Using Vitamin C for Heart Disease and Cell Protection

it amazes me that this article can be written while ignoring Linus Pauling or the German doctors who figured it out.  

Never once has a doctor mentioned vitamin C to me and most studiously ignored my declaration of usage. Yet doctors ordered to Wuhan, loaded up.

Every cell in your body needs vitamin C in order to defend against viruses.  this means vitamin C saturation is best.  I use plus 4000 mgs and Pauling went up to 12,000 mgs.  Intravenous is at 40,000 mgs plus to counter cancers and other life threatening events like massive infection..

Using Vitamin C for Heart Disease and Cell Protection

Published on October 25, 2024

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Researchers at the University of California say that participants who took about 500 milligrams of vitamin C supplements daily saw a 24 percent drop in plasma C-reactive protein (CRP) levels after two months. Recent research suggests that CRP may better predict heart disease than cholesterol levels.

“C-reactive protein is a marker of inflammation, and there is a growing body of evidence that chronic inflammation is linked to an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, and even Alzheimer’s disease,” said Dr. Gladys Block, UC Berkeley professor of epidemiology and public health nutrition and lead author of the study.

Dr. James Enstrom from the University of California studied the vitamin intake of over 11,000 people for ten years. He found that 300mg of vitamin C daily reduced the risk of heart disease by 50 percent in men and 40 percent in women. Doctor G. C. Willis found that people taking 1,500mg of vitamin C daily for 12 months reversed plaque, while those who didn’t take vitamin C had worsening plaque. Vitamin C is necessary for vascular health.

Low levels of vitamin C in the blood are linked to a more severe form of peripheral artery disease, an often painful condition in which the leg blood vessels become blocked, according to the Circulation Journal of the American Heart Association

Even when there is no outward symptom of trouble, a person may be in a state of vitamin C deficiency. Optometrist Dr. Sydney Bush’s retinal artery observations have documented reversal of atherosclerotic plaque with Vitamin C supplementation. Retinal photograph taken in 2002 (below) reveals artery disease (vessel narrowing, drop out of some vessels). Retinal photos on the right confirm that pericorneal arteries have widened, and some reappear after daily vitamin C supplementation.

The pericorneal arterioles and capillaries can be divided into ten degrees of Scurvy, accurately predicting how much or how little vitamin C is present in the body. In the full-blown Vitamin C deficiency disease called Scurvy, the body’s structural elements literally fall apart. Collagen is broken down and not replaced. The joints wear out, the small arteries begin to crack and degenerate, the skin shows easy bruising and bleeding as small vessels rupture throughout the body, and the teeth may loosen and fall out. Scurvy is still around — and cases are rising.

Nearly 6% of people in the United States have a vitamin C deficiency; data also shows that scurvy cases are rising in this country because so is vitamin C deficiency. Unfortunately, vitamin C deficiency may be more prevalent than we previously thought, so 6% seems like a lowball estimate. The 2005–2016 NHANES survey reported that 46 percent of U.S. adults had an “inadequate” vitamin C intake. Furthermore, daily intake dropped 17.5 percent between 2002 and 2020.

In the U.K., an estimated 25% of men and 16% of women in low-income or materially deprived populations had plasma vitamin C concentrations indicative of deficiency (<11 µmol/L). A scoping review found that the cumulative prevalence of vitamin C deficiency in hospitalized patients was about 27.7%, indicating a higher risk among those with severe illness and poor nutritional status. In northern India, vitamin C deficiency has reached as high as 73.9%.

The human body has around 1500 mg of vitamin C, and clinical signs of deficiency are exhibited when the level drops below 350 mg. Symptoms of Scurvy appear within 4 to 12 weeks of severe insufficient vitamin C intake.

Dr. Linus Pauling and Dr. Matthias Rath

Matthias Rath M.D. and Linus Pauling assert that “Ascorbate depletion thus leads to a destabilization of the connective tissue throughout the body. One of the first clinical signs of Scurvy is perivascular bleeding. The explanation is obvious: Nowhere in the body does a higher pressure difference exist than in the circulatory system, particularly across the vascular wall. The vascular system is the first site where the underlying destabilization of the connective tissue induced by ascorbate deficiency is unmasked, leading to the penetration of blood through the permeable vascular wall. The most vulnerable sites are the proximal arteries, where the systolic blood pressure is particularly high. The increasing permeability of the vascular wall in Scurvy leads to petechiae and, ultimately, hemorrhagic blood loss.

Dr. Pauling said that heart disease is a manifestation of chronic Scurvy, and atherosclerotic plaque is a mechanism evolved to repair or patch blood vessels and arteries damaged by chronic vitamin C deficiency. Heart disease, diabetes, and strokes are also directly connected to magnesium deficiencies.

Inadequate levels of vitamin C have been linked to osteoporosis, diabetes, cancer, and schizophrenia. Supplementation with vitamin C can potentially reduce glucose concentrations, high blood pressure, and cholesterol. A 2017 meta-analysis found that vitamin C administration significantly decreased glucose levels in patients with diabetes and older individuals.

Vitamin C helps protect against atherosclerosis by reducing the stickiness of white blood cells to artery walls, improving blood vessel function, and preventing the death of cells in blood vessel walls. This helps keep plaques in arteries stable and reduces the risk of blockages.

Endothelial dysfunction occurs in the early stages of vascular disorders, which can contribute to complications such as stroke, heart attack, diabetes, and metabolic syndromes. A 2014 meta-analysis found that short-term vitamin C supplementation reduced endothelial dysfunction in individuals with heart failure, atherosclerosis, or diabetes. Therefore, vitamin C supplementation may help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Linus Pauling’s specific therapy for cardiovascular and heart diseases is high dosages of two essential nutrients: vitamin C and the amino acid lysine. Vitamin C is required to strengthen arteries so the body does not try to patch arteries with “plaster casts” (atherosclerosis). Lysine is an Lp(a) binding inhibitor, meaning at sufficient dosage it can reverse the plaster cast build-up (atherosclerotic plaques.) Lp(a) is the sticky form of LDL cholesterol that Pauling/Rath identified as the primary risk factor.

Conclusion

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) contributes a wide range of benefits. Vitamin C performs many critical bodily functions, including detoxification, tissue building, immune enhancement, pain control, and controlling or killing pathogenic organisms. It is known to be helpful for wound and bone healing, healthy skin and eyes, fighting infections, stress control, toxic exposure, and repairing damaged tissue of all types.