Your book "Practicing Medicine Without a License" was an absolute eye opener. Very well written and quite informative on the cause of Atherosclerosis. I referred your book to two friends. It is very sad that the medical establishment is more motivated by profit than actually helping their patients with natural products other than pharmaceuticals, stents, surgery etc.
The medical profession is generally an unwitting tool of Big Pharma. I think most doctors want to help their patients and see them get better, believe that what they do is based on science, and find an answer as simple as vitamin C too hard to believe.
You might remember the story of the Look-ahead-pharmacist who gave lectures on drugs in the pipeline to cardiologists. He played to packed houses, but after finding our web pages during his research, he dopped what he was planning to lecture on, and gave a group of Cardiologists a lecture on Pauling's Unified Theory.
After the lecture, these cardiologists stood up as one - angry. Not at Mr. Gelber, but at the Medical Journals for not informing them!
When I respected advanced pharmacist brings the information, it was suddenly believable. .
I have been a vegetarian for many years. To my dismay and shock I learned that my Calcium arterial scan read a high 2200 despite having no outward symptoms of any disease at the age of 78.
The first thing that runs through my is mind, what medications are you taking?
There are hundreds of medications that block that action of vitamin K leading to a build-up of calcium on the outside of the arterial wall. I don't believe a vegetarian could have calcium build-ups unless they are taking medications. Can you prove me wrong?
Vitamin C and Lysine by themselves seem to have little immediate affect on calcium scores, although Dr. Sydney Bush did report reversals long-term, in a year or so. Vitamin K is the key to controlling these high calcium scores, visit the following link which contains that story explaining why we now recommend Vitamin K along with Pauling's basic recommendation. (LEF.ORG's Super-K has kept my wife and my calcium scores at zero. I pill daily)
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That was 3 years ago. For 22 months thereafter, I was convinced that the Ornish/Esselstyn therapy of living foods and low oil and fat was the way to go to lower my calcification....only to be shocked and disappointed when my score rose to 2400. For 8 months thereafter I did the Dr. Gary Mezo therapy called Nanobac. Yes, the therapy worked but not to my expectations. The calcium score only went down 2% ....at least it didn't go up! I am now doing Plaquex and Cavadex IV therapies. The Cavadex uses beta cyclodextrin to remove calcification. But neither of these 2 protocols get to the source of the problem which seems to be a genetic disposition for high lipoprotein (a) aggravated by other factors like homocysteine, c-reactive protein, low levels of D3 and K2, oxidized cholesterol etc etc. In fact the genetic company, 23 & Me, just hooked up with a Pharmaceutical firm for research on LP (a). Owen, they should have called you up for an easy solution using the Linus Pauling research.
Keep on a high vitamin C, lysine protocol and include at least one Super-K vitamin K pill daily, and I predict a much lower calcium score within a year, perhaps even zero.
Let us know.
I spoke yesterday to Sally of Tower Labs. Her suggestion was to use 1 scoop of the Heart Tech during the morning, 1 scoops of Heart Tech later in the day, and two of the Ascorsine at night as it could be the Creatine that is accentuating the flatulence problem in the Ascornine. Also, it was agreed taking the product after after having food.
I am a little versed in the work of the cardiologist Dr. Roberts in Ohio. In some of his old papers he mentioned Heart Tech for vitamin C and for those who have a toleration problem to take a buffered Vitamin C complexed with GMS-Ribose. I confirmed with his office that this was American Nutraceuticals Vitality C. I have been led to believe that a buffered solution may not be as effective as ascorbic acid as proclaimed by Dr. Linus Pauling.
Thank you for your suggestions. I will check out Cardio C and I like your idea of sipping the product throughout the day and taking less.
Best, M
I had not considered that creatine might be the culprit, since most people have difficulty with vitamin C. Sally's protocol should let you know whether it was the creatine or not.
Now we have learned quite a bit since we wrote the book, thanks to a fine gentlemen, Anthony William, who claims that an otherworldly source provides him with health information. True or false, I have not been able to find serious flaws or contradictions in his now 8 major books.
These books were written, we are told, to help us understand and combat viruses that cause chronic disease in millions (and if you believe the source, all pathogenic viruses, that had been benign, have been altered (and are now created) in clandestine labs since the early 1900s, including the cold and flu.)
The second main message is the importance of glucose, Glucose powers the body, including the heart muscle, is vital to both the brain and liver, so much so that these organs store it so that we may survive during periods of shortage, and is required for healing, etc.
Refined table sugar is only half glucose, and creates the bad image. Fruits, on the other hand, have the perfect combinations of sugars (esp. glucose) attached to many nutrients and phytochemicals, and happen to be the best cancer fighting foods on the planet, but I digress.
And they say there is an absolute requirement to minimize fat in the diet. As a vegetarian, you most likely fit well into this scenario.
The Medical Medium makes the claim that all nutrients require glucose before they can be absorbed into cells, and this is because insulin is key. So rather than fear that glucose competes with vitamin C, apparently vitamin C and other nutrients can "attach" to glucose, and are drawn into cells. The other half of the equation is that fat clogs the glucose receptors on cells for some period, blocking glucose (and vitamin C) uptake. So a firm rule should be to keep fat intake low, and/or take your supplements, especially vitamin C before eating any fats.
I speculate that the reason such high doses of oral vitamin C are required is because they initiate an insulin response, like glucose does. In theory, this would mean that less vitamin C might be necessary for the same positive effects when taken with glucose. In your case, say taking your vitamin C with a healthy fruit smoothie, you might not require nearly the dosages we generally recommend, which may help reduce the flatulence issue.
