Just checking in. After several months, I hoped to have more positive results, but my Lp(a) and Lp-PLA2 scores seem to be stuck in undesirable ranges. I'm 67 years old and mostly asymptomatic for heart disease. I run and lift weights without pain, but I'm working against a coronary calcium score that has climbed from 225 in 2011 to 655 in July 2015.
Recent blood work:
Lp(a): 36 up from 25
Lp-PLA2: 226
Oxydized LDL: 47 up from 35
LDL 120
HDL-C: 84
Small LDL-Particle number: < 90
Homosysteine: 8.4 down from 9.2
Triglycerides: 85
Ferritin: 87
I've been taking 25-30 grams of ascorbic acid, apx 4 grams l-lysine, and apx 2 grams l-proline for more than a year. This after a more than thirty years of 10-15 grams per day of ascorbic acid. I read Pauling when he published Vitamin C and the Common Cold and got great benefits from it.
Vitamin K dosage is way up: 40-50 mg per day. Vitamin D last tested above 80.
I recently re-read Cathcart, and I am increasing my already large dosage of ascorbic acid. Interestingly enough, I'm up to about 45 grams per day without a hint of bowel overload. My functional medicine MD says the problem must be either infection or toxicity. I had a root canal tooth that could have been a source of chronic infection, but it was removed 7 months ago. Last week I sent more samples to test for heavy metal toxicity, blood, urine, hair analysis. I'm waiting until a year has passed to get another EBT calcium score.
My doctor thinks Lp(a) is set by heredity. Her Lp(a) is 5. Both my parents died of heart disease.
Open to suggestions.