Vitamin C Doesn't Do What You Think It Does

HigherIQ · Oct 5, 2026 · 5m

00:00 — Introduction 00:38 — The Greatest Chemist Who Ever Lived 02:16 — Sixty-Three Trials Later 03:50 — Why Nobody Hears the Nuance 04:46 — Wrap Up Sources: - Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold — Cochrane Review (Hemilä, Chalker, 2013): https://www.cochrane.org/evidence/CD000980_vitamin-c-preventing-and-treating-common-cold - Vitamin C reduces the severity of common colds: a meta-analysis (Hemilä, Chalker, BMC Public Health, 2023): https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-17229-8 - Vitamin C supplementation and the common cold — was Linus…