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  • (playful whistling music)

  • - Vitamins are the key to health

  • and perhaps the cure for the common cold.

  • Now how many of you have ever heard of vitamin megadoses?

  • - [Adam] I have, but I've also heard of fairies

  • and the Lock Ness monster

  • and those won't cure your cold either. (laughs)

  • - What?

  • - Vitamin supplements (annoyed groans) don't cure colds,

  • they don't prolong your life, and in some cases

  • they may actually be harmful.

  • So, what are vitamins?

  • - Huge pills that smell like old olives?

  • - Wrong! Anyone else?

  • Here we go.

  • - Candy that's shaped like cartoon characters.

  • - Wrong again, you're both thinking of vitamin supplements.

  • What are the vitamins themselves?

  • - Little bits of goop that your body needs,

  • I love you Tod.

  • - Exactly, they're a collection of various micronutrients

  • that are essential for your body to function normally.

  • - Yes! So vitamins make us healthy.

  • - (tire squealing) Except that by definition

  • vitamins are nutrients we only need a tiny little bit of,

  • and normally we get plenty of them from the food we eat.

  • - But what if I contract scurvy?

  • - You won't, scurvy is caused

  • by an extreme lack of vitamin C.

  • Pirates used to get it because they ate nothing

  • but hardtack biscuits for months.

  • But if you eat normal food in normal quantities

  • you'll be fine.

  • Like, just eat a lemon ever.

  • - (chomp) Me gums feel better already indeed.

  • - But getting more vitamins is even better.

  • - No it isn't.

  • Vitamins are sorta like cats.

  • If you have no cats you'll be lonely,

  • if you have a cat or two you'll feel better,

  • but that's enough cats.

  • No one needs to load up on cats.

  • (meowing and purring)

  • And just like with cats you don't want to overdo it.

  • Studies show that taking too much of some vitamins

  • like A, D, or E can actually make you sick.

  • - [Doctor] Well, even if that's true,

  • megadoses of vitamin C will cure--

  • - Nothing. Vitamin C does not treat or cure the common cold,

  • and products that claim it does are nonsense.

  • (fast dramatic piano music)

  • Remember Airborne?

  • - Sure, the cold medicine created by a school teacher.

  • It keeps you from getting colds

  • from touching the magazines on airplanes.

  • - That is not true.

  • Who gave you a medical license?

  • - Oprah.

  • (plop and fizz)

  • - Airborne is a cocktail of plain old vitamins

  • that was marketed as a cure for the common cold.

  • (clacking)

  • But in 2006 they were sued for false advertising

  • and ended up paying out 23 million dollars.

  • Airborne doesn't cure anything.

  • It's basically just bubbles.

  • (bubbling)

  • - But when I take vitamin C it makes me feel better.

  • (adoration noise from audience)

  • - [Adam] Yes, the placebo effect is very powerful,

  • but that's all it is.

  • In reality, at least 15 different studies

  • have concluded that vitamin C

  • does not treat the common cold.

  • (jeers from audience)

  • Hey, it's not my fault everyone believes

  • vitamins are magic,

  • It's Linus Pauling's fault.

  • - Great, can I go back to doing my show now?

  • Do not pan away, (disco music) come on!

  • - [Adam] Linus Pauling was a genius chemist

  • and the only person in history to be awarded

  • two solo Nobel prizes.

  • He was one of America's true scientific celebrities.

  • - Linus, I love your chemistry.

  • - Your research is amazing!

  • - [Adam] But in the early 70's,

  • Pauling became obsessed with the idea of living forever

  • and basically went vitamin crazy.

  • (dramatic music)

  • - Great Niels Bohr's ghost, I've got it.

  • (disco music)

  • - [Adam] He began claiming that massive doses of vitamin C

  • could prevent the common cold, prolong your life,

  • and even cure cancer.

  • And because he was a celebrity scientist (clapping)

  • the media trusted him.

  • - So these vita-pills will cure my sniffles?

  • - That's right, and get this,

  • you'll also never get sick or die.

  • - Sounds pretty far out,

  • but if the smartest cat in America's sayin' it,

  • it must be true!

  • (laughing)

  • Up next is Charro and puppet superstar Madame.

  • - No, no, no you don't!

  • We are going back to my show, where is it?

  • - (snap) This way!

  • But repeated studies have proven that Pauling

  • was totally wrong.

  • There is no medical basis for his claims

  • and in 1994 he actually died of cancer,

  • the very disease he claimed vitamins would cure.

  • - You're telling me that vitamin supplements are a lie

  • and we only believe in them because one man went crazy?

  • - Yeah, Pauling was the Michael Jackson of nutrition.

  • He totally changed the game,

  • we had no idea how crazy he was,

  • and 40 years later we're still hummin' the tunes.

  • - Wow, that's bad.

  • - It's bad, you know it.

  • (pop music)

  • Hey, I'm Adam from College Humor.

  • If you liked that clip, make sure to check out my new show

  • "Adam Ruins Everything" Tuesdays at 10 p.m. on truTV.

  • It's gonna ruin your Tuesday but trust me,

  • the rest of your week'll be fine.

(playful whistling music)

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