Dr. Linus Pauling - Natural approach to cardiovascular disease with vitamin C, A, E and Lysine

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Newsletter #29 --- Dr. Linus Pauling and Natural approach to cardiovascular disease with Vitamin C

A tribute to the late Dr. Linus Pauling - the World's one and only, two times Nobel Prize winner.

The Pauling Therapy of cardiovascular disease

1994 The Pauling Therapy consists of two substances, Vitamin C and L-Lysine, that inhibit the binding of lipoprotein(a), Lp(a) which is the major cause of cardiovascular disease.

Vitamin C and Heart Disease: A Chronology

1941 Canadian cardiologist Dr. J. C. Patterson reported that more than 80% of his heart disease patients have low vitamin C levels compared to other patients.

1954 Dr. G. C. Willis showed that Vitamin C supplementation can reduce arterial deposits. Makes first claim that atherosclerosis is reversible.

1967 Dr. Boris Sokoloff studied 13 gm vitamin C on 60 over age 60 patients with CVD. Not a single vascular event during the year long study period when 612 were expected.

1970 Dr. Pauling published his first book "Vitamin C and the Common Cold". Vitamin C consumption in the U.S. rises by 300%. Mortality from heart disease decreases by 30% in the U.S. the only country with a significant drop in heart disease fatalities.

1986 Dr. Pauling summarizes the evidence for vitamin C against heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other diseases in his book "How to Live Longer and Feel Better", which becomes a bestseller.

1989 Dr. Pauling discover that optimum dietary vitamin C prevents the deposition of lipoprotein(a) in arterial walls.

1991 Dr. Pauling published "Solution to the Puzzle of Human Cardiovascular Disease". This scientific paper concluded that Vitamin C deficiency is the direct and most frequent cause of heart attacks.

1992 Dr. Enstrom and colleagues (UCLA) showed, in over 11,000 Americans, that increased intake of vitamin C reduces the death rate from heart disease by nearly half and prolongs life for more than six years.

1997 American Heart Association press release reported on German studies that credit vitamin C in the blood stream with "almost completely reversing endothelial dysfunction" in smokers. In other words, ascorbic acid may prevent damage to the walls of blood vessels caused by smoking that eventually leads to cardiovascular disease.

1997 British Medical Journal: "Vitamin C deficiency, as assessed by low plasma ascorbate concentration, is a risk factor for coronary heart disease." Men who were deficient in vitamin C had 3.5 times more heart attacks than men who were not deficient in vitamin C. One cardiologist has reported that high doses of ascorbic acid vitamin C can prevent heart disease from developing in patients who hadn't already had a bad heart to begin with!

The culprit: A "sticky" relative of LDL Cholesterol (Bad Cholesterol) called lipoprotein a or Lp(a).

High cholesterol, specifically LDL (bad) cholesterol, is not the sole cause of cardiovascular disease. The newest research tells us that lipoprotein(a) will cause cardiovascular disease ten times more likely than high LDL (bad) cholesterol. This fact was revealed during a recent reevaluation of the Framingham Heart Study, the largest cardiovascular risk factor study ever conducted. Today lipoprotein(a) has been confirmed as the leading risk factor for many forms of cardiovascular disease.

Atherosclerosis, or human cardiovascular disease, is a natural body healing process for the walls of arteries and veins made structurally weak from insufficient collagen, a condition caused by inadequate vitamin C in the diet. One important function of vitamin C is in the formation and maintenance of collagen.

Dr. Pauling performed careful laboratory experiments on animals in order to test his theory. This experiment shows beyond a reasonable doubt that a single factor too little Vitamin C causes Lp(a) based atherosclerotic plaques. There is a particular amino acid in a protein in the wall of the artery lysine which is one of the twenty amino acids that binds the Lp(a) which causes atherosclerotic plaques to develop.

Recent clinical studies show:

Vitamin C cuts heart disease rate almost in half (documented in 11,000 Americans over ten years). Vitamin E cuts heart disease rate by more than one third (documented in 36,000 Americans over six years.) Beta Carotene (provitamin A) cuts heart disease rate almost in half (documented in 36,000 Americans).

"No prescription drug has ever been shown to help prevent heart disease similar to these vitamins (e.g. vitamins A, C and E.)"

Before he died in August 1994 at age 94, Dr. Pauling asserted that he had come to believe that the proper use of vitamin C and lysine can completely control, even cure, cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and stroke.

Dr. Linus Pauling's Recommendation:

Every adult should take at least 3 grams of Vitamin C and 1-2 grams of L-Lysine per day as a preventive measure against heart attack and stroke.

Those with family history of heart attack or stroke are considered high risk. They should take at least 3-6 grams of Vitamin C and 2-3 grams of L-Lysine per day.

Those who have had a heart attack or stroke should take at least 6 or more grams of Vitamin C and 4-6 grams of L-Lysine. This, together with vitamin A and E, was his specific recommendation for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.

People with heart disease who have adopted the therapeutic program report relief of their angina pain in a short period of time, often as little as 2-3 weeks evidenced by the reduction of their Lp(a) level.

Dr. Tsang acknowledges Dr. Linus Pauling's brilliant research and follows his recommendation.

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