Vitamin C, Heart Disease, Cancer, Collagen, Linus Pauling

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By Michael Wooldridge, MAWooldridge@lbl.gov

One of the great scientific mavericks of this century spoke at LBL August 10, 1993 at a special seminar hosted by the Life Sciences Division's Lipoprotein and Atherosclerosis Group. Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel laureate and the world's foremost vitamin C proponent, entertained an overflow crowd in the Bldg. 66 auditorium with a talk on Vitamin C and Heart Disease.

The lively 92-year-old first gave a candid history of how he came to take up the vitamin C cause. He was introduced to the subject by biochemist Irwin Stone in 1966. Five years later, he would pen "Vitamin C and the Common Cold," and then boldly go on to champion vitamin C as a fighter of more serious diseases such as cancer.

According to Pauling, the vitamin's versatility in illness prevention arises from its role in the manufacture of collagen, the protein that gives shape to connective tissues and strength to skin and blood vessels.

One of the great misfortunes of human evolution, Pauling explained, was when our human ancestors lost their ability to manufacture vitamin C. Pauling thinks the trait was probably discarded at a time when our ancestors had a diet of vitamin-rich plants and didn't need to produce the vitamin themselves. This left today's primates (including humans) as one of the few groups of animals that must get the vitamin through the diet.

Ever since proto-humans moved out of fruit-and-vegetable-rich habitats, Pauling said, they have suffered great deficiencies of vitamin C. Pauling has forthrightly recommended that people make up for this deficiency with daily doses of vitamin C much greater than the 60 mg generally recommended.

He said our vitamin C consumption should be on par with what other animals produce by themselves, typically 10-12 grams a day. Pauling practices what he preaches, having gradually upped his daily doses of vitamin C from 3 grams in the 1960s to a hefty 18 grams today.

Pauling went on to discuss vitamin C's connection with lipoprotein-a, a substance whose levels in the blood have been linked to cardiovascular disease. Lipoprotein-a is also a major component of the plaques found in the blood vessels of atherosclerosis patients.

Pauling has published studies asserting that lipoprotein-a is a surrogate for vitamin C, serving to strengthen blood vessel walls in the absence of adequate amounts of the vitamin in the diet. In the lecture, Pauling noted that animals which, unlike humans, manufacture their vitamin C and have much higher levels of the vitamin in their bodies, have very little lipoprotein-a in their blood.

Pauling is convinced that doses of vitamin C can help prevent the onset of cardiovascular disease, inhibiting the formation of disease-promoting lesions on blood vessel walls and perhaps decreasing the production of lipoprotein-a in the blood. Vitamin C's link to healthy blood vessels, Pauling said, is further supported by studies of scurvy, the disease caused by vitamin C deficiency. Fifty percent of patients who die of scurvy, he said, do so because of ruptured blood vessels.

Pauling won his first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 for using quantum mechanics to elucidate the nature of chemical bonds. He garnered a Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 for his efforts to stem nuclear weapons proliferation.

The scientist founded the Linus Pauling Institute in Palo Alto, where research on vitamin C and other nutrients continues today.

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[prokopton]

When he made this video, he was 92 (92, 92...92!) years old. I don't know of many 92 year olds who are that articulate.

[galaxybaseone]

the natural telomeric lifespan of humans is about 150 years currently. even with perfect maintenance, and no aging of the human body, it would simply die after timed mitotic senescence.

[GsBBoyDan]

@CapZ13 Sunny D is not orange juice, it's crap. If you want orange juice get OJ with only "Orange juice" as the ingredient. Not from concentrate or with any other ingredients.

Here's the garbage ingredients of sunny D: Water, High Fructose, Corn Syrup, concentrated Juices, Citric Acid, Ascorbic Acid , Beta-Carotene, Thiamin Hydrochloride, Natural Flavors, Food Starch-Modified, Canola Oil, Cellulose Gum, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Sodium Benzoate To Protect Flavor, Color

[zepherighost]

@galaxybaseone Well that isn't necessarily true, any substance that behaves as a telomerase activator would extend the telomere and through this mechanism extend the hayflick limit, this was proved in 2002 by TAsciences when they conducted an experiment on rats in which the telomere length was increased thus turning an old rat into a young rat. The rat's hair turned black again and grew back in some places, the muscles came back and the life of the rat was extended.

[NibiruLives]

@hyylo The best type to take is Lyposomal, or lypo-spheric vitamin c. Watch "Thomas Levy talks to the Vitamin C can cure Coalition". It has the full explanation why.

[filoIII]

@CapZ13 Sunny D is chocked full of high fructose corn syrup. Not good.

[torchlakemi]

all i can say is GOD BLESS THIS MAN!

[earthsoulful]

@CapZ13 Sunny D is a flavored sugar drink. It's not at all like pure orange juice. 

[CapZ13]

@bitterbonker i thought orange juice was good but someone told me Sunny D is far worst then soda though i laugh is that true???

[mmaghfai]

@galaxybaseone so the secret would be to slow damage and aging cells and hence slowing cell division and regeneration, therefore prolonging life? I'm no expert BTW just using a bit of common sense!

[hyylo]

hi

what is the best vitamin c tablet to take?

thank you

[bitterbonker]

@rocksandturtles- Right on man! Don't forget that orange juice (and many supplements) lack the fiber that is in natural sources of Vit C (such as oranges, broccoli, red peppers), which greatly inhibits the amount of nutrients that can be absorbed. Plus the sugar in commercial orange juice makes it even worse

[rocksandturtles]

@miketonon

totally wrong.

If you injected right into your veins, there is no question of absorptions.

second, what you're talking about is Vitamin pills, 99% of companies produce crap unless you're taking USANA or Douglas laboratories supplements which your body absobs 95% of it, in another word, your body absorbs only 5% of that Centrum of Jamiesons. Too many pills is heavy for your liver. lastly, our soils in America are totally depleted so a cup of orange juice have barely any vitamin C.

[miketonon]

I hear you can't overdose on vitamin C either. You can olny absorb so much and your body flushes the rest out. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[splashcat]

And Linus Pauling said he began to take an interest in nutrition only at age 65! I think it's in his book, "How to Live Longer and Feel Better."

Too bad they didn't know during his lifetime that we need far more vitamin D3 than most of us get. That's the only dated part of his great book I can find.

They didn't know during his lifetime the difference in function between Vitamin D2 from plants that you can OD on easily, and D3, absorbed via skin in reaction to sunlight, which is hard to OD on.

[stopchemtrails]

thanks for posting

[Houseislife]

not to mention when he was born, the avg life expectancy was ~55 years. I think that's a testament to how right he is.

[univibe23]

Vitamin C and Lysine? Is that what he's saying??

[2000deg]

Vitamin C is very good against colds and infectious deseases. Since i take ~500mg Vitamin C per day. I had never a serious cold, although the people in my envirement had many colds.

[ussizater]

Vitamin C alone can not cure, see super cure video for additional intake.

[hankcow813]

this is a year before he died

[bbuurrcchh]

Yes, he wrote this is not correct in his book How to feel better and Live Longer

[RRESC2]

He's right about vitamin C.

Studies never use enough and declare him wrong.

But lookup his responses to that and you'll see he explains the need for more C

[izeman458]

Did Pauling ever mention flavanoids and their synergistic importance with regards to Ascorbic Acid?

[BIOHazard877]

my grandpa (Walter Ralphs), just turned 92 in February, very easy to talk to, still plays tennis, does workouts, etc. But I will agree, its very rare.