Dear Mr Fonorow
I have a copy of your book, and I have read several other books about cholesterol, eg those by Uffe Ravnskov.
You say that Vitamin C reduces cholesterol. I wonder what large doses of Vitamin C do to a person whose cholesterol is already low.
My husband, aged 79, has had a small heart attack which was triggered by intense caused by the removal of three squamous cell carcinomas from his scalp. He also has some CHF and right bundle branch block.
His cholesterol level has been low for many years - right at the bottom of "normal" - probably for as long as it has been tested. The level is about 3.6 mmol/L (about 140 mg/dl).
We don't know why it is low, because mine never has been, and we eat very similarly. There must be some other cause than diet.
What happens if my husband takes large doses of Vitamin C? He would not want his cholesterol to be any lower, in fact it would probably be better if he had more cholesterol, because of the wonderful things cholesterol does.
Have you any knowledge of this? Could it be that large doses of Vitamin C do not actually lower cholesterol , but tend to normalise it?
I would be very interested to know.
I hope you can help.
Thank you.
Val
Pauling wrote about Ginter's findings that vitamin C in fact "normalizes" cholesterol to 180 mg/dl.
I doubt he would be harmed by taking more vitamin C (sounds like he needs it).
An interesting discussion at this forum suggests that possibly low manganese can lead to low cholesterol, but if one supplements manganese, they must also supplement much more magnesium.
