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Vitamin C and Heart Disease

"I think we can get almost complete control of cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes by the proper use of vitamin C and lysine ... even cure it. " - From Linus Pauling's Last Interview

Chronic Scurvy

Heart disease, the number one cause of death in America, is a vitamin C deficiency disease!

More than 20 years ago, Linus Pauling and Matthias Rath alerted the world that the specific cause of heart disease is a chronic, sub-clinical vitamin C deficiency. Their elegant unified theory explains why high doses of vitamin C and lysine (aka the Pauling therapy) has been effective preventing and treating heart and cardiovascular disease.

Vitamin C Foundation Surprisingly, this Pauling/Rath unified theory, and the totally effective therapy, has not been clinically investigated by modern medicine, No medical doctors have any training in the materials covered below, and few even know of its existence. However, the amazing testimony keeps on coming.

Complete Control of Cardiovascular Disease is Possible without Medical Intervention

March 24, 2006

Hi Owen

You may want to know that I put my uncle on the Heart Technology (vitamin C/lysine) formula a mere 10 days ago and his cardiologist did an EKG and called him up, excitedly, telling him that it looked as if he had never even had a heart attack (He has had 3!!!).

His doctor told him to continue doing whatever it was he was doing. Needless to say, we are all very excited to hear that!!!

Sincerely,

Jim S.

Testimonials represent a cross section of the range of results that appear to be typical with these products. Results may vary depending upon use and commitment.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Pauling's Specific Vitamin C and Lysine Recommendations (aka the Pauling Therapy)

"I recommend that every person who is at risk of heart disease should take 5 or 6 g of vitamin C and at least 2 g of lysine, although larger amounts may be necessary." - Linus Pauling

--> Eyes: A Window to the Heart...
Vitamin C Foundation Dr. Sydney Bush, a noted British optometrist, is the founder of CardioRetinometry, a new medical field that analyzes the future health of the heart. "We are looking into life's secrets," Bush said, "When we look inside the eye - to call it a crystal ball of your future is an understatement." In addition, Bush found that vitamin C can improve that future. With Cardioretinometry, doctors can actually track how much vitamin C diminishes the amount of cholesterol in the blood vessels."

Vitamin C and Heart Disease Research

Inexplicably, the mainstream has yet to investigate the Pauling therapy, but there has been research on lower dosages of vitamin C (without lysine).

Research
"I don't know that there is a need for a randomized prospective, double blind controlled trial when you get evidence of this sort, the value of large intakes of vitamin C and also of lysine for preventing the deposition of atherosclerotic plaques, and preventing death from cardiovascular disease." - Linus Pauling, 1993 Video: A Unified Theory

Other Stories

Vitamin C is Nature's Perfect Statin

Report: Vitamins C and Unique E Erase EKG Evidence of Heart Attacks...

"These EKGs don't look like they are from the same person" (Robert Waters, MD, after examining Carl Smith's 1997 and 2003 EKG printouts.)

Vitamin C and Heart Disease SYNOPSIS (pdf)...

The Twilight Zone... (sometimes it feels that way.)

American Heart Association Drops the Ball

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION'S DEADLY ADVICE: Don't Take Supplements?!

Vitamin C Foundation The proper advice is for the AHA to RECOMMEND supplements for everyone, at least until vitamin C has been proven NOT to work. Vitamin C is safe and non toxic, may be extremely beneficial to heart patients and provides low cost insurance. - Owen Fonorow
Recent science ignored by the AHA:

  1. 2003 Harvard: 15-YEAR HARVARD STUDY OF 85,000 FINDS SINGLE VITAMIN C PILL REDUCES HEART DISEASE ALMOST 30%.
    Interestingly, dietary intake of vitamin C seemed to have little effect on coronary heart disease risk. But if women used vitamin C supplements, their risk was reduced by 27 percent. According to the numbers in [this story]bad link A single 360 mg vitamin C pill daily would save more than 300,000 lives per year.
  2. 2003 UK: ANTIOXIDANT VITAMINS AND MORTALITY IN OLDER PERSONS...
    FINDINGS: Strong inverse relationship for blood ascorbate (vitamin-C) concentrations with all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality, which were only marginally reduced after adjustment for confounders or supplement use. Those in the lowest fifth (< 17 micromol/L) had the highest mortality, whereas those in the highest fifth (> 66 micromol/L) had a mortality risk nearly half that (hazard ratio = 0.54; 95% CI: 0.34, 0.84). Similar results were found after the exclusion of those subjects with cardiovascular disease or cancer at baseline (hazard ratio = 0.51; 0.28, 0.93). In fully adjusted models, there was no evidence for an influence of alpha-tocopherol (vitamin-E), beta-carotene, or retinol (vitamin-A) on total mortality. Dietary antioxidants measured by the food-frequency questionnaire were not associated with all-cause or cardiovascular disease mortality"
  3. 2004 UCLA NOBELIST LOUIS J. IGNARRO LEADS STUDY SHOWING SUPPLEMENTS SLOW ATHEROSCLEROSIS...bad link
  4. 2003: New Dutch finds people with the lowest amount of vitamin C in their diets were 30 percent more likely to have a stroke than people with the highest amount of it. This confirms a 2002 study with similar findings.bad link
  5. 2002 JAMA: RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND CONTROLLED TRIAL IN HUMANS FOUND STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT 60-SECOND TREADMILL EXERCISE IMPROVEMENTS IN 5000 MG VITAMIN C GROUPS
    You will have to read this study. BOTH study groups received vitamin C (and magnesium) and both study groups experienced a 60-second statistically significant treadmill exercise improvement. [Chelation Therapy for Ischemic Heart Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Knudtson, et. al. JAMA, Jan 23/30, 2002 - Vol 287, No 4. Pp 481-486]
  6. 2004: INFLUENCE OF L-ARGININE AND VITAMIN C ON THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM IN CHRONIC HEART FAILURE SECONDARY TO ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY...
  7. 2003: VITAMIN C IS SUPERIOR TO DILTIAZEM FOR RADIAL ARTERY VASODILATION IN PATIENTS AWAITING CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING...
  8. 2003: IMPROVEMENT OF PERIPHERAL ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION BY ACUTE VITAMIN C APPLICATION: DIFFERENT EFFECTS IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE, ISCHEMIC, AND DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY...
  9. 2004: VITAMIN C REDUCES LEVELS OF C-REACTIVE PROTEIN
  10. 1996 (Submitted, but rejected): SUPPLEMENTS HALT ATHEROSCLEROSIS
    Nutritional Supplement Program Halts Progression of Early Coronary Atherosclerosis Documented by Ultrafast Computed Tomography
  11. 1977: EFFECT OF ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C) ON PLASMA CHOLESTEROL IN HUMANS IN A LONG-TERM EXPERIMENT...
    In all these time intervals, ascorbic acid was found significantly to depress cholesterolemia and its effects persisted 6 weeks after termination of the experiment.

Deadly Drugs: Cholesterol-Lowering Statins

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION RECOMMENDS STATINS...

Vitamin C Foundation's Statin Drug Alert Page

Statins, Calcium a Deadly Mix ...

"A three-year follow-up on a study of people taking cholesterol-lowering statins, who had a heart attack, revealed that they had a significant amount of calcium in their coronary arteries... Now even the traditional doctors are questioning the benefits of taking statins."

Warning! Your cholesterol-lowering drug may be destroying your health!bad link

The Dangers of Statin Drugs: What You Haven't Been Told About Cholesterol-Lowering Medication

Part I.
Part II.

STATIN DRUG DANGER!

Statin cholesterol-lowering drugs weaken muscle, leading to heart failure, and at high enough dosage without antioxidant support, to heart transplant. These drugs are the wrong prescription for anyone, much less heart patients. - Owen Fonorow

STATIN DRUG DANGERS... Note: Vitamin C overcomes these dangers

CoQ10 and Statins: The Vitamin C Connectionbad link

"We are now in a position to witness the unfolding of the greatest medical tragedy of all time - never before in history has the medical establishment knowingly created a life threatening nutrient deficiency in millions of otherwise healthy people." - Peter H. Langsjoen, MD

An Epidemic of Congestive Heart Failure ...

Heart Failure Epidemic...

The Danger Has Been Known For About 13 Years...

NSAIDs Cause 1 in 5 Heart Failures ...

Vitamin C and Vascular Disease ...

COLOSSAL Medical Blunder?

Nature's Perfect Statin® — Vitamin C Lowers Cholesterol Naturally

The Original HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitor

Given no hope... "The Vascular surgeon is staggered... The artery is now clear." - Sep 2005

Hello Owen,

You maybe interested in the following information.

I have now been taking Pauling's therapy [Vitamin C/Lysine] for a period of two years. The amount taken has been 3000mg ea. in total each day, split morning & evening. I may have missed on a couple of occasions. These quantities are listed as a preventive dose. Prior to taking Linus Pauling's therapy my condition was as follows.

In June 22/6/05 I had my last scan. The result is the left Carotid artery according to the Vascular surgeon has closed down. The atherosclerosis beyond the blockage, which was entering deeper into my cranium has disappeared, in other words, the artery is clear. My right artery is also clear.

The Vascular surgeon is staggered.

Maybe had I gone onto the therapeutic quantities, my left artery may have cleared the plaque blocking it?

However this is very good news. My next scan is in December so I am hoping for just as good news. Will keep you posted on the next scan.

regards Gerald G. (Australia)

Amazon Best Seller!: The Vitamin C Foundation's Co-Founder has written

Practicing Medicine Without A License?

The Story of the Linus Pauling Therapy for Heart Disease
Copyright 2008 by Owen Fonorow.

Owen will answer questions about Vitamin C, Heart Disease and Cancer via email.
owen.fonorow@gmail.com

Owen's Web Site: The Pauling Therapy provides information about Vitamin C and Lysine for Cardiovascular Disease.

The "Suppressed" Pauling/Rath Paper: Unified Theory of Human Cardiovascular Disease Leading the Way to the Abolition of This Disease as a Cause for Human Mortality (1992)...

Early Pauling Lecture on the Heart Disease Discovery

WARNING
Use at your own risk. Neither the FDA nor the Medical Profession accept the proposition put forth by Pauling, Rath, Levy and others that the root cause of cardiovascular disease is an acute vitamin C deficiency at the site of the arterial lesion.
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