stcrim wrote:I have been a member of Track Your Plaque for the past 3 plus years. There are lots of good folks there but not many that will give Vitamin C any consideration.
Not quite accurate.
Before giving my opinion about vitamin C and cardiovascular disease, I will just disclosure my bias. My vitamin C
heroes are late Drs. Klenner and Cathcart. Dr. Levy too. I have a lot of respect for their clinical experience. I haven't read any book by Linus Pauling or Dr. Rath. I gave a try to
Dr. Rath's one though. AFAIK it is in this book where the only data in support of coronary artery calcium plaque reversal by vitamin C is presented. I think that piece of evidence is really very scarce. I think that the unified hypothesis proposed by Dr. Rath has not conclusive experiment results backing it up.
Moreover, I don't have in very good regard Dr. Rath's opinions and hypothesis since searching information about vitamin C and AIDS. Where
Dr. Cathcart's approach was to titrate vitamin C to AIDS patients (50-200g/day),
Dr. Rath's one as far as I can discern is to supplement low amounts (anything bellow saturation) of it. I side with late Dr. Cathcart any time. You must be aware of
Dr. Rath's methods too.
Why does anything of these matter? Because the scientific method as
brilliantly formalized by Popper needs scientists to design experiments focused into falsify their hypothesis. I am not aware of any of this kind for the unified hypothesis of cardiovascular disease. In contrast, although informally, the Track Your Plaque group mainly directed by
Dr. Davis has been checking and updating its approach for some years now.
They once included vitamin C.
They didn't see an effect on calcium score reversal. So they did consider it and later discarded it upon lack of results.
Does vitamin C have any other positive effect on cardiovascular health? I would think it has. I wouldn't be surprised if it even negates any myocardial infarction possibility. Nevertheless I am unconvinced of the necessity of daily mega doses once focused on vitamins D and K2, magnesium, low carb and low omega-6, so I take 3g/day (more or less a carnivorous liver production) just in case. I don't take any aminoacids outside of my food though.