Watson on multivitamins
Multivitamin tablets and antioxidant nutritional supplements may actually promote cancer progression in late-stage cancers patients, according to this research paper published by Nobel laureate James Watson.
Watson, who received a Nobel prize for his role in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA in 1953, suggests nutritional supplements containing antioxidants such as vitamins A, C and E may in fact block late-stage cancer treatment and promote cancer progression, thus lowering life expectancy and cancer survival.
“In light of the recent data strongly hinting that much of late-stage cancer's untreatability may arise from its possession of too many antioxidants, the time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer,” wrote the renowned geneticist.