Hi Owen,
I have read almost your whole book now. I started with the Pauling Theory about 5 years ago. I've been taking Vit C around 5-10 grams per day since 2005 but not the Lysine/Proline regularly.
A little about me. I just rached the age of retirement but had a heart attack and multiple by passes a week b4 Memorial Day, 2010. I also had a pig valve installed since mine was bleeding supposedly.
Interestingly the teaching hospital my surgery was performed at here in Milwuakee gave me C and fish oil in recovery and suggested I take it. Their dose was no more that 2-4 grams I believe. My cardiologist has me on the usual drugs of water pill, statin, and some blood pressure meds. I have been taking religiously for a month or so now 18grams of C per day along with 8 grams of Lysine and 2 grams of Proline per day. Spread out over 4 doses during the day.
Since I had 4 bypasses, 2 were total blockages and 2 were supposedly 75% blocked. I will have an echocardiogram on December 27th scheduled and I am looking forward to the possibility that at least the 2 partial blockages have opened up. I am also taking Ubiquinol 100 mg per day but just upped that to 200 mg due to muscle ache which seems to have solved that problem. I\'m preparing to dump the statin next month after I see my cardiologist. I know he\'ll love that. I am also taking Nattozimes to thin the blood as well as clot eating capabilities. I\'ll let you know how my echo comes out.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Ken
Interesting about the teaching hospital!? Keep taking the a good Omega/3 fish oil.
How do you feel now on 18 g vitamin C? I'll post this at our forum (anonymously) under
heart disease, vitamincfoundation.org/forum -> Heart Disease and reread and comment further. The gist is that you have been taking a "good" amount of vitamin C, but not lysine/proline, for about five years before you suffered the heart attack. Hmmmmm Do you know your C bowel tolerance? (http://www.orthomed.com/titrate.htm). It is possible that the 5 - 10 g was not enough, but it is surprising you had such severe heart problems given the 5 grams of C. Diabetic?
Reading Levy's astounding book STOP AMERICA'S #1 KILLER, (livonbooks.com) we learn that you can have unstable plaques from long before you started the vitamin C supplementation, and that the capillaries in these plaques can rupture causing heart attacks, etc. The bypass is the best solution for these long term "callous" like problems, so you should be in good shape going forward, just keep up the vitamin C (and apparently you require lysine).
Now regarding the multiple bypass graphs, hmmm. I would probably not emphasize the proline until I was comfortable that the graphs were operating properly, but I think the vitamin C (18 to 30 g) and lysine (6 g) daily makes sense.