Kieran Lamb
As the season of colds begins, many of us reach for megadose Vitamin C supplements in the belief that they will stave off infection. But is the theory right - or are we, in fact, overdosing?
In 1970, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling proposed in his book, Vitamin C And The Common Cold, that taking a dose of 1,000mg a day could help fight the virus. The current recommended daily allowance of Vitamin C is only 40mg.
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