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From: dudek@utai.UUCP (Gregory Dudek)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: How much Vitamin C is necessary.
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 15:27:49 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 15:27:49 1985
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Reply-To: dudek@utai.UUCP (Gregory Dudek)
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    I spoke to Pauling several years ago and he claimed that vitamin C played an
important and useful role is cell-wall construction and that this
was *one* of the reasons it helped fight so many ailments.
    Although as vitamin C dosage increases the amount excreted increases
too, he said it didn't increase quit as fast as the dosage did, and thus
more of the vitamin was retained.  Whether
this is true even after the dosage has stabilized for a while I didn't
ask.  In his cancer therapy, he said he gave people Vit. C in increasing doses
until negative side effects (loose bowels) appeared, then be backed the
does down a bit.  I think this gave a dose of a gram or two more than once
a day (this was for disease, not his regular dose).
    Finally, he suggested a plausible (?) diet for primitive man
that contained some leaf (leaves?) that were very rich in Vit. C and
hence yielded very high daily doses.  I don't recall what the
leaf was, but it supposedly exists in the right places (Kenya?).
    I'm not sure how much of this I believe myself, but maybe I'll go
have an orange and think about it...

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