Vitamin C: The Real Story : the Remarkable and Controversial Healing Factor

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Basic Health Publications, Inc., Oct 23, 2015 - Health & Fitness - 193 pages
Research into the clinical applications of Vitamin C is progressing despite a lack of funding from conventional medicine.Orthomolecular medicine, which uses nutrients in large doses to treat disease, is regarded as highly controversial by the medical establishment. This rejection of the orthomolecular approach has little basis in science and reflects a bias at the heart of the status quo. This book tells the story of how the controversy about vitamin C has grown and continues even as increasing evidence demonstrates the value of the orthomolecular approach. The story of vitamin C is an exciting journey into the workings of science and medicine, the intrigues of political and economic influences and the evolutionary history of humankind. Someday, medicine without vitamin C therapy will be compared to childbirth without sanitation or surgery without anesthetic.

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A Remarkable Molecule
1
The Pioneers of Vitamin C Research
19
Taking Vitamin C
41
Conventional Medicine vs Vitamin C
63
The Need for Antioxidants
91
Infectious Diseases
103
Cancer and Vitamin C
109
Heart Disease
123
Conclusion
143
References
147
Index
185
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Steve Hickey has a B.A. (math and science) from the Open University, membership of the Institute of Biology by examination in pharmacology, and is a chartered biologist and a former member of the British Compute Society. He did research into ultra-high-resolution computerized tomography (CT) body scanning, leading the physics team in Europe's first clinical magnetic resonance (MR) imaging unit at Manchester Medical School. He has over 100 scientific publications, covering a variety of disciplines. Currently, he is a member of the biology department of Staffordshire University. Andrew W. Saul, M.S., Ph.D., is editor-in-chief of the Orthomolecular Medicine NewsService and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. Has published more than 180 peer-reviewed articles and has written or coauthored 12 books.

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