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whenever I need a crash-course on a vitamin or mineral I check the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University for quality info written by and reviewed by Phds

https://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/minerals/manganese



Didn't Pauling fall prey to pseudoscience regarding Vitamin C? It's embarrassing to name an institute after him.


yes he basically created the "vitamin C cult" of the time which is like the "vitamin D cult" of today

HOWEVER

Linus Pauling was also a legit brilliant chemist that won two nobel prizes and authored over 1000 papers

He created "quantum chemistry" and "molecular biology"

And was also a big peace activist

So he is forgiven for the Vitamin C stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling




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