[hennsen]

It could.

Who knows if there was actually Vitamin C contained in what i bought?

But my experience still exists.

I took that stuff that has been sold to me as Vit C and had a lot less to suffer. Didn’t spend a lot of money, and didn’t have a lot of risk involved.

So what?

I tried other remedies before - as well ones that were organical stuff recommended by someone ( ginger tea for example which some believe in is helping a lot - but not myself ) as well as commercial products. I believed or at least hoped they‘d help in each case. But only this did with some - and i say 66% is not great, just some - reproducability.

With Herpes it‘s 100% were in my personal experience it removes a lot if suffering and bad feeling for days.

[newlyretired]

My point wasn't to deny your experience, only to comment that even for your specific experience it's impossible to be so confident as to state it was Vitamin C that prevented illnesses.

I'm happy you found something that works for you, but the certainty you ascribe to causes is not justified by the evidence.

[hennsen]

Thanks ;)

yes sure, it can be many things - and a repeatability of 2 in 3 is not very much... just some.

It can also be that as the original article mentions there are many causes for a bad cold, that my system worked only with a part of them.

I just get a bit upset with (some other) people saying my personal experience isn't a properly conducted study - it sure isn't.

At the same time, these studies fail every day, in the end they are all just statistics, which can be forged, lead to wrong assumptions, or just be flawed in a failure criterion not being thought of until now - like, oh, 30,000 cancer studies... http://www.sciencealert.com/more-than-30-000-scientific-stud...

But I'm not even talking about cancer - and I sure would defintely rather try fighting cancer with a "western medicine" approach that has some reasonable success rate and never recommend anyone diagnosed with such trying to treat that thing with a spoon of Vitamin C everyday...