Is Vitamin C a Total Sham? | Freethink Wrong

In the heart of cold and flu season, it's natural to reach for the Vitamin C. But we may want to think twice. While it has ballooned into a billion dollar business and crystallized as an all-powerful supplement in our collective conscious, countless studies have showed that Vitamin C’s ability to cure is questionable at best, and may even increase your risk for certain diseases. Did we all really get Vitamin C totally...wrong?

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[octowuss]

"Then four years later, he died of prostate cancer." Yeah, at the age of 93! Bad journalism Freethink! Unsubscribed!

[TheApoke]

This channel produces such high-quality content so often with so few views, it kinda makes me suspicious that this channel is freebooting videos from somewhere else.

[Nixeu]

Vitamin C is actually used by parts of the immune system, namely phagocytes and t-cells, to power themselves. It kinda feels like you focused on the antioxidant side of Vitamin C, and not the specifics of how it's used by the body. It's not a panacea for all disease. But it can help. And you certainly don't want to suffer from Vitamin C deficiency.

[herculeholmes]

"Studies say" is a phrase awfully close to the old "scientists say" chestnut. What studies? Which studies? By whom?
I don't know if Pauling was right, but he does not strike me as the kind of man who would have made outlandish claims he could not support, and he lived to the age of 93.

[_.Leo_.]

This video attacked Linus Pauling and Vitamin C without giving any opposing research, a sufficient explanation, or saying why the theory is wrong.

[ibopishakpotsangbam]

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[suruxstrawde]

Ahh the most common issue is that vitamin C is in hundreds of different things, and can’t be toxic on its own. But sugar competes in the body for space with it so ironically fruit blocks absorption and actually reduce the systems strength.

[windowlicker]

Perhaps I may have missed it but could you please specify if the form of vitamin c you're basing your research on is in naturally occurring food source, ascorbic acid, liposomal vitamin c, ect.

[BrianThrives]

Experienced it for myself, so this video doesn't deter me. Stopped a flu dead in its tracks in 1 day. It took a LOT of C to make that happen, though. Thankfully it's very cheap.

[Humungojerry]

a big lesson of this is be suspicious of the opinions of smart people or experts when they stray outside their domain.

[WeAreTheLighthearted]

Why no talk about the difference between a synthetic supplement vs. getting this essential nutrient from actual food, or what happens to the human body without vitamin C? This presentation seems rather biased to me. And perhaps lacking in common sense.

[someguy]

We evolved to get our vitamin C from certain plants, not from pills. I take some supplements, but prefer to get my vitamins and minerals from intact foods. Why fix a problem that doesn't exist? Whole food is preferable to processed food. I eat citrus fruit instead of drinking citrus juice, for example. Vitamin pills are as processed a way to get nutrients as I can imagine.

[NateTmi]

when I have a sinus headache I can feel it between my eyes so I know it is no normal headache.
I take Vitamin C & the pain goes away. I see what your saying if you mean about cancer, but Vitamin C will have effect on some stuff, even if just a small effect, it is better the nothing. Did you really say it is better to take no Vitamin C at all? You don't really make it clear. Vitamin C is also hard to completely avoid so how much is too much?

[rw]

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[ThisIsJessPaul]

I think the WRONG series is one of the most important informational essay series on the net: our objective to propel ourselves forward as a society is to first acknowledge our shortcomings, but no one touches on that enough. The "Joy of Being Wrong" explanation essay is something I think everyone should take the 3 and a half minutes to hear.

[rdtrue]

Good and quality material👍👍👍 Also there is a book by Catherine Price "Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food" with allmost all information you should know about vitamins.

[mattbrody]

When I saw a Freethink ad for the first time, I thought it was some boring Millennial junk like Adam Ruins Everything (or, at least akin to what it's started to turn into). But, this is actually really interesting.

[TheSujanroy]

At home nursing a bad And the vitamin C pills and fresh lime juice keep me company despite already knowing that it probably makes not an iota of difference.

[RycoreXIII]

Okay, WHAT is this shows theme, it's SO FUCKING GOOD!!!

[sathishkumarap]

Your videos are awesome, please do more