findings in his wonderfully constructed books "Vitamin C and the Common Cold" and "How to Live Longer and Feel Better", the medical profession was incensed, implying that a mere chemist could not possibly understand the intricacies of medical science. This research suggested that high doses of vitamin C might be a cure for many illnesses, including cancer and heart disease. When Pauling looked into Stone's claims, he found that conventional medicine had long ignored evidence from respected physicians and scientists. In humans, the gene for this ability has mutated and no longer works properly. Most animals make their own vitamin C, in large amounts. Irwin Stone first introduced Pauling to vitamin C, and explained that it wasn't really a vitamin at all, but an essential substance we could no longer manufacture in our bodies. By the time of his death, the medical establishment had branded Pauling a quack, because he advocated the use of high doses of vitamin C to treat many diseases.
In addition to being one of the greatest scientists ever, he was a renowned humanitarian. He remains the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes, the first for Chemistry (1954) and the second for peace (1962). He was, after all, the leading chemist of the last century and, arguably, the greatest ever American scientist.
Given his history, it should not surprise us if Pauling was right all along. Now, ten years after his death on 19th August 1994, his revolutionary ideas are finally on the way to vindication. His remarkable health claims concerned the substance we know as vitamin C. Linus Pauling's claim, that he knew a cure for heart disease, cancer and infections, was greeted with ridicule. The weight of evidence may yet force the medical establishment to accept his ideas on nutrition and health. Summary It is the 10th anniversary of the death of Linus Pauling and his most controversial scientific conjectures about the health benefits of vitamin C are being confirmed.
Here is an article written by Dr Hilary Roberts about Linus Pauling and his views on vitamin C.
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