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    C for a cure?

    Feb 14, 2021 3 minutes

    Ever since Nobel Prizewinning scientist Linus Pauling declared in 1970 that vitamin C would relegate the common cold to the soddent-issue-filled dustbin of history, proving – or disproving – the worth of the antioxidant has been an elusive Holy Grail for hundreds of researchers. Pauling urged people to take 3000mg of vitamin C a day, which is about a third as much again as the recommended safe upper limit.

    Fifty years on, even the Oregon State University’s Linus Pauling Institute is measured when it refers to the

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