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The Process of Cellular Health has become Irreversible

 

 

 

Milestone 1:

Breakthrough Discovery

The first step towards control of cardiovascular disease was discovery of the

connection between lipoprotein (a) and vitamin C.

 

 

 

 

The human body produces the risk factor, lipoprotein (a)

to compensate for loss of the body's own vitamin C production. As a result,

every second human being dies from heart attacks and strokes, while

cardiovascular diseases are essentially unknown in the animal world. This

discovery attracted my interest in vitamin research.

 

By 1991 the conceptual work was completed and I summarized it in two scientific

articles: Solution to the Puzzle of Human Cardiovascular Disease and A Unified

Theory of Human Cardiovascular Disease Leading the Way to the Abolition of This

Diseases as a Cause of Human Mortality. These publications presented for the

first time the scientific rationale that heart attacks and strokes are

preventable and that cardiovascular disease can be eradicated. I invited as

co-author Linus Pauling, who agreed to support these far-reaching conclusions.

 

 

Milestone 2:

Entirely new Understanding of the Nature of Cardiovascular Disease

 

This new understanding clarified that the primary cause of cardiovascular

disease is not high cholesterol or a fatty diet. These factors can only become

risk factors if the wall of our arteries is already weakened by vitamin

deficiency - and only then.

 

It became also clear that atherosclerotic plaques in our arteries are not

preordained events; these plaques are nothing but a scaffold of Nature trying to

stabilize and repair the blood vessel walls during vitamin deficiency. Finally,

this new scientific rationale can also explain why we get infarctions of the

heart and not the nose or ears.

 

Obviously, a new scientific rationale that could suddenly explain so many

unsolved mysteries about the number one health problem would not go unnoticed.

At that time, it became clear to the pharmaceutical companies and to the medical

opinion leaders that the cholesterol dogma and a huge prescription drug market

would eventually collapse. The time this would take was only dependent on one

factor: How fast can the discovery of the scurvy-heart disease connection be

spread globally. Thus it was in 1990 that a giant battle for public perceptions

started, with a multi-billion dollar industry fighting for its survival.

But there were also other voices early on. One of the first congratulations came

from the head of Cardiology of Harvard Medical School, Professor Valentin

Fuster. In July 1992 he wrote me, " You may be quite correct in your predictions

about the role of vitamin C in cardiovascular disease " , and he announced that

his own department would start in this line of research.

 

 

Milestone 3:

Media Support for Vitamins

The next step in this process was the key media support for vitamins and

nutritional medicine. The title story, The Real Power of Vitamins in the April

1992 issue of TIME Magazine was triggered by an international conference on

vitamins held by the New York Academy of Sciences in February of that year. Many

scientists contributed to this conference. I was privileged to be one of them

and to introduce our new understanding about the nature of cardiovascular

disease, including the key role of vitamins and its prevention.

 

 

 

media, this issue of TIME Magazine became a watershed event, and media coverage

about vitamins changed forever. From then on, essentially every epidemiological

study showing the benefits of vitamins in the prevention of cardiovascular

disease made front page news. Only weeks after this TIME Magazine article, an

important epidemiological study by James Enstrom and his colleagues from the

University of Los Angeles, received national attention. It showed that long-term

vitamin C supplementation, as opposed to the average American diet, could cut

the rate for heart disease almost in half. Thus the suddenly available and

positive media coverage led to a change of perception in favor of vitamins, with

world-wide repercussions.

 

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