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NATURE'S PERFECT STATIN®

This great article form many on
Owen's site is an
appropriate
follow up to the recent articles in Vitamin C.

See also:

tions_to_heart_disease.htm>Orthomolecular
Solutions to Heart Disease

c_deficiency_widespread_link_to_heart_disease_infections_cancer.htm>R
esearchers:
Vitamin C Deficiency Widespread - Link to Heart Disease, Infections,
Cancer

in_drugs.htm>Bad
News About Statin Drugs

mory.htm>LIPITOR,®
THIEF OF MEMORY

Chris Gupta
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2004/07/12/natures_perfect_stat
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NATURE'S
PERFECT
STATIN®

Copyright 2004 by Owen Richard Fonorow

Vitamin C is the original HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor

I've not only read Alice in Wonderland, I've been there...

The hot selling statins, such as Lipitor® and Zocor®, lower
cholesterol by blocking the coenzyme HMG-CoA reductase. The first
statin drugs were released to the U.S. in 1987, and the
manufacturing and promotion of these drugs has grown into a huge
business; statins are the most widely prescribed class of drugs in
history.

In the 1960s, research began of the mechanisms on which animals and
humans rely for the synthesis of cholesterol, the enzyme HMG-CoA
reductase. After years of study, in 1985, scientists made the
important discovery that ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) is the human
body's natural HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor.
[*]
When vitamin C levels are low, the body compensates and manufactures
more cholesterol; when vitamin levels are high, vitamin C inhibits
HMG-CoA reductase, lowering cholesterol -- naturally.

The problem with the artificial statin drugs has been identified.
These drugs concurrently reduce circulating levels of ubiquinone,
aka coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10)
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14695926&dopt=Abstract>[*]
and raise levels of the lipid Lp(a)
[*] . A decline
in CoQ10 -- attributed to artificial statins -- has been linked to
muscle pain, muscle myopathy and congestive heart failure;
[*]
elevated Lp(a) is linked to the 70 percent higher probability of
heart attack or stroke
[*].

Vitamin C at the proper dosage (6000 mg or higher), lowers Lp(a) and
promotes the natural production of CoQ10.

Vitamin C is Nature's Perfect Statin.

Supplement Facts

Linus Pauling informed the world that vitamin C deficiency is the
root cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and that taking more of
the vitamin lowers cholesterol, and that when combined with lysine,
effects the cure for CVD.

Yet, rather than promote vitamin C, drug companies invented statin
drugs. While it's true that vitamin C is the top selling nutritional
supplement, earning its makers roughly $180 million per year, the
statin drugs are sold to 25 million people worldwide, earning more
than $20,000 million dollars (20 billion) annually.

One wonders, what did the drug companies know, and when did they
know it? Was vitamin C used as the model for the statin drugs, and
they simply forgot to mention it?

It just gets curiouser and curiouser...

Foundation Issues
Statin Drug Alert

Owen Fonorow,
Naturopath, Ph.D.
Vitamin C Foundation
PO Box 3097, Lisle IL 60532
www.VitaminCFoundation.org
630-416-1438 , Fax: 630-416-1309
Major Web Sites
BolenReport.com
PaulingTherapy.com
Hearttechnology.com
VitaminCfoundation.org
*
Inhibition
of HMG-CoA reductase activity by ascorbic acid
(http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/261/16/7127)
* Case Report - LDL
dropped 62 points in 6 months on high-dose Vitamin C/Lysine
* The
Cure for Heart Disease
* Dr Linus
Pauling's Unified Theory of Cardiovascular Disease (good article)
* Buy Video Lecture at
PaulingTherapy.com
* Purchase Lp(a) Binding
Inhibitors at Hearttechnology.com
* Vitamin C Info at
VitaminCfoundation.org
* Monitor the War Between Health and
Medicine at BolenReport.com
* The
Cure for Cancer
* Other Articles By
Owen

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