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Sooner or later someone was bound to call out the health profession's conservatives and progressives for their wildly contrasting interpretations of the data regarding the therapeutic efficacy of vitamin C against the common cold. It might have been a maverick MD or an inquiring MPH, but instead it was a retired journalist, Wayne Varden Smith who took this on, converting ten years of personal vitamin C research into a groundbreaking hypothesis and a sensible, enlightened approach to the nutrient's use.
Wayne was the perfect man for the job. As someone who used his voice in his work as a radio news anchor, he found the common cold to be more than a mere comfort issue. If, as he suspected, a cure for this annoying malady were possible through a modified application of simple tools and techniques, he was driven to find it. And as an award-winning documentary researcher, writer and producer, he was well prepared to provide an accurate accounting of the work he would do.
Wayne's tenacity and talent for getting to the heart of a story proved the perfect skill set for working out not only the cold cure, but also a compelling theory of how medical science, despite decades of vitamin C clinical trials, has managed to miss it. As he wrote in his well-received pilot study request to the nation's top research institutions, 2007-2009, "The rigid amount-X-at-interval-Y investigative model so key to revealing the best effective use of most drugs and supplements has worked against revealing the best effective use of vitamin C. Instead of meaningful insight into this nutrient's ability to foster antiviral immune activity, we get, or at least have gotten to date, little more than a series of unflattering snapshots. What is needed, and what has been missing from past ascorbic acid trials, are continuous, coordinated followup studies in which commencement, duration, dose and frequency are incrementally adjusted until this vitamin's catalytic sweet spot is found. Without followup, there is no evolution of process, no moving closer to illuminating C's true potential as a weapon in the cold war. My experimentation was all about followup: if a particular dose/timing combination failed to affect the outcome of one cold, I tried something slightly different on the next exposure and the next and the next until my interventions began to make a difference."
Curiosity, patience and more than twenty years of focused yet imaginative R&D and practical application have given Wayne a unique perspective about vitamin C and the common cold. This and an ability to effectively put pen to paper qualify him as the one person on earth to make this case and tell this wholly original story.
Wayne Varden Smith made his mark in broadcast journalism as a news anchor, reporter, writer and researcher at WGR in Buffalo, New York, where he captured top national and state honors 26 times for radio documentaries on such diverse topics as the underground drug economy, the challenges of recycling and a pivotal naval battle during the War of 1812. Awarding entities included the Associated Press, United Press International, the New York State Broadcasters Association and the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge.
Wayne currently owns and operates Natural Sound, a diverse audio production house specializing in all manner of sound projects, including audio books. That's Wayne doing the voiceover for the audio version of this book.
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