Vitamin C won’t prevent most colds, but it may do one small thinghttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260827010507.htm
The belief that huge doses of vitamin C can ward off colds was popularized more than 50 years ago by Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. Since then, larger studies have found that vitamin C does not prevent most people from catching a cold, although regularly taking it may make severe symptoms slightly shorter or milder.