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Further studies suggest that vitamin C may play a beneficial role in cancer patients; to date, the data have been evaluated in animals and have not been incorporated in human clinical treatment standards.12, 13

Pauling himself is said to have taken 18 grams of vitamin C per day for years and lived to be 93 years old. Nevertheless, he died of cancer.

The realization that a deficiency of a particular nutrient can lead to disease has been known and accepted for over 100 years now. However, vitamins make up only a fraction of the full 90 essential nutrients that humans need on a daily basis:

1 Vitamins: A, B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxine), B12 (cyanocobalamin), C, D, E, K, biotin, choline, flavonoids and bioflavonoids, folic acid and inositol. Other essential nutrients are

2 Amino acids: valine, lysine, threonine, leucine, isoleucine, tryptophan, phenylalanine, methionine, histidine, arginine, taurine, and tyrosine (the last three are not called essential, but can cause certain diseases if they are deficient).