How to live longer and feel better

Linus Pauling’s latest book, HOW TO LIVE LONGER AND FEEL BETTER, draws on this two-time Nobel laureate’s scientific knowledge, common sense, and clear thinking to present an easy-to-follow, inexpensive regimen for adding years of feeling good to your life. HOW TO LIVE LONGER AND FEEL BETTER shows how vitamins work, and how to make them work for you. For example, in addition to its many other functions, vitamin C is responsible for producing and maintaining the body’s supply of collagen—the “glue” that virtually holds the human body together. Without collagen our skeletal and muscular systems disintegrate. With even a depleted supply of this vital substance, skin loses its elasticity and makes us look much older than we actually are. Dr. Pauling explains what each of us can do in the face of doctors who may be good at treating some illnesses, but who are frequently useless in helping us to prevent them. And, armed with conclusive experimental and clinical evidence in support of his ideas, he reveals the facts behind the Mayo Clinic’s distortion of his successful orthomolecular treatments of terminally ill cancer patients. Of immense immediate and practical benefit to people of all ages, HOW TO LIVE LONGER AND FEEL BETTER also exposes readers to the fascinating sensibility of one of the world’s most renowned working scientists—one whose celebrated achievements in the laboratory and in the cause of world peace stem from a compassionate concern for every human individual’s daily and lifelong well-being. LINUS PAULING has been the recipient of over 40 honorary degrees from colleges and universities in the United States and abroad and was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Prize for peace. He is the author of several books, including Vitamin C, the Common Cold, and the Flu and Chemistry (both published by W. H. Freeman and Company). “Dr. Pauling’s new book gives sound advice on good nutrition and health maintenance. I recommend it to all who would like to live longer and feel better.” For the past dozen years, Pauling’s contributions to better understanding of nutrition and the enhancement of people’s health—which he has set out in this book—have embroiled him in controversy with organized medicine and associated old-fashioned nutritionists. The physicians, with only a few distinguished exceptions, denounce this nonphysician’s intrusion into the practice of medicine. They tend to pitch their argument on the ideas that Pauling is not a doctor, they say, but a superannuated scientist out of his depth. This book is a premier example of the kind of detailed, thorough, documented information that can be assembled on all aspects of the effect of Vitamin C on all bodily functions. It is a mark of how impartial diligence by a great intellect can bring clarity to the seeming chaos of medical involvement in nutrition and still be relevent nearly forty years later. He calls a lie what it is and names with citations the perpetrators. The fake Mayo Clinic research doctors still refuse to discuss their study with him. "I conclude that they are not scientists, devoted to the search for the truth. I surmise that they are so ashamed of themselves that they would prefer that the matter be forgotten. The Mayo Clinic used to have a great reputation. This episode indicates to me that it is no longer deserved." "Nobody dies of poisoning by an overdose of vitamins." LINUS PAULING FRS was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. He was a faculty member at Caltech (1927–1963), UC San Diego (1967–1969), Stanford (1969–1975) He calculated that the output of C-14 from the then-scheduled weapons tests would cause 55,000 children to be born with gross physical and mental defects, result in more than 500,000 miscarriages, stillbirths, and newborn deaths, and cause as much leukemia and bone cancer as that caused by all the fission products from the explosions combined. In 1958, Pauling and his wife presented a petition signed by over eleven thousand scientists from around the world to Dag Hammarskjold, secretary-general of the United Nations, calling for an end to nuclear-weapons testing. The public controversy, sustained by Pauling’s robust contributions, eventually induced the superpowers to suspend the testing of atomic bombs in the atmosphere; they signed the treaty in 1963, and it went into effect on the very day of the bestowal of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962 on Linus Pauling. He is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes. His great work, The Nature of the Chemical Bond, is a landmark in the history of science. On theoretical grounds he published a description of the innovative helical structure of nucleic acid three years before the Watson and Crick experimental work. A lawsuit jury, badly instructed on the law of libel, found that a newspaper could not injure the reputation of so eminent a man. He died of cancer at age 93, his life extended by daily megadoses of Vitamin C.