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Just wanted to check in with you. How are your clinical studies progressing ? I'm now living in Savannah and have re-newed contact with a friend of min e who is a vascular surgeon. I saw him professionally because of some incompetent leg veins I wanted him to evaluate. He has been interested in altern ative medicine approaches to vascular diseases for a number of years and es pecially interested in the ascorbate relationship. I told him of my similar=
interests and communications with you. We talked of diet, exercise, etc At the end of my checkup he said "let's just take a look at your carotids". H e figured that my being in my 7th decade I would probably have extensive a therosclerotic disease. The ultrasound showed clean left but a small plaque buildup in the right. I was a little surprised that my carotid showed even a small buildup of plaque. My diet is mostly veggie and I had been taking Rath's vitacore plus until about a year an a half ago when I became lax in taking my supplements. I'm assuming this buildup occurred fairly recently?
I felt this would be a good opportunity to study firsthand the effects of the "proper" supplements ( I have never been certain that Rath's supplementsalone were enough) on the reversal of atherosclerotic disease. I told him I wanted to get back on the very best program available and reevaluate my carotids in 6 months. He thought that would be interesting. So .... I'd like your input as to what that program should be - from your recent clinical e xperiences in dealing with these matters. I'd then like to order from you those supplements.
Interestingly, this surgeon has a large dialysis patient load and is concerned with the devastating cardiovascular effects he regularly sees in this p opulation. He might be the one to work with us on ascorbate in ESRD patient s. I haven't spoken with him about this yet.
Thanks for your help,
Cordially,
GVG
Good to hear from you. Sorry about the plaque finding.
Interesting though. What is the amount of vitamin C and lysine in Rath's products that you were taking? (The reason Tower Laboratories formed is because Rath used so little dosages in his products - saying these were the maximum most doctors would "tolerate.") The minimum vitamin C, if you can tolerate it, for CVD is 6000 mg, and I have felt that 10,000 is better and probably very protective. The amount of lysine to reverse is 5000 to 6000 mg daily.
I would recommend Tower's Ascorsine-9, at least one jar, and either Ascorsine-9 or HeartTechnology for the other daily serving . This provides about 6000 vitamin C and 6000 lysine, plus most other things I recommend. You can start here
http://www.paulingtherapy.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=33
And I can help you then start the autoship if you become interested.
If you cannot tolerate that much ordinary vitamin C, then we can discuss the liposomal alternative - Lypo-C from livonlabs.com.
This should cover you for the personal experiment. Let me know.
I also think the "mostly veggie" diet may be an issue, but it is counterintuitive and not something to change for this experiment.
I still would very much wish to see the results of a study in diabetic patients, and if after your experiment the doctor becomes interested, let us know. We can provide free product for the study. (We'll have to work out paying other measurements, but perhaps their insurance or Medicare/Medicade can pay for the tests as we discussed previously.)
Owen