Vitamin C beats statins in cholesterol - heart disease
CategoriesThe solution to high cholesterol and therefore heart attacks - tell us Astra Zeneca and Pfizer, two of the heavyweights in pharmaceutical remedies - is to take their drugs, Crestor and Liptor respectively.
According to what Dr. Mercola tells us in one of his recent articles - Crestor and Other Statins: Are They Really Worth the Risk? - there are serious side effects to these drugs, one of them being that your muscles start to waste away. The side effects are many and potentially serious, so they must be outweighed by the positive effects - after all drugs are rigorously evaluated according to the principle of risk/benefit analysis, where the benefit supposedly always outweighs the risks.
Well - that's the theory. In practice, we find that on the benefit side, those heavy statins are supposed to "lower cholesterol", a goal that may or may not have anything to do with the frequency of heart attacks. Correct that to reading "they lower bad cholesterol" - the low density lipoproteins - but really, there is not much difference. Mercola in his article cites two recent studies showing that with or without the medication, frequency of heart attacks did not significantly change.
The real solutions
One of the alternatives to these obviously inefficient and dangerous drugs is to eat more fish, or to obtain the oils found in fish by popping a fish oil supplement. That is an approach based on experience - people living in the far north such as the Eskimos - experience much fewer heart attacks than we do and one obvious difference is that they eat much fish supplying the beneficial omega-3 fatty acids.
Another alternative is to see what Dr Rath has found out about heart attacks. His cellular medicine maintains that illnesses occur at the level of cells. It's not the organs that are sick, in other words, but the cells are malnourished or otherwise impeded in their normal tasks.
In his book Why Animals Don't Get Heart Attacks, But People Do! Rath explains that heart attacks are due to a simple deficiency in some basic nutritional elements, which can be easily corrected for pennies a day. Of course the snake oil salesmen of the pharmaceutical camp will tell you this is preposterous. But take a moment to reflect. Who has got billions of dollars of revenues at stake? Read Rath's book or if you want, go to Rath's research site and explore. You will find a host of clinical studies that support the view of vitamin C deficiency being strongly implicated in heart disease.
The solution is simple. Take one or more grams of vitamin C daily. Yes, that's grams, like in a thousand milligrams. The 60 to 90 milligrams our health authorities tell us are quite sufficient for all needs, they leave us virtually starving for the nutrient.
You can confirm this by finding out how much vitamin C any mammalian body (except human bodies and those of a handful of other species) produce daily. It is in the range of several grams a day, to be exact, Linus Pauling says the range is 10 to 12 grams in proportion to the size of a human body.
Since we do not produce, by virtue of some genetic change that happened a long time ago, any vitamin C ourselves, our diet is the only way to get the substance. Vitamin C happens to be a vital ingredient for the production of collagen, exactly the material that blood vessels are made of. When blood vessels degenerate, we have a repair mechanism kicking in - cholesterol - which forms plaque in the arteries to stop them from leaking. What our pharmaceutical medical paradigm tells us that cholesterol is high when people have heart attacks, therefore we have to take drugs to "lower the cholesterol". Never mind that the cholesterol is the repair crew sent in to fix up our leaky arteries. We do everything possible to down size the repair crew and of course heart attack statistics keep going up and up and up.
If we had simply eaten our fruit (lots of it) or taken our vitamin C, as Pauling recommends, we would have eliminated the cause of heart attacks - degrading arterial walls - and on the way we would also have lowered our cholesterol. Naturally, cheaply and definitely.
Now I suppose that's too simple for our health authorities.
Some facts about cholesterol and heart disease
* ...the Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, it was stated that "high total cholesterol is not positively associated with high coronary heart disease mortality rates among general populations more than 40-50 years of age. More importantly, higher total cholesterol values are associated with lower cancer and all-cause mortality rates among these populations." [Yakugaku Zasshi 125:833-52, 2005]
* It's a documented fact that as many adults experience a mortal heart attack with a total cholesterol count under 200 as over 300. [Medical World News March 27, 1992]
* About half of the patients who are admitted to hospitals for a heart attack have normal cholesterol levels. [Atherosclerosis 149: 181-90, 2000]
* More than 500,000 adult Americans experience a sudden mortal heart attack and have low-to-normal cholesterol levels and no more than 60% narrowing of their coronary arteries, not enough to impair oxygen flow to the heart or brain.
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