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Summary: Changed My Life!
Review: Fifteen years ago I purchased this book for the first time. Today I am buying it as a gift for my son. I feel I am giving him the gift of life all over again. Even though I raised all my children with vitamin C added to their diets, he seems to have fallen off the "juice" wagon! Linus Pauling was not only brilliant but clear and concise. I only wish I had known he published a book on Quantum Mechanics a long time ago. I shall purchase that too at last and maybe I shall have an inkling of what it is all about!
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Summary: Recipe for Good Health
Review: I read this book in August 2003. The same month I ordered vitamins as suggested by Linus Pauling on the internet and started taking them. I started with about 3-4 grams of vitamin C daily. Slowly, initially reluctancty, my wife too joined me. And then we started giving our 5 year old twin kids 1 gram of vitamin C daily. Since then, (1) nobody from our family has needed to visit a doctor. (earlier we had multiple visits per month) (2) i have not had a cold, or a cough or a sore throat. (3) my wife's allergies and asthma have improved. (4) my kids do not get colds or sore throats or ear aches. (5) my mother has also started vitamin c and her allergies of 20 years have disappeared. Now, I sing praises of vitamin C and Linus Pauling in front of anybody who cares to listen !
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Summary: Recipe for Good Health
Review: I read this book in August 2003. The same month I ordered vitamins as suggested by Linus Pauling on the internet and started taking them. I started with about 3-4 grams of vitamin C daily. Slowly, initially reluctancty, my wife too joined me. And then we started giving our 5 year old twin kids 1 gram of vitamin C daily. Since then, (1) nobody from our family has needed to visit a doctor. (earlier we had multiple visits per month) (2) i have not had a cold, or a cough or a sore throat. (3) my wife's allergies and asthma have improved. (4) my kids do not get colds or sore throats or ear aches. (5) my mother has also started vitamin c and her allergies of 20 years have disappeared. Now, I sing praises of vitamin C and Linus Pauling in front of anybody who cares to listen !
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Summary: More Quantity and Quality of Life--Guaranteed!
Review: I was lucky enough to be home one afternoon 15 years ago watching the Phil Donahue show. Linus Pauling was on the show promoting this book opposite Jack La Lanne (the fitness guru), who was hyping some expensive vitamin regime he was selling. I had never taken a vitamin in my life (28 years old!), but something about the sincerity and wisdom of what Linus was communicating made sense to me. I bought the book and followed the guidelines. I haven't had a serious cold or flu in 15 years. Oh yes, I feel the viruses and germs attack my system, and I will occasionally be congested or run a slight fever when a strong flu strain races through the population, but I just start taking 1000 mg of Vitamin C an hour at the first hint of illness and the symptoms never become more than a minor inconvenience. I'm not claiming miracles, because believe me I've had my share of physical infirmities (ruptured lumbar disc, bursitis of the shoulder, vertigo) and I'm not a new age nut who completely rejects western medicine. However, the vitamin regimen that Linus outlines in this book will give you a turbo-charged immune system. Please consult the text and learn about many other benefits of Linus' prescription for optimal health. Two teasers: First he explains why cheaper is better--don't pay a lot of money for natural, organic, bioflavinoids, etc. So even if the vitamin thing doesn't work out for you, at most you've spent 50-75 cents a day (because of inflation it may be a buck now, but I doubt it). Secondly, Vitamin C is a fantastic natural laxative. Talk about feeling good! This sweet man with two nobel prizes has given the gift of health to humanity and it is yours for next to nothing. Don't be stubborn, be skeptical, but run a thorough trial and error test yourself. I have no doubt what the result will be.
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Summary: Dead Doctors might lie, but Linus Pauling doesn't.
Review: I'm no health nut but I'd like to stay as healthy as possible without spending all my spare time thinking and worrying about it. That's why I really appreciate this book by Linus Pauling. It sets a steady course through the piles of information and misinformation around the health and vitamin subject. And Pauling's bubbly personality can't help but make this book an even more enjoyable experience. I only wish we had more Linus Paulings in the world to speak, as he did, from a level of education, honesty and conviction.
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Summary: the wright message from the most qualified person
Review: in this wonderful book the 2 times nobel laurete speaks about his view on nutrition in general and on orthomolecular supplements,plus extra attention to vitamin c.since the author is the father of orthomolecular nutrition\medicine he has spent a lot of time to investigate the values of that vitamin with dr. irwin stone who made researches on that vitamin for 40 years,so he knows what he is saying.he compare the toxicity of aspirin and common used drugs to 0%toxicity of vitamin c(also in high doses)he also talkes about arthritis,allergies,aging,wound healing heart diseases, colesterol,and a few more health matters in a very popolar approach that made me enlightened while learning this interesting book. highly recommanded!
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Summary: The Best from the Best
Review: It is the BEST from the BEST ... and let me tell you why. I am taking vitamins in large dosages as prescribed in this book for well over ten years. When I began this regimen after reading this book, most of the Doctors and Nutrition Specialists were against such large dosage of vitamin intakes. Over the last ten years, not only have they changed their position, but most now believe that it is not harmful, and some even prescribe the higher dosages. In this book, this is exactly what Dr. Pauling suggested. I am happy and healthy, physically keeping very active. Throughout these years, I have been monitoring my health and I have found not a single problem associated with this higher dosages of vitamins. Whether I will live longer is certainly an open question, but I am certainly keeping better than most of my peers in my age group. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Pauling was an innovator, not a follower
Review: Linus Pauling was a man who challenged every conclusion another scientist would reach, only to draw his own conclusions. His conclusions on Vitamin C are backed by the gurus of the health field, namely Gary Null, Dr. Joel Wallach, etc. This book is much better than his Vitamin C and the Common Cold book, which I bought first. 'How to Live Longer...' has pretty much the same exact information as his other books, but there is also valuable information about his vitamin regimen, that his other books fail to go into detail with. For years, I have taken divided doses of C throughout the day, even as much as 10 times. Pauling likes to take 3/4 of your daily C in one shot, in the morning. After adopting this method, I noticed a remarkable difference. This book can change lives and like the title says, can help you add 15-30 years to your life, regardless of your age.
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Summary: Pauling was an innovator, not a follower
Review: Linus Pauling was a man who challenged every conclusion another scientist would reach, only to draw his own conclusions. His conclusions on Vitamin C are backed by the gurus of the health field, namely Gary Null, Dr. Joel Wallach, etc. This book is much better than his Vitamin C and the Common Cold book, which I bought first. 'How to Live Longer...' has pretty much the same exact information as his other books, but there is also valuable information about his vitamin regimen, that his other books fail to go into detail with. For years, I have taken divided doses of C throughout the day, even as much as 10 times. Pauling likes to take 3/4 of your daily C in one shot, in the morning. After adopting this method, I noticed a remarkable difference. This book can change lives and like the title says, can help you add 15-30 years to your life, regardless of your age.
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Summary: C for yourself !
Review: Linus Pauling, possibly the greatest scientist of all time, missed very few tricks. He fearlessly exposed the medical/pharmaceutical conspiracy against ascorbate or so called vitamin C. His 1985 book showed on p214,how he was reaching his 'earth-shaking' discovery that lack of ascorbate triggering damage in the coronary arteries (now known to be due to subclinical scurvy) is the precursor of atheroma, a discovery and patented cure he later shared with cardiologist Mathias Rath M.D He only lacked knowledge of the later to be discovered 'nanobacter' to lay the myth of kidney stones to rest. These tiny bacteria colonising the kidney and ureter with a mineral like outer coat are now believed to be the nuclei of stones. As soon as the organism was discovered it was immediately obvious that the reason why even the highest ascorbate megadosers do not form stones must be because the urogenital system is disinfected by ascorbate. Truly the 'most most expensive urine in the block' as physicians have carpingly joked, has its advantages. Long before this discovery, vets when I asked them, confirmed that even the most concentrated urine of ascorbate producing animals, e.g., dogs, is not associated with oxalate kidney stones whilst occasionally having other unrelated types. Any physician might have ascertained this instead of blindly repeating misleading and dangerous advice for 60 years. Briefly mentioning Prof Denham Harman M.D., Ph.D. (Nebraska) - Father of the Free Radical Theory of Ageing and Disease, Nov 1954 - in his book, Linus recognised probably the greatest physician of this century whose novel antioxidant vitamin A, C & E approach has now become standard philosophy world wide. Whilst this undoubtedly prevents much heart disease amongst over 85 free radical related diseases, it (and he) are still, and unbelievably absurdly, unrecognised by 'Official Medicine' for a Nobel Prize which glaringly now brings into question the judgement (or just plain envy and financial self protectionism?) of some members of that profession. Linus recognised greatness however and later invited Harman to his 90th Birthday party in San Francisco. Together with Pasteur (who like Pauling and Harman started as brilliant chemists) these men have made the greatest contributions to medicine of all time. Robert Cathcart M.D., Fred Klenner M.D., Ph.D., and Claus Jungeblut M.D., all given their just due with over 400 other workers, round off a truly excellent and easily readable yet technical book that cannot possibly be adequately described with its 450 references, in the space of this small review. It is an outstanding contribution to health from a truly outstanding man sadly missed and will inspire many to take charge of their own health.
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