Rescuing your heart with vitamin C
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Coronary heart disease (atherosclerosis) sends thousands of Americans to an early grave every year, millions more to emergency rooms and thousands of patients to a cardiac surgery suite every day (at an average cost of over $100,000).1 Although these facts are alarming, they’re not news.
In my view, all coronary arterial blockages have a solitary root cause. High triglycerides or fats in the blood? No. These are only indicators of disease risk since they play an important role in worsening arterial narrowings—but only after the disease has taken hold.
What about high cholesterol or high blood pressure? No. These, too, only worsen rather than initiate blockages. There are over 20 commonly accepted risk factors for this major killer, but none of them, individually or in combination, initiate coronary heart disease.2
It starts when the innermost protective lining (the intima) of the coronary arteries begins to come unglued. This lining is comprised of a single layer of cells that functions like ceramic tiles on a shower wall. And just like the cement and grout that hold the tiles in place, a gel-like substance (called ground substance) between and under the protective cells holds them on the arterial wall.
As long as the ground substance remains firm and healthy, these cells stay in place and the artery is protected from disease.3
When the ground substance becomes watery, however, open spaces between these lining cells appear, allowing plaque-building substances in the blood to enter more easily.4 The process of plaque formation, and the subsequent clogging of the artery, requires this initial change in the consistency of ground substance from gel-like to watery.
What causes the deterioration of the ground substance? A localized deficiency of vitamin C in the coronary arteries—called a focal scurvy. In contrast, a continuous and generous supply of vitamin C to the arterial linings keeps the ground substance in its healthy, gel-like state.5
That suggests the solitary root cause of all coronary arterial blockages is a vitamin C deficiency in these arteries.
Furthermore, vitamin C is required to form and maintain strong and resilient collagen. Since collagen is one of the main structural components of the arterial wall, a continuing deficiency of vitamin C is responsible for more than initiating arterial disease. It also results in an unrestrained buildup of plaque as the body attempts to fortify arteries continually weakened by a declining quantity of collagen and quality of arterial walls.
For decades, conventional medicine has addressed coronary heart disease by treating symptoms and attempting to limit risk factors without addressing, or even acknowledging, its root cause: a focal scurvy of the coronary arteries.
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As a consequence, Americans spend billions of dollars every year on expensive drugs and even more expensive procedures that only retard the progression of this lethal disease. All the while, effective vitamin C supplementation would prevent the disease in many who do not already have it.
A thorough review of the scientific evidence indicates that coronary arteries with uninterrupted, abundant access to vitamin C would never develop artery-plugging plaques. If all of us maintained a C-rich environment in our coronary arteries, the massively lucrative heart disease industry would dry up overnight.
And for those who already have coronary heart disease, effective vitamin C protocols would halt the progression—and in many cases even dissolve—the proliferating, life-endangering plaque that clogs their arteries.
Causes of arterial vitamin C deficiency
Multiple factors contribute to vitamin C deficiency:
Additionally, all of the accepted risk factors for coronary heart disease contribute to a vitamin C deficiency and/or are made worse by it.2
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