Dear Owen,
Surprise surpise.
After being on Pauling diet at 7 to 8 grams since 05/11/12 and using Sodium Ascorbate as my Vit C source, I ended up in the Hospital with Congestive Heart failure on 07/30/12, and that after under going Life Line Screening on July 12 and being given an all is well, accept My BLOOD Sodium level was over way over the limit causing my body to retain FAR TOO much FLUID.
Also I am now the proud owner of a DEFIBRILLATOR inserted in my chest.
It appears their screening does little or nothing to detect BODY FLUID LEVELS. It also appears the advice I was given to use SODIUM ASCORBATE was also not the best. I have switched to LYPO-SPHERIC vitamin C, which appears to be much safer.
I am now told that my enlarged heart is operating at 20% of capacity. I would like some help from A PAULING based Cardiologist, because the one I have is not educated in the PAULING System. I am home now and pretty well back to a normal life style but unsure I am doing the right things.
I continue on with the PAULING Regimen, but I do not know if there is any known evidence that improvement and to what degree is possible in my condition.
Any information would be greatly appreciated
Abram
Very sorry to hear of your predicament and experience. I hope you don't mind if we post your email anonymously and quiz you trying to learn as much as we can?
First, Lypo-C is a very good choice, but as Pauling's very first case study points out, the amino acid lysine is a requirement (in addition to vitamin C) for reversal of heart disease.
For the record, after the clean bill of health on July 12, did you change any thing?
Who advised sodium ascorbate? (We generally recommend ascorbic acid, perhaps with some sodium ascorbate to lessen the acidity of large doses).
Now looking at your customer record, I see you started around Mid May 2012, but I see that we only sold you one jar of Cardio-C, (which would provide a therapeutic dosage for about 2 weeks). What products did you try after that, and how much lysine did they contain?
Where did you get the sodium ascorbate?
How old are you, how long have you had heart disease, what drugs are you on, and how much vitamin C prior to last April?
According to CoQ10 expert and author Steven Sinatra, CHF is considered a CoQ10 deficiency "disease" in Europe. It is also known that many drugs, but especially the statin cholesterol-lowering drugs, deplete or interfere with the body's production of CoQ10. (here is the reference
to the he drug ads in Canada which warn Canadian doctors about this. The FDA does not require that US doctors be warned. http://naturesperfectstatin.com/warn.htm)
If I were in your shoes, I would increase my coq10 supplementation from 600 to 1200 mg daily, perhaps 200-400 mg with meals. (Must have fat in digestive tract (bile) for CoQ10 to be absorbed.) You can reduce to a maintenance level after the CHF is gone. I note that you have my book. I would try to follow all the recommendations in Chapter 7. http://www.practicingmedicinewithoutalicense.com/protocol/ They are all made for a reason.
As far as salt levels, it seems doubtful that the sodium ascorbate is responsible, without knowing the dosage. I would like to know how much you were taking. More likely is a problem with your adrenal hormones, caused by your body adjusting to low salt intake.
Dr. David Brownstein discovered literature showing that in people with high blood pressure, salt restriction increased the chance of a heart attack over 450%! The reason was a hormone imbalance as the body attempts to keep what little salt it can. After all, the salt content of your blood stream is about the same as the ocean, or should be.
There are educated people at this forum who know more about electrolyte imbalance, and the causes. High salt might indicate another common problem, adrenal fatigue, but I'll wait to see what our professor thinks.
As far as proof/evidence, I don't know David Leake, but he just wrote a pretty convincing book or what happened to him (after 17 years of heart disease) after he found our web site,
http://www.amazon.com/Patented-Heart-Disease-Cure-Works/dp/1475122926/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344610839&sr=8-1&keywords=david+leake+heart+disease
We started a topic on his book, which includes links to his medical records, http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10059