I haven't been following this forum for a couple of years, because the vitamin C/lysine/proline protocol didn't seem to help in my case. My coronary calcium score has been increasing by about 100 points per year since 2011. I've been a Pauling and vitamin C enthusiast for more than thirty years. After taking 4-5 grams per day of vitamin C for so long, by this theory, I shouldn't have heart disease.
There was one dramatic exception, and I'm interested in perspectives from people on this forum. You have always helpful in the past even though I couldn't get desired results.
In January of 2018 after reading Dr. Esselstyn, I started a strict vegetarian diet. The results on my coronary calcium scan were amazing, nearly 100 points drop by September of the same year.
That was great, but 10 months later in July of 2019, the score reverted and went back up by 100 points. I've been trying to comprehend what went wrong ever since. The following year, the calcium score increased by 48 points. Not as bad as in the past, so probably the vegetarian diet isn't a complete loss.
Recently, a friend suggested the dramatic improvement could have been the result of better intestinal bacteria, microbiome health, a benefit of eating lots of fresh vegetables. This is a much discussed theory in the literature. So, I looked for anything that might have worked against the intestinal health. I found something that could be critical. Just after I got the improved coronary calcium score, I contracted a urinary tract infection and had to take an antibiotic, ciprofloxacin. This could very well be the factor that cut off my one positive run against the coronary calcium advance.
Does anybody have comments or experience that would be relevant to this situation?