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Vitamin C and the common cold

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:32:26
Publish Date: 2025-12-17 09:00:00
Description:

A two-time Nobel Prize-winning scientist changed chemistry, biology, and the politics of science. But when he pushed vitamin C as a cure-all, did he go too far?


Guest: Daniel M. Davis, head of the department of life sciences and professor of immunology at Imperial College London. He is the author of Self-Defense: A Myth-Busting Guide to Immune Health.


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