Owen
I used the Tower product for a couple months and then tried Vitacost individual vitamins and chewable C to do Pauling. I just started a your Cardio C and like it. I'm 55 years old, 6' 4" and 215 pounds. I've reduced Zochor to 20 mg per day and would even like to get off it if possible. Cholesterol is now 190 with 4,000 mg Vit C and 3,000 Lysine per day.
1. I'm thinking of changing my auto purchase to jars per month of Cardio C to give me 5 G Vit C and 5 G L-lysine. I like my chewable Vit C and would take a few of those to get me up to 6-8 G per day.
Is this a reasonable course of action to get my cholesterol down and maybe be off Zochor in 6 months or so?
2. You suggest monitoring Lipoprotein (a) as a better measure of risk from plaque. Also saw article in Life Extension about PLAC test for Lp-PLA2. Which of these would you recommend?
3. My brother-in-law, [deleted], attended and later taught for a while at the Air Force Academy about the time you were there according to your bio. Ever run into him?
Thanks in advance,
D.M.
Any vitamin C will improve your health, the only problem with ordinary chewables would be the sugar - which competes with vitamin C, best to take C away from carbs/sugars - not a really big deal, unless you are diabetic.
I'd get off a cholesterol-lowering drug tomorrow, but that's me.
Cholesterol is an important body defense mechanism. These drugs do not treat the disease, they make it worse. They have run over 1000 studies trying to prove they help, with almost no success. If you read this forum, you'll see the recent study that got all the news had virtually identical benefits as the placebo.
I read the LEF article, but I know little about the LEF test. Know that vitamin C is the key to CVD, thank you Linus Pauling. Yes, Lp(a) is the important factor, but it too acts as your friend when you are not taking in enough vitamin C. Your numbers sound good - both intake and cholesterol. If you can take more C, i.e. more Cardio-C I think it is wise.
Its been a while since USAFA - what did he teach? Does he remember me? I graduated in 1976.