On the Reversal and Prevention of Heart Disease
We review the striking immediate success of Linus Pauling's "non-prescription" therapy from the very first use by terminal and hopeless patients with the most advanced heart disease imaginable (1). For this therapy, they simply take (at home) common nutritional supplements in specified ratios different than has been done before. Of course, a competent open-minded physician should monitor progress and perform tests to determine that other disease risks, deficiencies, etc, are not overlooked. From email and linked web site* reports, we summarize briefly Pauling's first case and a second early patient who (from a moribund state) had the same rapid unbelievable recovery that appears to characterize response to his regimen.
In March 1991, a 71 year old CAD (coronary artery disease) patient who had continuously worsened for 33 years in spite of 3 bypasses and much other surgery was informed most of the vessels were clogged and he could not have additional surgery. In May, with steadily increasing pain and deterioration, he elected to start Pauling's lysine/ascorbate dietary therapy at a low dose. By mid June, he was taking the normal 5 to 6 grams of lysine and other essential nutrients (see below). By July, he was free of angina (pain) and could even walk two miles and do yard work without it. In August, he cut up a tree with a chain saw, and then started painting his house. By October, he was free of all symptoms of disease and was able to reduce the nutrient dosing to a maintenance level (it has been suggested that all such patients should continue for life).
More recently, in May 2002, a 56 year old heart patient reported that, by using Pauling's method he had just recovered from a terminal, hopeless condition. He had endured 10 years of continuous angina and many heart attacks while his CAD steadily worsened on conventional therapy that included four bypasses. In June 2001, he had experienced extreme pain during another heart attack and was told his disease had progressed to the point that it was inoperable. Two of the four bypasses were completely blocked and a third graft was partially blocked. He found PaulingTherapy.com, read the entire web site, and decided to adopt Pauling's method (14 g vit. C, 6 g lysine, etc*, daily). In two days he felt markedly better and now is jogging, free of pain and other symptoms (without chelation or any other alternative therapy). *the nature, quantities of all components, actions and numerous benefits are listed at http://www.hearttechnology.com/heartech.htm
As Ely had informed Pauling, in several contexts, there is considerable theoretical and experimental evidence that ascorbate (or ascorbic acid, also called vit. C, although it is not a vitamin) is much more effective if blood glucose is in the low range, i.e., 50-90 mg/deciliter (mg/dL) (2-6). This was normal until the 1900's and is still seen today where the primitive (unrefined) diet prevails but blood glucose is only half the glycemic levels typical of affluence (6,7).
References:
1. L. Pauling, J. Orthomolecular Medicine, 6(3-4): 144-46 (1991). [complete article [Full text of article.]
2. J. T. A. Ely, Hyperglycemia and major congenital anomalies. New Engl. J. Med. 305, 833 (1981).
3. E. E. Hamel, G. A. Santisteban, J. T. A. Ely, D.H. Read, Hyperglycemia and reproductive defects in non-diabetic gravidas: a mouse model test of a new theory Life Sci. 39, 1425-28, (1986).
4. G. A. Santisteban, J. T. A. Ely, E. E. Hamel, D.H. Read, S.M. Kozawa, Glycemic modulation of tumor tolerance in a mouse model of breast cancer, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 132, 1174-79 (1985).
5. J. T. A. Ely, Glycemic Modulation of Tumor Tolerance. J. Orthomolecular Med. 11, 23-34 (1996).Full text of article.
6. J. T. A. Ely, Unrecognized pandemic subclinical diabetes of the affluent nations: causes, cost and prevention. J. Orthomolecular Med. 11, 95-99 (1996). Full text of article.
7. I. B. Chatterjee, A. Bannerjee, Estimation of dehydroascorbic acid in blood of diabetic patients. Anal. Biochem. 98, 368 -74(1979).
Essential Nutrients: Health and Longevity
Updated October 2002