Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold¶
Hemilä, & Chalker. (2013). Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
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- But Pauling's Nobel-certified competence was in chemical bonding, not clinical nutrition or oncology, and the controlled trials in those fields did not support the strong claims
This sourceThe Cochrane review of controlled trials finding that regular vitamin C supplementation did not reduce cold incidence in the general population and showed no consistent therapeutic effect.
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“The failure of vitamin C supplementation to reduce the incidence of colds in the general population indicates that routine vitamin C supplementation is not justified”
- But Pauling's Nobel-certified competence was in chemical bonding, not clinical nutrition or oncology, and the controlled trials in those fields did not support the strong claims
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