How to Live Longer and Feel Better Author:Linus Pauling 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 skel... more »etal 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. « less