Vitamin C as an Illustration of the Orthomolecular Approach

“Vitamin C was popularized by the double Nobel-prize winner Linus Pauling.
\"For example, the wild mountain gorilla (weighing from 120 to 160 kg) ingests on a daily basis between 2000 and 4000 mg of ascorbates (vitamin C) and sometimes even more. Average people in Western countries who do not take supplements consume a few dozen milligrams, while the daily recommended intake of vitamin C is 60 mg.

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