Vitamin C Forum

Hello everybody. I am a new registered user on this forum.

Recently, I started taking ascorbic acid, L-lysine and L-proline in accordance with the Pauling protocol. Now, after approximately 1,5 weeks I have the feeling that I can feel something is happening in my arteries. It is difficult to describe what I feel but it feels good.
My question to the experienced users here on the forum is whether this is imagination or whether it is actually possible to feel some changes are going on in the arteries?
Thanks.

Owen, I have not been diagnosed to have a heart disease, but it runs in the family. I'm 57 years old and live reasonably healthy (including exercising 5 times a week) but I cannot imagine that my arteries are clean and I sometimes feel a mild pain on the chest during exercising.
I visited a cardiologist once but stopped going because I did not fancy the idea of undergoing an angioplastic treatment.
Therefore, I searched the internet and found information on the Pauling therapy. I waited quite some time (just due to procrastination) before starting the to use the Pauling protocol.

Whether it is imagination I don't know, but since starting with Vit C, L-Lysine and L-proline I feel a strange (not unpleasant or painful) sensation in my chest occasionally during the day. My cycling seems to have improved already. Yesterday I needed to do less effort in order to attain and maintain a higher speed then I used to reach before starting on the protocol.

I am not taking coenzyme Q10 supplements yet.
The workouts consist of 1.5 hr cycling twice per week. 2 hours of tennis once a week and 45 minutes of jogging twice a week with some modest weight training for 20 minutes once a week prior to jogging.

I had never taken any vitamin C supplements other than the tiny amount that was in the multivitamin pill that I have been taking daily for the last 20 years.