lostsole wrote:Hi Owen,
I've followed the Pauling info and Levy info for many years, and your forum. Of late my cholesterol is very bad, including my ratios, so I'm doing the Tower products, liposomal, etc. Might have a question now and then so I wanted to sign up.
Cholesterol isn't the cause of heart disease, but if it is high, that is a strong signal that you aren't supplementing enough vitamin C.
That's what I understood, thank you. For me, my triglycerides and LD ratio is terrible. I read a 5 ratio is very bad, and I'm at 9. Should be around 2. So, I'm doing the Ascorsine 9 at three times per day, most days. Sometimes I miss all three doses. And, some liposomal C as well. I take other things also like ACV, magnesium, etc. We'll see what happens.
The idea that cholesterol ratios mean anything has been hard for me to understand. They seem to have been developed to help sell cholesterol-lowering drugs.
I do understand total cholesterol and the idea that 180 mg/dl is probably optimal. As Pauling, citing Ginter, wrote, the higher your total cholesterol is above 220 mg/dl, the more vitamin C you supplement, the more cholesterol will drop and normalize closer to 180 mg/dl,
In my case, something has gone terribly wrong. I can't get my total cholesterol (which was 180 mg/dl for years) above 130 mg/dl.
What do we think we know about triglycerides? These molecules are fat in the blood, probably coming from the liver (where they are made - out of fructose) traveling to their storage home in fat cells. Dr. Atkins was among the first to discover in his patients that carbohydrates increase triglyceride levels. We now know it is the fructose half of ordinary sugar that turns on the "fat switch."
Ideally we'd all be eating mostly glucose, but avoiding ordinary sugar (w/fructose) is almost impossible.