Dear Owen,
I am a 62 year old radiologist who was just saved by a stent for an acute occlusion of the LAD, similar to David Leake's experience but I now realize how high dose Vitamin C with lysine and proline can reverse disease over time. I have some disease involving the obtuse marginal, but now that I understand how collagen is formed I can reverse it.
I believe in Linus Pauling and you and there are many others to pass the baton, but I am particularly outraged at what has been going on to suppress the truth about the toxic effects of highly refined vegetables oils (see The Big Fat Surprise.....by Nina Teicholz, I am still reading it and do not know if vitamin C plays a role, since her excellent proof is primarily about how this CVD epidemic could have been prevented by researchers being strictly objective and not capable of being bought off).
Everything falls into place once it is understood that high saturated fat low carbohydrate diets dramatically decease the amount of glucose that can competently inhibit what little Vitamin C may be in the diet (not enough). Without this overload of glucose on a constant basis, thanks to the failed diet heart theory, the incidence of CVD would be less, but not like having a lot more Vitamin C around.
There is conflicting information about maximum blood levels from oral administration and the 30 minute blood clearance of vitamin C. How much vitamin C and proline and lysine should be consumed per unit time for optimal absorption?
It did not escape me that none of the animals that make vitamin C get coronary heart disease, but hearts are quite similar between species. That is, the coronary arteries are all subjected to the same types of mechanical forces not generally found in peripheral arteries. To me that means that they must be getting early lesions BUT are able to heal them properly because of abundant vitamin C.
The other main reason I am writing you is that I have been trying to find Dr. Ely's publications, including one that you mentioned on a website that is almost certainly finished/published by now as well as Dr. Ellis in the 1950's but cannot find the original documents. I need to see them if possible.
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2004/08/04/the_negative_impact_of_sugar_on_vitamin_c.htm
I am going to order your book "Practicing Medicine without a License" from Amazon but note that it is not in Kindle format. If you could give Amazon the permission to do this, this incredible material can spread to a new digital generation much easier. I intend to do all I can to get this information out.
Thanks very much!
Tom Clayton, MD
Houston, Texas
Welcome to the Twilight Zone. Perhaps you sir will play a part in helping (or running) the first published study of the Pauling/Rath unified theory and Pauling's protocol?
To the last point first, Lulu.com has been excellent - until recently when I lost contact. On the advice of Dr. Hickey, we are in the process of moving the book from Lulu to CreateSpace.com. CreateSpace is owned and run by Amazon, support is terrific and one of the first things we plan to do after the conversion/publication is create a Kindle version. (The only downside of changing publishers is that if you visit our book's page on Amazon - it is designated an Amazon "Number One Best Seller" (in its category.) We will be getting a new ISBN, and may lose that Amazon designation. Exactly the same book except for the new ISBN.)
There were a series of articles in the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients by the late Wayne Martin. He had also amassed research showing that the problem was polyunsaturated fats (if memory serves) and not saturated fats.
I haven't spoke to Dr. Ely in many years. (He was living in New Zealand and was being treated for high mercury levels.) I see from this article that Dr. Ely passed in 2011. http://orthomolecular.org/hof/2014/ely.html and I can no longer find his files that used to be on the Univ. of Washington server.
I may write them and maybe we can get them restored.