NATURE'S PERFECT STATIN®
CategoriesThis great article form many on Owen's site is an appropriate follow up to the recent articles in Vitamin C.
See also:
Orthomolecular Solutions to Heart Disease
Researchers: Vitamin C Deficiency Widespread - Link to Heart Disease, Infections, Cancer
Chris Gupta
NATURE'S PERFECT STATIN®Copyright 2004 by Owen Richard Fonorow
Vitamin C is the original HMG-CoA reductase inhibitorI've not only read Alice in Wonderland, I've been there...
The hot selling statins, such as Lipitor® and Zocor®, lower cholesterol by blocking the coenzyme HMG-CoA reductase. The first statin drugs were released to the U.S. in 1987, and the manufacturing and promotion of these drugs has grown into a huge business; statins are the most widely prescribed class of drugs in history.
In the 1960s, research began of the mechanisms on which animals and humans rely for the synthesis of cholesterol, the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase. After years of study, in 1985, scientists made the important discovery that ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) is the human body's natural HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor.[*] When vitamin C levels are low, the body compensates and manufactures more cholesterol; when vitamin levels are high, vitamin C inhibits HMG-CoA reductase, lowering cholesterol -- naturally.
The problem with the artificial statin drugs has been identified. These drugs concurrently reduce circulating levels of ubiquinone, aka coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) [*] and raise levels of the lipid Lp(a) [*] . A decline in CoQ10 -- attributed to artificial statins -- has been linked to muscle pain, muscle myopathy and congestive heart failure; [*] elevated Lp(a) is linked to the 70 percent higher probability of heart attack or stroke [*].
Vitamin C at the proper dosage (6000 mg or higher), lowers Lp(a) and promotes the natural production of CoQ10.
Vitamin C is Nature's Perfect Statin.
Supplement Facts
Linus Pauling informed the world that vitamin C deficiency is the root cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and that taking more of the vitamin lowers cholesterol, and that when combined with lysine, effects the cure for CVD.
Yet, rather than promote vitamin C, drug companies invented statin drugs. While it's true that vitamin C is the top selling nutritional supplement, earning its makers roughly $180 million per year, the statin drugs are sold to 25 million people worldwide, earning more than $20,000 million dollars (20 billion) annually.
One wonders, what did the drug companies know, and when did they know it? Was vitamin C used as the model for the statin drugs, and they simply forgot to mention it?
It just gets curiouser and curiouser...
Foundation Issues Statin Drug Alert
Owen Fonorow, Naturopath, Ph.D.
Vitamin C Foundation
PO Box 3097, Lisle IL 60532
www.VitaminCFoundation.org
630-416-1438 , Fax: 630-416-1309
Major Web Sites
BolenReport.com
PaulingTherapy.com
Hearttechnology.com
VitaminCfoundation.org
- Inhibition of HMG-CoA reductase activity by ascorbic acid (http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/261/16/7127)
- Case Report - LDL dropped 62 points in 6 months on high-dose Vitamin C/Lysine
- The Cure for Heart Disease
- Dr Linus Pauling's Unified Theory of Cardiovascular Disease (good article)
- Buy Video Lecture at PaulingTherapy.com
- Purchase Lp(a) Binding Inhibitors at Hearttechnology.com
- Vitamin C Info at VitaminCfoundation.org
- Monitor the War Between Health and Medicine at BolenReport.com
- The Cure for Cancer
- Other Articles By Owen
posted by Chris Gupta on Monday July 12 2004
updated on Saturday September 24 2005URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2004/07/12/natures_perfect_statin.htm
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