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Canadian doctors proved that a vitamin C deficiency causes the There is no doubt that the news of this cure has been sup- condition, commonly called "atherosclerosis". These doctors pressed, otherwise most of the public would have learned that found that the condition will arise in 100 per cent of vitamin C- twice Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling had suggested it. deprived animal test subjects that don't make their own vitamin C. Millions are dying needlessly for lack of disseminated knowledge Furthermore, these Canadian pioneers demonstrated that vitamin of the Pauling discovery, which amounts to the suppression of it. C alone reverses atherosclerosis in laboratory animals. (G. C. Is Linus Pauling's high-dose ascorbic acid and amino acid ther- Willis, "The Reversibility of Atherosclerosis", Canadian Medical apy the cure for heart disease? The crime is that no one knows! Association Journal, vol. 77, July 15, 1957, pp. 106-109) Pauling and his former associate, Dr Matthias Rath, did their The team performed similar studies in humans. The results, part by running the experiments and attempting to publicise these while not conclusive, showed reversals of atherosclerotic plaques discoveries. Now it is up to other researchers in the medical sci- in one third of the human subjects. Notably, these studies were of entific community. If there is the mere chance that Drs Willis, low doses, no more than 1,500 mg per day. (G. C. Willis, A. W. Pauling and Rath are correct, it is truly criminal to fail to run Light, W. S. Cow, "Serial Arteriography in Atherosclerosis", experiments under fair conditions. Canad. M. A. J., vol. 71, December 1954, pp. 562-568) The knowledge that heart disease is a form of scurvy has been — Gross Negligence at the National Institutes of Health suppressed from the time that the first series of Willis articles was Apparently, medical science is controlled by the drug industry. published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in the Even the US National Institutes of Health gives all appearances of early 1950s. Inexplicably, since the 1950s, no articles favourable being under the control of the drug industry, and it seems that not to vitamin C and its connection with atherosclerosis have even members of Congress can overcome this obstacle. appeared in a reputable medical journal that is widely read by In the years 1998 and 2002, the Vitamin C Foundation submit- medical doctors. ted grant requests for government funding to study Dr Pauling's Cardiologists-to-be are taught that theories. These requests were formally there is no relationship between vitamin submitted to the new Office of C intake and heart disease, and that it is Alternative Medicine at the NIH (see quackery to suggest otherwise. These http://vitamincfoundation.org/ assertions seem justified because Cardiologists-to-be are taught NCCAMgrant). reports of such studies are lacking. But, that there Is no relationship The reasons for these requests were as vitamin C expert and pharmacology twofold: The Foundation sought professor Dr Steve Hickey pointed out between vitamin C intake and funding so that Linus Pauling's in email correspondence in December heart disease, and that it is recommended therapy would be fairly 2004, every cardiologist could have . investigated in humans. All performed these studies on his/her own: quackery to suggest otherwise. previously known tests have been "Time has moved on and the medical performed with less than adequate profession has failed over the past 50 amounts of vitamin C. These grant years to produce the required experi- applications also put the United States ments. The budget of, say, the NIH Government on notice that Linus [National Institutes of Health] alone is over $27 billion but over Pauling had in fact made the claim of an outright cure for heart the past 50 years no one has replicated the early vitamin C and disease. The NIH was free to design, sponsor and run its own heart disease research, which could be done by almost any cardi- study with its own choice of scientists. Had such studies been ologist from petty cash," wrote Dr Hickey. conducted, millions of lives and billions of dollars might now "Since Pauling and others have promoted ascorbate as a cure have been saved. Unfortunately for Americans, the NIH's Office for heart disease, it seems silly that a potential cure for the worst of Alternative Medicine rejected both grant requests and failed to killer in the developed nations [atherosclerosis] has not been run its own studies. refuted. To a scientist from any other discipline, this lack of inter- "Both requests were turned down by the United States est would be bizarre. Government, not because the reviewers had any objection to the "It's a fact that the experiments have been done in animals and science or the protocols but because the scientists and medical the results show that ascorbate protects against atherosclerosis and doctors that the Foundation recruited to run the study were 'inex- may reverse it. There is some additional evidence from human perienced'. Apparently, investigators that run studies for the NIH studies that is consistent with this interpretation. So why have the have to be members of 'The Club’. This travesty is a matter of human studies not been performed? Or, we may ask, if they have _ public record," according to Mike Till, Sr, co-founder of the been performed, was the data withheld? The enemies of Pauling, Vitamin C Foundation. as well as the drug companies, would love to see the Pauling hypothesis discredited," Dr Hickey concluded. "Why have the | The Debacle over Cholesterol-Lowering Statin Drugs experiments not been reported?" Cardiology has been on the wrong path for a long time. The sult hao haan that hanet Ai iWthal ul There is no doubt that the news of this cure has been sup- pressed, otherwise most of the public would have learned that twice Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling had suggested it. Millions are dying needlessly for lack of disseminated knowledge of the Pauling discovery, which amounts to the suppression of it. Is Linus Pauling's high-dose ascorbic acid and amino acid ther- apy the cure for heart disease? The crime is that no one knows! Pauling and his former associate, Dr Matthias Rath, did their part by running the experiments and attempting to publicise these discoveries. Now it is up to other researchers in the medical sci- entific community. If there is the mere chance that Drs Willis, Pauling and Rath are correct, it is truly criminal to fail to run experiments under fair conditions. Cardiologists-to- -be are taught that there i isno relationship — bon - oe The Debacle over Cholesterol-Lowering Statin Drugs Cardiology has been on the wrong path for a long time. The result has been that heart disease is still the leading cause of mortality in the United States, and cholesterol-lowering statin drugs have become the top-selling class of prescription drug. Statin drugs generated more than US$12.5 billion in annual sales in 2002, and Forbes Magazine claims the latest worldwide annual sales figure is $26 billion, but these drugs have significant side effects (see http://www.health-fx.net/eBook.pdf). Vitamin C, with annual sales close to $180 million, has the very same cholesterol-lowering property as the popular statin drugs. The Linus Pauling Lecture Video In a 1992 lecture recorded on video, Dr Linus Pauling explained the reason atherosclerosis forms on the walls of arteries when vitamin C is deficient. He explained how a specific form of cholesterol causes plaques, compensating for low levels of vitamin C, and why his discovery of a rapid cure for chronic scurvy includes the amino acid lysine (see http://www. paulingtherapy.com/). 40 = NEXUS between vitamin C intake and heart disease, and that it is www.nexusmagazine.com DECEMBER 2005 — JANUARY 2006