45. Blood Cancers
46. Bone Fractures
47. Breast Cancer
48. Cardiovascular Disease
49. Cataracts
50. Cervical Cancer
51. Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia
52. Chronic Kidney Disease
53. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
54. Chronic Pancreatitis
55. Cognitive Impairment
56. Colorectal Cancer
57. Coronary Artery Disease
58. Depression
59. Type 1 Diabetes
60. Type 2 Diabetes
61. Dry Eyes
62. Eczema
63. Endometrial Cancer
64. Esophageal Cancer
65. Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction
66. Fatty Liver Disease
67. Fibromyalgia
68. Gestational Diabetes
69. Glaucoma
70. Glioma
71. Gout
72. Graves’ Disease
73. Heart Attack
74. Heart Failure
75. Hemodialysis
76. Hepatitis C
77. Hypercholesterolemia (High Blood Cholesterol)
78. Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
79. Inflammatory Bowel Disease
80. Kashin-Beck Disease
81. Liver Cancer
82. Lung Cancer
83. Lupus Erythematosus
84. Age-Related Macular Degeneration
85. Male Infertility
86. Melanoma
87. Metabolic Syndrome
88. Migraine
89. Multiple Sclerosis
90. Neural Tube Defects
91. Obesity
92. Oral Cleft
93. Orthostatic Hypotension
94. Osteoporosis
95. Pancreatic Cancer
96. Parkinson’s Disease
97. Preeclampsia
98. Premature Mortality
99. Prostate Cancer
100. Renal Cell Cancer
101. Respiratory Infections
102. Rheumatoid Arthritis
103. Rickets
104. Schizophrenia
105. Sepsis
106. Sleep Apnea
107. Stomach Cancer
108. Stroke
109. Tuberculosis
110. Venous Thrombosis
111. Vitiligo
Part Five: Summary of Recommended Daily Doses of Vitamins and Essential Elements for Prevention and Treatment of 75 Diseases and Conditions
Author’s Publications
References
Glossary
Abbreviations
Index
In the 1970s, Linus Pauling, a two-time Nobel laureate, recommended large doses of vitamin C to prevent and cure cancers. He himself was taking 8 g of vitamin C daily, and he was fit and healthy well into his 70s. Pauling’s claim received tremendous media attention; he was frequently in the news. During that time, I was a graduate student pursuing my PhD in biophysics in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Pauling’s media exposure was of particular interest to me because my dissertation investigated free radicals and antioxidants. High-dose vitamin C produces hydrogen peroxide, which kills cancer cells in the body. Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommended intravenous high-dose vitamin C injections as a form of cancer therapy for treating certain advanced stages of cancer. Owing to my own research work, I had already become aware of the ways in which antioxidants like vitamin C and vitamin E work to scavenge harmful free radicals (molecules with unpaired electrons) in the body.
I continued my research work in the field of free radicals in biology and medicine after I joined the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee as a faculty member, devoting my research to nitric oxide, a gaseous free radical that is crucial for countless aspects of human health, ranging from the heart to the reproductive organs. In 1995, while taking a sabbatical leave, I decided to resign from my position as a full professor of biophysics at the medical school and serve as president and CEO of a new pharmaceutical company, focusing on the design and development of new drugs, in San Diego. Over the past two decades, I have acquired extensive knowledge in the pharmaceutical field by being at the forefront of the research on the pros and cons of therapeutic drugs in treating diseases and conditions.
Diseases and conditions can be divided into categories of acute and chronic. Modern medicine has done much in the field of acute conditions—such as trauma, infections, burns, bone fractures, or migraine attacks—but it has had limited success in treating chronic diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, or diabetes, among others. Therapeutic drugs for chronic diseases are largely designed to treat symptoms rather than causes.
Take type 2 diabetes as an example: Most diabetes drugs can lower blood glucose. But high blood glucose is a symptom, not a cause, of type 2 diabetes. Compare this to how a fever is a symptom rather than the cause of an infection—bacteria or viruses are the causes. Antipyretic agents that prevent or reduce fever, such as naproxen or acetaminophen, may control the fever, but they
