Linus Pauling's lifelong fascination ... In his later years, Pauling became a champion for Vitamin C. He believed that taking very high doses of this vitamin would ward off infection, and perhaps ...

The idea originally came from Nobel prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling in the 1970s. Pauling reported that there was ‘strong evidence’ that vitamin C decreased the incidence of colds.

But, it turns out Pauling wasn’t entirely wrong. Research is continuing on Vitamin C’s cancer-fighting properties — only via IV injections rather than orally. Linus Pauling was born Feb. 28 ...