Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the main cause of death in North America and a major cause of disability and of health care costs. Smoking, high blood pressure and diabetes are major risk factors for CVD. Two out of every three persons have one or more of these major risk factors, a fact which argues for a public health approach to prevention of CVD. Diabetes is a disabling condition and also a powerful major risk factor for heart disease, particularly in women past the menopausal age.
Based on the findings of Canadian physician G.C. Willis in 1953 regarding CVD and a deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C); and after the discoveries of the Lp(a) cholesterol molecule (circa 1964) and its lysine binding sites (circa 1987), Dr. Linus Pauling and his associate Matthias Rath formulated a unified theory of heart disease and invented the cure. Vitamin C and lysine (and proline) in large dosages become Lp(a) binding inhibitors that restore vascular health and destroy atherosclerotic plaques.
THEORY
"Vitamin C is essential for the building of collagen, the most abundant protein built in our bodies and the major component of connective tissue. This connective tissue has structural and supportive functions which are indispensable to heart tissues, to blood vessels, in fact, to all tissues. Collagen is not only the most abundant protein in our bodies, it also occurs in larger amounts than all other proteins put together. It cannot be built without vitamin C. No heart or blood vessel or other organ could possibly perform its functions without collagen. No heart or blood vessel can be maintained in healthy condition without vitamin C." Roger J. Williams
