Why Vaccines Work
A dose of reality about vaccines… Subscribe: http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub Twitter: @okaytobesmart ↓ More info and sources below ↓ As more and more parents are choosing not to vaccinate their...
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[MUSIC] Orange you glad you don’t have scurvy? In 1747, in the first medical trial ever performed, Scottish physician James Lind found out that eating citrus fruits could cure scurvy. Today we know this works because citrus contains high levels of vitamin C, in fact ascorbic acid, a common name for vitamin C, comes from the Latin for not scurvy. By issuing rations of lemon juice to sailors, the British Navy was able to pretty much eliminate the disease… until the late 1800’s when polar explorers suddenly began to see scurvy again… the copper pots holding their lime juice had destroyed the vitamin C. But they were pretty confused. So despite James Lind’s experiments 150 years before, citrus fruits became the enemy, and when Robert Falcon Scott s...
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[MUSIC] Orange you glad you don’t have scurvy? In 1747, in the first medical trial ever performed, Scottish physician James Lind found out that eating citrus fruits could cure scurvy. Today we know this works because citrus contains high levels of vitamin C, in fact ascorbic acid, a common name for vitamin C, comes from the Latin for not scurvy. By issuing rations of lemon juice to sailors, the British Navy was able to pretty much eliminate the disease… until the late 1800’s when polar explorers suddenly began to see scurvy again… the copper pots holding their lime juice had destroyed the vitamin C. But they were pretty confused. So despite James Lind’s experiments 150 years before, citrus fruits became the enemy, and when Robert Falcon Scott s...
