Holistic Doctors, and medicine

I was on Prozac for several years, my best friend was on Paxil for several years and neither one of us had any problems. In fact I credit the drug for getting my life back on track. Your ND is quite simply wrong.Do you see how your argument is flawed?

I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. I was throwing your exact method of argument back at you. Your point was that since you, your daughter and your husband take megadoses of C with no problems that the medical establishment was "simply wrong." I simply did the same thing, stating that my experience showed you to be "simply wrong."Side effects do not happen across the board and the effect that the drug is being prescribed for do not happen across the board. There are going to be those that a drug helps and those that it doesn't. There will be those that feel no effects and those that have every side effect possible happen to them.This is why argument by anecdote is not convincing. The convincing issue is what percentage of those taking a particular drug experience relief, what percentage are harmed. What is the risk / benefit equation? These statistics are just not available for most alternative options as they have not been tested and are not regulated.

Just a small nitpick. Linus Pauling did not win a Nobel Prize for his work on Vitamin C.His Nobel Prize in Chemistry was for his work describing the nature of chemical bonds.There was more research into vitamin C after Pauling. That is how we know that megadoses can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, flushing of the face, headache, fatigue, disturbed sleep and rashes.