In the sixties, Dr. Linis Pauling published his theory on Vitamin C and the
common cold. The "Establishment" quickly branded him a "Quack"
while
suggesting he remain a chemist, for which he received a Nobel
prize.
When he [Dr. Pauling] suggested that vitamin C had efficacy with
cancer, it was considered nonsense by the "Establishment" as well as
the mainstream media. They demeaned and villified the altruistic Dr. Pauling for years afterward.
Recently I read Pauling's research involving heart disease. I had
never seen it published. I have a 70% occlusion of my carotid arteries,
which made the data of great interest to me. I wanted to share this
with you. As this is written (7-2-01) I am going on Pauling's formula as well as taking 300mg of CoQ-10 daily.
12-20-01 A scan of my carotid arteries revealed a 20% improvement on my left carotid artery. My cardiologist was astonished for such blockage (stenosis) very rarely improves. I told him of the two nutrients I was taking. He just scoffed as nonsense! Alas, many of my colleagues have been well brain washed into believing that something cheap, and harmless, can possibly replace a dangerous $25,000.00 angioplasty or a $60,000.00 heart bypass surgery.
Linus Pauling's Unified Theory and Therapy for Heart Disease
Linus Pauling claimed that specific non-toxic substances called Lp(a)
binding inhibitors taken orally will prevent and may even dissolve
existing atherosclerotic plaque build-ups. This work is based on at
least 2 Nobel Prizes in Medicine and the efforts of countless medical
researchers. The theory and conclusions offered represent the final
contribution of an American scientific giant.
The fact that you have not heard about this discovery in the
mainstream media is disturbing. It speaks volumes about how powerful
interests can somehow suppress vital information that would be
detrimental to their financial interests.
In 1989, the eminent American scientist Linus Pauling and his
associate Matthias Rath MD, unlocked a medical mystery. They found
the reason human beings suffer heart disease.
Then in 1991, Linus Pauling invented a non-prescription cure. The
twice Nobel prize winning genius, chemist, and medical researcher
made the strong (and so far unreported) claim that heart disease can
be controlled, even cured, by a specific "mega-nutrient" therapy.
Heart patients using the Pauling Therapy routinely avoid angioplasty
and open heart surgery. Not by lowering cholesterol, as the media
would have us believe, but by attacking the root cause. Rapid
recovery has been the rule, not the exception. Strangely, there are
no known adverse side effects, yet the medical profession ignores
Pauling and Rath.
You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned
Atherosclerotic plaques deposit in response to injury. This major
finding led to the 1985 Brown-Goldstein Nobel prize in medicine. The
confusion in the media is cause and effect. The fallacy is that
cholesterol causes heart disease, but plaque build-ups are the effect
of heart disease. G. C. Willis, MD, made the crucial observation in
the early 1950s. A Canadian doctor, he noticed that atherosclerotic plaques in his patients kept forming in the same places. Usually near the heart
where the blood vessels are stretched and bent.
Willis was the first to implicate high blood pressures and the
mechanical stress caused by the heart beat. The Pauling and Rath
theory relies on this observation that plaque does not
form randomly throughout the blood stream. (Note: In a heart bypass,
veins from the leg are used which are without plaque.) Accordingly,
it is unlikely that the primary cause of the lesions leading to heart
disease are "poisons" circulating in the blood. What causes the
stress fractures in the walls of blood vessels that leads to heart
disease? The Pauling/Rath unified theory blames a lack of a
specific protein caused by a specific vitamin deficiency. Visualize
a garden hose being continually stepped on 70-80 times per minute. A
fate similar to the coronary arteries feeding the heart. Like the
garden hose, the arteries lose their strength and stability over time
from wear and tear. According to Pauling, the atherosclerotic
plaques of coronary heart disease form only after cracks or stress
fractures appear. This healing process begins with one very
important "sticky" form of cholesterol.
What is Lp(a) and why is it important?
Lipoprotein(a) "small a" or Lp(a) is a variant of the so called "bad"
LDL cholesterol. Lp(a) is "sticky" substance in the blood that
Pauling and Rath believe is the lipid that begins the process of
forming atherosclerotic plaques in heart disease. The 1985 Nobel
prize in medicine was awarded for the discovery of the cholesterol
binding sites. The so-called Lysine Binding Sites. We now know that
it is Lp(a) and not ordinary cholesterol which binds to form plaque.
Briefly, Lp(a) has lysine (and proline) receptors. You can think of a
chemical receptor as a simple lock and key. Only one key (e.g.
lysine) will fit into the lock (receptor on the Lp(a) molecule.)
There may be multiple receptors on the molecule, but once they are
all filled up with keys (lysine or proline) the Lp(a) molecule looses
its ability to bind with any more "keys." When all the Lp(a) locks
have keys, Lp(a) will no longer be able to create plaque.
Once Linus Pauling learned that Lp(a) has receptors for lysine, he
knew how to counter the atherosclerosis process chemically. His
invention, the Pauling Therapy, is to increase the concentration of
this essential and non-toxic amino acid (and proline) in the blood
serum.
Lysine and proline supplements increase the concentration of free
lysine and proline in the blood. The higher the concentration of the
free lysine (and proline) in the blood, the more likely it is that Lp
(a) molecules will bind with this lysine, rather than the lysine
strands that have been exposed by cracks in blood vessels, or the
other lysine that has been
attracted to the Lp(a) already attached to the blood vessel wall.
According to Pauling, a high concentration of free lysine can destroy
existing plaques.
It is important to keep all this in perspective using the
Pauling/Rath Unified theory. If you are not getting enough vitamin C
to produce collagen, and your blood vessels are wearing down, then
the Lp(a) plaque is of great benefit to you. Simply removing plaque
without restoring the vein or artery to health is like tearing a scab
off a wound. You do not want to
remove the scab until after the tissue underneath has started
healing. Your body needs sufficient vitamin C so your veins and
arteries can heal.
The Unified Theory blames mechanical stresses (high blood pressures,
stretching and bending, etc.) on the blood vessels for exposing
lysine that Lp(a) is attracted to. This explains why plaque doesn't
always form. Atherosclerosis is a healing process. Like a scab,
plaques form after a lesion or injury to the blood vessel wall.
There is an awesome elegance that these binding inhibitors (vitamin
C/lysine) are completely non-toxic. They are also the basic building
blocks of collagen. The unified theory blames poor collagen
production for the entire problem of heart disease. Therefore, the
Pauling Therapy not only melts plaque, but it attacks the root cause
by stimulating the bodies' production of collagen.
With enough collagen, arteries remain strong and plaque free. The
Pauling and Rath theory postulates that the root cause of
atherosclerotic plaque deposits is a chronic vitamin C deficiency
which limits the collagen our bodies can make. A surprising body of
experimental research supports the Pauling/Rath view. Careful
studies with animals that do not make their own endogenous vitamin C
prove that when the dietary intake of the vitamin is low, collagen
production is limited, and blood vessels tend to become thinner and
weaker from wear and tear. Plaque deposits then form to compensate
for this
weakness. Such animals are rare.
Large population studies also support the view that increased vitamin
C intake results in lower incidence of cardiovascular disease and
lower death rates.
Heart Disease is Chronic Scurvy
If you suffer plaque deposits, it is likely you owe your life to this
material that narrows your arteries. Without plaques, your weakened
blood vessels would rupture or leak causing a slow death from
internal bleeding. A slower version of scurvy, the disease long
dreaded by ancient sailors. (James Lind discovered around 1753 that
eating fruit prevents this disease. Acute scurvy can be prevented
by a mere 10 mg vitamin C per day.
This process by itself rarely kills people, but plaque lined arteries
make heart attack more likely from a blood clot or blockage. (Plaque
lined arteries can not easily dilate in response to a clot.) It is
currently unknown what amount of vitamin C prevents the
atherosclerotic plaques of chronic scurvy, but Linus Pauling often
recommended 3000 mg. Many experts think something circulating in
the blood must cause these cracks in our blood "pipes." For many
years, ordinary LDL cholesterol has been blamed because elevated
levels have been correlated with heart disease. Other scientists
correlated elevated homocysteine and oxidized cholesterol. Again,
the confusion is cause and effect. If cholesterol causes cracks or
lesions, plaque should be more randomly distributed throughout the
blood
stream. According to the Pauling/Rath unified theory, both elevated
homocysteine and oxidized cholesterol are symptoms of scurvy.
Is the mainstream finally catching up with Pauling?
Before teaming with Pauling, Dr. Rath's German research team examined
plaque from human aortas (blood vessels near the heart) post-mortem.
They discovered that atherosclerotic plaques are composed primarily
of Lp(a), not ordinary LDL cholesterol.
Mainstream medical science has known since 1989 that Lp(a) binds to
form plaque, not ordinary LDL. Dr. Rath, realized that Lp(a) was
connected somehow with vitamin C and
joined the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine.
Together, Pauling and Rath developed their unified theory which holds
that increased Lp(a) acts as a surrogate for low vitamin C and
hardens weak blood vessels. Their experiments to test their theory
proved that low vitamin C intake will increase blood levels of Lp(a)
in test animals compared to controls.
An important finding is that this sticky Lp(a) (an LDL-like
cholesterol substance) has only been found in the very few animal
species that do not make their own vitamin C, including humans.
Today, most animals:
- Make vitamin C in their livers or kidneys, in large mega"
amounts
(9,000 mg to 12,000 mg adjusted for body weight - which is high by
current medical standards),
- Do not have Lp(a) in their blood.
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Rarely suffer cardiovascular disease.
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We humans are almost unique among life on Earth in that we must get
our vitamin C entirely from the diet.
The Cause Of Heart Disease
Science has known for almost two decades that damage to the walls of
blood vessels (or lesions) are a necessary precondition for the
formation of atherosclerotic plaques in human beings. The most
popular competing theories as to why these lesions occur include:
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Oxidized cholesterol in the blood,
- Elevated levels and oxidized homocysteine in the blood, and
- Vitamin deficiencies
(It is safe to say that few researchers believe that high levels of
fat or cholesterol in the diet are the primary cause of heart
disease. An exception may be researchers working for companies that
offer high priced cholesterol lowering medications. ) In our view,
all competing theories must be able to explain:
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Why occlusive cardiovascular disease does not occur in animals,
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Why infarction's in humans usually occur in the arteries at
locations where the mechanical stress (blood pressure, arterial
bending and stretching, etc.) is a factor, rather than more randomly
distributed throughout the body.
These two observations are the cornerstones of the vitamin C theory.
Furthermore, the early findings of Canadian doctors Patterson and
Willis should not be forgotten. Their research indicated that
arterial tissue levels of ascorbate (vitamin C) are much lower in
heart patients when compared with controls, and that ascorbate
supplementation could reduce arterial deposits. This pioneering work
should have been immediately followed up.
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