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Aug 2021

15m 59s

Vitamin C with Patrick Holford

About this episode

Patrick Holford, nutrition expert, leading spokesman, and author of 46 books, joins us to discuss the benefits and effects of supplementing vitamin C.

Today, Holford shares the studies of vitamin C, why we need it, and how it has helped during the Covid-19 pandemic. We discuss what animals develop vitamin C, why it's important to supplement, and the issues nutrition faces within the pharmaceutical industry.

We talk about:

How Holford got into nutrition
Benefits of vitamin C
China and vitamin C
COVID-19 and vitamin C
Why people don’t take vitamin C
The pharmaceutical industry and vitamin C

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