Im feeling old as I read actors like
bernie mac
James Avery ... saying the guy who played Uncle Phil
elvis?
mel banc
I find it really hard to imagine that these people, who died of CAD issues, could be still alive if they had just taken a few(10+grams) of vitamin C?
This is NOT what I was taught in school and Ive spent years learning about the human body.
I'm wanting to ask my old teachers their thoughts about Pauling Therapy.
Specifically teachers who taught Human physiology and human biochemistry
Here's basically what I'm going to write, I'd like comments to make sure I am not short changing Pauling Therapy
I'm asking this because I have pieced this together, I cannot find a page/site that just explains wtf causes heart disease?
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Hi
I have a question about Heart disease. I've been reading about high dose vitamin C therapy, known as Pauling Therapy, to prevent heart disease.
Pauling therapy says the cause of Heart disease is from a lack of vitamin C in the diet. Vitamin C is needed to produce collagen.. Collagen is needed to repair/maintain blood vessels.
When a person has low/no Vitamin C. the body can't make collagen and can't repair blood vessels. The body must repair blood vessels, so it uses Lipoprotein(a) (also called Lp(a) or LPA) is a lipoprotein subclass.
Lpa is used to repair the blood vessels... the problem with LPA is it can bind more lpa and it will cause plaques to form in the blood vessal and slowly occuld the vessel .
Lpa is a poor substitute for collagen, but the body must repair the blood vessals.
Pauling therapy is a solution to prevent heart disease by making sure a person takes in grams 6+grams of vitamin C /day so a person always has enough VitC to make collagen. and the body never needs to use LPA.
The other part of Pauling therapy is to take a few grams of Lysine/proline. These amino acids can bind to LPA in arteries and both prevent more LPA from binding to form plaques, but also will help to destabilize the plaques molecule by molecule
and clear it out
do you have any thoughts about this?