Is it necessary to take Proline too?

[Xina08]

Hello. I'm a newbie here. I'm 54 yrs old and heart-disease runs in my family, so I'm trying to prevent arteriosclerosis. After only very recently stumbling upon and learning about the Pauling Therapy, I started the program about 3 wks ago.

After calculating doseage according to my weight, I've been taking 5.34 grams of Vit C (NOW Foods Calcium Ascorbate, buffered), 2.61 grams of Lysine (Nature's Life), and 2 grams of Proline (Source Naturals) - all powder forms I disolve in a cup of water divided 3 times per day.

The C & L dissolve nicely in water & taste like almost nothing, very tolerable, I just suck it back without any aftertaste. But the Proline tastes rank & nasty. My question is: do I really need to take the Proline?

[pamojja]

Interesting. Take those powders for many years together with much more nasty powders, like Alpha-lipoic-acid or Nicotinic acid, and therefore use Stevia extract to improve its taste, that I haven't even become aware Proline tastes nasty. Just tried it plain on my tongue (Source Natural too), and yes, now I can imagine that some would consider its taste offensive. Not me though.

Personally I would not take the risk to take it without Proline.. Bitter medicine improves the placebo effect too.

[BrightSideOfLife]

My Proline doesn't taste bad at all. It tastes fairly sweet. I bought 500g of powder from a company in the UK and not Source Naturals. BTW Source Naturals have received a lot of criticism for some of the their products. I no longer use their products.

I didn't purchase the Proline for Pauling therapy, I purchased it for collagen and healing a skin wound but like a lot of the stuff I buy, I found it had other useful properties. I did the same with Lysine, I purchased that for to aid a skin wound/scar and found it useful for Pauling therapy. My family has a history of heart and circulatory disease with both my father and his father dying before the age of 60. I suspect a genetic polymorphism of folate metabolism but so far have not got it tested to find out. I do supplement with folates and P-5-P to help things along.

BTW Boron is meant to be helpful in keeping calcium where it is meant to be. I do take Boron, around 15mg/day.

[pamojja]

My Proline doesn't taste bad at all. It tastes fairly sweet. I bought 500g of powder from a company in the UK and not Source Naturals.

Proline isn't widely available in Europe, or rather expensive. Source Naturals through iherb seemed the only reasonable priced option to me. Therefore, which is the UK company you get it from?

Thanks.

[BrightSideOfLife]

[BrightSideOfLife]