Nobel Prize Winner Linus Pauling Pt 2 (Heretics of Science - 1994) Vitamin C and Cancer

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(1) Departement of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA

(2) Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

(3) Current address: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

(4) Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA A

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Nature, June 3, 2009; 459 (7247)

A tissue-scale gradient of hydrogen peroxide mediates rapid wound detection in zebrafish

Philipp Niethammer(1), Clemens Grabher(2, 3), A. Thomas Look(2, 4), Timothy J. Mitchison(1)

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Recall how hydrogen peroxide is poured on wounds to kill germs.

Well now researchers clearly show high-dose vitamin C, when administered intravenously, can increase hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) levels within cancer cells and kills them. I.V. vitamin C was also demonstrated to kill germs and may be an effective therapy for infectious disease.

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With a growing body of evidence mounting, National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers conceded today that intravenous vitamin C may be an effective treatment for cancer. Last year the same researchers reported a similar study but the news media failed to publish it.

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The latest study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, confirms the work of Nobel-Prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling who conducted cancer research in the 1970s with vitamin C. Dr. Pauling's studies were discredited at the time by poorly conducted research studies at the Mayo Clinic.

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Unlike cancer drugs, I.V. vitamin C selectively killed cancer cells, but not healthy cells, and showed no toxicity.

The ability of intravenous vitamin C to kill lymphoma cells was remarkable almost 100% at easily achievable blood serum concentrations.

The NIH also offered no explanation why it has taken 35 years to confirm the work of Dr. Linus Pauling