For years, many mocked the two-time Nobel Laureate from Oregon and author over his belief in the benefits of high doses of Vitamin C. As it happens, he was right:
Injecting patients with a dose 1,000 times higher than the recommended level could target tumour cells and make radiation and chemotherapy more effective.
The research, published in the journal Cancer Cell, showed that iron in the tumours reacted with the vitamin to form destructive “free radical” molecules which selectively caused only cancerous cells to die.
Seems that the science wasn't quite settled, after all.
