Forgive the length of this but this debunks Linus Paulings theory on vitamin C as a fraud. Makes you think twice on taking the stuff. Carol
Art Robinson will be 59 in March. He was a chemistry student at Caltech himself, and something of a whiz kid. He was one of the few students ever to be appointed to the faculty of the University of California (in San Diego) immediately after getting his Ph.D. He is not pleased by many developments in America in the last generation, especially at the intersection of science and politics, and his own life has been beset by obstacles and tragedies. But he is a man of steely determination and intensity, and he has achieved a good deal since moving to Oregon 20 years ago. In the mid 1970's, after a few years at U.C. San Diego, Robinson teamed up with Linus Pauling to form the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in Menlo Park, California. Robinson, president and research director, revered Pauling both as a teacher and a chemist, while Pauling had referred to him as "my principal and most valued collaborator." Pauling had won two Nobel Prizes, for Chemistry (1954), and Peace (1962), and by the mid 1970'S had widely publicized the claim that Vitamin C could cure the common cold. In addition, he said, "75 percent of all cancer can be prevented or cured by Vitamin C alone." At the new institute, on Sandhill Road, Robinson devised some mouse experiments to test this amazing theory. By the summer of 1978, he was getting "highly embarrassing" results. At the mouse-equivalent of 10 grams of Vitamin C a day-Pauling's recommended dose for humans-the mice were getting more cancer, not less. Pauling responded to the unwelcome news by entering Robinson's office one day and announcing that he had in his breast pocket some damaging personal information. He would overlook it, however, if Robinson were to resign all his positions and turn over his research. When Robinson refused, Pauling locked him out and kept the filing cabinets and computer tapes containing nine years' worth of research. They were never recovered. Pauling also told lab assistants to kill the 400 mice used for the experiments. Pauling's later sworn testimony showed that the story about the damaging information was invented, while experiments by the Mayo Clinic conclusively proved that the theory about cancer and Vitamin C was wrong. A sharp divergence of political opinion between the two men also became apparent. A few years after he won the Nobel Peace Prize, Pauling also won the Lenin Peace Prize. He told Robinson that he was more proud of the Soviet than the Norwegian award. For his part, in the spring of 1978 Robinson had given a speech at the Cato Institute, then in San Francisco, deploring the government funding of science as harmful to the independence that is essential to scientific inquiry. The Nobel fakery of LINUS PAULING Taken from EIR August 28,1984 This was an interview of Dr. Arthur Robinson, head of the Oregon Institute of Medical Science, a board member of the journal, Mechanisms of Aging & Development. Linus Pauling spent nearly 1 million dollars trying among other things to suppress Dr. Robinson's research which indicated that a moderate dose of Vitamin C increased the incidence of cancer, but that another diet, entirely different from the one that Pauling pushed on talk shows, was far more effective in suppressing cancer. "The results showed that if you gave mice the equivalent of the 5 to 10 grams a day of Vitamin C that Pauling recommends for people, it about doubled the cancer rate. If you give them massive multiple vitamins, it does too. (Think about that, you Handful-of-Vitamin takers !) As you go up in dose range, you near the lethal dose. And just under the lethal dose, there starts to be a suppression of cancer. Then I became interested in a raw fruits and vegetable diet for the mice. That was very effective against cancer, it was remarkable". Linus Pauling tried to publish a paper claiming that a double dose of his already high Vitamin C diet would essentially provide complete protection against skin cancer in mice. Pauling apparently didn't do the work and so may have been unaware that the double dose was absolutely lethal and that none of the mice lived. He later claimed that this was a great discovery about cancer. Dr Robinson suggests that "it appears increasingly that Vitamin C is mutagenic in large amounts in aerobic solutions, and it is not at all clear that you don't increase the chances or the risk of cancer if you pour 10 or 20 grams a day into people's stomachs and intestines for years. Now stay with this stuff PLEASE! You probably still believe that Vitamin C supplements are good for you, regardless of what research people found out about mice. It's ok! The real point of all this is that YOU have to sort out what is truth from politics and economics, and I hope to be able to give you some tools to do just this. Linus Pauling then published an article in PREVENTION Magazine. He says that "75% of all cancer can be prevented and cured by Vitamin C alone" He said this without a shred of evidence. The Mayo Clinic goes out and does a study to prove Pauling wrong - and that's easy. 15 other studies concluded that Pauling was preaching nonsense.Vitamin C doesn't cure cancer. But Pauling gets a lot of press. He got more press by talking about himself and his wife. He put himself and his wife on 10 grams of Vitamin C a day. She lasted ten years before dying of stomach cancer. Dr. Robinson points out that she was bathing her stomach with an enormous amount of mutagenic material for 10 years. He doesn't know if that is why she got it, but it is the sort of thing that he would worry about in the long term. Linus himself died of cancer at age 93. For a detailed account of Linus Pauling's IgNobel conduct, see Accuracy in Media October-B 1994 XXIII-20 "Linus Pauling: Crank or Genius" by Dr. Thomas H. Jukes. Most people confuse ascorbic acid and adsorbates with Vitamin C. They are not the same. Ascorbic acid is the antioxidant portion of the vitamin C complex. Natural vitamin C is made up of at least 10 different, distinct molecules that we know of. These include ascorbic acid (which is only the preservative portion of the nutritional complex), the enzyme tyrosinase (needed to make organic copper), rutin, bioflavanoids (vitamin p), organic copper, manganese, and a host of other phytochemicals including enzymes, trace mineral activators and more. . The FDA (our protector) allows drug companies to sell synthetic ascorbic acid as Vitamin C, and allows them to infer that the benefits derived from taking their product will be the same as taking the real stuff. 90% of all the ascorbic acid in the US is manufactured by pouring battery acid or hydrochloric acid on corn syrup. [YUM} The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) suggests that the optimal dose of vitamin C is 200 mgs. Most people who take Megadoses of adsorbates show severe vitamin C deficiency when tested properly says Lita Lee, Ph.D. For more information on natural vitamin C versus ascorbic acid, see chapter 22 of her book "Radiation Protection Manual". Vitamin C Pills cause hardening of the arteries? A new study raises the disturbing possibility that taking vitamin C pills may speed up hardening of the arteries. When you extract one component of food and give it at very high levels, you just don't know what you are doing to the system, and it may be adverse, "said Dr. James H. Dwyer, and epidemiologist who directed the study. He presented his findings at a meeting in San Diego of the American Heart Association 3/16/00. Dwyer and colleagues from the University of Southern California studied 573 outwardly healthy middle-aged men and women who work for an electric utility in Los Angeles. About 30 percent of them regularly took various vitamins. The study found no clear-cut sign that getting lots of vitamin C from food or a daily multi vitamin does any harm. But those taking vitamin C pills had accelerated thickening of the walls of the big arteries in their necks. In fact the more they took, the faster the buildup. People taking 500 milligrams of vitamin C daily for at least a year had a 2 1/2 times greater rate of thickening than did those who avoided supplements. Among smokers the rate was 5 times greater. Ascorbic Acid contributes to coronary heart disease? Advocates of Vitamin C supplements cite a study by University of Buffalo epidemiologists that shows that people with higher levels of Vitamin C in their blood serum have lower levels of a marker for oxidative stress. The researchers tested the actual blood level of Vitamin C. I have no problem with this. The question is, does taking synthetic concentrated ascorbic acid actually raise the level of Vitamin C in your blood serum. Tests that Dr. Bruce West have run indicate that Vitamin C concentrates (ascorbic acid) produce NO difference in blood serum levels of Vitamin C. Large amounts of ascorbic acid produce a copper and tyrosinase deficiency (weakens the adrenal glands) just as high doses of calcium or zinc produce a magnesium or copper deficiency. Don't take high doses of artificial supplements even if they claim to be "ALL NATURAL". All natural means: "of the earth". Plastic is "ALL NATURAL". What you should be looking for is something resembling: "Made from fruits and vegetables below 70 degrees F." rom: rogalt...@aol.com To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 4:31 PM Subject: CS>Study Indicates that Vitamin C is Not Effective for Colds http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/2001/10/01/FFX6WSBQ7SC.html Study rebuts 'myth' of vitamin C cold cure The Age 1 OCtober 2001 By MARY-ANNE TOY HEALTH EDITOR Monday 1 October 2001 The theory that high doses of vitamin C can cure the common cold - first advocated in 1970 by dual Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling - is a myth, according to an Australian study. The study's leader, Robert Douglas, of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, at the Australian National University, said he had stopped taking vitamin C on the strength of the finding. The study involved 400 volunteers from the ANU in Canberra. It found that vitamin C taken at the onset of a cold had no effect on the duration or severity of symptoms in healthy adults. Professor Douglas said he had conducted his study because results from previous ones had been inconclusive. "It was pretty clear that vitamin C couldn't prevent people from getting colds, but there was still a question mark over whether it did something to treat colds," Professor Douglas said. "There have been four other studies with ambiguous findings, but there was nothing ambiguous about our study." But groups such as F H Faulding, the market leader in health supplements, and the Centre for Complementary Medicine, said the study was flawed because participants did not take strong enough doses for a long enough period. The 400 volunteers were randomised to receive one of four interventions - a "placebo" dose of 0.03 grams a day of vitamin C; one gram a day; three grams a day, or three grams a day of the vitamin plus other additives - without knowing what dose they were taking. Volunteers were given bottles, tablets and a "respiratory event card" to fill out if they began to get a cold. If a volunteer had at least two symptoms for a minimum of four hours (such as a sore or scratchy throat, nasal congestion or discharge, a headache or stinging eyes) they were to start the tablets as soon as possible, preferably within four hours. They were asked to continue the tablets for the next two days and record their symptoms on the card. One hundred and forty-nine participants returned records of 184 cold episodes. The study, published today in the Medical Journal of Australia, found no significant differences in any measure of cold duration or severity between the four medication groups. The placebo group had the shortest duration of nasal, systemic and overall cold symptoms but the difference was not statistically significant. However, Marc Cohen, director of the Centre for Complementary Medicine at Monash University, said the study was seriously flawed. A therapeutic dose should be at least five grams a day; participants were too slow to take their first dose (average time between onset and first dose was 13 hours) and vitamin C was taken for only just over two days. Dr Cohen said there were no conclusive studies about whether vitamin C helped colds, and it was frustrating that the new study had such major flaws. Naturopath and pharmacist Lesley Braun, a consultant to Faulding, said the study only proved that a particular protocol (1-3 grams of vitamin C taken for just over two days) was ineffective. "This is not to say that other protocols don't work," Ms Braun said. American chemist Linus Pauling, who was twice awarded the Nobel Prize for science, sparked the vitamin supplement craze when he published the book Vitamin C and the Common Cold in 1970 and Cancer and Vitamin C in 1979. Australians bought $27 million worth of vitamin C last year from pharmacies and grocery stores. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.281 / Virus Database: 149 - Release Date: 9/18/01
