Against Cancer by Vitamin C: 50-years Lasting Dispute after Linus Pauling a Twice-honored Nobel Laureate

Abstract

Linus Pauling (1901-1994) was an American theoretical physical chemist. He became a twice-honored Nobel laureate. His first prize (1954) was awarded for research into the nature of the chemical bond, in molecular structure studies (in simple terms, for an unknown insight into the microworld); the second prize (1962) documented his efforts to ban the testing of nuclear weapons (in other words, for an effort to change something in the macro world, in geopolitics). The current paper is focused on Pauling’s studies in medicine. He coined the term "orthomolecular medicine" referring to the practice of varying the concentration of substances normally present in the body to prevent and treat disease, especially cancer by mega-doses of vitamin C. In 2015, a group of 20 American scientists for the first time experimentally proved that vitamin C molecules can kill cancer cells. Therefore, the Pauling’s hypothesis turned out to be correct.

Keywords

• linus pauling
• cancer
• vitamin c
• resonance in chemistry
• nuclear weapons
• orthomolecular medicine