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So basically this guy who said vitamin C IV in high doses fights cancer was wrong and should be never rehabilitated , because the hypothetised mechanism was the other way around? (anti oxidant -> oxidant)

I think we are forgetting the most important result there: vitamin C IV in high doses fights cancer.



> I think we are forgetting the most important result there: vitamin C IV in high doses fights cancer.

No, that's wrong. Vitamin C IV in high doses makes certain chemotherapy work better to fight cancer. And does so in a way that Pauling wouldn't have been able to predict, his mechanism of action would imply that it would reduce the effectiveness of the chemotherapy.




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