Hi owen ,
I was wondering if you could help me, i recently purchased a few tubs of the Tower cardio-ade for my mum as she had a recent heart attack. A friend advised me that the amount of vitamin c in the dose prescribed could not be absorbed unless is was binded with lecithin in an ultrasonic machine, i looked into this and read the same info.
Now i assume that you and everyone at pauling therapy (inc linus himself) have done the necessary research to ascertain the correct dose needed to be of most benefit, so i thought i would ask your advice about this absorption matter.
Any help would be gratefully accepted
Kind regards
I think what you were told has a grain of truth, in that the liposomal form is probably better absorbed than ordinary powder. It is not true that vitamin C is not absorbed without lecithin.
Our Pauling-therapy experience is mostly with ascorbic acid powder and our recent experiments have convinced me that the first 4000 mg of ascorbic acid by mouth is equivalent to intravenous (at least on an empty stomach). http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11944 Few people have to take more than 4000 mg at one time, so there is no theoretical benefit of making ascorbic acid liposomal. (For heart disease. Infections may require daily amounts exceeding 200,000 mg of regular powder.)
Most commercial liposomes are made from sodium ascorbate and we have worried that truly encapsulated liposomes might be absorbed into cells and not have the same Lp(a) unbinding effect that free ascorbate (with lysine) seem to have in the blood stream.
Fortunately, most home made "liposomes" (using lecithin and the ultrasonic cleaner) have been found to be emulsions, meaning the vitamin C is likely to be free ascorbate in the blood stream.
At present I would question the value in liposomal vitamin C for heart disease, except in cases of very low bowel tolerance.
The lecithin itself may have some utility against heart disease.