Cardiovascular Disease:
The Road To Recovery
Natural Therapy and Prevention
Jonathan L. Campbell
Contents
Introduction........................................................................................................................... 2
1. The Cause of
Cardiovascular Disease................................................................................ 4
2. Finding a Cure................................................................................................................... 7
3. The Therapy: A Cure and
Preventive for Cardiovascular Disease...................................... 10
4. The Role of the Medical
System....................................................................................... 20
5. The Eradication of Heart
Disease..................................................................................... 22
Appendix A: Lifestyle
Recommendations.............................................................................. 23
Appendix B: Step-by-Step
Introduction to the Therapy........................................................ 24
Appendix C: Maintenance
Regimen...................................................................................... 26
Appendix D: Acute Illness
Regimen...................................................................................... 27
Appendix E: Safe Testing
Protocols..................................................................................... 29
Appendix F: The Six Stages
of Cardiovascular Disease........................................................ 31
Introduction _______________________________________
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is universal. It accounts for more
than 40 percent of deaths in the United States, and affects untold millions of
people worldwide, condemning them to a short life characterized by
debilitation, pain, and misery. Mainstream medical science and billions of
dollars of research have not produced cures for heart disease, Type II
diabetes, high blood pressure, or many other afflictions caused by
atherosclerosis – arteries clogged with sticky plaques. What medical research
has produced are drug treatments with troublesome side effects and painful,
invasive surgical procedures. The medical establishment has refused to consider
natural remedies. Nevertheless, such a remedy has been developed and clinically
proven, as will be explained below.
The human body has an amazing capacity to heal itself. The cells and their supporting structures – including collagen, connective tissue, and cartilage – are all in a continual state of flux: growth, destruction, replication, and renewal. This self-healing is at the basis of what are called natural remedies or natural therapies. These remedies, which are based on nutrients and extracts derived from food sources or common medicinal plants, correct the nutritional deficiencies that are at the basis of many chronic illnesses.
Illness begins as a chemical or biological toxic assault or
nutrient deficiency at the cellular level. We experience chronic illness –
organ failure or immune system collapse — when millions of cells are affected
and do not function properly. For example, in heart disease the heart muscle
does not receive adequate nutrition because the coronary artery has become
clogged. In order to restore health, natural remedies restore proper cellular
function, or help the body isolate and replace cells that have gone awry, by
supplying very large quantities of the nutrients that the cells need. Natural
remedies concentrate vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other healing substances in
the form of extracts, tablets, or capsules. Thus they flood the cells with
nutrients that we normally receive from our food in much smaller quantities.
These concentrated nutrients then provide the proper environment for healing
to take place.
In the late 1980s a young German physician and medical
researcher named Matthias Rath, discovered the root
cause of cardiovascular disease: deficiency of a simple nutrient, ascorbate
(vitamin C). He formed a collaboration with Linus
Pauling, the famous biochemist and founder of modern chemistry, and together
they gathered evidence demonstrating that this nutrient deficiency causes a
chain of events that leads to cardiovascular disease.
Armed with this knowledge and an analysis of how the plaques that cause cardiovascular disease are formed, Rath and Pauling proposed a simple therapy to bind and remove the plaques while healing the artery wall. In short, they had developed a cure and preventive for CVD. However, government agencies, the medical establishment, and the major media were not interested. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) refused to test the therapy. Hundreds of billions of dollars of investment and future revenue for drug companies, medical equipment companies, for-profit hospitals, ambulance companies, and heart surgeons and specialists would be threatened by an inexpensive, simple, and safe cure and preventive for cardiovascular disease.
The therapy described in this booklet provides a natural,
nutrient‑based regimen for unclogging arteries, including those that
supply nutrients and oxygen to the heart and the brain, thus helping to prevent
heart disease and strokes and speeding the healing of the body if these have have already occurred.
Chapter 1 _______________________________
The conventional wisdom with regard to cardiovascular disease
(CVD), which is caused by the clogging of arteries, is that injuries, or
lesions, develop on the artery walls, and that LDL
cholesterol collects there and forms a sticky mass, called a “plaque,” that
eventually stops blood flow and may cause the artery to burst. Almost no one in the medical system asks the
following basic questions about this degenerative process:
1. Why do the lesions form in
the first place?
2. What attracts these plaques
to the site of the lesion?
3. What are the plaques really made of and why do they
stick to the arterial walls?
4. Why don’t most animals get
heart disease?
These questions were an early concern of Matthias Rath, a young research physician in
Rath and Pauling realized that one of
the effects of the level of vitamin C deficiency widespread in the human
population is the breakdown of the wall of the artery, the “lesion” that leads
to CVD. This made perfect sense, because our arteries—like all other parts of
our bodies—need continual repair. The repair material, called collagen, needs
vitamin C in order to be created.
With insufficient vitamin C, the human body simply cannot
repair itself. Most animals produce huge amounts of vitamin C on their own.
Only humans, other primates, guinea pigs and a few other animals cannot do so,
and must consume vitamin C in order to survive.[2] If we took
in no vitamin C at all, we would get scurvy — that is the total breakdown of
muscle tissue and arteries that leads to internal hemorrhaging. We would
literally bleed to death.
It became clear to Rath and Pauling
why most animals do not get CVD: They produce sufficient ascorbate to
continually repair and renew their artery walls. They also found that most
animals had extremely low or undetectable amounts of lipoprotein(a) in their
blood: either they were not capable of producing much of it or their levels of ascorbate prevented it
from forming.
In the course of their collaboration, Rath
and Pauling proved their hypothesis that the root cause of heart disease — the
arterial lesions — resulted from insufficient vitamin C intake. Their next task
would be to understand the complete mechanism of CVD — specifically, why the
lipoprotein(a) was attracted to the disintegrating artery wall.
Again they found the cause to be Vitamin C insufficiency. The
material that the body uses to repair itself is collagen. It does this by
combining ascorbate (Vitamin C) with two amino acids, lysine and proline.
Without sufficient ascorbate in the bloodstream, the body uses lipoprotein(a)
as a substitute, binding it to fragments of lysine and proline.
Thus if there is not enough vitamin C to manufacture collagen,
a sticky coating of lipoprotein(a) gets deposited along the many miles of
arteries in our bodies where lysine and proline should have been converted to
collagen. Eventually, depending on the concentration of lipoprotein(a) in the
blood, it builds into plaques, clogging or restricting the arteries, and
causing angina, heart attacks, congestive heart failure, high blood pressure,
and other cardiovascular diseases.
Finally, Rath and Pauling found that
if the body has sufficient ascorbate, it produces little, if any, lipoprotein(a)
in the bloodstream.[3] Thus
the very protein that creates plaques when there isn’t enough ascorbate is also
itself created only under these specific conditions. Rath
and Pauling hypothesized that this reaction, along with the creation of
lipoprotein(a) in the first place, is a “compensating reaction” to ascorbate
deficiency.[4]
Rath and Pauling concluded that blood
concentration of lipoprotein(a), not elevated LDL cholesterol, appeared to be
the main risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease.[5] Hence
their work shows that the typical “cholesterol screening” done on millions of
people each year is practically useless because it does not measure
lipoprotein(a) levels.
So what is the
relevance of cholesterol blood levels? Cholesterol is a basic building block
and a carrier of nutrients in the bloodstream. Balanced cholesterol is
necessary for good health. It is supposed to be regulated by being metabolized,
that is, converted to bile and excreted through the intestines. Large
quantities of ascorbate (vitamin C) are needed for this conversion to take
place.[6]
High cholesterol counts are caused by vitamin C deficiency. If
you do not have enough vitamin C, excess cholesterol and lipoprotein(a) will
build up in your bloodstream. So vitamin C is needed to reduce the level of
lipoprotein(a) and to keep cholesterol in proper balance.
In summary, Pauling and Rath had solved the puzzle of cardiovascular disease:
1. Most humans are seriously
deficient in vitamin C (compared with other animals, which do not develop cardiovascular
disease).
2. A chain reaction caused by
vitamin C deficiency leads to the production and depositing of lipoprotein(a)
on the artery wall, the formation of plaques, and cardiovascular disease.
3. In the absence of sufficient
vitamin C, the risk of cardiovascular disease is determined by the
concentration of lipoprotein(a) in the bloodstream, which is closely related to
the known risk factors for heart disease.
They published these findings in 1991 in their groundbreaking
paper, “Solution to the Puzzle of Human Cardiovascular Disease,” in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.
A Note About Type II Diabetes: it is a side effect of cardiovascular disease
In recent years Dr. Rath did some
research on the links between CVD and Type II (age-onset) diabetes. Many
diabetics have CVD and vice versa. The same therapy used for CVD reduces the
severity of diabetes and enables diabetic patients to restore and maintain the
health of their cardiovascular system.
There are many theories about the root cause of diabetes. What is known is that there is a direct connection between cardiovascular disease and diabetes: that all people who have diabetes also have cardiovascular disease, and that many people who have cardiovascular disease are diabetic or become diabetic.
What is the connection? What is known is that Type II diabetes is caused by insulin insensitivity. Recent research suggests that this insulin insensitivity is caused by the blocking of insulin receptors by lipoprotein(a), the same sticky protein that is the direct cause of cardiovascular disease. This receptor blockage leads to a deadly cycle of insulin overproduction, periodic hypoglycemia (deficiency of blood sugar) and hyperglycemia (too much blood sugar), competition between excess blood sugar and vitamin C, and reduced metabolism of fats, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients. Diabetes then accelerates CVD progression by aggravating Vitamin C deficiency at the cellular level.
Large doses of vitamin C increase insulin sensitivity,
decreasing the need for the supplemental insulin that is considered to be a
direct measure of the severity of diabetes.[7] Also,
historically, the resolution of cardiovascular disease by diet and exercise
regimens has also resolved diabetes.[8] At this
time there is no adequate explanation for this correlation. It is likely that
when the layers of lipoprotein(a) are removed from the entire vascular system
and proper circulation and cellular nutrition are restored, the insulin receptors become viable again.
Chapter 2
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Finding A Cure
Armed with the complete knowledge of the root cause
of CVD and its progression, Rath and Pauling could
authoritatively state that ascorbate supplements would prevent cardiovascular
disease. They could also now proceed to hypothesize a remedy: a regimen to
reverse CVD and restore the vascular wall to a healthy state.
In their 1991 paper, cited in the previous chapter, Pauling and
Rath proposed the administration of therapeutic
amounts of vitamin C and lysine, the vitamin C to allow the artery lesions to
form collagen and heal properly, and the lysine to bind to the lipoprotein(a),
removing it from the artery lesions.
One of Pauling’s colleagues had been trying to use large doses
of vitamin C alone to address his heart problems, but with little success.
Pauling suggested adding large doses of lysine, and it apparently worked. His
friend reported that he was able to return to a
normal, active, healthy life.[9] Other
friends, colleagues, and acquaintances had similar experiences. The therapy
literally reversed their heart disease symptoms. Through various journals and
other contacts, Rath and Pauling encouraged people to
try the regimen and report the results. There were similar astounding results:
the complete reversal of cardiovascular disease.
Pauling and Rath had thus developed a
simple, inexpensive dietary therapy for CVD using over-the-counter supplements
available in any health food or vitamin store: vitamin C and lysine. We will
see later how the medical system ignored and marginalized this great discovery.
After Pauling died in 1994, Rath
continued the work that they had begun together. By means of more research and
clinical trials he proved that the therapy was effective in reversing heart
disease. He also improved the effectiveness of the regimen by adding other
nutrients, notably proline and coenzyme-Q10.
It is probable that Pauling and Rath
had inadvertently also discovered why chelation therapy, which has been used
for more than forty years by some doctors in the United States and almost
universally in Canada, successfully removes plaques from the arteries and thus
temporarily reverses the symptoms of CVD.
Chelation therapy involves the intravenous infusion of an
amino-acid-like substance called EDTA into the bloodstream. Used primarily to
detoxify people from metal poisoning, chelation was found to be effective for
CVD. The therapy is very successful and fairly inexpensive: $2,500 in contrast
to the $40,000 to $100,000 usually spent for angioplasty or coronary bypass
surgery. According to Michael Murray in the Encyclopedia
of Natural Medicine, it has been used with more than 500,000 patients
without any deaths or significant side effects.[10]
The mechanism by which EDTA chelation therapy binds to arterial
plaques has never been fully understood. Given what Pauling and Rath discovered about the nature of arterial plaques, it is
likely that EDTA binds with the lipoprotein(a) that has been bound to the
lysine and proline at the sites of the lesions, thus removing the plaques.
However, EDTA chelation therapy is not a complete therapy
because it does not address the underlying cause of plaque formation — the
deterioration of artery walls and the formation of lesions resulting from
ascorbate deficiency. Without sufficient vitamin C supplementation, the
lesions cannot heal properly and cardiovascular disease returns.
This therapy must be administered by a physician or a nurse in
an extended visit to a medical office. EDTA is a synthetic chemical that can
have toxic side effects on the kidneys if not administered carefully. In
contrast, the CVD reversal remedy developed by Rath
and Pauling is even more effective, safer, less intrusive, and less expensive
than chelation therapy. The Pauling–Rath therapy may
be self-administered using easily available nutritional supplements without any
changes in routine. The chelating agents in this therapy, lysine and proline,
are completely safe and have no toxic effects. These amino acids are a natural
part of the food that we eat. The combination of lysine, proline, and vitamin C
prevents the recurrence of CVD because it addresses its root cause: ascorbate
deficiency.
The Early CVD Pioneers and the Diet and Exercise Regimens
More than twenty five years ago, a man named Nathan Pritikin resolved his own heart insufficiency by designing
a regimen of exercise and a low-fat, nearly vegetarian diet. After helping
others to use the same regimen to overcome their cardiovascular ailments, Pritikin published a pioneering book, Live Longer Now, which spelled out his regimen and provided case
studies.
Around the same time, Dr. Julian Whitaker, who had worked with Pritikin, began successfully treating patients with a
similar regimen that included fairly large doses of vitamin C – 3,000 to 6,000
mg. per day. Dr. Whitaker still uses this same regimen for his patients today,
with the addition of large doses of other dietary supplements.
In the 1980s, Dr. Dean Ornish began
using a regimen of low-fat diet, exercise, and yoga (stretching, relaxation,
and meditation). He proved to the American Medical Association that it worked,
and published a book, Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease.
From what we know now about CVD, we must ask: Why are these
regimens working? The success of Whitaker’s regimen is obvious. He was
prescribing vitamin C based on Linus Pauling’s early research. He was, and
still is, providing people with as much vitamin C as they would have produced
if they could make their own, according to an article that he wrote for Prevention magazine.[11]
Dr. Whitaker’s diet is loaded with green vegetables and other
sources of lysine, as well as fresh fruit, a source of bioflavonoids,
substances that enhance the action of vitamin C. The exercise he prescribes
increases the flow of vitamin C and lysine to the diseased arteries, slowly
healing them and allowing the plaques to disintegrate.
Similarly, in Ornish’s and Pritikin’s regimens, moderate to heavy exercise, lysine
from fresh vegetables, along with vitamin C and bioflavonoids from fresh fruit,
allow the body to gradually dissolve the plaques and heal the walls of the
arteries.
It is interesting to note that these early regimens, especially
Whitaker’s, came very close to addressing the root cause of CVD, without an
apparent awareness of what was really going on. Combined with higher doses of vitamin
C for collagen replacement and healing of the artery walls, and lysine and
proline for efficient removal of the plaques, these diet and exercise regimens
are a good basis for long-term health. Dr. Dean Ornish's
above-mentioned book is an excellent “life change manual” that combines diet,
exercise, and stress management.
A Remedy from History:
Bioflavonoids
When the French explorer Jacques Cartier led an
expedition into
Researchers have identified this extract and several other
bioflavonoids — natural compounds that help the body to make collagen, and
thus to repair blood vessels properly.
They are natural chemicals found in grape skins, grape seeds,
blueberries and other dark-colored berries, and Atlantic pine bark extract (Pycnogenol). They are called bioflavonoids, or, more
scientifically, oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPCs).
They are very powerful anti-oxidants that also enhance the effects and
bioavailability of vitamin C.
for Cardiovascular Disease
Before describing the Pauling-Rath
therapy for cardiovascular disease, let us summarize the information from the
previous two chapters:
1. The root cause of heart
disease (angina, heart attack, cardiac arrhythmia, congestive heart failure)
and the other CVD-related illnesses (stroke, peripheral vascular disease, Type
II diabetes, high blood pressure) are the results of a chain of events caused
by vitamin C deficiency. Most people are deficient in Vitamin C.
2. The lack of sufficient
vitamin C makes it impossible for the body to produce collagen for the
continual repair of the artery walls.
3. Disrepair of the artery
walls exposes lesions in which the amino acids lysine and proline – precursors
of collagen – are present. If sufficient vitamin C were present, these amino acids
would be converted to collagen.
4. A sticky protein called
lipoprotein(a) is attracted to the lysine and proline at the lesions. Plaques
of lipoprotein(a) are formed in arteries all over the body. The speed of plaque
formation is regulated by the amount of lipoprotein(a) in the bloodstream. This
varies among individuals, may be genetic, and is regulated by vitamin C
concentration.
5. These plaques block the
coronary arteries. The muscle cells of the heart become starved of nutrients,
resulting in angina, cardiac arrhythmia, congestive heart failure, and
myocardial infarction (heart attack). They block or burst the carotid arteries
or other arteries to or inside the brain, causing cerebral vascular disease
(stroke). They cause high blood pressure by reducing blood flow throughout the
body, forcing the heart to compensate and pump harder.
6. Type II diabetes and CVD are
closely linked. Type II diabetes, which is caused by insulin insensitivity,
accelerates CVD progression because high blood sugar levels interfere with
vitamin C metabolism.
7. To reverse cardiovascular
disease, the body needs:
·
Vitamin C to repair the arterial lesions with collagen.
·
Lysine and proline to bind to the lipoprotein(a) plaque material and
remove it from the lesions.
·
Sufficient circulation to get these nutrients to the sites of the
lesions and plaques.
·
Additional vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients to restore cellular
nutrition and heart muscle health.
·
For people with Type II diabetes or weight problems, chromium to
rebalance insulin metabolism. This is frequently included in a good high
potency multi-vitamin.
What I present below is the therapy suggested by Pauling and Rath, and later enhanced and verified by Rath, with some additions for basic nutritional support
based on articles in the Encyclopedia of
Natural Medicine by Dr. Michael Murray and Dr. Joseph Pizzorno,
and articles by Dr. Julian Whitaker, one of the early CVD pioneers and
publisher of the Health and Healing
newsletter. For step-by-step instructions on how to get started on this
regimen, see Appendix B.
I. Basic Recommendations for Recovery from Cardiovascular Disease
The nutritional supplements
listed below are available at Amazon.
If you do not wish to swallow so many pills, you may
also purchase the vitamin C, lysine, and proline in powdered form (available
from www.iherb.com) and dissolve them in a flavored soy protein drink. It is
essential to use a non-GMO (not genetically modified) or organic product such
as Spirutein non-GMO or Naturade
Organic. Some of these products are flavored – and quite good tasting – and
hide the taste of the supplements. For sweetener, use Stevia, a natural
non-glycemic sweetener.
The amounts
needed should be modified by body weight, using 160 lbs
body weight as the basis. (Thus if you weigh 200 lbs,
increase the doses by 1/4; if you weigh 240 lbs,
increase by 1/2, etc.)
Note on
pharmaceutical drugs prescribed for cardiovascular disease: After you have
taken the regimen below for several months and you see and feel improvements,
you may consider tapering off some the medications you have been prescribed. See
the note on “What to discuss with your doctor” at the end of this chapter
The following is a brief summary of the regimen,
followed by explanations for each component.
These 11 items constitute the primary regimen for
cardiovascular disease reversal. I recommend that you start with these. Vitamin
C, Lysine, Proline, and Glycine can be obtained in powder form for mixing into
juice for convenience. Sweeten with Stevia or Truvia.
1. Vitamin C (Recommended: Calcium Ascorbate): 2,000 mg.
at each meal, three times a day
2. Lysine and Proline: 2,000 mg. of each at each meal,
three times a day
3. Glycine: 4,000 mg at each meal, three times a day
4. Calcium (500-750 mg) and magnesium (200 mg) twice a
day with food. (If you use Calcium Ascorbate for Vitamin C, reduce each Calcium
dose by 200 mg.)
5. Zinc (30 mg) and copper (2 mg) daily with food (This
may be provided by the multi supplement, next item.)
6. High-potency multi-vitamin and mineral supplementation.
Be sure that it provides about 400 IU of vitamin E per day. Recommended: Life
Extension Two Per Day.
7. Vitamin D3: 5000-10,000 IU per day
8. Organic flaxseed oil: two tablespoons (30 ml) per day
9. Potassium citrate: 500 mg twice per day, or four times
per day if you are not eating and drinking foods rich in potassium (organic orange
or tomato juice, bananas, whole grains).
10. Water: at least two quarts (64 fluid ounces, eight
full cups, two liters) per day
11. Mild exercise, such as walking or gentle yoga
stretches
12. Close monitoring by a physician who is open to natural
healing
The following supplements can be added. They are important
for lowering high blood pressure.
13. Pharmaceutical-grade fish oil - 2000 mg EPA/1000 mg
14. Arginine - 6000 mg per day, take 2000 mg three times
per day. Can be increased to 12,000 mg per day
15.
16. Garlic 1500 mg per day (3 500 mg capsules delivering
5000 micrograms allicin each)
17. Quercetin - 2400 mg per day, take 800 mg three times
per day
The following may be taken to help clear blood clots
from a non-leaking stroke:
18. Turmeric Extract – 4000 mg per day, 4 divided doses,
must be taken with food
The following are optional, but also recommended,
especially if you have angina, high blood pressure (hypertension) or if you
have already had a heart attack, cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure,
valve problems, stroke, or cardiac arrhythmia:
19. Soy protein drink (if not already being taken): ¼ cup
mixed with a cup of organic soy milk, twice per day, or ½ cup in a fruit
smoothie once a day for breakfast.
20. Vitamin E – start at the amount in the multivitamin
(400 IU), then increase by 200 IU every two weeks to 1600 IU. If blood pressure
rises at any time, reduce to previous dosage and wait until blood pressure
reduces before proceeding to increase vitamin E dosage again. Important Note: Vitamin
E is a natural blood thinner. If you are taking a blood thinner
(anti-coagulant) such as Coumadin (Warfarin), do not take Vitamin E until you
have stopped taking Coumadin.
21. Serrapeptase (enteric coated): 80,000 IU, three times a day well
before meals. (Do not take this if you have a leaking stroke).
22. Nattokinase – 200 mg per day, take 100 mg twice per day. (Do not
take this if you have a leaking stroke).
23. N-Acetyl-Cysteine: 600 mg. twice a day with meals
24. Acetyl-L-Carnitine: 500 mg. three times a day (or 750
mg. twice a day) with meals
25. Coenzyme-Q10 (Co-Q10): 50-100 mg. three times a day
with meals
26. Grapeseed Extract: 100 mg. three time a day with meals
27. Glucosamine (usually comes with Chondroitin): 1,000
mg. twice a day with meals
28. MSM: 24,000 mg per day. Take 12,000 mg. (1 tablespoon
powder in juice) twice a day with meals
29. Chlorella: 4500-9000 mg per day. Take 1500 mg
initially (and work up to 3000 mg), in tablet or powder form, three times a day
with meals, a few minutes before each meal.
30. Lecithin granules: two tablespoons (30 ml.) per day
The following are explanations for the above
recommendations:
1.
Vitamin C: 2,000 mg. at each
meal, three times a day
It is preferable to take
2,000 mg. with each meal, since this will lead to a faster recovery. However,
some people like to start with 1,000 mg. at each meal and work up to the full
dose of 2000 mg at each meal.
The human body needs large
amounts of Vitamin C in the bloodstream at all times, to create collagen for cellular
repair, to metabolize and recycle cholesterol, to bolster the immune system,
and for many other essential functions. As I mentioned before, most animals
produce about 30-300 times as much as you would get if you took the RDA of 60
mg. per day.
The best and most digestible
form of vitamin C is pure calcium ascorbate powder, which may be mixed with
orange juice or other juice drinks. However, vitamin C may also be taken in the
form of tablets or capsules. People who experience gastric upset from large
doses of vitamin C may wish to try buffered C or ester C. You may discover your optimum dosage of
vitamin C safely and easily: You will develop mild diarrhea if you take too
much at once or too much over a period of several hours. (The diarrhea reaction is harmless; just
lower the dosage until you no longer have it.) Start with 1,000 mg. at each
meal for a few days, increase to 2,000 mg. per meal for a few more days, then
add some in between meals with a light but healthy snack. You will probably find
that your bowel tolerance dose will be very high if you are fighting other
illnesses. In his later years, Linus Pauling was consuming up to 18,000 mg. of
vitamin C per day with no adverse symptoms.
Once you have recovered from
cardiovascular disease, it would be advisable to continue taking 6,000 mg. of
vitamin C throughout your life, in order to prevent a recurrence of symptoms.
You may increase it during times of illness and decrease it if diarrhea occurs
(which indicates that your body no longer needs such a high dose).
2.
Lysine and Proline: 2,000
mg. of each at each meal, three times a day
These may be taken as
powders or tablets. A lysine-proline combination tablet is made by Solgar and distributed by www.vitaminshoppe.com. Each
tablet contains 500 mg. of each ingredient. So it is necessary to take four
tablets with each meal. As mentioned on page 11, you may purchase lysine and
proline in powdered form from iherb.com and add them to a beverage. (Dosage can be increased to 12,000 mg of each per day
if symptoms are acute or persist for more than 6 months, increasing water
intake to 3-4 quarts per day.)
Lysine is one of the eight
essential amino acids. It occurs naturally in most foods containing protein,
and we would die if we did not get enough of it. For humans the typical intake
of lysine naturally occurring in food is about 1,000 mg. per day. Pauling and
his associates found that increasing the dose to 6,000 mg. per day was safe and
effective for chelating (binding) the lipoprotein(a) plaques, removing them
from the artery walls and allowing the collagen to properly heal the arterial
lesions. For people who do not presently have cardiovascular disease, 3,000 mg.
per day is adequate for prevention. For those who already have cardiovascular
disease, a dose of 6,000 mg. should be taken for several months, until all
cardiovascular symptoms are resolved, as verified by an electrocardiogram (EKG)
and arterial blood flow measurements. Then it may be tapered off to 3,000 mg.
per day for the long-term elimination of plaques that have been forming for
many years throughout the vascular system.
Rath and Pauling had discovered that the plaques in the arteries were attracted to both lysine and proline. Since proline is normally produced by your body, they originally believed that it was unnecessary to take supplemental proline. Rath later found that the body cannot produce enough proline to have the desired therapeutic effect of removing plaques. The dose of 6,000 mg. per day should be continued for several months until all cardiovascular symptoms are resolved, tapering off to 3,000 mg. per day for the long term elimination of plaques.
3.
Glycine 4,000 mg. at each
meal, three times a day
Glycine comprises one-third
of. most tissue. Some is synthesized in our liver, but not in sufficient
quantities for major healing.
4.
Calcium (500 mg) and
magnesium (500 mg.) twice a day with food
These minerals are needed for heart and muscle function. Most people don’t get enough of these essential minerals. If you encounter muscle cramps day or night, you can increase to higher dosages, up to 750 mg calcium/750 mg magnesium twice per day. When you have blood work done by your doctor, make sure he or she checks the levels of these minerals, and increase accordingly if deficient.
5.
Zinc (30 mg.) and copper (2
mg.) daily with food
Zinc
lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease. The copper is needed because large
doses of zinc deplete the body of copper. These minerals may be purchased
separately or together.
6.
High-potency multi-vitamin
and mineral supplementation
In addition to the nutrients listed above it is essential to take a multi-vitamin that contains the following (among other nutrients):
a. at least 20,000 IUs of
Vitamin A, with all or most of it in the form of beta carotene
b. 400 IUs of Vitamin E
c. 200 micrograms of selenium
d. 200 micrograms of chromium
One product that contains all of these is Life Extension Daily Two Multi, which is available at Amazon.
The food we eat typically does not provide sufficient
nutrients for proper cellular nutrition – that is, feeding all the cells of the
body. This is especially true if you are over fifty, when absorption and
utilization of nutrients begins to decline, and if you are overcoming cardiovascular
disease, since blood flow to the heart has been constricted. Very few people in
the
7.
Vitamin D3: 4000 IU per day, in 2 doses
Recently published research indicates that a minimum
of 4000-5000 IU vitamin D3 should be consumed daily (unless you are
light-skinned and get daily full-body sun exposure with no sunscreen). Many
foods are supplemented with D3, so I have recommended this extra daily
supplementation at the 4000 IU level.
8.
Organic flaxseed oil: two
tablespoons (30 ml) per day
Flaxseed oil contains Essential Fatty Acids necessary
for cellular repair and maintenance in the heart and other organs.
9.
Potassium citrate: 500 mg
twice per day, or four times per day if not eating and drinking foods rich in
potassium (organic orange or tomato juice, bananas, whole grains, etc.)
Potassium is essential for
proper heart muscle control, and potassium deficiency is a cause of arrhythmia.
The recommended amount of potassium in the diet is 3500 mg for adults.
10.
Chlorella: 4500-9000 mg per
day. Take 1500-3000 mg., in tablet or powder form, three times a day with
meals, a few minutes before each meal.
Mercury is a common
pollutant in fish, and is released into your body from amalgam (“silver”) fillings
in your teeth. Chlorella binds with any mercury or other heavy metals that you
might have accumulated in your body. (Note: Powdered chlorella is much less
expensive than tablets.) Start with ½ teaspoon or 1500 mg before each meal, and
increase to 1 teaspoon or 3000 mg per meal over several days. Note: some people are sensitive to
chlorella. If it causes you stomach or intestinal upset, try using another
“green food” such as Natural Factors Enriching Greens or
11.
Water: at least two quarts
(eight full cups or two liters) per day
This is essential to maintaining the health of the kidneys for the following reasons: (1) Because vitamin C is a natural diuretic, restoring fluids daily is necessary to prevent dehydration and electrolyte imbalance; (2) Lysine and proline are amino acids (protein components), and high protein ingestion may overload the kidneys, possibly causing serious damage to these organs, unless accompanied by adequate fluid intake.
12.
Exercise
It
is advisable to do some mild exercise, such as walking, as much as is safe for
your physical condition, to get the nutrients circulating throughout your
system.
13.
Close monitoring by a
physician who is open to natural healing
The supervision of a physician is essential if you are currently taking blood pressure medications, or insulin for diabetes, as your need for these medications will likely decrease as a result of this regimen.
14.
Pharmaceutical grade fish
oil 2000 mg EPA/1000 mg
These Essential Fatty Acids
(EFAs) help restore cell membranes throughout the body, and reduce high blood
pressure (hypertension).
15. Arginine –
6000 mg. per day. Take 2000 mg three times per day.
Important for lowering blood pressure. Dosage can be
increased to 12,000 mg per day if symptoms are acute or persist for more than 6
months, increasing water intake to 3-4 quarts per day.
16.
Important for lowering blood pressure.
17. Garlic
capsules 1500 mg per day (take 500 mg capsules delivering 5000 micrograms allicin each, three times per day)
Important for lowering blood pressure
18. Quercetin -
2400 mg per day. Take 800 mg three times per day. Important for lowering blood pressure
19. Vitamin E – start at the amount in the multivitamin (400 IU), increase by 200 IU
every two weeks to 1600 IU. If blood pressure rises, reduce to previous dosage and wait until
blood pressure reduces before proceeding to increase vitamin E dosage again.
Vitamin E has been found to lower blood pressure if the dosage is increased
gradually, and to improve heart health. There have been some reports of
temporarily increased blood pressure caused by increased health of the heart
muscles.
20. Turmeric
Extract – 3000-4000 mg per day, take four 1000 mg doses with food
Turmeric Extract (also called Curcumin) has been found
to dissolve blood clots. Do not take if you have a “leaking” or “bleeding”
stroke.
21.
Soy protein drink (if not
already being taken): ½ scoop mixed with a cup of organic soy milk, three times
per day, or one full scoop in a fruit smoothie once a day
Soy protein provides the essential amino acids for
cellular repair and maintenance. It is essential to use a non-GMO (not
genetically modified) or organic product such as Spirutein
non-GMO or Naturade Organic. These products are
flavored – and quite good tasting – and hide the taste of the supplements. A
less expensive, unflavored powder that you may flavor yourself is NOW Soy
Protein Isolate, available from www.iherb.com. It makes a great smoothie when
combined with 1 cup of fresh or frozen fruit, 10 ounces of soy milk, a third of
a dropper of vanilla extract, and 4 drops of liquid stevia. (Stevia is an
all-natural, non-caloric sweetener that may be purchased at natural food stores
and vitamin companies.)
22.
Serrapeptase (enteric coated): 80,000 IU three times per day, well before meals
Serrapeptase enzyme has been shown to
speed removal of cardiovascular plaques.
23. Nattokinase - 200 mg per day, take 100 mg
twice per day
Nattokinase has been found to increase
the body’s ability to dissolve blood clots and cardiovascular plaques. Do not
take if you have a “leaking” or “bleeding” stroke.
24.
N-Acetyl-Cysteine: 500 mg. twice
per day with meals
N-Acetyl-Cysteine has been shown to help in normalizing blood pressure, and it increases the production of glutathione, an internal detoxifying antioxidant.
25.
Acetyl-L-Carnitine: 500 mg. three
times per day with meals
Carnitine
is a vitamin‑like substance that stimulates energy production in cells.
Heart patients have been shown to have a deficiency of carnitine in their heart
muscle cells. Supplementation overcomes this deficiency until blood flow to
the heart muscle is restored. The dose of 1,500 mg. per day should be continued
until all cardiovascular problems are resolved.
26.
Coenzyme-Q10 (Co-Q10):
50-100 mg. three times per day with meals
Co-Q10 is normally produced by the body, but the
amount decreases with age and heart patients consistently have a deficiency. It
has been shown to protect the heart when it does not have sufficient nutrition
because of constriction of the coronary artery. Begin with 300 mg. per day,
tapering down to 150 mg. after all cardiovascular symptoms are resolved.
27.
Grapeseed Extract: 150 mg.
per day (all at once or divided into 2 or 3 doses)
This bioflavonoid enhances the effectiveness of
vitamin C by increasing the amount of it available to cells. It is also a
powerful free radical scavenger and inhibits the destruction of collagen. The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine recommends 150 to 300 mg. of grapeseed
extract for various cardiovascular ailments. I suggest 300 mg. per day,
tapering down to 150 mg. per day after all cardiovascular symptoms are
resolved.
28.
Glucosamine: 2000 mg per
day. Take 1,000 mg. twice a day with food
Glucosamine helps protect and repair cartilage,
including heart valves.
29.
MSM: 24,000 mg per day. Take
12,000 mg. twice a day.
MSM helps protect and repair connective tissue.
30.
Lecithin granules: two
tablespoons (30 ml.) per day
Lecithin contains the raw materials for repair and
maintenance of the cell membranes – the permeable walls between all of our
cells. Lecithin is available inexpensively from iherb.com or Vitamin Shoppe.
While taking these supplements, it is important to eat a healthy diet, with large amounts of vegetables, beans, and whole grains, fresh fruit, and reduced amounts of red meat, dairy products, refined sugar, and white starches. Change your diet gradually. It is not necessary give up all the foods that you love. You will find that, if you introduce new foods one at a time, while eliminating unhealthy foods, you will gradually develop a taste for foods that are good for your body. For many reasons in addition to coronary health, a diet that is low on the food chain, that is, one composed primarily of grains, beans, vegetables, and fruit, is preferable.
What to discuss with your doctor
I always recommend that people work with their
physicians in healing their bodies. The role of the physician is to be the
mentor, guide, and monitor of your health. But more often than not, doctors,
especially heart specialists, are totally aligned with the recommendations of
the pharmaceutical industry, along with conventional cut and splice methods,
such as angioplasty and bypass surgery.
Even those physicians who recognize that diet-and-exercise
heart regimens do work are skeptical that “their” patients will do anything to
heal themselves. If you present them with the Pauling regimen, they will look
at you incredulously (or, if they think you are really serious about trying it,
with an expression of horror) and warn you of dire consequences. Very few
doctors, even heart specialists, are closely familiar with Pauling and Rath's research.
If you cannot find a holistically oriented physician, it is probably
best to tell your present doctor that you are going to start following a
program similar to one of the proven diet-and-exercise heart regimens such as Ornish’s or Whitaker’s, and that you would like him or her
to closely monitor your progress with EKGs, echocardiograms, cholesterol count,
etc.
Blood thinners such as coumadin
(warfarin) should be stopped once you are taking this regimen, since it
naturally thins blood and prevents clotting.
Cholesterol-reducing (statin) medications such as Lipitor and Zocor are dangerous to your health and should be stopped once you are taking the natural regimen, which, over time, will naturally balance cholesterol. In any case, cholesterol is a needed blood component for cellular repair; it is not the cause of cardiovascular disease.
If you are taking other heart or blood-pressure
remedies (e.g., beta blocker, calcium channel blocker), ask your doctor to
carefully monitor the symptoms that these drugs are supposed to address, and
taper off the dosage as your cardiovascular system becomes healthy again on its
own. If you have diabetes, it is imperative that you monitor blood sugar
closely and frequently, as your need for insulin will likely decrease. This is
especially true in the case of Type II (age-onset) diabetes.
What about the vitamin C scares?
There have been no documented cases of anyone who
has ever had adverse side effects from taking very large doses of vitamin C,
other than the diarrhea mentioned above, which is simply the indicator that you
have exceeded the dose that your body is using. But for many years, the
pharmaceutical industry has gone to great lengths to scare people away from
vitamin C. These companies have huge investments in expensive prescription
drugs that attempt to treat the symptoms of diseases that would be addressed,
cured, or prevented easily and cheaply with the same dosage of vitamin C as is
found in the blood of most animals.
The scares have accelerated since 1999. One researcher noted
finding vitamin C in a cancer tumor, and then reported that vitamin C might
induce cancer or interfere with anti-cancer agents.[13] If he had
understood the action of vitamin C against cancer, he would have realized that
the vitamin C that he found was contained in leukocytes — our body's natural
immune defense mechanism against cancer — that had collected in the tumor to
attempt to destroy it!
A few months later, two researchers reported “thickening of the
artery wall” from vitamin C, assuming that the arteries were being blocked.[14] In
fact, they did not test for blood flow, and if they, too, had understood the
action of vitamin C, they would have realized that the thickening was in fact
related not to the blocking of the arteries, but rather to the strengthening of
the arteries that was due to proper collagen formation.
Finally, in June of 2001 a researcher at a
university that receives large amounts of funding from drug companies reported,
with great media attention, a test-tube experiment in which he analyzed the
action of vitamin C on “peroxidized lipids” (blood
fats that had been made toxic by extreme free radical damage) and reported that
the resultant compounds might be carcinogenic.[15] This
researcher failed to mention that this test tube reaction has been known for
several years and that no such reaction has ever been found in animals or
humans. He also failed to mention that peroxidized
lipids do not form in the first place in a person who takes adequate vitamin C.
Finally, he failed to mention that peroxidized lipids
are extremely toxic to the body anyway, so that claiming that they turned into
something toxic when exposed to vitamin C is misleading at best. This might be
equivalent to saying, “When I applied vitamin C to cyanide I got something
poisonous.”
Chapter 4 ____________________________________
My Dear Kepler, what do you say of the leading philosophers here to whom I have offered a thousand times of my own accord to show my studies, but who, with the lazy obstinacy of a serpent who has eaten his fill, have never consented to look at the planets, or moon, or telescope? Verily, just as serpents close their ears, so do men close their eyes to the light of truth. (Galileo Galilei in a letter to Johannes Kepler, c. 630)
The above quote was part of the preamble to Pauling
and Rath’s groundbreaking paper on the root cause of
cardiovascular disease. Pauling originally submitted this paper (without the
quote) for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
one of the most prestigious and influential scientific journals in the
Pauling submitted his therapy for official testing to the National Institutes of Health, and it was rejected for no apparent scientific reason. Years later, after Pauling’s death, it was submitted again by several of his disciples, and again it was rejected with no adequate explanation.
Linus Pauling was a dedicated scientist and humanitarian and the only person so far to have been the single recipient of two Nobel prizes, one for chemistry and the other for peace. The first was for his discovery of the physical nature of chemical bonds, which became the foundation of modern chemistry. The second was for his role in stopping airborne nuclear tests because of the health hazards associated with nuclear fallout.
Pauling’s research on Vitamin C convinced him that this nutrient was critical for human health. In continuing the work that he and Pauling had begun, Matthias Rath further proved and enhanced the therapy for cardiovascular disease and went on to develop natural therapies for cancer and AIDS. But the medical system has fought bitterly and continually against large-dose vitamin C supplementation, despite massive and obvious evidence that it improves general health, lowers heart disease and cancer incidence, and improves immunity.
In this light it may be appropriate to rename the medical
system the “Illness Industry.” Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent each
year to “treat” — that is, to maintain and manage but not cure — chronic
illnesses. Much of this money is spent on “treating” cardiovascular disease.
More than 50 million people in this country have some kind of heart ailment.
Millions more are diabetic. 40 percent of all deaths are due to cardiovascular
diseases, and this is without even counting those deaths that are related to
their secondary effects (such as people dying in a car accident caused by their
own or someone else’s heart attack). Approximately one million people per year
elect to have angioplasties or coronary bypass operations, at a cost of $50,000
to $100,000 each.[17]
A medical system whose income is driven by the traditional treatment of illness has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Such a system will find new and more expensive “remedies,” such as drugs and complex, invasive procedures, to “treat” illnesses, and will foster skepticism of, or will actively oppose, regimens that may prevent or eradicate those illnesses that support a giant money machine.
Pauling and Rath’s discovery, which
was further confirmed by clinical studies by Rath,
could literally eradicate cardiovascular disease. That would put many heart
specialists and surgeons in the United States out of business, empty the
intensive care units of most hospitals, greatly reduce the number of ambulance
trips, cut the revenues of hospital equipment manufacturers and service
companies, and render obsolete hundreds of pharmaceutical drugs currently used to
“control” heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, and diabetes.
Pauling and Rath’s 1991 paper, as well as Rath’s ongoing research, have been marginalized by the medical system. Although anyone may look up and read the paper or find out about Rath’s work at his research website (http://www.dr-rath-research.org), most doctors and lay people will never see it. Those who do find it will be likely to discount it because it is not widely used and accepted. Young doctors are trained to view alternative natural remedies as quackery. Thus the marginalization of this therapy, once accomplished by the medical system, becomes self-perpetuating. It is the intention of this author to override this system of marginalization by getting this information to millions of people, who will begin to eradicate cardiovascular disease as a human ailment.
The story of the opposition does not stop here, however. The pharmaceutical industry considers nutritional therapy to be a major threat to its business. Through their influence in a United Nations commission called Codex Alimentarius, the drug companies are moving toward imposing a ban on the availability of large-dose nutritional supplementation and even preventing information about supplements from being published. Dr. Rath has been at the forefront of the struggle to stop the implementation of these new Codex regulations. You may read more about Codex at his website: http://www.dr-rath-foundation.org.
Chapter 5 ______________________________
The Eradication of Heart Disease
In our society, we always hope that truth, justice,
and democracy will prevail. But often this does not come to pass unless some
very dedicated people make it happen. Large corporations and their public
relations firms take measures to create formidable obstacles to information
that challenges their “bottom line.”
The drug companies, the medical equipment industry, and heart
surgeons have a vested interest in keeping the discoveries of Rath and Pauling from the public. Overcoming the wall of
silence requires reaching people with the message of this booklet: that heart
disease and other cardiovascular diseases can be easily prevented and cured
without invasive surgical procedures or expensive, dangerous pharmaceutical
drugs. Given what we know now, these diseases have no place in human society.
They can and should be eradicated throughout the world.
When enough people learn about, and use, the Pauling-Rath regimen and reverse their cardiovascular diseases,
then there will be pressure to convince physicians of its safety and efficacy.
Only then will physicians make it the standard regimen for every person
suffering from these diseases, and make large-dose vitamin C intake standard
from birth, so as to stop the early beginnings of CVD.
The author of this booklet has established a website devoted to
environment and health, which includes a summary of Pauling and Rath’s discovery: http://www.healthy-again.net/cvd.htm.
Readers may help to spread the word by calling the attention of other people to
the website and by telling them about this booklet, which may be obtained
online at the website.
If you need further assistance
Jonathan Campbell, the author of this booklet, is
available as a consultant — to help you understand the regimen, to find a
physician, to talk to your physician, and to find reputable sources for the nutrients.
You may reach him at the following address:
Appendix A
Lifestyle
Recommendations to Accompany the
Natural
Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease
The
Natural Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease provides the proper nutrients for
your heart and arteries to repair themselves. This section provides some
general recommendations to follow while you are following the regimen.
1. Your body will take time to
heal your heart and arteries. During this rebuilding period, you need to also
reduce the stresses on your heart. Please attempt to eat as low as possible on
the food chain; try to avoid junk food and red meat. I suggest a vegan
vegetarian diet (no meat, no dairy), but this is not absolutely essential. Keep
up your protein and other nutrient intake with healthful food. Eat lots of soy
(organic or non-GMO, if possible) and whole grain products. Soy drinks such as Spirutein and vegetarian burgers are ideal for boosting
protein intake; choose the non GMO or organic varieties in order to reduce
exposure to pesticides. Eat lots of fresh vegetables and fruit. As with soy,
buy organic food (if it is within your budget) to reduce pesticide exposure.
2. As much as possible, avoid
ingestion of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals, such as over-the-counter
pharmaceutical medications (Tylenol, allergy medications, sulfa drugs, etc.),
and diet drinks containing Aspartame (NutraSweet) or Saccharin. There are
natural remedies that substitute for virtually any pharmaceutical medication.
Stop taking all cholesterol-reducing drugs such as Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor,
etc., as the Natural Therapy will balance cholesterol counts without drugs.
3. Reduce ingestion of
recreational or addictive drugs. All psychoactive drugs disrupt cell
metabolism, and many of them are harmful to the cardiovascular system. (This is
especially true of intravenous drugs.)
4. Reduce smoking and alcohol
consumption. Cigarette "tar" (benzopyrene)
is a powerful carcinogen and both it and nicotine are cytotoxic. Both smoking
and drinking harm the cardiovascular system.
5. Obtain and read other
information about health restoration, such as found in Andrew Weil's
“Spontaneous Healing” and “8 Weeks to Optimum Health”, and the Encyclopedia of
Natural Medicine by Michael Murray and Joseph Pizzorno.
The human body can heal itself, given proper nutrition and environment.
Appendix B
Step by Step
Introduction to the Natural Cardiovascular Therapy
In
order to allow your body to heal itself and overcome cardiovascular disease,
the Natural Cardiovascular Therapy floods your body with specific nutrients to
properly heal your arteries, strengthen your heart, and remove the plaques
specifically from your coronary artery and more generally from the rest of the
miles of arteries all over your body.
When you first look at the array of nutritional supplements that you need to take, it may seem overwhelming. Let’s approach this step by step.
Most
of the supplements in the Natural Cardiovascular Therapy (see the list on pages
11-12) are available at most vitamin and health food stores. The ones that are
not – specifically the amino acid proline – may be purchased or ordered at a
few select health food stores or ordered online using the Internet, such as at
VitaminShoppe.com. For each supplement in the therapy, there is a total daily
intake. Buy a month’s supply of each, so that you don’t suddenly run out. It is
very, very important to take the regimen consistently. (But if you miss a dose
or a day, just continue on; do not take a double dose.) You may
find it easier to take your supplements if you purchase a large, sectioned
vitamin box. This will give you have a handy way of getting each supplement
without having a large collection of bottles on the table.
It
is important to get to your target dose as quickly as possible, but you don’t
need to start all at once unless you have very advanced cardiovascular disease
– that is, if you have been diagnosed with congestive heart failure or have
already suffered a heart attack or stroke. (If this is the case you should
advance to the highest dosages of every component as rapidly as possible).
You
should periodically measure the health of your cardiovascular system, using the
methods described in the Safe Testing Protocols for Cardiovascular Disease.
In
week 1, you may start by taking 1,000-2,000 mg. of vitamin C, 1,000-2,000 mg.
of lysine, and 1,000-2000 mg. of proline at each meal. Take your multivitamin/multimineral supplement daily, and the calcium/magnesium
supplement in two doses, morning and evening.
In
week 2, you may increase the amount of vitamin C, lysine, and proline at each
meal to 2,000 mg, if you are not taking that already, and add the rest of the
supplements.
In
week 3, you may attempt to increase your vitamin C dosage by taking some in between
meals, at bedtime, etc.
Be
sure to drink at least 2 quarts of spring water per day.
Take
aloe juice (a few ounces after each meal) if you have indigestion, as it is an
excellent healing agent. This is optional.
You
should stay on the regimen until all signs that your cardiovascular diseased has been completely resolved. For maintenance
(that is, for the rest of your life) you should stay on a moderated version of
this regimen, described in Maintenance Regimen for the Natural Cardiovascular
Therapy. This should keep your heart and the rest of your cardiovascular system
healthy and prevent formation of plaque.
If
you have liver disease (hepatitis or cirrhosis) you should add the following to
the cardiovascular regimen:
Milk Thistle Extract (80% Silymarin) – 1200 mg. per day.
Selenium – increase to 400 ug
(micrograms) per day
Replace the multivitamin with one that does not
contain iron (Nature’s Way Daily Two Multi is a good choice).
Be sure to be taking Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) and
Chlorella. (Note: Do not take ALA if you still have “silver” (mercury amalgam)
fillings in your teeth.
These nutrients stop hepatitis and rebuild healthy liver tissue.
Appendix C
Maintenance
Regimen for the Natural Cardiovascular Therapy
If you have cardiovascular disease, it is extremely important that you stay at the maximum dosage of the cardiovascular regimen until all symptoms have subsided and testing is done to verify that your heart and arteries have completely healed. (See the section on Safe Cardiovascular Testing Protocol).
Once your cardiovascular health is restored, you will need to keep up a strong maintenance regimen to prevent re-occurrence of cardiovascular disease and keep your immune system in shape. The following nutrients will help you to do this.
a. Beta Carotene – at least 25,000 IU per day, in 1-2 doses. This is the safest way to obtain vitamin A, since Beta carotene is very safe in extraordinarily large doses, whereas vitamin A oil is toxic in large doses.
b. Vitamin C – 6000 mg. preferably in the form of pure calcium ascorbate crystals or capsules, which are almost neutral in acidity and will not unduly upset the stomach. Take crystals with orange juice; follow all doses with food or something that will coat your stomach, such as soy drink.
c. Lysine – 6000 mg. per day. Combined with vitamin C, this will keep plaques from forming, continue to remove any remaining plaques, and help the healing process.
d. Proline – 6000 mg. per day. Combined with vitamin C, this will keep plaques from forming, continue to remove any remaining plaques, and help the healing process.
e. Vitamin E – 400 IU per day.
f. Vitamin D3 – 4000 IU per day.
g. Calcium/magnesium – 1000-1500 mg. calcium, 1000-1500 mg. magnesium, per day.
h. MSM - 8000 mg per day. Take 4,000 mg. (1 teaspoon powder) twice a day in water or juice with meals.
i. High-dosage multivitamin/multimineral complex per day.
j. Zinc – 30 mg. If tablets irritate your stomach, there are zinc lozenges available at health food stores. (Check the zinc content of the multimineral supplement. Take enough to reach 40-50 mg. total.)
k. Copper – 2 mg.
l. Organic Flaxseed Oil - 2 tablespoons per day.
m. Keep fluid levels high by drinking at least two quarts of water per day. This is essential both for the high vitamin intake and also to flush toxins out of the body.
Appendix D
Acute Illness
Regimen
No regimen, no matter how perfect, can prevent you
from coming in contact with the millions of viruses and bacteria that are
everywhere, both in the human population but sometimes also, unfortunately, in
our food.
By using a Natural Health Regimen, you are preparing
your body to defend itself against these disease carriers, by building up the
immune system. There are steps you can take if you do get ill to help your
immune system respond very quickly and help you become well again in very
little time.
Vitamin
C - When you are ill – infected with a virus or bacteria – your immune system
is using vitamin C much faster than normal, so you may increase your dosage
dramatically. I have personal experience in my bowel tolerance being above
30,000 mg. per day when I had a serious case of the flu; I was able to take
3,000 mg. every hour while I was ill, and the illness lasted less than a
day.
If
it is a stomach or intestine related virus or bacteria, oregano oil and olive
leaf extract are effective antibiotics, at 1,000-2,000 mg. per day (I usually
don’t recommend brands, but in this case I recommend GAIA Herbs). I used these
to stop the
Ginger
capsules, or even better, ginger oil capsules such as New Chapter Ginger Force.
These are useful when the virus or bacteria causes nausea or diarrhea, since
ginger is an anti-inflammatory and relaxant. (Ginger is as effective as
pharmaceutical drugs for motion sickness.)
If
the virus or bacteria seems to be getting the better of your immune system and
you get pneumonia or for some other reason you don’t think your body is
responding adequately, you should consider getting one or more vitamin C
intravenous infusions of 35-50 grams. Clinics that offer chelation – removal of
heavy metals or as a cardiovascular remedy – often also offer intravenous
vitamin C infusions. (In the US: in New England, this is offered by the Marino
Center in Cambridge, Mass; in California, in the Midwest, Dr. Hugh Riordan
offers these treatments at http://www.brightspot.org.)
Overcoming
an acute illness takes a tremendous amount of energy. Be sure to keep up your
healthy food intake (use easily digested protein such as soy shakes) and get
lots of rest. This may sound obvious, but there are many people today who
attempt to work and go through their daily routine even when they are ill. This
is not the way to heal quickly from illness.
Appendix E
Safe Testing Protocols for Cardiovascular Disease
There are many ways that doctors can check the health of your cardiovascular system. Some of these are relatively safe. Others can be quite harmful.
The usual blood tests done by doctors for cardiovascular
disease screening – to measure cholesterol and triglyceride levels – are not
actually very useful in tracking cardiovascular health. The only blood test
that is at all valuable for cardiovascular disease is the measure of the level
of lipoprotein(a), which is a test that is not normally done – you need to
request it.
When you have used the Natural Cardiovascular
Therapy consistently for several months and your cardiovascular symptoms have
subsided, the amount of lipoprotein(a) in your bloodstream is a measure of how
much plaque material is still being removed by the therapy. [You may recall
that your body produced lipoprotein(a) and deposited plaques when you had
insufficient vitamin C in your bloodstream. Since the Natural Cardiovascular Therapy
supplies large amounts of vitamin C, your body no longer manufactures lipoprotein(a).]
Electrocardiograms are completely non-invasive tests of the electrical activity of your heart. A doctor or heart specialist can tell from an EKG whether your heart is currently pumping correctly, that is, whether there has been any very obvious physical damage to your heart. However, it is not a good measure of whether there are (still) plaques of lipoprotein(a) in the walls of your coronary artery or your aorta or on your heart valves, until there is so much plaque that its function is impaired. A slight improvement of an ordinary EKG is one taken before and during a treadmill stress test, which checks the functioning of your heart during heavy exercise.
This is a safe and accurate visual method for checking the overall health and functioning of your heart and its muscle tissue and valves. An ultrasound measuring device, similar to that used to check the health of a growing fetus in a pregnant woman, is placed on various parts of your chest, and fairly accurate images of your moving, beating heart are displayed for the cardiologist or technician to record. Muscle and beat irregularities are easily detected.
One of the safest and most accurate methods used
today to detect plaques in the coronary artery and other arteries is up-to-date
MRI scanning. This technique completely avoids the radiation exposure associated
with CT scanning. Older, static MRI technology could not analyze active parts
of the body such as the heart, but the newer scanners (and associated software)
can do this just as accurately as a CT scanner. You must ask whether the MRI
hardware and software is capable of providing accurate images of active organs.
Harmful techniques and procedures:
Angiogram – During this extremely invasive procedure, a catheter (probe) is inserted into an artery and guided directly into your coronary artery. Dyes are then pumped into the artery where the catheter is located and x-rays are taken. The trauma caused by this procedure can have deadly consequences.
Electrocardiology – this invasive procedure is used by heart
specialists who believe that arrhythmia and tachycardia (out-of-control beating
of the heart) should be solved by cardiac
ablation. A catheter is inserted into a leg vein and guided into a chamber
of the heart. The electrocardiologist then performs a
“study” to determine the “cause” of the irregular heartbeat. A cardiac ablation
unit then delivers a high-energy radio frequency burst to destroy a small piece
of heart tissue to prevent it from causing a dual or duplicate electrical
signal, or to destroy the entire “AV node” that signals the pumping action of
your heart and replace it with a pacemaker. This procedure is dangerous and
irreversible. In contrast, the Natural Cardiovascular Therapy provides the
nutrients necessary for the damaged parts of your heart to heal themselves and
restore proper electrical signaling.
PET – Positron
Emission Tomography – in this procedure radioactive salts are literally injected into your
bloodstream and then the radiation from your body is used to make images of
your heart and other organs. Internal radiation is extremely hazardous – it is
known to cause cancer: it damages a large amount of DNA because it is internal
and the exposure is prolonged.
Technetium-99
Heart Scan
– Similar to PET, this procedure involves injecting a radioactive substance
called technetium-99 into your bloodstream, and then take moving “pictures” of
your heart by detecting the radioactive emissions from it. As mentioned above,
this is internal radiation, which is extremely hazardous to your health as it
is a known cause of cancer.
As a health and environmental researcher, I am appalled that
procedures that inject radioactive substances into the body – and therefore
expose the entire body to prolonged radiation damage – have become widespread.
Internal radiation injury from nuclear bomb fallout of the 1960’s and radiation
leaks from nuclear power plants are one of the larger sources of cancers in the
If you have damage to your heart as a result of a
heart attack or long-standing heart disease (congestive heart failure), it will
take some time using Natural Cardiovascular Therapy for your heart to recover.
However, your heart has an amazing capacity for healing and renewal, even when
significant damage has been done.
The EKG and echocardiogram, described above, are the safest
methods to keep track of the overall health of your heart muscle and valves.
You may have your doctor check your blood lipoprotein(a) levels to find out if
the plaques are still being removed from the artery walls. An
Appendix F
The Six Stages of Cardiovascular Disease
It has taken decades to find
the train of events that cause the progression of cardiovascular disease. The
most recent research was completed in 2010, but it has not been integrated into
medical practice, literature, or any popular literature. Here is the chain of
events, presented in a form that is understandable. Please note that not all of
the stages appear in all cases; sometimes stages 3-5 are not prominent, though
cardiovascular disease is quietly progressing. This process begins at birth. In
extreme cases, such as profound ascorbate deficiency from birth, the resulting
hemorrhage can result in high rates of infant mortality - Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome.
Stage 1- Vitamin Deficiency. Ascorbate
(vitamin C) deficiency (which is almost universal in humans) leads to inability
of connective tissue cells (collagen) to self-repair from every day wear and
tear and from microscopic holes created by white blood cells drilling their way
through arteries to reach bacteria. If these sites are not healed or patched,
we will hemorrhage – we’ll bleed to death internally. The normal collagen
repair process requires vitamin C and two amino acids – lysine and proline. (As
a side note: excess glucose caused by eating dietary sugars competes with
vitamin C, causing even more deficiency.)
Stage 2 - Inflammation. The
sites of this disrepair signal the manufacture of an inflammatory chemical
called IL-6 (Interleukene-6), which in turn signals the production of
lipoprotein(a), a sticky compound otherwise known as cardiovascular plaque,
which our bodies use as a temporary band-aid to
prevent hemorrhage. Lipoprotein(a) is deposited throughout the arterial system
and at hormone receptors.
Stage 3 - Insulin Resistance
and Hypertension. The process inhibits insulin reactivity. That is, cells
become less able to turn glucose into energy because their insulin receptor is
inhibited by lipoprotein(a). This is called insulin resistance. Meanwhile,
cells are still sending signals to the pancreas to produce more insulin to
invoke their (inhibited) glucose-to-energy systems. This leads to hyperinsulinism – literally producing too much insulin.
This in turn causes uncontrollable, rapid weight gain, as a result of excess
insulin signaling fat cells to convert blood glucose into glycogen (and then
into fat). At the same time, arterial deposits of lipoprotein narrow the
arteries, causing hypertension (high blood pressure).
Stage 4 – Severe Hypoglycemia.
Excess insulin periodically rapidly depletes blood glucose, causing periodic severe
hypoglycemia – literally insulin shock. This can be life-threatening because
many life-sustaining organs and cellular processes require blood glucose.
Meanwhile, because insulin resistance becomes has become severe, cells needing
glucose for energy production cannot get enough and are continually signaling
for more insulin. The combination of excess insulin, periodic glucose
depletion, lipoprotein(a) plaque accumulation and resultant reduced blood flow
in small arteries results in further weight gain, increased blood pressure,
cellular nutrient depletion, fatigue, depression, hair loss, collagen
degradation, spontaneous skin lesions, very slow healing of wounds, decreased
immunity, susceptibility to colds and flu, and generalized whole-body
degeneration.
Stage 5 – Type II Diabetes.
The symptoms of Stage 4 accelerate. If the process is not stopped blood sugar levels
become very difficult to control. In some cases the pancreas becomes so overworked
that some pancreatic cells become inoperative and blood sugar increases without
control. This is advanced Type II diabetes. Blood sugar interferes with vitamin
C metabolism, accelerating lipoprotein(a) (cardiovascular plaque) accumulation
leading to complete blockage of capillaries and small arteries, causing diabetic
neuropathy and retinopathy.
Stage 6. The build-up of
lipoprotein(a) eventually clogs small and large arteries in the heart, brain,
lungs, etc. – acute cardiovascular disease – leading to heart attack or stroke.
The Pauling/Rath cardiovascular
regimen starting on page 10 in this guide stops and reverses this process, and
it is the only known regimen that is proven to do so. However, the amounts
specified should be modified by body weight, using 160 lbs
body weight as the basis. (Thus if you weigh 200 lbs,
increase the doses by 1/4; if you weigh 240 lbs,
increase by 1/2, etc.)
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