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Milestones

The Process of Cellular Health has become Irreversible

 

 

The following chapter highlights the historic development behind this website.

It is based on a presentation by Dr. Rath at a Conference of the American

Academy for the Advancement in Medicine and has been updated for this website.

 

Only rarely comes the privilege of being present at the moment of triumph in the

control of a major disease, and, for cardiovascular disease, that moment is now.

Over half a century ago the Canadian cardiologist, J.C. Paterson, published the

first clinical studies that vitamin deficiency is a primary cause for heart

attacks and strokes. Each year, more than 12 million people die worldwide from

heart attacks and strokes. Since Dr. Paterson's studies, over half a billion

people have died from cardiovascular disease, more than in all wars of mankind

together. Throughout this century, cardiovascular disease has become one of the

largest epidemics in the history of mankind.

 

I am often asked: " If this knowledge had been used in medicine, could my father,

sister, uncle or son still be alive? " The answer is " Yes, very likely! " Why did

so many people have to die? The main reason is the non-patentability of vitamins

and the massive economic interest of pharmaceutical companies. Pioneering

scientists and health professionals deserve credit for their advocacy of

vitamins and other natural therapies. Among them are Irwin Stone, Linus Pauling,

Abram Hoffer and many others. Despite their noble efforts, until very recently

the opposing pharmaceutical interest groups prevailed and continued to control

public opinion by discrediting the health benefits of vitamins. As a

consequence, hundreds of thousands of physicians and other health professionals

and millions of people around the world were deceived and remained misinformed

and biased against the health benefits of vitamins.

 

Now, on tthe turn of this century, everything is changing. Vitamins suddenly

make the front pages of newspapers and they are on national TV news almost every

week. The American Medical Association suddenly endorses the use of vitamins in

the fight against heart disease, and legislation allowing health claims for

vitamins is being discussed. The groundwork for this change of perception in

favor of vitamins has been laid over many decades. However, the trigger for the

current large-scale acceptance of vitamins came from the field of science, from

a medical advance, that will lead to the control of cardiovascular diseases

during the next few decades.

 

Here I would like to share with you an account of this advance in cardiovascular

health, of the milestones we have already passed, the obstacles we have

overcome, and of the breathtaking perspective towards improvement of human

health on a global level.

 

The background

In 1990, I came to America with a discovery in my suitcase that would lead to a

new scientific rationale of cardiovascular diseases. The message was clear:

Vitamins are the key to the control of cardiovascular disease, the number one

killer in the industrialized world. But this breakthrough was not immediately

embraced. When I decided to give up my clinical career to pursue this research

avenue, many of my colleagues in Germany warned me that working on vitamins

would ruin my career.

 

During 1989 I presented lectures and introduced my research project to leading

cardiovascular research centers

 

 

 

The cooperation and friendship with two-time Nobel Laureate

Linus Pauling was so close, that Pauling asked Dr. Rath to continue his life

work. In the centre of the picture Dr. Pauling's secretary Dorothy Munro

 

in America - among them Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, University of

Chicago, National Institutes of Health, and the University of California at La

Jolla. Everywhere the new risk factor, lipoprotein(a), was met with great

interest - but working on vitamins was still considered too controversial. In

early 1990 I accepted the invitation of Linus Pauling to work with him, only to

discover that at age 89 he had become tired of fighting and a breakthrough for

vitamins in medicine was nowhere in sight. Heartened by my discoveries, he and I

founded two companies in order to jump-start this process.

 

1990 was also the year when America's worst prescription drug disaster came to

light. An estimated 50,000 Americans died from taking an antiarrhythmic drug

that actually caused arrest of the heart beat and sudden cardiac death. This was

the same number of people killed in the Vietnam War. A Congressional

investigation established that the FDA had approved this drug without any

controlled clinical studies. This tragedy is presented in Thomas Moore's book

Deadly Medicine, a " must-read " for everyone. Thus, while drug research had

reached another deadlock, vitamins and essential nutrients as effective and safe

alternatives were still ostracized by conventional medicine and restricted by

the regulatory climate.

 

Nutritional medicine was a stepchild in America, but the situation was even

worse in Europe. When you wanted to ship a bottle of 1,000 milligram tablets of

Vitamin C to Germany, it was returned by customs because vitamin C pills above

500 milligrams are considered drugs. This was the state of affairs only five

years ago. It is with this background that we can truly appreciate the

milestones we have reached and the obstacles we were able to remove in the

meantime. Next part, I would like to give you an account of this process from my

personal experience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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