During the last two decades of his life, Pauling's focus on the scientific basis of nutrition and his unstinting advocacy of megavitamin supplements regularly made him the center of controversy. Even after his death, the controversies continued. Although ill and confined to his home on the Pacific coast near Big Sur, California, Pauling rose to the occasion of the live broadcast and was his usual articulate, upbeat and engaging self. It proved to be his final interview. Two of its major interactions are in potentiating the immune system and aiding the synthesis of the protein collagen, which is a very important substance that holds together the human body.
Collagen strengthens the blood vessels, the skin, the muscles and the bones.
This is why I think we should be getting 200 times the amount of vitamin C that the Food and Nutrition Board recommends. The results seem very promising. I became interested in vitamin C and cancer in 1971 and began working with Ewan Cameron, M.B., Ch. B., chief surgeon at Vale of Leven Hospital in Scotland. Cameron gave 10 grams of vitamin C a day to patients with untreatable, terminal cancer.