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  The RDA for vitamin C is enough to prevent scurvy, but not enough to prevent heart attacks, strokes, cancer and many infectious diseases. According to the Linus Pauling Institute, we should raise the RDA from 70 mg in women and 90 mg in men to 200 mg per day. While we could get 200 mg per day in our diets, few of us consume 5-9 servings of fruits and...

All we have to be deficient in is one micronutrient and we cannot survive. It is silly that mainstream medicine provides little more than lip service to celllular biochemistry and the absolute necessity of micronutrients. Most of us don't realize that it only takes 6 weeks of no vitamin C intake to develop scurvy! Yet major deficiencies exist in most...